Recommended Jewish Books

What are the books every Jewish housebound should have? Presented here are a number of categories of books, of which it would be useful to eventually obtain one book from each.

Introduction to Judaism

Siddurim, and bentchers

The Machzor and the Haggadah

Bible and commentary

Torah (Chumash, Pentateuch)

Mishna, Talmud and Rabbinic Literature

Holidays, the life cycle, the afterlife

Jewish custom, law and tradition

Books on Shabbat and Kashrut (keeping kosher)

Family issues: Marriage, sex, & raising children

Issues for/about Jewish Women

Issues for/about Jewish Men

Kabbalah (Jewish Mysticism)

Jewish theology and philosophy

Works by Abraham Joshua Heschel

History, sociology, Zionism and Post-Zionism

Holocaust, and religious responses to the Holocaust

Antisemitism

Orthodox, Hasidic and Haredi Judaism

Conservative and Masorti Judaism

Reform and Reconstructionist Judaism

Ethics  General ethics, medical and bioethics, and the ethics of wealth, money and business

Science and religion

The agunah problem

Misc.