My previous articles on cultural literacy (here and here) suggested 100 titles from various narrative genres that autodidacts can profitably read if they wish to acquire greater familiarity with the most influential ideas and themes of the Western cultural heritage. As I argued previously, an increase in your cultural literacy can be both personally enriching and — in a number of situations — eminently useful, and I encourage everyone to make further progress on this intellectual journey. Many readers have requested a list of non-narrative works that can contribute to cultural literacy, and so I have written this "appendix" to … Continue reading Beyond the Stories: Non-Narrative Cultural Literacy