I'm looking for book recommendations that cover the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, formation of the current states in the Middle East, Sykes-Picot, Kurds, Palestine, etc. I realize that this is a WIDE swath of history to cover, but what I am primarily interested in with regard to these events, is the political order that formed out of the creation of these various states. It seems the more I read about modern Middle East news, from ISIS to the Kurds, to Iraq to Turkey, that much of it centers around this post WWI political division. Any book recommendations that focus on this would be much appreciated.
Other than cough this incredibly good and informative podcast that I may have taken part in and was just published this week on this very topic cough there's a few books I might point you to that I drew on in that discussion (and there will be another podcast next week or the week after on the same, this time on the Arab territories, specifically.)
If your overall goal is to understand "modern Middle East news, from ISIS to the Kurds, to Iraq to Turkey" I would have a read of Eugene Rogan's The Arabs: A History. Which is a fantastic overview of the past 500 years in the Middle East up to 9/11.
Specifically on WWI, Rogan also wrote The Fall of the Ottomans which is good, but perhaps less extensive on these issues than Sean McMeekin's Ottoman Endgame. Rogan's book is more accessible though.
For the division and its aftermath, with a solid historiographical approach as well, I'm a fan of D.K. Fieldhouse's Western Imperialism in the Middle East: 1914-1958.
There are other books I might point to, particularly on a country by country basis, but it would depend on what your focus was. If you specifically want to know about "the post WWI order" as defined, say, from 1914-1930, then those books will do you well. If you want to know what happened afterwards in a way that specifically gets us to ISIS or 9/11 or whatever, Rogan's book covers it in summary but there are other books that might be more helpful in following those threads, and I would be happy to recommend them depending on what your specific interest is.
As a general overview though, hard to go wrong with Rogan.