1, Road Back to You - An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery - Ian Morgan Cron, Suzanne Stabile

What we don't know about ourselves can harm us as well as the world around us, and can prevent us from being the best we can be. The enneagram is an ancient system of personality typology that describes with uncanny accuracy what we are and how we function, our strengths and weaknesses, our mature and fulfilled and less mature forms of our type, and what we can do to become our best selves, wiser and more compassionate. With many stories, humour and a practical approach, the book explores the nine types of enneagram and their relationship to Christian spirituality.

2, Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi

What would you change if you could go back in time?

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.

In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the cafe's time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer's, to see their sister one last time, and to meet the daughter they never got the chance to know. But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the cafe, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold . . .

3, Sorry i'm late i didn't want to come - Jessica Pan

"Let's be clear: I don't think anybody - introvert, extrovert or whatever - needs therapy. However, there was a time when I was an unhappy introvert and I wondered how my life would change if I took a year to try things that had previously seemed unfamiliar and scary to me. This book is about those trials. Have fun with my scary stories!"

What would happen if a shy introvert lived like a gregarious extrovert for a year? If she consciously tried to get into situations in life he would otherwise avoid at all costs? Jessica Pan is about to find out.

When she finds herself jobless and friendless, sitting in the familiar Jess-shaped recess of the sofa, she wonders what her life would be like if she were a little more open to new experiences and new people, if she were a little less insistent on sitting at home all the time. So he makes a vow: for a year she will force herself to live the life of an extrovert. She's written a list: improvisation, travelling abroad alone - including Budapest - and... talking to strangers on the metro. She immediately regrets it. Is life really better or easier when you're an extrovert? Or is it really the nightmare Jess always thought it would be?

The book Sorry I'm late, I didn't really want to come, follows Jess's funny and painful year in the extrovert world and will be useful for all introverts.

4, James Nestor – Breath

"A fascinating scientific, cultural, spiritual and evolutionary history of the way humans breathe and how we ve all been doing it wrong for a long, long time." - Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Big Magic and Eat Pray Love

No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you re not breathing properly.

There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five thousand times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences.

Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren t found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of São Paulo. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe.

Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is.

Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head.

You will never breathe the same again