JANUARY

3. Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer, trans. Jonathan Griffin (New York: Quartet Books, 1997)
9. Susan Sontag, On Photography (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1977)
10. Joan Didion, Political Fictions (New York: Knopf, 2001)
11. J. D. Salinger, Nine Stories (Boston: Little, Brown, 1991)
20. Philip Roth, American Pastoral (New York: Vintage, 1998)
Joan Didion, Salvador (Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1983)
21. André Gide, Teseo, trans. Ferran Steve (Barcelona: Plaza & Janés, 2001)
28. Italo Calvino, Las ciudades invisibles, trans. Aurora Bernárdez (Madrid: Siruela, 1997)

FEBRUARY

1. Henry James, Daisy Miller (New York: Penguin, 1995)
Carlos Fuentes, Aura (México, D.F.: Era, 1962)
5. Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint (New York: Bantam, 1970)
9. John Lyons, Noam Chomsky (New York: Viking, 1970)
11. Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (New York: Harper Perennial, 2005)
14. Don DeLillo, The Body Artist (New York: Scribner, 2001)
19. David Pears, Ludwig Wittgenstein (New York: Viking, 2001)
20. Joan Didion, The White Album (New York: Pocket Books, 1979)
21. Robert M. Hutchins and Mortimer J. Adler, eds., Gateway to the Great Books, Volume 1: Introduction and Syntopical Guide (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 1963)
Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, trans. William Weaver (New York: Everyman’s Library, 1993)

MARCH

7. Don DeLillo, White Noise (New York: Penguin, 1986)
12. Salvador Elizondo, El grafógrafo (México, D.F.: Vuelta, 1992)
17. Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux: 2005)
20. Julio Cortázar, Cronopios and Famas, trans. Paul Blackburn (New York: New Directions, 1999)
21. Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (New York: Scribner, 1970)
31. Javier Cercas, Soldados de Salamina (México, D.F.: Tusquets, 2001)

APRIL

2. William James, Essays on Faith and Morals (New York: New American Library, 1972)
4. Woody Allen, Without Feathers (New York: Random House, 1975)
12. Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, trans. John Cumming (London: Verso, 1999)
16. Adolfo Bioy Casares, La invención y la trama: una antología (México, D.F.: 1988)
24. Roland Barthes, Elements of Semiology, trans. Annette Lavers and Colin Smith (New York: Hill and Wang, 1973)
25. Louis Althusser, La filosofía como arma de la revolución, trans. Oscar Del Barco, Enrique Román, and Oscar L. Molina (México, D.F.: Siglo XXI, 1989)
28. André Breton, Nadja, trans. Richard Howard (New York: Grove Press, 1960)
29. J. L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975)

MAY

4. Ramón Xirau, Introducción a la historia de la filosofía (México, D.F.: UNAM, 2008)
5. Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations (New York: W.W. Norton, 1991)
11. Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society (Harper & Row, 1972)
12. John Allen Paulos, I Think, Therefore I Laugh (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000)
13. Roland Barthes, Crítica y verdad, trans. José Bianco (México, D.F.: Siglo XXI, 1994)
15. Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty, trans. Denis Paul and G. E. M. Anscombe (New York: Harper & Row, 1972)
21. Nicolai Hartmann, Introducción a la filosofía, trans. José Gaos (México, D.F.: UNAM, 2001)
22. Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination (New York: New York Review of Books, 2008)
24. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value, trans. Peter Winch (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984)
25. Philip Roth, The Human Stain (New York: Vintage, 2001)
Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008)
28. Guy Debord, La sociedad del espectáculo, trans. José Luis Pardo (Valencia: Pre-Textos, 2002)
31. Michel Foucault, Historia de la sexualidad, 1: La voluntad de saber, trans. Ulises Guiñazú (México, D.F.: Siglo XXI, 2007)

JUNE

1. Ramón Xirau, Palabra y silencio (México, D.F.: Siglo XXI, 1968)
2. Kobo Abe, La mujer de la arena, trans. Kazuya Sakai (México, D.F.: Era, 1971)
10. William James, Pragmatism and Four Essays from The Meaning of Truth (New York: Meridian Books, 1955)
12. Julián Marías, Historia de la filosofía (Madrid: Alianza, 1998)
13. Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano (London: Penguin, 2000)
14. Octavio Paz, El laberinto de la soledad (Madrid: Cátedra, 2004)
16. Mario Vargas Llosa, La tía Julia y el escribidor (México, D.F.: Alfaguara, 2000)
17. Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo (Barcelona: Anagrama, 2005)
18. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, trans. D. F. Pears and B. F. McGuinness (London: Routledge, 2001)
20. Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death, trans. Walter Lowrie (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973)
22. Susan Sontag, Contra la interpretación, trans. Horacio Vázquez Rial (Madrid: Alfaguara, 1996)
23. Martin Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics, trans. Gregory Fried and Richard Polt (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000)
26. Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History (Middletown: Wesleyan, 1985)
29. Gonzalo Celorio, Y retiemble en sus centros la tierra (México, D.F.: Tusquets, 1999)
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, trans. James Strachey (New York: W.W. Norton, 1989)

JULY

6. Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature (New York: The New Press, 2006)
7. Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987)
9. Richard Brody, Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2008)
12. Arthur C. Danto, Connections to the World: The Basic Concepts of Philosophy (Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1997)
13. Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux: 2005)
14. John Sturrock, The Word from Paris: Essays on Modern French Thinkers and Writers (London: Verso, 1998)
16. John Seabrook, Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing, the Marketing of Culture (New York: Vintage, 2001)
24. Mark Poster, Critical Theory and Poststructuralism: In Search of a Context (Ithaca: Cornel University Press, 1994)
George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003)
Arthur C. Danto, The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986)
28. William Zinsser, On Writing Well (New York: HarperCollins, 2006)
30. Arnold Hauser, The Social History of Art, Vol. 4, trans. Stanley Godman (New York: Vintage, 1985)

AUGUST

1. Richard Hofstadter, Social Darwinism in American Thought (Boston: Beacon Press, 1992)
2. André Bazin, What is Cinema? Vol. 1, trans. Hugh Gray (Berkeley: The University of California Press, 2005)
10. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology, and Religious Belief (Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1972)
12. George Boas, The History of Ideas: An Introduction (New York: Scribner's, 1969)
19. William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004)

SEPTEMBER

1. Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death, trans. Walter Lowrie (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973)
2. Paul Valéry, El señor Teste, trans. Salvador Elizondo (México, D.F.: UNAM, 1972)
3. Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings, trans. James E. Irby et al. (New York: Modern Library, 1983)
5. Charles Baudelaire, Las flores del mal, trans. Luis Martínez de Merlo (Madrid: Cátedra, 1998)
7. Octavio Paz, El arco y la lira (México, D.F.: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2005)
Bernard M. W. Knox, The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy (Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1983)
9. Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963, ed. David Rieff (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008)
13. Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002)
16. Jonathan Rosenbaum, Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Movies We Can See (Chicago: A Cappella, 2000)
Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking (New York: Vintage, 2007)
20. Edmund Wilson, To the Finland Station (New York: New York Review of Books, 2003)
21. Alexandre Kojève, Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit, ed. Allan Bloom, trans. James H. Nichols, Jr. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980)
23. Mark Roskill, What Is Art History? (New York: Harper & Row, 1976)
André Gide, The Inmoralist, trans. Richard Howard (New York: Vintage, 1970)
29. Kenneth Clark, The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984)
Sigmund Freud, Tres ensayos sobre teoría sexual y otros escritos, trans Ramón Rey Ardid and Luis Lopez-Ballesteros de Torres (Madrid: Alianza, 2006)

OCTOBER

11. Edmund Wilson, Axel's Castle (New York: Scribner's, 1969)
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008)
12. Aristóteles, Poética, trans. Juan David García Bacca (México, D.F.: UNAM, 2000)
13. Alan Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (New York: Vintage, 1989)
17. Erich Fromm, El arte de amar (Barcelona: Paídos, 1996)
31. Pierre Bayard, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, trans. Jeffrey Mehlman (New York: Bloomsbury, 2007)