When Things Fall Apart 

Pema Chödrön

A book for navigating life's difficulties and the uncertain circumstances we all endure at some point in our lives. Pema Chodron offers life-changing tools for transforming suffering and negative patterns into habitual ease, self-awareness and compassion towards oneself.





Being Mortal

Atul Gawande

Practicing surgeon and long-time staff writer of The New Yorker, Atul Gawande challenges the purpose of his profession: just because we can prolong life, should we? He examines whether by trying to defy the inevitability of mortality, that we are in a way, robbing ourselves of the very thing we are chasing— precious time spent with loved ones. 





The Architecture of Happiness

Alain de Botton

In its opening page, Alain de Botton says of the house: "It has provided not only physical but also psychological sanctuary." This introspective read, which suggests that the quality of our environment, namely architecture, greatly causes both happiness and misery, might make you rethink the way you look at your home and the care of picking and choosing the things you have within it.