Why don’t I have any books to place on the pedestal for “At the Summit of Apocrypha”

According to TES wiki:

This weapon ( like some other Daedric Artifacts ) has an unstable physical model which causes it to disappear, delete, move, and fall when placed on weapons plaques, weapons racks, and in the world in general. Exercise caution when placing in a home. However it is not affected when placed in a storage container or while in inventory. PS3 PC 360

I know when I tried to place mine in a weapons case it disappeared and I had to leave and re-enter my home multiple times for it to regenerate on the floor. So I re-emphasize, be careful. Best option is to put it in a chest, though I know its pretty and you want to show it off.

Source: http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Ebony_Blade_(Skyrim)

(Once on page - scroll to bugs, this is main bullet point 7 on the list for the weapon.)

Unfortunately, no, there is very little canonical information of any sort as to what, exactly, happened during The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. This mostly comes down to the fact that there were multiple ways to complete almost every part of the main quest, so any canonical information would be necessarily incorrect for some players, aside from the broadest of details (which are certainly canon, and do come up in dialogue in places, just not in the books).

There are a number of related books, though. Battle of Red Mountain covers some of the origins of the Nerevarine, Nerevar Moon and Star covers the more tribal view of the Nerevarine, and Five Songs of King Wulfharth also covers the battle. All three offer different viewpoints, which conflict somewhat. The Dragonborn expansion also adds Nerevar at Red Mountain.

The closest you can come to a book about the actual events of Morrowind seems to be either of The Reclamations or the two volumes of The Red year, which are all set in the year 4E5, five years after the events of Morrowind, and cover the effects of the meteor impact that hit and devastated the province.