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PathfinderWiki has a list of the Lost Omens lore books at https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Pathfinder_Lost_Omens. And PathfinderWiki is also a good source of lore.
The Lost Omens World Guide is the first of the Pathfinder 2nd Edition lore books and a solid introduction to the most familiar countries of Golarion and a review of its history. Its nine chapters divide the continents of Avistan and Garund into nine regions.
The ninth chapter "Shining Kindgoms" and the book Lost Omens Shinging Kingdoms covers the nations of Taldor (old empire that is the source of the Taldoran common language), Andoran (democratic nation), Druma (mercantile theocracy), Five Kings Mountains (dwarven kingdom), Kyonin (elven kingdom), and Galt (permanent French revolution).
Three other books that cover the same territories as chapters of Lost Omens World Guide are Absalom, City of Lost Omens, Lost Omens Mwangi Expanse, and Lost Omens Impossible Lands.
Lost Omens Tian Xia World Guide amd Lost Omens Tian Xia Character Guide move to a third contient, Tian Xia, based on Earth's Far East.
The Remastering of Pathfinder 2nd Edition rules renamed the terminology borrowed from Dungeons & Dragons so the lore books published before 2024 use different names for mechanics than the lore books published 2024 and later. This matters more for rule books than for lore books, but some lore books have new ancestry and background options, so they present mechanics for them.
Lore books written for Pathfinder 1st Edition have valid history but their presentday is set a decade in the past. For example, Wrath of the Righteous adventure path closed the Worldwound, but PF1 lore has it still active and PF2 lore has the location rebuilding itself as Sarkoris Scar.
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I am brand new to the physical pathfinder game. I played WOTR on PC but besides that I have no experience with the game or lore. Which books should I start with to understand the history and lore of the world? Online people said I should start with the Inner Sea book but those posts were 10 years old. Since Lost Omens: Shining Kingdoms released is that the new major lore book? Should I start with that? I with Paizo would organize their books to make it easier to understand which ones are major and which are minor.
What do you mean by "Major and minor"?
If you're after lore books alone, anything that starts with "Lost Omens" is your major lore book. I'd personally reccomend browsing the list and seeing what grabs your interest, or share what you're interested in here and we can make reccomendations.If you liked WOTR, for instance, you might find rival acadamies interesting as it details the reclaimation of the sarkoris area after the closing of the worldwound.
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The Lost Omens line of books is the primary Second Edition source for setting information, though the Rulebooks line also often has a lore chapter in each book related to the book's main theme.
The first LO book, the Lost Omens: World Guide gives brief overviews of the current state of every nation in the core Inner Sea region that Pathfinder typically focuses on. It acts as an update to 1e's Inner Sea World Guide, which could also be useful to refer back to - it goes into a little more depth, though the world's changed a fair bit in some places in the time between the two.