2020–2021 Selected Works
Martha C. Franks, Books Without Borders: Homer, Aeschylus, Galileo, Melville, and Madison Go to China
Wolfram Ellenberger, Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy
Stephen Mumford, Metaphysics: A Very Short Introduction
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Julia Annas, Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Intoduction
Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman, Lives of the Stoics
Edith Hall, Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life
Steven Nadler, Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How To Love and How To Die
Lucretius, The Nature of Things
2019–2020 Selected Works
Laura Dassow Walls, Henry David Thoreau: A Life; and more writings by Thoreau such as "Civil Disobedience"
Carlos Baker, Emerson Among the Eccentrics; plus a few essays by Emerson such as "The American Scholar" or "Divinity School Address"
Megan Marshall, The Peabody Sisters
Pre-Socratic Philosophers
2018–2019 Selected Works
Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer - William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (Penguin edition preferred)
- Jules Evan, Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations
- Carlin Romano, excerpts from America the Philosophical
- Oliver Sacks, The River of Consciousness
- Thomas Pink, Free Will: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford)
- Brian Magee, Confessions of a Philosopher
Ted Honderich, How Free Are You
Michael Puett, The Path—What Chinese Philosophy Can Teach Us About The Good Life
Kwame Anthony Appiah, The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity
Mary Jane Jacob, Dewey for Artists - Ralph Waldo Emerson miscellany such as The Heart of Emerson's Journals (edited by Bliss Perry), and Emerson In His Journals (edited by Joel Porte)
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden
2017 Selected Works
Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
Joshua Greene, Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
John Kaag, American Philosophy: A Love Story
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men
The Bhagavad Gita
Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
R. J. Hollingdale, editor, A Nietzsche Reader
2016 Selected Works
- Ancius Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy
- Matthew Stewart, Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic
- Arthur Herman, The Cave and The Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
2015 Selected Works
Edward O. Wilson, The Meaning of Human Existence
Simon Glendinning, Derrida: A Very Short Introduction
Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
2014 Selected Works
- David Edmonds and John Eidinow, Wittgenstein's Poker
- Naomi Klein, No Logo
- Jim Holt, Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
- William James, Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
- Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Life
- Morris Dickstein, ed. The Revival of Pragmatism (first section)
- Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
2012-2013 Selected Works
- Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- Henri Bergson
- Immanuel Kant
- Lucretius