Start with high-confidence atomic & molecular physics books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Elements of Physical Chemistry
Peter Atkins, Julio de Paula
Quantum Chemistry and Spectroscopy
Thomas Engel
Understanding Molecular Simulation
Daan Frenkel, Berend Smit
Handbook of Computational Quantum Chemistry
David B. Cook
Physical Kinetics
L. P. Pitaevskii, E.M. Lifshitz
Physical Chemistry
Donald A. McQuarrie, John D. Simon
The Fourth Phase of Water
Pollack
Multiconfigurational Quantum Chemistry
Björn O. Roos, Roland Lindh
Elements
Theodore Gray, Nick Mann
Ion-atom Collisions
Michael Schulz
Quantum Chemistry
Michael Springborg, Meijuan Zhou
Time-dependent Density Functional Theory
Chaoyuan Zhu
