mkboylan's Dewey Decimal Challenge

Intro coming - I'm too excited to think of one right now!

ETA: Hello Dewey Group! I've been following NielsenGW on Club Read 2013 and found his thread on Dewey. I have finally been unable to resist joining in. I've been looking at a lot of your threads and trying to decide on a format for mine. I'm still playing around with it, so please bear with me as I try to decide how I want to do that, to what detail I want to track, etc.

I am listing books I have read in the last few years and new reads. Obviously this won't include my lifetime of reading but neither am I starting over again. At the age of 64, I couldn't complete the challenge probably! I'll mark newly read books with a date or year from today forward.

For some reason my cut and pasting of my list is not keeping my brackets therefore no touchstones yet.

My personal info is on my profile page and my 2013 reading is logged on my Club Read 2013 thread.

This is going to be so fun! Thanks to Gerard (NielsenGW) for the encouragement, help, and his entertaining thread.

Any suggestions about format or anything else are welcome. I'm also interested to know if you began your thread fresh or included previously read books.

Merrikay

ETA:

Classes: 10 out of 10 100% Complete.
Divisions: 49 out of 99 40%
Subsections: out of 904

000 Computer science, knowledge & general works
001 Knowledge
002 The book (i.e. Meta writings about books)
003 Systems
004 Data processing & computer science
005 Computer programming, programs & data
006 Special computer methods
007 Unassigned
008 Unassigned
009 Unassigned
010 Bibliographies
010 modern electronics
011 Bibliographies
012 Bibliographies of individuals
013 Unassigned
014 Bibliographies of anonymous & pseudonymous works
015 Bibliographies of works from specific places
016 Bibliographies of works on specific subjects
017 General subject catalogs
018 Catalogs arranged by author, date, etc.
019 Dictionary catalogs
020 Library & information sciences
020 Library & information sciences
021 Library relationships
022 Administration of physical plant
023 Personnel management
024 No longer used—formerly Regulations for readers
025 Library operations
026 Libraries for specific subjects
027 General libraries
027.665092 Running the Books: the Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian by Avi Steinberg
028 Reading & use of other information media
028.90973 So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson
029 No longer used—formerly Literary methods
030 Encyclopedias & books of facts
030 General encyclopedic works
031 Encyclopedias in American English
032 Encyclopedias in English
033 Encyclopedias in German
034 Encyclopedias in French, Occitan & Catalan
035 Encyclopedias in Italian, Romanian & related languages
036 Encyclopedias in Spanish & Portuguese
037 Encyclopedias in Slavic languages
038 Encyclopedias in Scandinavian languages
039 Encyclopedias in other languages
040 Biographies
040 Biographies
041 Biographies in American English
042 Biographies in English
043 Biographies in German
044 Biographies in French, Occitan & Catalan
045 Biographies in Italian, Romanian & related languages
046 Biographies in Spanish & Portuguese
047 Biographies in Slavic languages
048 Biographies in Scandinavian languages
049 Biographies in other languages
050 Magazines, journals & serials
050 General serial publications
051 Serials in American English
052 Serials in English
053 Serials in other Germanic languages
054 Serials in French, Occitan & Catalan
055 In Italian, Romanian & related languages
056 Serials in Spanish & Portuguese
057 Serials in Slavic languages
058 Serials in Scandinavian languages
059 Serials in other languages
060 Associations, organizations & museums
060 General organizations & museology
061 Organizations in North America
062 Organizations in British Isles; in England
063 Organizations in central Europe; in Germany
064 Organizations in France & Monaco
065 Organizations in Italy & adjacent islands
066 In Iberian Peninsula & adjacent islands
067 Organizations in eastern Europe; in Russia
068 Organizations in other geographic areas
069 Museum science
070 News media, journalism & publishing
070 News media, journalism & publishing
071 Newspapers in North America
072 Newspapers in British Isles; in England
073 Newspapers in central Europe; in Germany
074 Newspapers in France & Monaco
075 Newspapers in Italy & adjacent islands
076 In Iberian Peninsula & adjacent islands
077 Newspapers in eastern Europe; in Russia
078 Newspapers in Scandinavia
079 Newspapers in other geographic areas
080 General collections
080 General collections
081 Collections in American English
082 Collections in English
083 Collections in other Germanic languages
084 Collections in French, Occitan & Catalan
085 In Italian, Romanian & related languages
086 Collections in Spanish & Portuguese
087 Collections in Slavic languages
088 Collections in Scandinavian languages
089 Collections in other languages
090 Manuscripts & rare books
090 Manuscripts & rare books
091 Manuscripts
092 Block books
093 Incunabula
094 Printed books
095 Books notable for bindings
096 Books notable for illustrations
097 Books notable for ownership or origin
098 Prohibited works, forgeries & hoaxes
099 Books notable for format

Class 100 – Philosophy and psychology

100 Philosophy
100 Philosophy and psychology
101 Theory of philosophy
102 Miscellany of philosophy
103 Dictionaries and encyclopedias of philosophy
104 No longer used—formerly Essays
105 Serial publications of philosophy
106 Organizations and management of philosophy
107 Education, research, and related topics of philosophy
108 Kinds of persons treatment of philosophy
109 Historical and collected persons treatment of philosophy
110 Metaphysics
110 Metaphysics
111 Ontology
112 No longer used—formerly Methodology
113 Cosmology (Philosophy of nature)
114 Space
115 Time
116 Change
117 Structure
118 Force and energy
119 Number and quantity
120 Epistemology
120 Epistemology, causation, and humankind
121 Epistemology
122 Causation
123 Determinism and indeterminism
124 Teleology
125 No longer used—formerly Infinity
126 The self
127 The unconscious and the subconscious
128 Humankind
129 Origin and destiny of individual souls
130 Parapsychology and occultism
130 Parapsychology and occultism
131 Parapsychological and occult methods
132 No longer used—formerly Mental derangements
133 Specific topics in parapsychology and occultism
134 No longer used—formerly Mesmerism and Clairvoyance
135 Dreams and mysteries
136 No longer used—formerly Mental characteristics
137 Divinatory graphology
138 Physiognomy
139 Phrenology
140 Philosophical schools of thought
140 Specific philosophical schools
141 Idealism and related systems
142 Critical philosophy
143 Bergsonism and intuitionism
144 Humanism and related systems
145 Sensationalism
146 Naturalism and related systems
147 Pantheism and related systems
148 Liberalism, eclecticism, and traditionalism
149 Other philosophical systems
150 Psychology
150 Psychology
150 The Rough Guide to Psychology by Christian Jarrett
151 No longer used—formerly Intellect
152 Perception, movement, emotions, and drives
152.47 The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner
153 Mental processes and intelligence
153.4 The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently and Why by Richard Nisbett
153.6 The Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal
Experience by Daniel J. Siegel
154 Subconscious and altered states
155 Differential and developmental psychology
155 Social and Personality Development by David Shaffer
155.633 The Dance of Intimacy by Harriet Lerner
156 Comparative psychology
156 The Moral Lives of Animals by Dale Peterson
157 No longer used—formerly Emotions
158 Applied psychology
158 You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay
158 Awake in the Heartland: the Ecstasy of What Is by Joan Tollifson
158.1 Shadow Dance: Liberating the Power & Creativity of Your Dark Side by David Richo
158.1 The Book of Questions by Gregory Stock
158.12 20-Minute Retreats: Revive Your Spirit in Just Minutes a Day with Simple, Self-led Practices by Rachel Harris
158.12 Posture of Meditation by Will Johnson
158.2 The Magic of Conflict: Turning a Life of Work into a Work of Art by Thomas F. Crum
158.3 The Zen of Helping: Spiritual Principles for Mindful and Open-Hearted Practice by Andrew Bein
159 No longer used—formerly Will
160 Logic
160 Logic
161 Induction
162 Deduction
163 Not assigned or no longer used
164 Not assigned or no longer used
165 Fallacies and sources of error
166 Syllogisms
167 Hypotheses
168 Argument and persuasion
169 Analogy
170 Ethics (Moral philosophy)
170 Ethics
170.44 A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last by Stephen Levine
170.880544 The Kids' Book of Questions by Gregory Stock
171 Ethical systems
172 Political ethics
173 Ethics of family relationships
174 Occupational ethics
174 The Power of Half: One Family's Decision to Stop Taking and Start Giving Back by Kevin Salwen
175 Ethics of recreation and leisure
176 Ethics of sex and reproduction
177 Ethics of social relations
178 Ethics of consumption
179 Other ethical norms
180 Ancient, medieval, and Eastern philosophy
180 Ancient, medieval, and Eastern philosophy
181 Eastern philosophy
181 Four Huts: Asian Writings on the Simple Life by Stephen Addiss
182 Pre-Socratic Greek philosophies
183 Socratic and related philosophies
184 Platonic philosophy
185 Aristotelian philosophy
186 Skeptic and Neoplatonic philosophies
187 Epicurean philosophy
188 Stoic philosophy
189 Medieval Western philosophy
190 Modern Western philosophy (19th-century, 20th-century)
190 Modern Western philosophy
191 Modern Western philosophy of the United States and Canada
192 Modern Western philosophy of the British Isles
193 Modern Western philosophy of Germany and Austria
194 Modern Western philosophy of France
195 Modern Western philosophy of Italy
196 Modern Western philosophy of Spain and Portugal
197 Modern Western philosophy of the former Soviet Union
198 Modern Western philosophy of Scandinavia
199 Modern Western philosophy in other geographic areas

200 Religion
200 Religion
200 St. Therese of Lisieux: Her Last Conversations by St. Therese of Lisieux
201 Religious mythology, general classes of religion, interreligious relations and attitudes, social theology
202 Doctrines
203 Public worship and other practices
204 Religious experience, life, practice
205 Religious ethics
206 Leaders and organization
207 Missions and religious education
208 Sources
209 Sects and reform movements
210 Natural theology
210 Altars in the Street: a Courageous Memoir of Community and Spiritual Awakening by Melody Chavis
211 Concepts of God
212 Existence, attributes of God
213 Creation
214 Theodicy
215 Science & religion
216 No longer used—formerly Evil
217 No longer used—formerly Prayer
218 Humankind
219 No longer used—formerly Analogies
220 Bible
221 Old Testament
222 Historical books of Old Testament
223 Poetic books of Old Testament
224 Prophetic books of Old Testament
225 New Testament
226 Gospels & Acts
226.06 The Gospel in Art by the Peasants of Solentiname by Phillip Scharper
227 Epistles
228 Revelation (Apocalypse)
229 Apocrypha & pseudepigrapha
230 Christian theology
231 God
232 Jesus Christ & his family
233 Humankind
234 Salvation (Soteriology) & grace
235 Spiritual beings
236 Eschatology
237 No longer used—formerly Future state
238 Creeds & catechisms
239 Apologetics & polemics
240 Christian moral & devotional theology
241 Moral theology
242 Devotional literature
243 Evangelistic writings for individuals
244 No longer used—formerly Religious fiction
245 No longer used—formerly Hymnology
246 Use of art in Christianity
247 Church furnishings & articles
248 Christian experience, practice, life
249 Christian observances in family life
250 Christian orders & local church
251 Preaching (Homiletics)
252 Texts of sermons
253 Pastoral office (Pastoral theology)
254 Parish government & administration
255 Religious congregations & orders
256 No longer used—formerly Religious societies
257 No longer used—formerly Parochial schools, libraries, etc.
258 No longer used—formerly Parochial medicine
259 Activities of the local church
260 Christian social theology
261 Social theology
261.873 What Would You Do? by John Howard Yoder
262 Ecclesiology
262 The Code of Canon Law by Canon Law Society of Great Britain
263 Times, places of religious observance
264 Public worship
265 Sacraments, other rites & acts
266 Missions
267 Associations for religious work
268 Religious education
269 Spiritual renewal
270 Christian church history
271 Religious orders in church history
271.97 The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice by Christopher Hitchens
272 Persecutions in church history
273 Heresies in church history
274 Christian church in Europe
275 Christian church in Asia
276 Christian church in Africa
277 Christian church in North America
278 Christian church in South America
279 Christian church in other areas
280 Christian denominations & sects
281 Early church & Eastern churches
282 Roman Catholic Church
283 Anglican churches
284 Protestants of Continental origin
285 Presbyterian, Reformed, Congregational
286 Baptist, Disciples of Christ, Adventist
287 Methodist & related churches
288 No longer used—formerly Unitarian
289 Other denominations & sects
289 The Sins of Brother Curtis: A Story of Betrayal, Conviction, and the Mormon Church by Lisa Davis
290 Other & comparative religions
291 Comparative religion
291.350 Sacred Sites of the West: a Guide to Mystical Centers by Frank Joseph
291.435 Breath by Breath: The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation by Larry Rosenberg
292 Classical (Greek & Roman) religion
293 Germanic religion
294 Religions of Indian origin
294 The Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing: with Commentary by Thich Nhat Hanh by Thich Nhat Hanh
294 The Diamond Sutra by Red Pine
294 Mantras and Mudras: Meditations for the Hands and Voice to Bring Peace and Inner Calm by Lillian Too
294.302 The Buddha Smiles: a Collection of Dharmatoons by Mari Garatri Stein
294.3092 Hidden Spring: a Buddhist Woman Confronts Cancer by Sandy Boucher
294.30973 The Accidental Buddhist by Dinty W. Moore
294.30973 Complete Guide to Buddhist America by Don Morreale
294.331615 Buddhist Practice on Western Ground: Reconciling Eastern Ideals and Western Psychology by Harvey Aronson
294.337 Calming the Fearful Mind: A Zen Response to Terrorism by Thich Nhat Hanh
294.337273 Practicing Peace in Times of War by Pema Chodron
294.343509515 Circling the Sacred Mountain: A Spiritual Adventure through the Himalayas by Robert Thurman
294.344 Reflections on a Mountain Lake: Teachings on Practical Buddhism by Ani Tenzin Palmo
294.3443 Insight Meditation by Joseph Goldstein
294.3444 Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha by Tara Brach
294.3444 Awakening Loving-Kindness by Pema Chodron
294.3444 Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World by Lama Surya Das
294.3444 Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh
294.3444 Together Under One Roof by Lin Jensen
294.3444 A Path with Heart: a Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life by Jack Kornfield
294.3444 Insight Dialogue: The Interpersonal Path to Freedom by Gregory Kramer
294.3444 The Chocolate Cake Sutra: Ingredients for a Sweet Life by Geri Larkin
294.3444 Nurturing the Garden of Your Life by Geri Larkin
294.34442 How to Be Sick: a Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their Caregivers by Toni Bernhard
294.344 Against the Stream by Noah Levine
294.3657092 The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery by Janwillem Van de Wetering
294.382322 The Still Point Dhammapada: Living the Buddha's Essential Teachings by Geri Larkin
294.39 One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism by Joseph Goldstein
294.391092 Meeting Faith: the Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun by Faith Adiele
294.3927 Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality by Brad Warner
294.3927 Afterzen by Janwillem Van De Wetering
294.3927092 Thank You and Okay: An American Zen Failure in Japan by David Chadwick
294.3927092 Bad Dog!: A Memoir of Love, Beauty, and Redemption in Dark Places by Lin Jensen
294.3927092 Pavement: Reflections on Mercy, Activism, and Doing "Nothing" for Peace by Lin Jensen
294.3927092 First You Shave Your Head by Geri Larkin
294.3927092 Stumbling Toward Enlightenment by Geri Larkin
295 Zoroastrianism (Mazdaism, Parseeism)
296 Judaism
297 Islam, Bábism & Bahá'í Faith
298 No longer used—formerly Mormonism
299 Other religions
299.882 Shabono by Florinda Donner

300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology
300 Social sciences
301 Sociology & anthropology
301 Children of Belfast: Reclaiming Their Place Among the Stones by Tom Quinn Kumpf
301 Not Buying It: My Year without Shopping by Judith Levine
301.427 A Couple's Guide to Communication by John Gottman
302 Social interaction
302 Love Games by Mark Robert Waldman
302.23450973 The Age of Missing Information by Bill McKibben
303 Social processes
303.32 Third Culture Kids: the Experience of Growing Up Among Worlds by David C. Pollock
303.485 A Paradise Built in Hell: the Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit
304 Factors affecting social behavior
305 Social groups
305 Waiting for the Dalai Lama: Stories from All Sides of the Tibetan Debate by Annelie Rozeboom
305.231 The Science of Parenting by Margot Sunderland
305.310973 The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert
305.420922 Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists by J. Courtney Sullivan
305.420973 Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
305.420973 Wildfire: Igniting the She/Volution by Sonia Johnson
305.42098 Women & Guerrilla Movements by Karen Kampwirth
305.50973 Class: A Guide Through the American Status System by Paul Fussell
305.568 Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes by Ted Conover
305.800973 Increasing Multicultural Understanding: A Comprehensive Model by Don C. Locke
305.895410494092 Across Many Mountains: A Tibetan Family's Epic Journey from Oppression to Freedom by Yangzom Brauen
305.896073092 Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver
305.90824092 Riding the Bus with My Sister: a True Life Journey by Rachel Simon
306 Culture & institutions
306 At Day's Close: Night in Times Past by A. Roger Ekirch
306.089963 The Forest People by Colin M. Turnbull
306.095193090511 Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
306.09730904 The Enlightened Bracketologist: The Final Four of Everything by Mark Reiter
306.7 Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Human Sexuality by Sandra L. Caron
306.7 Discovering Sexuality that Will Satisfy You Both: When Couples Want Differing Amounts and Differing Kinds of Sex by Anne Stirling Hastings
306.7 The Book of Questions: Love & Sex by Gregory Stock
306.7082 Women on Top by Nancy Friday
306.80973 Marriages and Families: Reflections of a Gendered Society by Constance L. Shehan
306.81 Love Between Equals: How Peer Marriage Really Works by Pepper Schwartz
306.850 Love in Condition Yellow: A Memoir of an Unlikely Marriage by Sophia Raday
306.87 Understanding Family Communication by Janet Yerby
306.8743092 What I Thought I Knew: A Memoir by Alice Eve Cohen
307 Communities
307.760973090511 The Absolutely Worst Places to Live in America by Dave Gilmartin
308 No longer used—formerly Polygraphy
309 No longer used—formerly History of sociology
310 General statistics
311 No longer used—formerly Theory and methods
312 No longer used—formerly Population
313 No longer used—formerly Special topics
314 General statistics Of Europe
315 General statistics Of Asia
316 General statistics Of Africa
317 General statistics Of North America
318 General statistics Of South America
319 General statistics Of other parts of the world
320 Political science
320 So Many Enemies, So Little Time: An American Woman in All the Wrong Places by Elinor Burkett
320 Chomsky for Beginners by David Cogswell
320 Days of War, Nights of Love: Crimethink for Beginners by Crimethink Workers Collective
320 Expect Resistance: A Crimethink Field Manual by Crimethink Workers' Collective
320 Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook by Crimethink Workers' Collective
320 The Last Liberal Outlaw by Mike Palecek
320 Drawing Support 2: Murals of War and Peace (Bk. 2) by Bill Rolston
320.53 The Conscience of a Radical by Scott Nearing
320.54092 The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
321 Systems of governments & states
322 Relation of state to organized groups
323 Civil & political rights
323.092396073 Children of the Movement by John Blake
324 The political process
325 International migration & colonization
326 Slavery & emancipation
327 International relations
327 Victories without Violence by Ruth Fry
327 Dead Man Running: a True Story of a Secret Agent's Escape from the IRA and MI5 by Martin McGartland
328 The legislative process
329 Not assigned or no longer used
330 Economics
330 The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy by Lisa Dodson
330 Economix by Michael Goodwin
330.973 The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
330.973 Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future by Robert B. Reich
331 Labor economics
331.7613633780979466 Real Heat: Gender and Race in the Urban Fire Service by Carol Chetkovich
332 Financial economics
332.024 Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Joseph R. Dominguez
333 Land economics
334 Cooperatives
335 Socialism & related systems
335.83092 Dangerous Woman: the Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman by Sharon Rudahl
336 Public finance
337 International economics
338 Production
339 Macroeconomics & related topics
340 Law
341 International law
342 Constitutional & administrative law
343 Military, tax, trade, industrial law
344 Social, labor, welfare, & related law
345 Criminal law
346 Private law
347 Civil procedure & courts
348 Law (Statutes), regulations, cases
349 Law of specific jurisdictions & areas
350 Public administration
351 Of central governments
352 Of local governments
353 Of U.S. federal & state governments
353.4 Inside WikiLeaks: My time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website by Daniel Domscheit-Berg
354 Of specific central governments
355 Military science
355 The Bells of Nagasaki: A Message of Hope from a Witness, a Doctor by Takashi Nagai
356 Foot forces & warfare
357 Mounted forces & warfare
358 Other specialized forces & services
359 Sea (Naval) forces & warfare
360 Social services; association
361 General social problems
362 Social welfare problems & services
362.1983 Twitch and Shout: a Touretter's Tale by Lowell Handler
362.19897 Bridging the Communication Gap with the Elderly: Practical Strategies for Care Givers by Barbara J. Cox
363 Other social problems & services
363.370979476 Fire Monks by Colleen Morton Busch
363.70574092 Confessions of an Eco-Warrior by Dave Foreman
364 Criminology
365 Penal & related institutions
366 Association
367 General clubs
368 Insurance
369 Miscellaneous kinds of associations
370 Education
371 School management; special education
372 Elementary education
373 Secondary education
373.52 Learning to Bow by Bruce Feiler
374 Adult education
375 Curriculums
376 No longer used—formerly Education of women
377 No longer used—formerly Ethical education
378 Higher education
378.12 In the Basement of the Ivory Tower by Professor X
379 Government regulation, control, support
380 Commerce, communications, transport
381 Internal commerce (Domestic trade)
381.4500202854678 Selling Used Books Online: the Complete Guide to Bookselling at Amazon's Marketplace and Other Online Sites by Stephen Windwalker
381.450020973 Rebel Bookseller by Andrew Laties
382 International commerce (Foreign trade)
383 Postal communication
384 Communications; Telecommunication
385 Railroad transportation
386 Inland waterway & ferry transportation
387 Water, air, space transportation
388 Transportation; Ground transportation
389 Metrology & standardization
390 Customs, etiquette, folklore
391 Costume & personal appearance
392 Customs of life cycle & domestic life
393 Death customs
394 General customs
395 Etiquette (Manners)
396 No longer used—formerly Women's position and treatment
397 No longer used—formerly outcast studies
398 Folklore
399 Customs of war & diplomacy

400 Language
401 Philosophy & theory
402 Miscellany
403 Dictionaries & encyclopedias
404 Special topics
405 Serial publications
406 Organizations & management
407 Education, research, related topics
408 With respect to kinds of persons
409 Geographical & persons treatment
410 Linguistics
411 Writing systems
412 Etymology
413 Dictionaries
414 Phonology
415 Structural systems (Grammar)
416 No longer used—formerly Prosody (linguistics)
417 Dialectology & historical linguistics
418 Standard usage; Applied linguistics
419 Verbal language not spoken or written
420 English & Old English
421 English writing system & phonology
422 English etymology
423 English dictionaries
423 Bookstore Tourism: the Book Addict's Guide to Planning & Promoting Bookstore Road Trips for Bibliophiles & Other Bookshop Junkies by Larry Portzline
424 No longer used—formerly English thesauruses
425 English grammar
426 No longer used—formerly English prosodies
427 English language variations
428 Standard English usage
428.2 Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: the Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences by Kitty Burns Florey
429 Old English (Anglo-Saxon)
430 Germanic languages; German
431 German writing system & phonology
432 German etymology
433 German dictionaries
434 Not assigned or no longer used
435 German grammar
436 Not assigned or no longer used
437 German language variations
438 Standard German usage
439 Other Germanic languages
440 Romance languages; French
441 French writing system & phonology
442 French etymology
443 French dictionaries
444 Not assigned or no longer used
445 French grammar
446 Not assigned or no longer used
447 French language variations
448 Standard French usage
449 Provençal & Catalan
450 Italian, Romanian, Rhaeto-Romanic
451 Italian writing system & phonology
452 Italian etymology
453 Italian dictionaries
454 Not assigned or no longer used
455 Italian grammar
456 Not assigned or no longer used
457 Italian language variations
458 Standard Italian usage
459 Romanian & Rhaeto-Romanic
460 Spanish & Portuguese languages
461 Spanish writing system & phonology
462 Spanish etymology
463 Spanish dictionaries
464 Not assigned or no longer used
465 Spanish grammar
466 Not assigned or no longer used
467 Spanish language variations
468 Standard Spanish usage
469 Portuguese
470 Italic languages; Latin
471 Classical Latin writing & phonology
472 Classical Latin etymology & phonology
473 Classical Latin dictionaries
474 Not assigned or no longer used
475 Classical Latin grammar
476 Not assigned or no longer used
477 Old, Postclassical, Vulgar Latin
478 Classical Latin usage
479 Other Italic languages
480 Hellenic languages; Classical Greek
481 Classical Greek writing & phonology
482 Classical Greek etymology
483 Classical Greek dictionaries
484 Not assigned or no longer used
485 Classical Greek grammar
486 Not assigned or no longer used
487 Preclassical & postclassical Greek
488 Classical Greek usage
489 Other Hellenic languages
490 Other languages
491 East Indo-European & Celtic languages
492 Afro-Asiatic languages; Semitic
493 Non-Semitic Afro-Asiatic languages
494 Ural–Altaic, Paleosiberian, Dravidian
495 Languages of East & Southeast Asia
496 African languages
497 North American native languages
498 South American native languages
499 Miscellaneous languages

500 Sciences
500 Natural sciences & mathematics
501 Philosophy & theory
502 Miscellany
503 Dictionaries & encyclopedias
504 Not assigned or no longer used
505 Serial publications
506 Organizations & management
507 Education, research, related topics
508 Natural history
508.092 Walking It Off by Doug Peacock
509 Historical, geographic, persons treatment
510 Mathematics
510 Islands of Truth: A Mathematical Mystery Cruise by Ivar Peterson
511 General principles
512 Algebra & number theory
513 Arithmetic
514 Topology
515 Analysis
516 Geometry
517 Not assigned or no longer used
518 Numerical analysis
519 Probabilities & applied mathematics
520 Astronomy & allied sciences
521 Celestial mechanics
522 Techniques, equipment, materials
523 Specific celestial bodies & phenomena
523.1 A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
524 Not assigned or no longer used
525 Earth (Astronomical geography)
526 Mathematical geography
527 Celestial navigation
528 Ephemerides
529 Chronology
530 Physics
531 Classical mechanics; Solid mechanics
532 Fluid mechanics; Liquid mechanics
533 Gas mechanics
534 Sound & related vibrations
535 Light & paraphotic phenomena
536 Heat
537 Electricity & electronics
538 Magnetism
539 Modern physics
540 Chemistry & allied sciences
541 Physical & theoretical chemistry
542 Techniques, equipment, materials
543 Analytical chemistry
544 Qualitative analysis
545 Quantitative analysis
546 Inorganic chemistry
547 Organic chemistry
548 Crystallography
549 Mineralogy
550 Earth sciences
551 Geology, hydrology, meteorology
552 Petrology
553 Economic geology
554 Earth sciences of Europe
555 Earth sciences of Asia
556 Earth sciences of Africa
557 Earth sciences of North America
558 Earth sciences of South America
559 Earth sciences of other areas
560 Paleontology; Paleozoology
561 Paleobotany
562 Fossil invertebrates
563 Fossil primitive phyla
564 Fossil Mollusca & Molluscoidea
565 Other fossil invertebrates
566 Fossil Vertebrata (Fossil Craniata)
567 Fossil cold-blooded vertebrates
568 Fossil Aves (Fossil birds)
569 Fossil Mammalia
570 Life sciences
571 Physiology
572 Biochemistry
573 Physiological systems of animals
574 Not assigned or no longer used
575 Physiological systems of plants
576 Genetics and evolution
577 Ecology
578 Natural history of organisms
579 Microorganisms, fungi, algae
580 Plants
581 Botany
582 Plants noted for specific vegetative characteristics and flowers
583 Dicotyledones
583.471 What Kinda Cactus Izzat? by Reg Manning
584 Monocotyledones
585 Gymnospermae (Pinophyta)
585.5 The Wild Trees by Richard Preston
586 Cryptogamia (Seedless plants)
587 Pteridophyta (Vascular cryptogams)
588 Bryophyta
589 Forestry
590 Zoological sciences/Animals
590 A Field Guide to Desert Holes, Revised Edition by Pinau Merlin
590.92 A Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey by Jane Goodall
591 Zoology
591.56 Parenting Papas: Unusual Animal Fathers by Judy Cutchins
592 Invertebrates
593 Protozoa, Echinodermata, related phyla
594 Mollusca & Molluscoidea
595 Other invertebrates
596 Vertebrata (Craniata, Vertebrates)
597 Cold-blooded vertebrates, fish
598 Aves (Birds)
598 The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill: A Love Story...with Wings by Mark Bittner
599 Mammalia (Mammals)
599.74442 The Hidden Life of Dogs by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
599.784 The Essential Grizzly: The Mingled Fates of Men and Bears by Doug Peacock
599.784092 Blindsided: Surviving a Grizzly Attack and Still Loving the Great Bear by Jim Cole
599.884096750 Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Lo've and Adventure in the Congo by Vanessa Woods
599.935 Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley

600 Technology (Applied sciences)
600 Technology
601 Philosophy & theory
602 Miscellany
603 Dictionaries & encyclopedias
604 Special topics
605 Serial publications
606 Organizations
607 Education, research, related topics
608 Invention & patents
609 Historical, geographic, persons treatment
610 Medical sciences; Medicine
611 Human anatomy, cytology, histology
612 Human physiology
613 Personal health & safety
613.2 Are You Confused? by Paavo O. Airola
6132 The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite by David Kessler
613.25 Eat This Not That! 2010 by David Zinczenko
613.7045 Strong Women Stay Young by Miriam Nelson
614 Incidence & prevention of disease
615 Pharmacology and therapeutics
615 Clinical Psychopharmacology: Made Ridiculously Simple by John Preston
616 Diseases
616 Reaching Children through Play Therapy: An Experiential Approach by Carol Crowell Norton
616 Because I Feel Fat by Tony Paulson
616.833 Making the Connection Between Brain and Behavior: Coping with Parkinson's Disease by Joseph H. Friedman
616.85210651 Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing by Francine Shapiro
616.85227 Inside Animal Hoarding by Arnold Arluke
616.8914068 The Complete Psychotherapy Treatment Planner by Arthur E. Jongsma
616.89156 Ethnicity and Family Therapy by Monica McGoldrick
616.89156 Genograms: Assessment and Intervention by Monica McGoldrick
617 Surgery & related medical specialties
618 Gynecology & other medical specialties
618.9 Windows to Our Children by Violet Oaklander
618.928589 Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention by Katherine Ellison
618.9289 Psychotherapy with Children by Clark E Moustakas
618.928914 Eye Movement Desenitization Reprocessing (EMDR) in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy by Ricky Greenwald
628.928914 Treating Traumatized Children by Beverly James
618.928914 The Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Treatment Planner by Arthur E. Jongsma
618.928914 Small Wonders: Healing Childhood Trauma with EMDR by Joan Lovtt
618.92891653 Child's First Book About Play Therapy by Marc A. Nemiroff
619 Experimental medicine
620 Engineering & Applied operations
621 Applied physics
622 Mining & related operations
623 Military & nautical engineering
624 Civil engineering
625 Engineering of railroads, roads
626 Not assigned or no longer used
627 Hydraulic engineering
628 Sanitary & municipal engineering
629 Other branches of engineering
629.283 Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do by Tom Vanderbilt
630 Agriculture
631 Techniques, equipment, materials
632 Plant injuries, diseases, pests
633 Field & plantation crops
634 Orchards, fruits, forestry
635 Garden crops (Horticulture)
636 Animal husbandry
636.7 How to Meditate with Your Dog: An Introduction to Meditation for Dog Lovers by James Jacobson
636.70887 The Social Lives of Dogs by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
636.977 The Daily Coyote: A Story of Love, Survival, and Trust in the Wilds of Wyoming by Shreve Stockton
637 Processing dairy & related products
638 Insect culture
639 Hunting, fishing, conservation
640 Home economics & family living
640 Off the Grid by Nick Rosen
640.43 Take Your Time Finding Balance in a Hurried World by Eknath Easwaran
641 Food & drink
642 Meals & table service
643 Housing & household equipment
644 Household utilities
645 Household furnishings
645 Books Do Furnish Room by Leslie Geddes-Brown
646 Sewing, clothing, personal living
647 Management of public households
648 Housekeeping
649 Child rearing & home care of sick
649.1 Parenting for Peace and Justice by James McGinnis
649.7 Healthy Sexuality Development: a Guide for Early Childhood Educators and Families by Kent Chrisman
650 Management & auxiliary services
651 Office services
652 Processes of written communication
653 Shorthand
654 Not assigned or no longer used
655 Not assigned or no longer used
656 Not assigned or no longer used
657 Accounting
658 General management
659 Advertising & public relations
659.2936800973 Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans by Wendell Potter
660 Chemical engineering
661 Industrial chemicals technology
662 Explosives, fuels technology
663 Beverage technology
664 Food technology
665 Industrial oils, fats, waxes, gases
666 Ceramic & allied technologies
667 Cleaning, color, related technologies
668 Technology of other organic products
669 Metallurgy
670 Manufacturing
671 Metalworking & metal products
672 Iron, steel, other iron alloys
673 Nonferrous metals
674 Lumber processing, wood products, cork
675 Leather & fur processing
676 Pulp & paper technology
677 Textiles
678 Elastomers & elastomer products
679 Other products of specific materials
680 Manufacture for specific uses
681 Precision instruments & other devices
682 Small forge work (Blacksmithing)
683 Household hardware & household appliances
684 Furnishings & home workshops
685 Leather, fur, related products
686 Printing & related activities
687 Clothing
688 Other final products & packaging
689 Not assigned or no longer used
690 Buildings
691 Building materials
692 Auxiliary construction practices
693 Specific materials & purposes
694 Wood construction; Carpentry
695 Roof covering
696 Utilities
697 Heating, ventilating, air-conditioning
698 Detail finishing
699 Not assigned or no longer used

700 Arts
700 The Arts; fine & decorative arts
701 Philosophy & theory
702 Miscellany
702 Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards
703 Dictionaries & encyclopedias
704 Special topics
705 Serial publications
706 Organizations & management
707 Education, research, related topics
708 Galleries, museums, private collections
709 Historical, areas, persons treatment
710 Civic & landscape art
711 Area planning (Civic art)
712 Landscape architecture
713 Landscape architecture of trafficways
714 Water features
715 Woody plants
716 Herbaceous plants
717 Structures
718 Landscape design of cemeteries
719 Natural landscapes
720 Architecture
721 Architectural structure
722 Architecture to c. 300
723 Architecture from c. 300 to 1399
724 Architecture from 1400
725 Public structures
726 Buildings for religious purposes
727 Buildings for education & research
728 Residential & related buildings
729 Design & decoration
730 Plastic arts; Sculpture
731 Processes, forms, subjects of sculpture
732 Sculpture to c. 500
733 Greek, Etruscan, Roman sculpture
734 Sculpture from c. 500 to 1399
735 Sculpture from 1400
736 Carving & carvings
737 Numismatics & sigillography
738 Ceramic arts
739 Art metalwork
740 Drawing & decorative arts
741 Drawing & drawings
741 The Best American Comics 2011 by Alison Bechdel
741 How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less by Sarah Glidden
741 Zen Comics by Ioanna Salajan
741 You Don't Have to Fuck People Over to Survive by Seth Tobocman
741.5 Buddha, Vol. 1: Kapilavastu by Osamu Tezuka
741.569 The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
741.56973 Unshelved, Vol. 1 by Gene Ambaum
741.56973 Unshelved, Volume 3: Library Mascot Cage Match by Gene Ambaum
741.5944 Persopolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
741.5973 Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
741.5973 Aaron & Ahmed by Jay Cantor
741.5973 The Plain Janes by Cecil Castellucci
741.5973 The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger
742 Perspective (graphical)
743 Drawing & drawings by subject
744 Not assigned or no longer used
745 Decorative arts
746 Textile arts
747 Interior decoration
747.9 Decorating with Books by Marie Proeller Hueston
748 Glass
749 Furniture & accessories
750 Painting & paintings
750 Thrift Store Paintings by Jim Shaw
751 Techniques, equipment, forms
752 Color
753 Symbolism, allegory, mythology, legend
754 Genre paintings
755 Religion & religious symbolism
756 Not assigned or no longer used
757 Human figures & their parts
758 Other subjects
759 Geographical, historical, areas, persons treatment
759.084 The Quiet Eye: A Way of Looking at Pictures by Sylvia Shaw Judson
760 Graphic arts; Printmaking & prints
760.09227471 Confessions of the Guerrilla Girls by Girls Guerilla
761 Relief processes (Block printing)
762 Not assigned or no longer used
763 Lithographic (Planographic) processes
764 Chromolithography & serigraphy
765 Metal engraving
766 Mezzotinting & related processes
767 Etching & drypoint
768 Not assigned or no longer used
769 Prints
770 Photography & photographs
771 Techniques, equipment, materials
772 Metallic salt processes
773 Pigment processes of printing
774 Holography
775 Digital photography
776 Computer art
777 Cinematography and Videography 2
778 Fields & kinds of photography
779 Photographs
779.092 The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification by Julian Montague
779.90280924 On Reading by Andre Kertesz
780 Music
781 General principles & musical forms
781.11 Tune Your Brain by Elizabeth Miles
782 Vocal music
782 Bob Marley Songs of Freedom by Rita Marley
782.42166092 Life by Keith Richards
783 Music for single voices; The voice
784 Instruments & Instrumental ensembles
785 Chamber music
786 Keyboard & other instruments
787 Stringed instruments (Chordophones)
788 Wind instruments (Aerophones)
789 Not assigned or no longer used
790 Recreational & performing arts
790 Kokology: The Game of Self Discovery by Isamu Saito
790.132 Mongo: Adventures in Trash by Ted Botha
791 Public performances
791 Cinescopes: What Your Favorite Movies Reveal About You by Risa Williams
791.430 Lucky Man: A Memoir by Michael J. Fox
792 Stage presentations
792.028092 Come to the Edge: A Memoir by Christina Haag
793 Indoor games & amusements
794 Indoor games of skill
794 A Book of Games: A Course in Spiritual Play by Hugh Prather
795 Games of chance
796 Athletic & outdoor sports & games
796 Hot Showers, Soft Beds, and Dayhikes in the Sierra: Walks and Strolls Near Lodgings by Kathy Morey
796.4209721 Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
796.5 The High Adventure of Eric Ryback: Canada to Mexico on Foot by Eric Ryback
796.51097945 60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Sacramento by Jordan Summers
797 Aquatic & air sports
798 Equestrian sports & animal racing
799 Fishing, hunting, shooting

800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism
800 Literature & rhetoric
801 Philosophy & theory
802 Miscellany
803 Dictionaries & encyclopedias
804 Not assigned or no longer used
805 Serial publications
806 Organizations
807 Education, research, related topics
808 Rhetoric & collections of literature
809 Literary history & criticism
809 Why Orwell Matters by Christopher Hitchens
809 Adventures with Ed: A Porytrait of Abbey by Jack Loeffler
810 American literature in English
810 Tales for Little Rebels: a Collection of Radical Children's Literature by Julia Mickenberg
810 Highway 99: A Literary Journey Through California's Great Central Valley by Stan Yogi
811 Poetry
812 Drama
813 Fiction
813 Bangkok 8 by John Burdett
813 Loving Che by Ana Menendez
813 Bhutanese Adventure by Jack L. Parker
813 The Listening Ones by Naomi M. Stokes
813 The Big Nap by Ayelet Waldman
813.4 The Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain
813.54 Black Sun by Edward Abbey
813.54 Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
813.54 Sand Queen by Helen Benedict
813.54 The Army of the Republic by Stuart Archer Cohen
813.54 The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
813.54 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
813.54 Arch Angels by Robert J. Randisi
813.54 Beyond Reach by Karin Slaughter
813.6 Whitegirl by Kate Manning
813.6 Them: A Novel by Nathan McCall
813.6 The White Mary: A Novel by Kira Salak
813.6 America Libre by Raul Ramos y Sanchez
813.6 House Divided by Raul Ramos y Sanchez
813.6 Beneath a Panamanian Moon by David Terrenoire
813.6 Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War by Deb Olin Unferth
814 Essays
815 Speeches
816 Letters
817 Satire & humor
817 A Voice Crying in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey
818 Miscellaneous writings
818.5209 Marshall South and the Ghost Mountain Chronicles: An Experiment in Primitive Living by Diana Lindsay
818.602 Tiny Acts of Rebellion by Rich Fulcher
819 Puzzle activities
820 English & Old English literatures
821 English poetry
822 English drama
823 English fiction
823.7 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
823.914 Bangkok Tattoo by John Burdett
823.92 Moonlight Downs by Adrian Hyland
824 English essays
825 English speeches
826 English letters
827 English satire & humor
828 English miscellaneous writings
828.91209 Keep the Apisditra Flying by George Orwell
829 Old English (Anglo-Saxon)
830 German & related literatures
831 German poetry - see iBooks
832 German drama
833 German fiction
833.912 Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
834 German essays
835 German speeches
836 German letters
837 German satire & humor
838 German miscellaneous writings
839 Other Germanic literatures
840 Literatures of Romance languages
841 French poetry
842 French drama
843 French fiction
843.912 The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
844 French essays
845 French speeches
846 French letters
847 French satire & humor
848 French miscellaneous writings
849 Occitan & Catalan literatures
850 Italian, Romanian, Rhaeto-Romanic
851 Italian poetry
852 Italian drama
853 Italian fiction
854 Italian essays
855 Italian speeches
856 Italian letters
857 Italian satire & humor
858 Italian miscellaneous writings
859 Romanian & Rhaeto-Romanic
860 Spanish & Portuguese literatures
861 Spanish poetry
862 Spanish drama
863 Spanish fiction
864 Spanish essays
865 Spanish speeches
866 Spanish letters
867 Spanish satire & humor
868 Spanish miscellaneous writings
869 Portuguese literature
870 Italic literatures; Latin literature
871 Latin poetry
872 Latin dramatic poetry & drama
873 Latin epic poetry & fiction
874 Latin lyric poetry
875 Latin speeches
876 Latin letters
877 Latin satire & humor
878 Latin miscellaneous writings
879 Literatures of other Italic languages
880 Hellenic literatures; Classical Greek
881 Classical Greek poetry
882 Classical Greek drama
883 Classical Greek epic poetry & fiction
884 Classical Greek lyric poetry
885 Classical Greek speeches
886 Classical Greek letters
887 Classical Greek satire & humor
888 Classical Greek miscellaneous writings
889 Modern Greek literature
890 Literatures of other languages
891 East Indo-European & Celtic
891.733 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
892 Afro-Asiatic literatures Semitic
892.7 Seeking Palestine Ed by Penny Johnson
893 Non-Semitic Afro-Asiatic literatures
894 Ural–Altaic, Paleosiberian, Dravidian
895 Literatures of East & Southeast Asia
895.1352 Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet by Xinran Xinran
895.73 Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin
896 African literatures
897 North American native literatures
898 South American native literatures
899 Other literatures

900 History & geography
900 Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa by Antjie Krog
901 Philosophy & theory
902 unassigned
903 Dictionaries & encyclopedias
904 Collected accounts of events
905 Serial publications
906 Organizations & management
907 Education, research, related topics
908 With respect to kinds of persons
909 World history
910 Geography & travel
910Camping and RVing ith Dogs by Jack and Julee Meltzer
910 A Marriage Sabbatical by Sabina Shalom
910.4 Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles to Timbuktu by Kira Salak
910.4 Four Corners: a Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea by Kira Salak
911 Historical geography
912 Graphic representations of earth
913 Ancient world
914 Europe
915 Asia
Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin
915.49604 The Violet Shyness of Their Eyes: Notes from Nepal by Barbara Scot
916 Africa
917 North America
917 Sointula: an Island Utopia by Paula Wild
917.30493 Ramble: A Field Guide to the U.S.A. by Eric Peterson
917.4710443 Subwayland: Adventures in the World Beneath New York by Randy Kennedy
917.80434092 Riding in the Shadows of Saints: a Woman's Story of Motorcycling the Mormon Trail by Jana Richman
917.880434 Ramble Colorado: A Wanderer's Guide to the Offbeat, Overlooked and Outrageous by Eric Peterson
917.9 Along the Pacific Crest Trail by Bart Smith
917.9 The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost my Mind -and Almost Found Myself- on the Pacific Crest Trail by Dan White
917.92 Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert by Terry Tempest Williams
917.940454 Ramble California: The Wanderer's Guide to the Offbeat, Overlooked, and Outrageous by Eric Peterson
918 South America
919 Other areas
920 Biography, genealogy, insignia
920 A Brain Wider than the Sky: A Migraine Diary by Andrew Levy
920 Time Was Soft There by Jeremy Mercer
920 Voices from the Grave: Two Men's War in Ireland by Ed Moloney
920 Squatters in Paradise: a Yellowstone Memoir by James Perry
920 Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary by Jasmine Guy
920 Dharma Punx: a Memoir by Noah Levine
920 Early Bird: a Memoir of Premature Retirement by Rodney Rothman
921-928 This range is reserved as an optional location for biographies, which are shelved alphabetically by subject's last name.
921 Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
929 Genealogy, names, insignia
930 History of ancient world (to c. 499)
931 History of ancient world; China
932 History of ancient world; Egypt
933 History of ancient world; Palestine
934 History of ancient world; India
935 History of ancient world; Mesopotamia & Iranian Plateau
936 History of ancient world; Europe north & west of Italy
937 History of ancient world; Italy & adjacent territories
938 History of ancient world; Greece
939 History of ancient world; Other parts of ancient world
940 General history of Europe
940.5318092 Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography by Sid Jacobson
940.5425 Elephant Company by Vicki Constantine Croke
941 General history of Europe; British Isles
Granny Made Me An Anarchist by Stuart Christie
941.50824 Truth, Power, and Lies: Irish Society and the Case of the Kerry Babies by Tom Inglis
941.6 Rebel Hearts: Journeys within the IRA's Soul by Kevin Toolis
942 General history of Europe; England & Wales
943 General history of Europe; Central Europe; Germany
943.086 In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
944 General history of Europe; France & Monaco
945 General history of Europe; Italian Peninsula & adjacent islands
946 General history of Europe; Iberian Peninsula & adjacent islands
946.081 Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
947 General history of Europe; Eastern Europe; Russia
947.084 Daughter of the Revolution: a Russian Girlhood Remembered by Vera Broido
948 General history of Europe; Northern Europe; Scandinavia
949 General history of Europe; Other parts of Europe
950 General history of Asia; Far East
951 General history of Asia; China & adjacent areas
952 General history of Asia; Japan
953 General history of Asia; Arabian Peninsula & adjacent areas
954 General history of Asia; South Asia; India
954.035092 Gandhi's Seven Steps to Global Change: a Handbook by Guy DeMallac
955 General history of Asia; Iran
956 General history of Asia; Middle East (Near East)
956.7044 Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
956.70443092 Road from Ar Ramadi: the Private Rebellion of Sergeant Camilo Mejia by Camilo Mejia
956.704434092273 The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq by Helen Benedict
957 General history of Asia; Siberia (Asiatic Russia)
958 General history of Asia; Central Asia
959 General history of Asia; Southeast Asia
960 General history of Africa
961 General history of Africa; Tunisia & Libya
962 General history of Africa; Egypt & Sudan
963 General history of Africa; Ethiopia
964 General history of Africa; Morocco & Canary Islands
965 General history of Africa; Algeria
966 General history of Africa; West Africa & offshore islands
967 General history of Africa; Central Africa & offshore islands
968 General history of Africa; Southern Africa
969 General history of Africa; South Indian Ocean islands
970 General history of North America
970.3 Me and Mine: the Life Story of Helen Sekaquaptewa by Louise Udall
971 General history of North America; Canada
971.8 The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim Defede
972 General history of North America; Middle America; Mexico
972.810 Bridge of Courage: Life Stories of the Guatemalan Companeros & Companeras by Jennier Harbury
972.84052 Salvador by Joan Didion
973 General history of North America; United States
973 The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction by Linda Gordon
973 Are You Normal?: Do you Behave Like Everyone Else? by Bernice Kanner
973.07202 You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times by Howard Zinn
973.8092 My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
973.922092 The Other Mrs. Kennedy: An Intimate and Revealing Look at the Hidden Life of Ethel Skakel Kennedy by Jerry Oppenheimer
973.931 When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism - and Still Isn't by Bill Maher
974 General history of North America; Northeastern United States
974.71041 Triangle: the Fire that Changed America by David Von Drehle
975 General history of North America; Southeastern United States
976 General history of North America; South central United States
976 Is It Utopia Yet?: An Insider's View of Twin Oaks Community in its Twenty-Sixth Year by Kat Kinkade
976.342 Atchafalaya Houseboat: My Years in the Louisiana Swamp by Gwen Roland
977 General history of North America; North central United States
978 General history of North America; Western United States
978.362 Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog
978.843 Whiteout: Lost in Aspen by Ted Conover
978.95603092 A Buffalo in the House: The True Story about a Man, an Animal, and the American West by R. D. Rosen
979 General history of North America; Great Basin & Pacific Slope
980 General history of South America
981 General history of South America; Brazil
982 General history of South America; Argentina
983 General history of South America; Chile
984 General history of South America; Bolivia
985 General history of South America; Peru
986 General history of South America; Colombia & Ecuador
987 General history of South America; Venezuela
988 General history of South America; Guiana
989 General history of South America; Paraguay & Uruguay
990 General history of other areas
991 Not assigned or no longer used
992 Not assigned or no longer used
993 General history of other areas; New Zealand
994 General history of other areas; Australia
995 General history of other areas; Melanesia; New Guinea
995.103092 Child of the Jungle: the True Story of a Girl Caught Between Two Worlds by Sabine Kuegler
996 General history of other areas; Other parts of Pacific Polynesia
997 General history of other areas; Atlantic Ocean islands
998 General history of other areas; Arctic islands & Antarctica
999 Extraterrestrial worlds
editSee also

Excited, as well you should be!

Those first two lists posted look too darn long, but I like having all the categories, sections, etc. in front of my. Not sure if I will regret that or even if I will change it quickly.

Thanks fundevogel for the welcoming comment. I enjoyed your thread and like your format as well as Gerard's.

I have simply cut and pasted the lists - if anyone has a link they like to another model please let me know.

Welcome! I'm glad you made it!

ETA: Which source did you end up using?

14 - wiki I think

Holy moly! how can I have NONE in the 400s? That is so interesting after seeing my 200s and 300s.

ETA: Well, one!

Yeah, the 400s are pretty tricky. There's some OK stuff in the 420s--mainly books on English language oddities and dictionary history. But the other divisions are choc-a-block with dryasdust treatises on language development and phonology. There are some gems, but they are few and far between. That class seems to the sticking point with a lot of challenge lists. Good luck, though!

There's a fair bit of good stuff in the 40x and 41x as well, as long as you aren't determined to get every single section like NielsenGW is; I've actually read more from 40x and 41x than from 42x. But past that it gets grim.

I'm counting my Pimsleur where applicable. This would be more helpful if I was actually planning on hitting all the languages of the main divisions. But I am not.

Yay I've posted through the 700s! Plenty of cleanup and format issues but still!

Well I just got Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog so that will help out with the 400s a tiny bit. and it sounds fun to me because I loved diagramming sentences. Otherwise.....I'm going to check to see what you read, Gerard. I'll look at yours too Lorax, and I'm not even THINKING about sections yet really.

Fundevogel - I had to google Pimsleur. I would enjoy getting through an elementary Spanish book but that,s it for languages. And that would be some work!

I'm liking this!

I have been entering my reading for the last year or so for this challenge basically, but then I got to 813. I have a zillion in that category and wonder what you all do about that. I don't want to enter a zillion. I'm thinking just a couple of my favorites for just plain fiction from my own country.

I didn't even realize the Dewey had a fiction category until I started this exploration. I think I have some more investigation to do in that regard.

Thoughts?

I think most of us just enter one book per section, though I swap them out from time to time, especially if the former one was read before I started the challenge or I read a new one that seems more list-worthy.

That a good idea and a lot more practical fundevogel. Altho I do like to compare the quanities for different sections. I can do that on my master list. l But then I also want to see that on YOUR list! It would just be too large tho.

I just added another duplicate area still, 294.3927 Afterzen by Janwillem van de Wetering. I've read a couple of other books by this author and liked them a lot. I was cranky wheln I started this one and did not like it. As I read on or my mood improved, not sure which, or perhaps it was my understanding. I liked it more. Yes - my understanding increased. It is a memoir of his experiences after leaving the "serious" study of Zen in Japan and moving to the U.S. He is Dutch which added more interest for me. He writes each chapter round a koan, those nasty little things that annoy the hell out of me. It can be used as a light read or with more thought, a deeper read. He examines the process of having a teacher, teachers' humanity, and other issues around religious institutions. I'm giving it four stars, and I think it is worth another read still.

I made a category in my library that includes all the cateloged books I've read. If I (or you) want to browse by Dewey it's a simple thing to list them accordingly.

Thanks fundevogel. I enjoyed that exploration.

I just finished:

In the Basement of the Ivory Tower by Professor X

378.12

Professor X is an adjunct instructor at both a small private college and a community college. He writes about his experiences teaching when his poor financial decisions make a second job necessary. It turns out after years of this work that he comes to love it, despite it being the low man position at colleges and poorly paid, with no benefits. Adjuncts are often the stepchildren, given little support from the administration and little office space, if any. That is common knowledge. For the record, I have worked with colleges that make excellent use of adjuncts and treat them very well.

The main focus of this author is examining whether college is indeed for everyone. He works with students who are extremely ill-prepared for college and live with great financial difficulty and time constraints, making good college level work extremely difficult. He also discusses other options such as more focus on technical and vocational schools. He wonders if nurses indeed need to study history and literature. He wonders if it is even possible for him to teach these students to write in one or even two semesters, and realizes it is not. He cannot make up for a lifetime of poor learning and the effects of poverty in a year. When you have to begin by teaching that each sentence needs a subject and a verb, you're in trouble.

Professor X makes many valid points. This is not new information and these are not new arguments. My objection to his thesis is that I think he is asking the wrong questions. Rather than asking if these many students who can't write and do not have the knowledge base necessary to succeed in college should BE in college, I think we should be asking why do we have high school graduates who cannot write and have no knowledge base. This problem begins long before they get to college or even high school. In my ten years of teaching college students with these problems, I believe we are mostly looking at the results of poverty.

Thanks to bfertig for his review in his Dewey thread because I enjoyed reading this.

Good review.

thanks to bragan in Club Read 2013 for putting me onto this excellent book.

330. Economix by Michael Goodwin

I did NOT expect to see a graphic book about economics, nor did I expect to ENJOY a book about economics. It is a topic that I have avoided always, thinking it was both difficult and boring. I was so wrong. I really enjoyed this. It is very basic and I now feel as if I understand a lot more and have a decent foundation for understanding this particular world, which has become more and more important for all of us.

There are eight chapters, each of which covers a particular time period, grouped by important economic events. These divisions allowed me to stop and absorb ideas and ruminate about them before going on to the next thing. It begins with "The Distant Past to 1820", which lays the foundation with some basic definitions and explanation and the others continue to the present time. You will know not only about the effects of the Industrial Revolution and Great Depression, but also about the dot.com happenings, the Savings and Loan crisis, the mortgage and foreclosure mess, and the many government bailouts. And...you will understand. You will know what was done that was legal and caused problems, as well as what was illegal.

I recommend this book to just about anyone from high school on up because it is very well presented but also advanced enough to hold interest. It's one of those books I wish everyone would read so that we can hold our government (ourselves) more accountable.

Just finished Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: the Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences by Kitty Burns Florey to fill in 428.2.

How embarrassing is that? I loved diagramming sentences when I was in grade school, and I often thought my college students would have constructed much better sentences if they had learned to do so. I mean I REALLY loved diagramming sentences! When this book was mentioned and I knew I had not read any books in that category of the Dewey Decimal system, I grabbed it. I had a lot of fun reading it - just took a couple of hours, and learned some interesting things. There was a little bit about the history of grammar and the development of grammatical rules along with some discussion of the necessity of those rules. Opinions about both sides of that issue were presented mentioning things I had not thought about as it is a topic I am ambivalent about.

I especially loved the chapter about famous authors. Florey determined if those authors were likely to have learned diagramming at the time and place they were educated, then examines their writing to decide if they benefitted or not. It was just plain fun and I learned still more about writing and styles.

There was also a bit about grammar and social class, always interesting topic to me.

I had fun reading this book, and recommend it to those who are interested in sentence diagramming. I would think that would be a pretty specific audience.

Rather fun for those who are looking for something in 428.

Thanks to Detailmuse in Club Read 2013 for mentioning this book.

818.602

Tiny Acts of Rebellion by Rich Fulcher

I quite enjoyed this, a few pages at a time as a break from a book I am struggling to finish. I confess to being too chicken to live out most of my rebellious fantasies so Mr. Fulcher has given me a few tiny acts I might accomplish. Who knows? Perhaps I will build up my courage and one day perform a humungous act of rebellion! In fact, he has offered up 97 chances to rebel. Most of them are pretty silly, such as flipping someone off under the table or behind your menu. But then, that's what makes them doable in my case. There is a little too much bathroom humor for me. Although, there have been times when I have seen a cranky clerk refuse the use of a bathroom to a child and I may have encouraged said child to just go ahead and throw up there on the counter.

One tiny act is to see how many extra items you are willing to go through the 10 items or less line with. Or for you grammarians, 10 items or fewer. Oh wait, that still is not a sentence. Anyway, my preference in that situation as I am counting out the items is to get to 10 and tell the clerk I will put the rest back. They always say no it's ok, but my revenge is to leave the items there. BUT......my favorite tiny act happens when a clerk has failed to remove the alarm setter-offer-thingie from an item I have bought and the alarm goes off as I walk through the sensors. I start running to see if they can catch me. That's always fun. Well, for me anyway.

Fulcher also has some good ideas for sticker bombing, one of my favorite activities. (Be sure to buy stickers that are easily removable. But then I guess what would be the point.) He suggests rebelling against poor products by going back to the store and putting stickers on toaster boxes stating things like "This toaster has a faulty....." whatever. or on a book saying
"Lousy ending".

Well, as you can see I am easily entertained. You may want to find something more serious in this category. Even I am only giving this one three stars.

Thanks to Polaris for putting me on to this one in his Club Read 2013 thread.

Yay I now have all of my reading posted (well, for the last year and a half or so, and more memorable book I thought of. I like seeing where all the holes are, especially when they are topics for specific countries e.g. history. It's so enlightening to see what I have missed. Pretty soon I'm going to go through and list my percentages complete as others have done. So glad to be here with you all.

892.7

Seeking Palestine Ed. by Penny Johnson

One of the most powerful books I have read, this is another one of those non-fiction books that almost reads like a novel. I found it emotionally evocative as well as educational.

There are three sections of essays. The first section tells what it is like to be an exile living outside of your home country, while the second part talks about being an exile within your occupied home country. The last section brings things together and talks about the future. Different perspectives are presented as these authors make themselves vulnerable by exposing their truths.

Here are a couple of excerpts that I found interesting:

From Sharif F. Elmusa "Portable Absence" , talking about the Palestinian style of mixing poetry and prose which was new to me and very intriguing:

"Perhaps poetry is a form of exile or the two interact, like two medications, and amplify each other's actions. Perhaps a poem is the silence in which the stranger wraps himself to preserve memory, to resist the gravity of the new abode."

"Writing in English brought me into a more intimate relationship with American culture and, at the same time, heightened my sense of exile."

"Britain sends expats to other lands. India immigrants, and Palestine exiles."
and this heartbreaking insight from Raja Shehadeh "Diary of an Internal Exile"

"We had lost the confidence to rely on ourselves rather than waste our energy by blaming our troubles on others and expecting them to do what we could do ourselves."

This collection certainly brings up many questions about belief systems such as that of private property, government, solidarity, types of power and power dynamics, state, self-defense and on and on. Never mind the idea of how you define home. I have never lived in a place where my family lived for generations and have not felt this attachment to a place, although if someone told me to get off mine, I'm sure I'd understand quickly. I do get the attachment to the ideas and symbols and people. These issues are all explored as the authors investigate these things for themselves and wrestle with their own identity issues. Clearly the group culture of other countries compared to the more individualist U.S., a country of immigrants who kept moving west as soon as they got settled are big influences from my perspective. This book brought me a lot of clarification. And made me think a lot about comparisons with U.S. govt. versus Native Americans, Irish versus English, English versus Maori, and too many stories about ethnic cleansing. I highly recommend this book - 5 stars

I will be leaving next week for a 6-8 week trip to Colorado, Montana, St. Louis, Seattle and Portland. So, I have been busy reading reading books I have out of my public library, none of which has added to my Dewey challenge. I just finished tagging some books I own that will fill new Dewey slots so I can pack them. I just want to say even that part of the challenge was fun - just exploring. I'll probably only read about 8 new categories because I'll be reading lots of other stuff too as well as shopping for used books everywhere I go. You know how that goes! But I'm taking about 30 challenge books. Yahoo!

ETA: That will actually be 8 new divisions, not categories. I have to get in the habit of using those terms correctly. Can't seem to hold them in my head.

Hooray a new one! I see that my numbers are incorrect as far as percentages - I'll get that corrected soon. I'm on vacation and brought along enough to finish about 8 new divisions I think, although that doesn't mean I will of course!

242 Holy the Firm by Annie Dillard Four stars

When I read Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Dillard, I knew I wanted more. The line that stayed with me from that first book was Dillard talking about the oneness of all of life. She is so clearly taken with and in love with that idea and with nature. She said that if people falling out of airplanes that were crashing understood that oneness and continuity, they would be falling through the sky saying "Thank you God! Thank you!" knowing that what came next would be wonderful also, whatever it was. That was published in 1974. Holy the Firm was published three years later in 1977 and includes a story of a little girl who was in an airplane crash. The child was severely burned when some type of fuel gel stuck on her face causing excruciating pain and destroying her face. Holy the Firm describes other instances of the cruelty and horror of life, as well as its beauty. Can these extremes of beauty and pain possibly be all of one cloth? This is one of the main questions Dillard explores in this lovely and beautifully written book. It reminded me of driving through forests in Alaska and realizing that it was the combination, the togetherness, of both the dead and the living trees that was making this forest so beautiful. Once again, Dillard's use of language is spectacular. The part of this book that will stick with me is her description of a few moments of her experience living alone in a cabin in the Pacific Northwest. She is overwhelmed by the beauty of the world as she stands looking at the Cascades Mountain range and is stunned. Then she says to herself, "Oh my God there is more!" and turns around and faces the Puget Sound and is knocked out by its beauty, water, clouds, islands, mist. It reminds me of driving up the east coast of the south island of New Zealand and being stunned by the beauty on both sides, mountains on one side, ocean on the other, where to look? Because there is always more, isn't there?

070.92

Around the Bloc by Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Stephanie Griest managed to spend a year abroad for school, obtain grants and jobs, and travel to several countries in the communist bloc. In this book, she writes about her year in Moscow, Beijing, and a few weeks in Havana. She was inspired to these things when she heard a talk by a journalist describing what she perceived as a pretty exciting life. She asked him what she had to do to get a job like his. He said to study journalism and learn Russian, so that is what she did.

I found this to be a wonderful and fun travelogue describing a young woman's experiences in communist or post-communist countries in the 90s. It certainly gives a good idea of what life was like and how it was lived during these times. However, for me the most enjoyable part was watching the author's cognitive growth as she compared her own culture to other cultures. Some of the things she had to wrestle with to understand were small, e.g. her difficulty finding a volunteer position. She wanted to more deeply experience the life around her and thought becoming involved in a local organization would be helpful and keep her away from the temptation of the easy way of hanging around with ex-pats. There is difficulty in getting people to understand what she would like to do because they don't get the concept of volunteering. Finally, they say, "Ohhhh! That's communism! We don't have to do that anymore!" However, she finally finds an orphanage that is willing to take her on. She is not happy with the way the children are treated and learns a lot about preparing children to live in a society unlike her own.

Another thing she experiences is coming across a dead man in a grocery, just lying in the aisle, his purchases around him, no one paying any attention. Than another customer appears and begins taking his purchases of food for herself. Griest does not know what to do and finally flees. This causes her great remorse. It reminded me of when I was in Panama, in the countryside outside of Colon, being shown around with a group of GI's with a Panamanian citizen and friend serving as a a guide and driver. We came upon a body in a ditch and didn't know if he was alive or not. We wanted to investigate, but our Panamanian friend/driver said we needed to get the hell out of there before we were involved in a nightmare. As Griest wrestles with this horror, she, as usual, makes comparisons to her own culture. It is so easy to be horrified by "the other". Her thoughts reminded me of times in the U.S. when witnesses have failed to come to the aid of rape victims, murder victims, assault victims. Is that worse than ignoring someone who is already dead?

Griest continued to make comparisons on a trip to the countryside with a local friend. She was struck by the generous hospitality, to the point of having difficulty eating all of the food that she was expected to eat or hosts would be insulted. She also noted "As we drove deep into the countryside we seemed to transcend a year a mile." Gone were the more modern accouterments of city life, such as bathrooms. She also noticed the effort people put into making their homes beautiful, with hanging rugs, art, etc. She noticed that each home she entered was decorated in a very similar manner, and realized she was looking at people using what was made available to them such as certain types of rugs. She thought about the fact that in the U.S. it was similar in that we decorate in similar manners also, but that in Russia it was about supply, whereas in the U.S. we demand our decor. Not sure I agree with that - I get her point, but I get pretty cranky about the things offered in our stores here in the U.S. also. If you aren't wanting the current styles, good luck finding anything different. Perhaps this is one reason vintage items are so popular here now.

Griest is also a little obsessed with revolutions, wanting people to continue to be politically active and push for more. She wonders why she keeps seeing old Russian vets laying flowers on Lenin and Stalin's graves and doesn't understand why they still honor them. She wonders if it is for the same reason her own country reveres Christopher Columbus, a man who obliterated entire populations of indigenous people so that his own kind could steal their land and riches? Do human beings inherently need to make heroes out of their nations and founders?

In Beijing when she wonders what happened after Tiananmen Square, what happened to that spirit and again, why aren't people still fighting for more? She learned from her friends that they are focused on the economy and living a better life, which they are doing. They tell her that her systems is corrupt as well and it isn't the system so much as human nature - there will be corruption no matter which system so they don't care which system, they just want to live as best they can.

Griest manages to make many deep friendships with locals who help her to understand what she is seeing, and to see the commonalities in our human nature and needs across cultures as well as the differences. She struggles mightily with all of these issues and comes to appreciate both these cultures as well as her own. She develops the ability to hold and accept multiple perspectives and appreciate them rather than judge, which is a wonderful thing to watch! She agrees with one who said that if you live in Moscow a week, you will write a book. If you live there a month, you may write an article, but if you live there for a year, you won't write anything.

Five stars

Spiritual Tattoo by John A. Rush

391.65

This is one of those books I had waiting for me to read in retirement, which has been five years now! There were two things that intrigued me about tattoos and I wanted to learn more. One, I began hearing about women with mastectomies using tattoos as a way of healing and helping and saw some seriously stunning pictures (google image mastectomy tattoos if you haven't seen any). Secondly, I read about the disturbance in relationships between generations of Maoris in New Zealand when Christian missionaries taught them to stop tattooing. Particularly, the relationships between fathers and sons were harmed. At the time I was also looking at U.S. gang tattoos and hadn't even considered this perspective and wanted to understand more.

John Rush is an anthropologist who teaches at a community college in northern California and that is the perspective that attracted me to this particular volume. Anthropology is my favorite perspective from which to learn about many issues.

Rush writes about the history of tattooing, scarification, and piercing as well as branding and implants. The common thread between these behaviors that Rush covers is their use as a rite of passage of some type, whether it involves, aging, illness, group affiliation or something else. My favorite part was that he included his own culture, the U.S. with what I considered to be a fairly objective comparison. He examines the specific practices e.g. why paint the lips red, why get breast implants or as some men do now, calves implants, as well as the purpose the behavior serves and other methods used to achieve similar purposes. For example he compares the use of psychotherapy for healing (e.g. cancer survivor groups), athletic accomplishments such as a survivor running a marathon, to the use of tattooing. It is an interesting topic.

Most of this book satisfies my longing for "proof" meaning peer reviewed research as much as possible, but the author does drift into more personal beliefs and behavior occasionally. That of course can be easy to do especially with anthropology. Additionally, parts were a little dry and could have been livened up with more case studies. Therefore, three stars.

Still alive and still reading..........just have my numbers messed up and haven't been able to keep this up. Hope to catch up soon.

Just found you here - I like your format. Where did you get the lists? I think I'm going to re-do mine when I get the time. If I use a format similar to yours, I'll be able to fill in a bunch more too! I'm going to keep the category description so I can see why the book is where it tis.