I recommend you to read the books of Raymond Brown as "Birth of the Messiah" and also "Death of the Messiah". Brown was one of the first Catholic scholars in the United States to use the historical-critical method to study the Bible.
On the other hand, some of the books of Bart Ehrman are the following:
1)The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament.
2)Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior