Classics                                                                           

● "Artscroll Siddur (Prayer book)"; Mesorah Publications

● "Chumash (Five books of Moses)"; Stone Edition - Mesorah Publications 

● "Tanach (Bible)"; Mesorah Publications

● "The Living Torah (The Living Nach)" Kaplan, Rabbi Aryeh; Moznaim Publishers

Judaism                                                                            

● "The Jewish Encyclopedia of Moral & Ethical Issues" Amsel, N.; Aronson

● "Permission to Receive" Kelemen, L.; Targum Press

● "Permission to Believe" Kelemen, L.; Targum Press

● "To be a Jew", Donan, Chaim Halvey; BasicBooks

● "The JEP Series" - Lishmor V'Laasos(To Safeguard & To Do), Lilmod U'Llamad ("To Learn & To Teach"), Lehavin U'Lehaskil("To Understand & To Internalize, Menucha V'Simcha(Respite & Rejoicing-The Sabbath") - essential books on Hashkafah, Halacha, and Parsha all on an introductory level. Rabbi Mordechai Katz; Feldheim

Jewish Philosophy                                                           

● "The Way of G-d" Luzzatto, M.C.; Feldheim

● "Horeb" Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch; Soncino

    (to be savored and learned one paragraph at a time)

Jewish Medical Ethics                                                      

● "Jewish Bioethics" Rosner, F. & Bleich, J.D.; Ktav

Israel/Zionism                                                                  

● "From Time Immemorial" Peters, Joan J.; KAP Publishing

● "Semites and Anti-Semites" Lewis, B.; W.W. Norton & Co.

Jews in America                                                             

● "The Secret War Against The Jews" Loftus, J. & Aarons M.; St. Martins Griffin

Holocaust                                                                        

● "Hitler's Willing Executioners" Goldhagen, D.J.;  Vintage Books

● "The Abandonment of the Jews - America and the Holocaust 1941-1945"

Wyman, David; Pantheon

Jewish History                                                                 

● "A History of the Jews" Johnson, Paul; Weidenfeld

Jewish Calendar                                                               

● "The Book of Our Heritage" Eliyahu Kitov; Feldheim

Returning to Judaism                                                       

● "Teshuvah" Adin Steinsaltz; Free Press

Jewish Mysticism                                                             

● "The Wisdom of the Hebrew Alphabet" Rabbi Munk; Artscroll

Prayer                                                                               

● "A Guide to Jewish Prayer" Steinsaltz, Adin; Schocken Books

● "My Prayer"; Mindel, N.; Kehot Publications

● "The Commentators Siddur" Rabbi Yitzchak Sender; Feldheim

● "The Hidden Beauty of the Shema" Lisa Aiken; Feldheim

● "Pathway to Prayer" Rabbi Mayer Birnbaum; Feldheim

   (A translation and Explanation of the Shemoneh Esray)

● "The World of Prayer" Rabbi Elie Munk; Feldheim

● "The Art of Jewish Prayer" Rabbi Yitzchak Kirzner zt'l and Lisa Aiken; Jason Aronson

● "The Weekday Siddur" B.S. Jacobson; Sinai

   (Translation of Netiv Binah)

● "The Three Portions of the Shema" Rabbi Meir Zlotowitz; Artscroll Mesorah

● "Shemoneh Esrei" Rabbi A.C. Feuer; Artscroll Mesorah

 note: Several siddurim have extensive commentary on prayer, for example, the Hirsch Siddur.  Other standard texts, for example, the Feldheim translation of the Misneh Berurah, volumes 1C and 1D, offer halachic background and details of Tefillot.