Read The Book of Disquiet

John Berger on how oil painting and advertising teach us to look; the BBC series as a book.

Visit Lisbon, Portugal's hilly capital on the Tagus River. Ride the iconic Tram 28 through historic Alfama (narrow medieval streets and Fado music venues), see the Belem Tower (16th-century fortress and UNESCO site), explore the Jeronimos Monastery (Manueline architecture and Vasco da Gama's tomb), and taste pastel de nata (custard tarts) at Pasteis de Belem.

A botanist and Potawatomi woman on what plants teach about gratitude; the slow bestseller.

Five hundred pounds a year and a room with a lock; Woolf's essay on women and writing.

James Baldwin's two essays of 1963 on race and religion in America.

Read the Quran, the central religious text of Islam, to understand its teachings and significance.

Read the Analects of Confucius, a collection of sayings and ideas attributed to the Chinese philosopher Confucius

Read the Bhagavad Gita, a 700-verse Hindu scripture that is part of the Mahabharata epic