Start with high-confidence judaism books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
My Jesus Year
Benyamin Cohen
Yiddish
Jeffrey Shandler
To Life
Harold S. Kushner
One People, Two Worlds
Ammiel Hirsch, Yaakov Yosef Reinman
Humans of Judaism
Nikki Schreiber
The Day-to-day Life of the Desert Fathers in Fourth-century Egypt
Lucien Regnault