General Books & CDs
It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity. --Abraham Lincoln

These are the core resources I used while writing Eve.  Perhaps your curiosity has been piqued, and you’d like to dig further; hence, I offer up my list of fascinating tomes.  Be prepared to enter another world.

Books

Bertman, Stephen.  Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Black, Jeremy and Anthony Green.  Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary.  Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992.
Bottéro, Jean.  Translated by Antonia Nevill.  Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia. Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Bottéro, Jean.  Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan.  The Oldest Cuisine in the World: Cooking in Mesopotamia.  Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Cottrell, Leonard.  The Quest for Sumer.  New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965.
Duke, James A.  Herbs of the Bible.
Duchesne-Guillemin, Marcelle.  “Music in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt.”  World Archaeology, Vol. 12, No. 3, Archaeology and Musical Instruments.  Feb. 1981, pp. 287-297.
Fairservis, Walter A., Jr.  Mesopotamia: The Civilization That Rose Out of Clay.  New York: The Macmillan Company, 1964 (great pics of cylinder seals, p. 76-77)
Kramer, Samuel Noah.  Cradle of Civilization.  New York: Time, Inc., 1967.
Kramer, Samuel Noah.  History Begins at Sumer.  Garden City, New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1959.
Mallowan, M. E. L.  Early Mesopotamia and Iran.  New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965.
Margueron, Jean-Claude.  Mesopotamia.  English translation by H. S. B. Harrison.  New York: The World Publishing Company, 1965.
Nasrallah, Nawal.  Delights from the Garden of Eden: A Cookbook and a History of the Iraqi Cuisine.  1st Books Library, 2003.
Nemet-Nejat, Karen Rhea.  Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia.  Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1998.
Pollock, Susan.  Ancient Mesopotamia: The Eden That Never Was.  Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Potts, Daniel.  “On Salt and Salt Gathering in Ancient Mesopotamia.”  Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol. 27, No. 3.  1984, pp. 225-271.
Roaf, Michael.  Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East.  Oxfordshire, Oxford: Andromeda Oxford Limited, 1990.
Weisgard, Leonard.  The Beginnings of Cities.  New York : Coward-McCann, 1968.
Willcocks, William.  “The Garden of Eden and Its Restoration.”  The Geographical Journal, Vol. 40, No. 2.  Aug. 1912, pp. 129-145.
Wolkstein, Diane and Samuel Noah Kramer.  Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth.  New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1983.

CDs on Sumerian culture

Kramer, Dr. Samuel Noah.  Queen & Shepherd: Sumerian Tales.  CD-ROM.  California Museum of Ancient Art, 1987.
Kramer, Dr. Samuel Noah.  Cuneiform Writing.  CD-ROM.  California Museum of Ancient Art, 1987.
Kramer, Dr. Samuel Noah.  Sumerian Myths and Epics.  CD-ROM.  California Museum of Ancient Art, 1987.
Kramer, Dr. Samuel Noah.  The Legacy of Sumer.  CD-ROM.  California Museum of Ancient Art, 1987.
Heimpel, Dr. Wolfgang.  Shepherds in Sumerian Everyday Life.  CD-ROM.  California Museum of Ancient Art, 1987.
Heimpel, Dr. Wolfgang.  Inanna on Friday.  CD-ROM.  California Museum of Ancient Art, 1987.
Heimpel, Dr. Wolfgang.  Sumerian Star & Constellations.  CD-ROM.  California Museum of Ancient Art, 1987.
Fulco, Dr. William.  The Song of Songs.  CD-ROM.  California Museum of Ancient Art, 1987.