Start with high-confidence jewish scriptures books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
The Essential Kabbalah
Daniel C. Matt
The Talmud
Norman Solomon
The Jewish Annotated New Testament
Amy-Jill Levine, Marc Zvi Brettler
Intertextuality and the Reading of Midrash
Daniel Boyarin
The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic & Mysticism
Geoffrey W. Dennis
Tales of the Hasidim
Martin Buber, Chaim Potok
Everyman's Talmud
Abraham Cohen, Jacob Neusner
The Torah
Jewish Publication Society, Anonymous
Studies in the Bible and Jewish Thought
Moshe Greenberg
A Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism Reader
Daniel M. Horwitz
The Land of Truth
Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
The Book of Jewish Belief
Behrman House, Louis Jacobs
Meditation and the Bible
Aryeh Kaplan
Kabbalah for Dummies
Arthur Kurzweil
Seekers of the Face
Melila Hellner-Eshed
The Complete Jewish Study Bible
Rabbi Barry Rubin, David H. Stern
Kabbalah for Beginners
Brian Yosef Schachter-Brooks, Steven Jay Cohen
Paths on the Tree of Wisdom
Mike Bais
It Takes Two to Torah
Abigail Pogrebin, Rabbi Dov Linzer
Uncovered
Nechama Goldman Barash
