Just finished reading Ursula K. Le Guin's rendition of the Tao te Ching and I highly recommend it as a place to start with Taoism.
Le Guin put much thought into creating a timeless English version, recreating Lao Tzu lessons with approachable language. I hold a fondness for the Chinese language and became attached to versions that preserve more of it;* Le Guin's rendition removes much of the cultural baggage of ancient China (much of it gendered), distilling a poetic guide to the mysticism of the Way.
If you're unfamiliar with Ursula K. Le Guin, she was a prominent sci-fi/fantasy author (and my personal favorite). I fell in love with The Left Hand of Darkness years ago (really the whole Hainish Cycle) and have my eyes on the Earthsea series soon. I could say much about her works, but just trust me when I say that you'd enjoy them if you're already here.
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Looking for something to listen to while reading up on Taoism? This one comes from a favorite album of mine, Ineffable Mysteries From Shpongleland by Shpongle, a psydub artist famous for blending in Eastern folk music into their electronica. I'm mostly a metalhead, but I love all things psychedelic and this album is a chill classic.**
The track "Nothing Is Something Worth Doing" highlights a core tenant of the Tao te Ching, doing nothing. Action through inaction. Wei wu wei. Do not do.
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* I used to be a professional translator, fun fact. Spanish to English. And I took four years of Chinese in high school and a fifth in college, so you could say I'm kind of a dork for comparative linguistics.
** Not to get all dadcore in the footnotes, but one of my favorite ways to spend an evening off is to munch an edible, turn on a Shpongle album, and start a mission on MCC's Halo: Reach. (Sometimes I do multiplayer, usually just a solo mission of Firefight if I don't have several hours.)