Inspired by O, the Oprah Magazine, the essays, anecdotes and true stories featured in these three books will inspire you and warm the cockles of your heart.

Evocative from start to finish, O’s Little Book of Love and Friendship features the best writing on those topics that has been featured in the magazine over the past 15 years. There’s a frank, funny and freewheeling conversation between BFFs Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King, Amy Bloom tackling the tricky parts of love and Lisa Kogan’s view on ghost-writing friends’ dating profiles.

O’s Little Guide to Finding Your True Purpose features practical advice and true tales from the likes of Martha Beck and Patti Smith that will encourage you to find yourself; and O’s Little Book of Happiness is bursting with positivity. There’s Elizabeth Gilbert’s ode to the triumph of asking for what you want, Neil de Grasse Tyson’s take on our joyful participation in the universe and Jane Smiley’s tribut to the animal who taught her about lasting fulfilment…