I was introduced to fuzzy logic by Earl Cox’s book[1] then I read through his papers[2]. I think reading the book helped a lot since it gave practical examples and code.
1) https://www.amazon.com/Fuzzy-Systems-Handbook-Second-Practit... I had the 1st but 2nd is better
2) that list looks pretty complete but it has been some years
Pretty substantial list here: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~zadeh/papers/index.htm