Intermediate philosophy books that bridge the gap between thesis papers and something a regular person can understand and connect with

I'm slowly becoming a philosophy nerd. I love philosophy a lot but find it gets really bogged down by heavy wording and can often motivate you into ideas that make sense until you step back and realise it's nuts (looking at you Ayn Rand). I'm looking for a book that can contextualise and discuss philosophy in a digestible way. One I've found is "The Good Place and Philosophy: Everything is Forking Fine!" The book, "The Good Place and Philosophy: Everything is Forking Fine!" by Irwin, William, and Engels, Kimberly S., caught my attention, but I felt it delved too deeply into a single topic. And obviously it's covering an entire show that's an introduction to moral philosophy. Some chapters talk about absurdism (which i subscribe to and think is sick), and others cover Solipsism or nihilism, which I'm not concerned about and don't find interesting. However, I would find it intriguing to delve deeper into the subject matter and provide more contextual information.

I just finished reading "The Pig that Wants to be Eaten" by Julian Baggini and thoroughly enjoyed it too. I found it to be a nice little dive into a lot of different thought experiments, giving them each their own time and expanding them to sometimes say, "I know this sounds dumb, but hear me out," and then expanding "Would you rather have high art or low art?" into a question of hedonism and how we judge art as a whole. It was ideal for just little bite-sized discussions. I used that book a lot as background noise to fall asleep to.

Absolutely adore when a writer can pose a concept that sounds absurd or ridiculous but follows it up with "Hear me out." For them to just fall into the implications of what if a person knows everything about the colour red except for what it actually looks like.