Start with high-confidence jewish scriptures books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English
Geza Vermes
The Talmud
Norman Solomon
Reading Ruth
Judith Kates
The Hebrew Bible
Robert Alter
The Book of Psalms
The Wisdom Books
The Essential Zohar
Rav P.S. Berg
The Apocrypha
Edgar J. Goodspeed
Everyman's Talmud
Abraham Cohen, Jacob Neusner
The Book of Legends/sefer Ha-aggadah
Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Y.H. Rawnitzky
The Torah
Jewish Publication Society, Anonymous
Studies in the Bible and Jewish Thought
Moshe Greenberg
JPS Hebrew-english TANAKH
Jewish Publication Society
The Aura of Torah
Larry Tabick
Meditation and the Bible
Aryeh Kaplan
Seekers of the Face
Melila Hellner-Eshed
God-talk
David Novak
The Book of Enoch
Enoch
The Rational Passover Haggadah
Dennis Prager
It Takes Two to Torah
Abigail Pogrebin, Rabbi Dov Linzer
