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varielle's Dewey Decimal Challenge

1varielle
Modifié : Août 6, 2022, 11:15 am

I've been eyeballing this group for some time trying to decide whether to take the plunge. So here goes. I don't know if I will ever get all thousand, but it certainly points out where my short comings are. Most of my numbers are from LT. I suspect there will be more gaps filled in when I track down their numbers. Can anybody point me toward a good source to track down a Dewey? It appears to get touchstones to work I'm going to have to break into smaller sections, or maybe not, hmmm. I haven't really read the OED from cover to cover, but I use it alot!

001 - The Museum of Hoaxes
002 – A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes and the Eternal Passion for Books
004 – IMAC for Dummies
011 – Book Lust
015 – What to Read
027 – At Home with Books
028 – A Reader’s Delight
031 - The Know-it-All: One Man's Humble Quest to become the Smartest Person in the World
070 – Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist
080 – The Great Thoughts
082 – 121640::The Pocket Book of Quotations

100 - 105566::The New Atlantis and the Great Instauration
102 – 2596851::Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar
123 – 782858::Luck: The Brilliant Randomness of Everyday Life
128 - 24116::Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
133 – 132672::The Second Ring of Power
135 - 151770::Dream Dictionary: An A to Z Guide to Understanding Your Unconscious Mind
152 – 2510::Emotional Intelligence: Why it Can Matter More than IQ
153 – 45736::How to Think Like Leonardo DaVinci: Seven Steps to Genius Everyday
155 – 11565::Wherever You go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
158 – 80700::The Road Less Traveled
160 - Being Logical
170 – 141713::How to Want What You Have
188 – 15945::The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
191 - 39382::A Brief history of Everything

220 – The Holy Bible
238 – 17126::Luther’s Small Catechism
242 – 394426::The Lutheran Hymnal
264 - 16656::Singing the Living Tradition
271 - The Little Flowers of St. Francis
277 - Letter to a Christian Nation
282 – 80509::The Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila
289 – 3194851::The Unitarian Universalist Pocket Guide
291 – 211537::The Art of Pilgrimage
292 – Edith Hamilton’s Mythology
294 – 71868::The Tibetan Book of the Dead
296 - When Bad Things Happen to Good People
299 – The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom A Toltec Wisdom Book

301 – 23937::Silent Spring
302 – 285199::The Friendship Crisis: Finding, Making and Keeping Friends When You’re Not a Kid Anymore
305 – 39089::Iron John: A Book About Men
306 – He’s Just Not that Into You
320 – 1133624::The Prince
324 - Jailed for Freedom
338- Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
342 - The Federalist Papers
355 – The Art of War
359 - Memoirs of a Fighting Captain
364 – 44151::The Gangs of New York
382 – 574649::A Time for Tea: Travels Through China and India in Search of Tea
387 – Cessna Integrated Flight Training Systems Manual of Flight
391 - Love, Loss and What I Wore
392 – 271431::Temples of Convenience and Chambers of Delight
394 – 337674::The Cocktail: The Influence of Spirits on the American Psyche
395 – 30354::Miss Manners Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior
398 – 1305754::A Social History of the American Alligator
420 – 23774::The Story of English
423 - 15106::The Oxford English Dictionary
428 - The Logodaedalian’s Dictionary of Interesting and Unusual Words
435 – 5486::The Random House Basic Dictionary German
443 – 722159::LaRousse French English Dictionary
463 - 1839158::Berlitz Spanish for Travellers
473 – 2782337::Cassell’s New Compact Latin Dictionary
499 – 3876261::Gaelic-English Dictionary

508 – 2101::Arctic Dreams
510 – 1096139::Mastering Technical Mathematics
520 - 15793::Cosmos
523 - The Summer Star Gazer
526 – 16307::Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius
530 – 23024::The Dancing Wu Li Masters
540 – Alchemy and the Art of Knowing
549 – 6274::Rocks and Minerals
574 – 3427::The Voyage of the Beagle
581 - Gardener’s Latin
591 - 35293::Monster of God
594 - The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
597 - 21772::A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth
598 – 88077::National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds – Eastern Region
599 – 562640::Lily Pond: Four Years with a Family of Beavers

602 - Harry and I Build a Seige Weapon
610 – 998068::The Shambhala Guide to Traditional Chinese Medicine
613 – The Philosopher’s Diet
615 – 182260::The Art of Sensual Massage
616 – 62472::The Feeling Good Handbook
620 – 2319118::Safety and Health for Engineers
629 - 23791::West With the Night
635 – 118033::The 3,000 Mile Garden
636 – 3148::You and Your Cat
638 - 2136783::Honey: From Hive to Honeypot a Celebration of Bees and Their bounty
641 – 48010::The Frugal Gourmet Cooks Three Ancient Cuisines
642 – 42411::More Home Cooking: A Writer Returns to the Kitchen
643 – 5417380::Complete Fix it Yourself Manual
645 –92826:: American Junk
646 – The Bombshell’s Manual of Style
648 - 153304::Too Busy to Clean
658 - 170499::The E-Myth Manager
668 – 67411::The Bath and Body Book
684 – 334045::New Complete Do It Yourself Manual
688 – 763282::Piggy Banks

707 – 4989506::The Estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: April 23-26, 1996
709 – 12955::The Shock of the New
712 – 1077424::The Living Garden: The 400 Year History of an English Garden
720 – 294498::A Concise History of American Architecture
736 -Sandtiquity
741 – 42988::The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker
745 – Celtic Cut and Use Stencils
746 – 1488738::The Linen Closet
747 – 483835::Decorating Rich
759 - 343564::Noa Noa: The Tahiti Journal of Paul Gauguin
769 - The Error World
780 - The Rat Pack: Neon Nights with the Kings of Cool
781 – Beethovan or Bust: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Listening to Great Music
786 – Piano Tuning: A Simple and Accurate Method for Amateurs
787 – 290762::Country and Blues Harmonica for the Musically Hopeless
790 – 4575::The American Boys Handy Book
791 - 37575::You'll Never Eat Lunch in this Town Again
792 –1007273:: Geisha Secrets: A Pillow Book for Lovers
793 – What’s Gnu? A History of the Crossword Puzzle
796 –A Neutral Corner
797 - Cork Boat
799 - 174477::The Compleat Angler

808 – 412350::The Teachers and Writers handbook of Poetic Forms
809 – 284063::The 64 Square Looking Glass: Great Games of Chess in World Literature
810 – 2464022::The Norton Anthology of American Literature volume 2
811 – 257775::Early Works: 1970-1979
813 – 105464::Bats Out of Hell
814 – Old Songs in a New Café: Selected Essays
816 - Letters from a Nut
817 – 2139::America the Book
818 - 30174::Here at the New Yorker
820 – 7652398::The Norton Anthology of English Literature Volume 1
821 – 328098::First Language: Poems
822 – 2480465::The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
823 – Ivanhoe
824 - The Essays of Sir Francis Bacon
828 –Far Away and Long Ago
829 - The Rune Poem
833 – The Marquis of Bolivar
839 – Sophie’s World
841 – 27479::Memoirs of Hadrian
848 – 52812::The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
853 – 18273::The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
854 – 12097::How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays
861 – 4974944::Neruda: Selected Poems
863 – 10105::Love in the Time of Cholera
864 – 1791757::Luminous Cities
869 – 4455731::Saraminda: Black Desire in a Field of Gold
871 - 9591901::Ars Amatoria
873 – 715151::The Fables of Avianus
882 - 150431::Oedipus Tyrannus
883 – 1526::The Odyssey
884 - 50989::Sappho: A Garland The Poems and Fragments of Sappho
888 – Five Great Dialogues
891 – 120890::The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
895 – Hard-Boiled Wonderland at the End of the World

901 – 98218::The Proud Tower
902 – 38827::An Encyclopedia of World History
907 – 1655147::Practicing History
909 – 15101::The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
910 – 12268::The Art of Travel
912 – 5516813::1924 Atlas of the World and Gazetteer
914 – As I walked out One Midsummer’s Morning
915 – 15269::The Travels of Marco Polo
917 – 1008::Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
919 – 1037304::In a Sunburned Country
927 – 28028::The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
929 – 5115::Angela’s Ashes
930 – 548677::The Oxford Companion to Archaeology
936 – Pre-Historic Avebury
937 – 19704::The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
938 – 277210::The Ancient Historians
940 - And They Thought We Wouldn't Fight
941 – The Shorter Pepys
942 – 250452::Sir Francis Drake
943 - 62126::Inside the Third Reich
944 – 51586::A Distant Mirror
945 – 16338::The City of Falling Angels
951 – 99928::The Devil Soldier
954 – 859621::Daughter of Destiny
956 - Desert Queen: the extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell
962 – 353657::In An Antique Land
964 - 764209::The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca
970 - 4139::Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
973 – 2936::Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
974 – 63933::Back Where I Came From
975 – Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
976 – Molly Ivins Can’t Say that, Can She?
977 - Dakota War Whoop
979 - The Woman Warrior: Memoir of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
980 – Aguirre: The Recreation of a Sixteenth Century Journey Across South America
986 - 221532::Sweat of the Sun, Tears of the Moon: A Chronicle of an Incan Treasure
994 - The Fatal Shore

2varielle
Mar 14, 2008, 12:05 pm

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3carlym
Mar 16, 2008, 8:19 pm

It looks like you have a great start!

4_Zoe_
Mar 16, 2008, 8:27 pm

I'm glad you did take the plunge! This looks like a great list for the rest of us to browse :)

5varielle
Modifié : Avr 5, 2010, 10:36 am

I had almost all of them touchstoned, but when I went back to edit I lost it. I've gone back several times but can't get them to return. Any suggestions?

Edited to add: Eureka! I guess I just needed to edit when nobody else was on line.



6_Zoe_
Mar 16, 2008, 9:07 pm

It's really encouraging that you managed to get them back! I would have said that the solution was just to re-post in two separate messages.

7vpfluke
Mar 17, 2008, 5:02 pm

#5
It's a b***h to re-edit Touchstones. Sometimes a few hours will make things work. You lose all your fine-tuning, and then you can't summon up the 'others.'

If I've done a lot of work on the Touchstones in an already sent message, I just write a new message with new corrections in it.

8philosojerk
Mar 17, 2008, 5:09 pm

Holy moly, batman - what a great start you've got already! I might be back later to pilfer some of your books, or at least check them out.

As far as the editing/touchstone problem - that was what made me decide to use my WikiThing page to track my challenges, instead of constantly updating a talk post. You might think about it.

Cheers :D

9kaelirenee
Mar 19, 2008, 9:12 am

Great start! I, too, got fed up with touchstone editing and made a Wikithing for all my challenges, too.

As for finding books to fill in your gaps (I think that's what you meant when you asked how to track down a dewey), the advanced search feature in library catalogs generally lets you search by call number. If you meant how to fill in gaps in your catalog record, I've been going to catalog.loc.gov. It's the library of congress's catalog. You can search the title of the book and look at the record (click the tab that says Full Record, unless you really like MARC records :D) -the Dewey call number is listed under the LC number-you can fill in both at once and then you'll have gaps filled in for the LC Challenge, too! (BTW-sometimes, if you look in the MARC record of a book from a library that uses LC, you'll find the Dewey number in field 82.)

10varielle
Avr 21, 2008, 8:43 pm

The Wiki confuses me. I'm the wrong generation, but touchstones frustrate me more, so I think I'll take your advice.

11varielle
Juin 4, 2008, 1:21 pm

I keep thinking I'm going to add to this list, but I keep reading books from the same categories. *Reminds self to broaden taste*

12varielle
Oct 3, 2008, 11:33 am

Finally a new one 979, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston.

13varielle
Fév 17, 2009, 11:13 am

I finally had to go on vacation to add some new ones.
191 - A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber
394 - A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth by Samantha Weinberg

14varielle
Modifié : Mai 17, 2009, 6:29 pm

15GoofyOcean110
Mai 18, 2009, 1:22 pm

ooh I've got A fish caught in time on my bookmooch wishlist. It looks cool. I thought the know it all was amusing but got a little annoying at times.

16varielle
Mai 19, 2009, 9:52 am

Some of his quirks could be irritating, but I forgive him. Have fun with those coelocanths who stand on their heads.

17varielle
Oct 5, 2009, 10:43 am

Finally a new one for 964. I heard a radio interview with Tahir Shah and he sounded so charming I had to go out and buy A Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca. It details his misadventures of moving from a flat in London with his wife and two small children to trying to live in and renovate a dilapidated, sprawling, jinn infested house on the edge of a slum in Casablanca. It doesn't matter what culture, home renovation anywhere is a nightmare, but the results for the patient can be magnificent. I've half a mind to run off to Morocco after reading this.

18GoofyOcean110
Oct 5, 2009, 2:11 pm

Hi varielle, sounds interesting. I did get through the coelacanth book, it was quick and interesting, and it was really cool to see one of the specimens at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. The scales look a lot more fleshy than I expected, and I thought it would be amusing if they had mounted it head down!

19varielle
Avr 5, 2010, 10:29 am

It's been forever since I've bumped off one for Dewey. Finished up Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind by David Quammen over Easter. I learned a few new things, like that I had no idea that lions lived in India, but there are a few still hanging on by a thread. I've even previously corrected people with tigers in Indian, lions in Africa. Shame on me.

20fundevogel
Avr 15, 2010, 1:41 am

I'm glad you're still here. It's a little sad to see all the lists that have sunk to the bottom and probably won't be revived.

21varielle
Nov 1, 2010, 11:25 am

If I would stop reading the same things I would get further ahead in this little game. Just finished 871 Ars Amatoria by Ovid aka The Art of Love. Those Romans were so naughty.

22varielle
Nov 1, 2010, 11:37 am

I tried to update but my touchstones have lost their minds, best leave it for now.

23fundevogel
Nov 1, 2010, 5:52 pm

>22 varielle: eek, yeah they have more trouble loading the longer the list. Carly recommended I split my list into multiple posts when I first arrived to mitigate the problem.

>21 varielle: looks interesting.

24varielle
Déc 29, 2010, 3:36 pm

Just added Jerry Seinfeld's Letters from a Nut. I didn't care for it, but it did let me add to 816 after months of nothing.

25carlym
Déc 29, 2010, 4:10 pm

It's hard to find a good book of letters.

26fundevogel
Déc 29, 2010, 4:51 pm

And how. I thought I had one this summer but it was too inclusive to be completable.

27varielle
Jan 25, 2012, 11:40 am

After being lost in adventure fiction for a long time I finally came up with something new. Finishing off 160 Being Logical by D. Q. McInerny. Maybe it will improve my thinking.

28varielle
Modifié : Fév 23, 2013, 7:43 am

29varielle
Modifié : Oct 5, 2013, 9:28 am

It's been a while since I read something different. Finally, Sandtiquity by Malcolm Wells. A great book for anyone who has access to a beach with lots of sand since it's about how to build really cool sand castles. 736

30varielle
Mar 9, 2015, 3:36 pm

I've been neglectful of this thread, but am inspired from my trip last week to NYC where I stayed at the Library Hotel. It's themed around the Dewey and every floor follows a topic 300s, 400s, etc. My room was museum themed and had books about museums from around the world. There are books all over and you are encouraged to browse at will. It's on Library Way (Madison & 41st), just down the street from the NY Public Library and up the street from the Morgan Library. If you feel the need to get your inner librarian geek on they will oblige. It seemed to be a draw for people in the publishing industry too based on conversations overheard at breakfast. I caught a pic of the NYPL lions, Patience and Fortitude in the snow. Very cool (literally and figuratively).

31lorax
Mar 9, 2015, 3:39 pm

Is that the hotel that got sued by OCLC for daring to use the Dewey Decimal system?

32varielle
Modifié : Mar 10, 2015, 11:20 am

Ha! I don't know.

Eta. Yes. Apparently they settled over copyright infringement.

33varielle
Juin 22, 2015, 12:35 pm

Update, I've been trying not to read the same sort of thing over and over again. Just added The Museum of Hoaxes at .001 and Jailed for Freedom at .324.

34varielle
Modifié : Avr 19, 2016, 9:29 am

It's taken a while, but finally added a new one to 769 The Error World: An Affair With Stamps. I would have thought I would have filled this one before, being a philatelist from way back, though the category is for "prints".

35varielle
Juil 25, 2016, 10:15 am

A new one at last 296 - When Bad Things Happen to Good People. I was hoping for a secular self help, but it's self help for the religiously inclined who believe in a benevolent supreme being. Specifically for people who can't fathom why bad things are happening to them when they should be rewarded for being good. Not for the pragmatic.

36fundevogel
Juil 26, 2016, 9:23 pm

i guess that's why it's in the 200's.

37varielle
Juil 10, 2017, 3:30 pm

My annual update only comes up with one new one.

359 Memoirs of a Fighting Captain by Thomas Cochrane, Earl of Dundonald

I'm not sure why this one is showing up in this category instead of under biography unless because it contains a lot of information about politics, society, the Napoleopnic wars, naval history and South America all thrown in together.

38varielle
Déc 1, 2017, 3:12 pm

39varielle
Modifié : Oct 29, 2018, 10:28 am

I would have thought I would have had 940 before since I do have a lot of WWI books, but at last finally a new category. And They Thought We Wouldn't Fight by Floyd Gibbons. Gibbons was a reporter who was so closely embedded with the troops that he sustained a serious head injury and lost an eye. This is an excellent collection of his wartime reporting.

40varielle
Fév 19, 2019, 10:18 am

Aha! I wouldn't have thought this would have ended in a separate category from normal biography 780 The Rat Pack: Neon Nights with the Kings of Cool.

41lorax
Fév 19, 2019, 10:46 am

Most biographies aren't in the biography section, although some libraries may choose to put them there; they're filed based on what the person they're about is most noted for. So a biography of a chemist will go in the 54x, and of a musician will go in the 78x. Some people find this a good way of getting sections that are difficult for them - it's not a technique I personally find helpful, since it's most useful for people who don't want to read a book about science to get some of the 5xx, which is an area I find much more interesting than 90% of biographies, but it's not a surprise to find biographies scattered all around.

42varielle
Fév 19, 2019, 2:08 pm

Thanks. I was wondering.

43varielle
Mai 28, 2020, 4:39 pm

It has been a while. 594 The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating. My favorite book so far this year.

44varielle
Sep 13, 2020, 9:54 am

I just added 797 for Cork Boat. Not recommended. Extremely tedious and self absorbed.

45varielle
Modifié : Mai 26, 2021, 7:19 pm

46varielle
Modifié : Août 6, 2022, 11:16 am

After more than a year finally landed new ones.
824 - The Essays of Sir Francis Bacon
977 - Dakota War Whoop