- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin
- The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle
- The Life of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell
- How Proust Can Change Your Life, Alain de Botton
- Take Time for Your Life, Cheryl Richardson
- Autobiography, John Stuart Mill
- Selected Essays, Montaigne
- A Landing on the Sun, Michael Frayn
- The Essential Epicurus, Epicurus
- The Conquest of Happiness, Bertrand Russell
- Parerga and Paralipomena Vols. I and II, Arthur Schopenhauer
- Story of a Soul, St. Thérèse of Lisieux
- Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
- The Summing Up, W. Sommerset Maugham