| January 5 | Henry IV, Part 1, Shakespeare |
| January 12 | What is War?, Clausewitz |
| January 19 | Uncle Vanya, Chekhov |
| January 26 | On Evil, Maimonides |
| February 2 | The Iliad, Homer |
| February 9 | Henry IV, Part 2, Shakespeare |
| February 16 | Principles of Government (selections), Montesquieu |
| February 23 | Canterbury Tales (Prologue, Wife of Bath, Clerk's Tale), Chaucer |
| March 2 | Agamemnon, Aeschylus |
| March 9 | Much Ado ABout Nothing, Shakespeare |
| March 16 | The Beast in the Jungle, Henry James |
| March 23 | The Prince (selections), Machiavelli |
| March 30 | The Death of Ivan Ilych, Tolstoy |
| April 6 | As You Like It, Shakespeare |
| April 13 | The Indistructibility of Our Inner Nature, Schopenhauer |
| April 20 | Medea, Euripides |
| April 27 | The Spirit of Capitalism, Weber |
| May 4 | Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare |
| May 11 | The Misanthrope, Molière |
| May 18 | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Gibbon |
| May 25 | Job, the Bible |
| June 1 | Utilitarianism (selections), Mill |
| June 8 | Henry V, Shakespeare |
| June 15 | Caesar and Cleopatra, Shaw |
| June 22 | the City of God (selections), St. Augustine |
| June 29 | Symposium, Plato |
| July 6 | Of Experience, Montaigne |
| July 13 | Hamlet, Shakespeare |
| July 20 | Rameau's Nephew, Diderot |
| July 27 | The Tempest, Shakespeare |
| August 3 | the Federalist Papers (selections), Hamilton, Jay, Madison |
| August 10 | Twelfth Night, Shakespeare |
| August 17 | The Overcoat, Gogol |
| August 24 | Ecclesiastes, the Bible |
| August 31 | Oedipus the King, Sophocles |
| September 7 | All's Well that Ends Well, Shakespeare |
| September 14 | On Dreams, Freud |
| September 21 | the Metamorphosis, Kafka |
| September 28 | Faust, Part 1, Goethe |
| October 5 | Othello, Shakespeare |
| October 12 | First Principles of Morals, Kant |
| October 19 | A Simple Heart, Flaubert |
| October 26 | Of Personal Identity, Hume |
| November 2 | Thus Spoke Zarathustra (selections) , Goethe |
| November 9 | Measure for Measure, Shakespeare |
| November 16 | the Inferno, Dante |
| November 23 | Reflections on the Revolution in France (selections), Burke |
| November 30 | the Education of Henry Adams (selections), Adams |
| December 7 | King Lear 1, Shakespeare |
| December 14 | King Lear 2, Shakespeare |
| December 21 | On Tragedy, Aristotle |
| December 28 | the Republic (selections), Plato |