Just came here to say, I found this book pretty informative and persuasive: The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393352978/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_...

The book contains some counter arguments against the primordial soup theory

I am not really qualified to comment though.

I thought Shoe Dog was a great book, although my favorite book of the year was a Gates Notes recommendation for summer reading-- The Vital Question, by Nick Lane. If you're interested in biology and the origins of life, it makes some provocative claims, and backs them up. If this doesn't change how you think about life on earth (and elsewhere), I don't know what will...

https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Summer-Books-201...

https://www.amazon.com/Vital-Question-Evolution-Origins-Comp...

it is talked about a bit in The Vital Question [1] and a more in depth in Power, Sex, and Suicide [2]

His books are honestly life changing, i can recommend them or him enough.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Vital-Question-Evolution-Origins-Comp...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Power-Sex-Suicide-Mitochondria-Meanin...