Western Canon reading path
Expanded Canon
A starting shelf for voices and traditions that enlarge the inherited survey.
How to use this reading path
This path is not an appendix to the canon. It places works about race, gender, empire, memory, and cultural inheritance into the central conversation.
- Books
- 8
- Estimated hours
- 150
- Suggested pace
- 6 months
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
The reading order
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