Start with high-confidence kabbalah & jewish mysticism books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
The Essential Kabbalah
Daniel C. Matt
The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic & Mysticism
Geoffrey W. Dennis
Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism
Gershom Scholem
A Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism Reader
Daniel M. Horwitz
Kabbalah for Dummies
Arthur Kurzweil
Seekers of the Face
Melila Hellner-Eshed
The Forbidden Knowledge of the Book of Enoch
Harold Roth
The Book of Mysteries
Jonathan Cahn
Kabbalah for Beginners
Brian Yosef Schachter-Brooks, Steven Jay Cohen
Paths on the Tree of Wisdom
Mike Bais
A Heart Afire
Zalman Schacter-Shalomi, Netanel Miles-Yepez
