January

• The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
• Candide by Voltaire
• On Ugliness edited by Umberto Eco
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

February

• Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
• A Universal History of Iniquity by Jorge Luis Borges
• Brodie's Report by Jorge Luis Borges
• Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
• Be Here Now by Ram Dass
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• Tao Te Ching by Lao-Tzu
• Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski

March

• The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
• Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
• The Dhammapada: Verses on the Way by the Buddha
• Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters (French and English)

April

• How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton
• If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino
• A Mere Interlude by Thomas Hardy
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
• Atonement by Ian McEwan
• Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges

May

• The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
• The Portable Chekhov
• The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire (French and English)
• Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor

June

• The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
• Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
• The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

July

• Perfume by Patrick Süskind
• The Freedom Manifesto by Tom Hodgkinson
• The Love Songs of Sappho
• The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley
• The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges
• A History of Beauty by Umberto Eco
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

August

• How to be Idle by Tom Hodgkinson
• Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

September

• Heart of Darkness by Joesph Conrad
• Macbeth by William Shakespeare
• The Dead by James Joyce

October

• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• Zen and the Birds of Appetite by Thomas Merton

November

• The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
• Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
• Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

December

• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro