Every text assigned in Harvard's freshman humanities course up to Spring 2027 (100 works), with this year's
syllabus marked ★. Source: Pamela Paul,
"The Reading List
for the Hottest Class at Harvard", The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 7, 2026.
Years are approximate composition or first-publication dates (BCE negative), placed on one number for the
timeline; each work's details give the honest range. Places mark where a work was written or took shape. Period, region,
form and topic labels are editorial, not from the article.