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A book from a Jew or Jewish Scripture
Jewish Scripture includes the Hebrew Bible, which is not quite the same as the Old Testament. The JPS, "The Contemporary Torah" (a gender-sensitive version of the JPS), or the Koren Tanakh translations are recommended. Jewish Scriptures also include the Mishnah and the Talmud. Many of these are available for free on https://sefaria.org

If you want to go more in depth, you can read one book from Orthodox Judaism, one from "Conservative Judaism", one from Reform Judaism, and one from Reconstructionist. There are also the mystical Kabbalah works, as well as "legal" Halakhah works, and Philosophical Jewish works (Maimonides, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Martin Buber, Philo, etc.)
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hizuk Emunah Or, Faith Strengthened by Isaac Ben Abraham Troki, Moses Mocatta

hizuk Emunah Or, Faith Strengthened

Isaac Ben Abraham Troki, Moses Mocatta

324 pages • first pub 1970 (editions)

informative medium-paced
My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

My Name Is Asher Lev

Asher Lev #1

Chaim Potok

384 pages • first pub 1972 (editions)

fiction classics historical reflective slow-paced
The Chosen by Chaim Potok

The Chosen

Reuven Malter #1

Chaim Potok

304 pages • first pub 1967 (editions)

fiction classics emotional reflective slow-paced
Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law by Chaim Saiman

Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law

Chaim Saiman

320 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition by Steven Greenberg

Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition

Steven Greenberg

316 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man by Susannah Heschel, Abraham Joshua Heschel

The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man

Susannah Heschel, Abraham Joshua Heschel

118 pages • first pub 1951 (editions)

nonfiction religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Night by Elie Wiesel

Night

The Night Trilogy #1

Elie Wiesel

120 pages • first pub 1958 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir dark emotional sad medium-paced
Why Be Jewish? by David J. Wolpe

Why Be Jewish?

David J. Wolpe

128 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction religion reflective medium-paced
Berakhot, Daf Yomi B&W by Adin Steinsaltz

Berakhot, Daf Yomi B&W

Koren Talmud Bavli Noé Edition #1

Adin Steinsaltz

568 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction religion adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced
Koren Pirkei Avot by Marc D. Angel

Koren Pirkei Avot

Marc D. Angel

175 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction philosophy religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced