2. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life; Anne Lamott
3. An Equal Music; Vikram Seth
4. Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience, and Critical Design ; Anthony Dunne
5. Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation; Steven Johnson
6. Travels with Charley: In Search of America; John Steinbeck
7. Here Is New York; E.B White
8. The Secret Lives of People in Love; Simon Van Booy
9. Love Begins in Winter; Simon Van Booy
10. Everything Beautiful Began After; Simon Van Booy
11. Tiny Beautiful Things: Advise on Love and Life from Dear Sugar; Cheryl Strayed
12. An Intimate History of Humanity; Theodore Zeldin
13. A General Theory of Love; Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, Richard Lannon
14. Einstein's Dreams; Alan Lightman
15. The Art of Travel; Alain de Botton
16. On the Shortness of Life; Seneca
17. Slouching Towards Bethlehem; Joan Didion
18. Goodbye to All That: Writers of Loving and Leaving New York Sari Botton