List of 12

This is a reasonably good representative list, and I feel good about this even from a Period perspectives (every of the 7 Periods is represented - thus Kant rather than Plato for example). One thing I have not been able to balance here is language - the barrier is finding a Latin (or at least a Romance) lanaguage text to fill one of the 4 slots in the Western tradition. If I can fix the Latin language problem, I suppose it is not hard to change al-Ghazali to a Persian-language literature text to create a true "perfect balance".