| January 4 | Why War?, Sigmund Freud |
| January 11 | MacBeth, William Shakespeare |
| January 18 | The Melian Dialogue, Thucydides |
| January 25 | The Social Me, William James |
| February 1 | Rothschild's Fiddle, Anton Chekhov |
| February 8 | Pericles, William Shakespeare |
| February 15 | Concerning the Division of Labor, Adam Smith |
| February 22 | Chelkash, Maxim Gorky |
| March 1 | How an Aristocracy May be Created, Tocqueville |
| March 8 | Coriolanus, William Shakespeare |
| March 15 | Observation and Experiment, Claude Bernard |
| March 22 | Everything that Rises Must Converge, Flannery O'Connor |
| March 29 | An Essay in Aesthetics, Roger Fry |
| April 5 | Timon of Athens, William Shakespeare |
| April 12 | An Outpost of Progress, Joseph Conrad |
| April 19 | On Studying, José Ortega y Gassett |
| April 26 | Politics, Aristotle |
| May 3 | Of Commonwealth, Thomas Hobbes |
| May 10 | Troilus & Cressida, William Shakespeare |
| May 17 | Barn Burning, William Faulkner |
| May 24 | Of Civil Government, John Locke |
| May 31 | In Exile, Anton Chekhov |
| June 7 | Antony & Cleopatra, William Shakespeare |
| June 14 | The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, et al. |
| June 21 | Equality, Isaiah Berlin |
| June 28 | Sorrow-Acre, Isak Dinesen |
| July 5 | The Winter's Tale, William Shakespeare |
| July 12 | Why Americans are Often so Restless, Tocqueville |
| July 19 | After the Ball, Leo tolstoy |
| July 26 | Habit, William James |
| August 2 | The Overcoat, Nikolai Gogol |
| August 9 | The Tempest, William Shakespeare |
| August 16 | On Happiness, Aristotle |
| August 23 | Habits and Will, John Dewey |
| August 30 | Happiness, Mary Lavin |
| September 6 | Cymbeline, William Shakespeare |
| September 13 | Crito, Plato |
| September 20 | On Liberty, John Stuart Mill |
| September 27 | Conscience, Immanuel Kant |
| October 4 | Henry VIII, William Shakespeare |
| October 11 | A Hunger Artist, Franz Kafka |
| October 18 | Of the Limits of Government, John Locke |
| October 25 | Antigone, Sophocles |
| November 1 | Why Great Revolutions Will Become Rare, Tocqueville |
| November 8 | The Two Noble Kinsmen, William Shakespeare |
| November 15 | A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf |
| November 22 | In Dreams Begin Responsibilities, Delmore Schwartz |
| November 29 | Rothschild's Fiddle, Anton Chekhov |
| December 6 | Sonnets 18, 29, 116, 130, William Shakespeare |
| December 13 | On Happiness, Aristotle |
| December 20 | The Apology, Plato |
| December 27 | The Gospel According to Luke |