• The Marginalian - Marginalia on our search for meaning by Maria Popova.

• UNA VIDA - Accidental insights on life.

• Daily OM - Inspiration & Creativity

• On Being - exploring the intersection of spiritual inquiry, science, social healing, and the arts.

• Literary Mama - All mothers have a story worth sharing.

• Alessandra Olanow - illustrator and author of I Used to Have a Plan.

NON-FICTION:

• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

• The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt

• Love’s Executioner by Irvin D. Yalom

• When Nietzche Wept by Irvin D. Yalom

• Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man by Sam Keen

• Staring at the Sun (overcoming the terror of death) by Irvin D. Yalom

• Diary of Anais Nin

• The School of Life: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton

• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

• Why We Need Love by Simon Van Booy

• Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton

• The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love by Janet W. Hardy & Dossie Easton

• More: A Memoir of Open Marriage by Molly Roden Winter

FICTION:

• The Secret Lives of People in Love (short stories) by Simon Van Booy

• Their Eyes Were Watching God (novel) by Zora Neale Hurston

• Beloved (novel) by Toni Morrison

• Inga’s Zigzags (novel) by Vica Miller

• Touch (novel) by Courtney Maum

• Want (novel) by Lynn Steger Strong

• Three Women (novel) by Lisa Taddeo

• Drowning Lessons (short stories) by Peter Selgin

• Luster (novel) by Raven Leilani

• Acts of Service (novel) by Lillian Fishman

• Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022) - Nancy Stokes (Emma Thompson), a retired school teacher, is yearning for some adventure, and some sex. And she has a plan, which involves hiring a young sex worker named Leo Grande (Daryl McCormack).

• Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022) - A widowed cleaning lady (Lesley Manville) in 1950s London falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, and decides that she must have one of her own (Isabelle Huppert, Ellen Thomas, Alba Batista).

• Jerry Maguire (1996) - Sports agent Jerry Maguire experiences a crisis of conscience and leaves his high-powered job behind, with only only client and one co-worker in tow.

• Five Flights Up (2015) - A couple finds unexpected drama when, after 40 years of living in the same Brooklyn walk-up, they attempt to sell their apartment and buy a new one. (Diane Keaton, Morgan Freeman)

• Queen of Katwe (2016) - A Ugandan girl’s life changes forever when she discovers she has an amazing talent for chess.

• Hitch (2005) - Smooth and sexy Hitch helps clients to make a great first impression on a date, but he’s thrown when a lovely reporter starts nosing around his business.

• Awakenings (1990) - Based on a true story and work of Dr. Oliver Sacks. The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them. “We should tell them how great it is to be alive, to do all the little things, to experience joy.” (Robert DeNiro, Robert Williams)

• Pretty Woman (1990) - A classic rag-to-riches love story. (Julia Roberts, Richard Gere)

• Trading Places (1983) - Wealthy brothers switch homeless street hustler for a snooty broker in bet over “nature” vs. “nurture”. (Eddie Murphy, Jamie Lee Curtis)