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I tell my RCIA students to get the Ignatius Study Bible, which has great notes and is Revised Standard Version - Catholic Edition (RSV-CE) and/or the translation now used in the Lectionary, the book of reading selections we use litugically, which is the New American Bible, Revised Edtion (NABRE)--- both of which are unabridged 73-book Bibles.

There's lots, lots more. For scholarly/poetic in some ways I like the Knox Bible, or even the Jerusalem Bible. (One of the translators was J.R.R. Tolkien!)

The Douay-Rheims Bible was the standard for English-speaking Catholics until about the end of the 19th century, but since then the usual answer to "Which Bible is the best?" is "The one you’ll read."

I wrote a more detailed explanation for I think ealgeone a while back, but the #%$## search engines have been jiggered against conservative sites. I used to be able to google, say

site=www.freerepublic.com "Mrs Don-o" NABRE

which used to bring up the exact desired spot within the first results. It now produces results that don't even have the keywords in them. Grrr. You can no longer use search-engines to actually search conservative sites.

Unless you know a new, improved way to do it?