The Lucky Ride by Yasushi Kitagawa

Shuichi believes that he’s the unluckiest person in Japan. A strange taxi driver appears when Shuichi is at his lowest and has no direction. The taxi driver offers to take him to his next potential opportunity, should he seize it. In the backseat of this taxi Shuichi embarks on a philosophical and magical ride learning that luck is not inherent, it’s an investment built over time and even over generations.

Jump and Find Joy by Hoda Kotb

Hoda Kotb didn’t expect to join the Today show at age forty-four. Or to become a mother at fifty-two. Or to leave Today and embark on a new adventure at sixty! Change doesn’t always arrive when we expect it, and its effects are anything but predictable. But Hoda believes that the benefits of change can be extraordinary…if we’re willing to listen to and learn from them. From small shifts in daily routines to major leaps of faith, Hoda shows why change isn’t to be feared but celebrated…and how each of us can thrive in the midst of changes we’ll inevitably face ourselves.

Joy Prescriptions by Tiffany Moon

As a self-proclaimed “good girl,” Tiffany Moon was a people pleaser and an A-student, fitting into the roles that were prescribed by her Chinese American family. As a lifelong overachiever, she accomplished a thriving career as an anesthesiologist. Yet Tiffany felt unfulfilled. She spent more time at work than at home with her family, didn’t know how to say “no” to anyone, and was governed by perfectionist standards. In Joy Prescriptions, Tiffany shares her journey to reconnect with herself. In order to feel whole, she had to drop the perfectionist trope and focus on rediscovering who she was.

Sunny Side Up by Katie Sturino

Sunny Greene is thirty-five, recently divorced, and about to have a meltdown in the Bergdorf Goodman swimsuit department dressing room; but isn’t rock bottom the perfect place to start a climb?

Every Day I Read by Hwang Bo-Reum

Why do we read? What is it that we hope to take away from the intimate, personal experience of reading for pleasure? In each of the essays in Every Day I Read, Hwang Bo-reum contemplates what living a life immersed in reading means. She goes beyond the usual questions of what to read and how often, exploring the relationship between reading and writing, when to turn to a bestseller vs. browse the corners of a bookstore, the value of reading outside of your favorite genre, falling in love with book characters, and more.

I See You’ve Called in Dead by John Kenney

Bud Stanley, an obituary writer, is afraid to live. His wife left him for a more interesting man, he endures a terrible blind date, and drunkenly publishes his own obituary. The newspaper wants to fire him, but the system lists him as dead, preventing his termination. This fallout forces Bud to reconsider life. Awaiting his fate at work, he’s given another chance by his boss and, with encouragement from his friend Tim, starts attending strangers’ wakes and funerals to learn how to live.

The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt

Tells the story of Bob Comet, a man who has lived his life through and for literature, unaware that his own experience is a poignant and affecting novel in itself.

A Leap Year of Firsts by Keith L. Baldwin

When Keith Baldwin started his innocent and fun quest of “firsts” on January 1st, 2020, it ended up turning into a year like no other. A year where he did something EVERY day for the “first” time in his life. A year that turned into chaos, opportunity and a few unthinkable “firsts.”