A Book of Luminous Things, Czeslaw Milosz  •  The Abundance, Annie Dillard  •  American Primitive, Mary Oliver  •  The Architecture of Happiness, Alain de Botton  •  Art is Work, Milton Glaser  •  The Art of Looking Sideways, Alan Fletcher  •  Be Here Now, Ram Dass  •  A Blue Fire, James Hillman  •  Blood, Bones, & Butter, Gabrielle Hamilton  • . The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, ed. Arnold Rampersad  • . The Creative Habit, Twyla Tharp  •  Delights & Shadows, Ted Kooser  •. East of Eden, John Steinbeck  •.Essential Writings, Thich Nhat Hanh  •  Felicity, Mary Oliver  •  The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand  •  From the New World, Jorie Graham  •  The Gift, Hafiz; trns. Daniel Ladinsky  •  The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck  •. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perserverance, Angela Duckworth  •  A High Wind In Jamaica, Richard Hughes  •  H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald Many  •  Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson  •  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou  •  In The Company of Women, ed. Grace Bonney   •  Innocents & Others, Dana Spiotta  •  Just My Type: A Book About Fonts, Simon Garfield  •  Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke   •  A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara   •  M Train, Patti Smith   •   The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley   •   The Moon & Sixpence, William Somerset Maugham   •  Mr. Vertigo, Paul Auster  •  Mrs. Dalloway,  Virginia Woolf   •   My Berlin Kitchen, Luisa Weiss   •   North Woods, Daniel Mason   •   On Writing, Stephen King  •  Ooga-Booga, Frederick Seidel    •  Our Inner Ape: Why We Do What We Do, Franz de Waal   •  Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard   •  The Pocket Pema Chödrön, ed. Shambhala Classics  •  The Poetry Home Repair Manual, Ted Kooser   •   The Rise, Sarah Lewis   •  Reclaiming Conversation, Sherry Turkle   •   Sculpting in Time, Andrey Tarkovsky   •   Siddhartha, Herman Hesse   •   So Big, Edna Ferber   •This Boy's Life, Tobias Wolff  •  This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women, eds. Jay Allison & Dan Gediman  •   To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf  •  Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston  •  The Turner House, Angela Flournoy  •  Where All Light Tends To Go, David Joy  •  Winter's Bone, Daniel Woodrell  •  The Writing Life, Annie Dillard  •  Viviane Maier, Street Photographer, ed. John Maloof  •  Year of the King: An Actor's Diary & Sketchbook, Antony Sher  •  You Are a Badass, Jen Sincero  •  Your Illustrated Guide to Becoming One with The Universe, Yumi Sakugawa  •  Zen and the Art of Archery, Eugen Herrigel