Voracious_Reader's DDC Beginning

So, wanting to familiarize myself with the Dewey Decimal System (DDS) before beginning to post my personal list, I've started by familiarizing myself with The System. Even though I've practically lived in one library or another my entire life, I really wasn't all that familiar with the structure and meaning of the DDS. Though sinking to a new level of geekdom, I have to admit that it is really, really cool.

The DDS starts with a division into ten classes or fields of study--namely,

000 Computer science, information & general works
100 Philosophy & psychology
200 Religion
300 Social sciences
400 Language
500 Science
600 Technology
700 Arts & recreation
800 Literature
900 History & geography

Each of the ten classes is then divided into ten divisions, namely,

000 Computer science, knowledge & systems
010 Bibliographies
020 Library & information sciences
030 Encyclopedias & books of facts
040 Unassigned
050 Magazines, journals & serials
060 Associations, organizations & museums
070 News media, journalism & publishing
080 Quotations
090 Manuscripts & rare books
100 Philosophy
110 Metaphysics
120 Epistemology
130 Parapsychology & occultism
140 Philosophical schools of thought
150 Psychology
160 Logic
170 Ethics
180 Ancient, medieval & eastern philosophy
190 Modern western philosophy
200 Religion
210 Philosophy & theory of religion
220 The Bible
230 Christianity & Christian theology
240 Christian practice & observance
250 Christian pastoral practice & religious orders
260 Christian organization, social work & worship
270 History of Christianity
280 Christian denominations
290 Other religions
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology
310 Statistics
320 Political science
330 Economics
340 Law
350 Public administration & military science
360 Social problems & social services
370 Education
380 Commerce, communications & transportation
390 Customs, etiquette & folklore
400 Language
410 Linguistics
420 English & Old English languages
430 German & related languages
440 French & related languages
450 Italian, Romanian & related languages
460 Spanish & Portuguese languages
470 Latin & Italic languages
480 Classical & modern Greek languages
490 Other languages
500 Science
510 Mathematics
520 Astronomy
530 Physics
540 Chemistry
550 Earth sciences & geology
560 Fossils & prehistoric life
570 Life sciences; biology
580 Plants (Botany)
590 Animals (Zoology)
600 Technology
610 Medicine & health
620 Engineering
630 Agriculture
640 Home & family management
650 Management & public relations
660 Chemical engineering
670 Manufacturing
680 Manufacture for specific uses
690 Building & construction
700 Arts
710 Landscaping & area planning
720 Architecture
730 Sculpture, ceramics & metalwork
740 Drawing & decorative arts
750 Painting
760 Graphic arts
770 Photography & computer art
780 Music
790 Sports, games & entertainment
800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism
810 American literature in English
820 English & Old English literatures
830 German & related literatures
840 French & related literatures
850 Italian, Romanian & related literatures
860 Spanish & Portuguese literatures
870 Latin & Italic literatures
880 Classical & modern Greek literatures
890 Other literatures
900 History
910 Geography & travel
920 Biography & genealogy
930 History of ancient world (to ca. 499)
940 History of Europe
950 History of Asia
960 History of Africa
970 History of North America
980 History of South America
990 History of other areas

Hi! Glad to see you're joining the challenge! I'm sure you will have many categories filled already.

Good luck sorting things out. I kept remembering books I'd forgotten I'd read for the first month or so after I started the challenge.

Each of those ten divisions is then divided into ten sections, namely--

000 Computer science, information & general works
001 Knowledge
002 The book
003 Systems
004 Data processing & computer science
005 Computer programming, programs & data
006 Special computer methods
007 Unassigned
008 Unassigned
009 Unassigned

010 Bibliography
011 Bibliographies
012 Bibliographies of individuals
013 Unassigned
014 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
021 Library relationships
022 Administration of physical plant
023 Personnel management
024 Unassigned
025 Library operations
026 Libraries for specific subjects
027 General libraries
028 Reading & use of other information media
029 Unassigned

030 General encyclopedic works
031 Encyclopedias in American English
032 Encyclopedias in English
033 In other Germanic languages
034 Encyclopedias in French, Occitan & Catalan
035 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 Unassigned
041 Unassigned
042 Unassigned
043 Unassigned
044 Unassigned
045 Unassigned
046 Unassigned
047 Unassigned
048 Unassigned
049 Unassigned

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 General organizations & museum science
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
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
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
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

100 Philosophy & psychology
101 Theory of philosophy
102 Miscellany
103 Dictionaries & encyclopedias
104 Unassigned
105 Serial publications
106 Organizations & management
107 Education, research & related topics
108 Kinds of persons treatment
109 Historical & collected persons treatment

110 Metaphysics
111 Ontology
112 Unassigned
113 Cosmology
114 Space
115 Time
116 Change
117 Structure
118 Force & energy
119 Number & quantity

120 Epistemology, causation & humankind
121 Epistemology
122 Causation
123 Determinism & indeterminism
124 Teleology
125 Unassigned
126 The self
127 The unconscious & the subconscious
128 Humankind
129 Origin & destiny of individual souls

130 Parapsychology & occultism
131 Parapsychological & occult methods
132 Unassigned
133 Specific topics in parapsychology & occultism
134 Unassigned
135 Dreams & mysteries
136 Unassigned
137 Divinatory graphology
138 Physiognomy
139 Phrenology

140 Specific philosophical schools
141 Idealism & related systems
142 Critical philosophy
143 Bergsonism & intuitionism
144 Humanism & related systems
145 Sensationalism
146 Naturalism & related systems
147 Pantheism & related systems
148 Eclecticism, liberalism & traditionalism
149 Other philosophical systems

150 Psychology
151 Unassigned
152 Perception, movement, emotions & drives
153 Mental processes & intelligence
154 Subconscious & altered states
155 Differential & developmental psychology
156 Comparative psychology
157 Unassigned
158 Applied psychology
159 Unassigned

160 Logic
161 Induction
162 Deduction
163 Unassigned
164 Unassigned
165 Fallacies & sources of error
166 Syllogisms
167 Hypotheses
168 Argument & persuasion
169 Analogy

170 Ethics
171 Ethical systems
172 Political ethics
173 Ethics of family relationships
174 Occupational ethics
175 Ethics of recreation & leisure
176 Ethics of sex & reproduction
177 Ethics of social relations
178 Ethics of consumption
179 Other ethical norms

180 Ancient, medieval & eastern philosophy
181 Eastern philosophy
182 Pre-Socratic Greek philosophies
183 Socratic & related philosophies
184 Platonic philosophy
185 Aristotelian philosophy
186 Skeptic & Neoplatonic philosophies
187 Epicurean philosophy
188 Stoic philosophy
189 Medieval western philosophy

190 Modern western philosophy
191 Philosophy of United States & Canada
192 Philosophy of British Isles
193 Philosophy of Germany & Austria
194 Philosophy of France
195 Philosophy of Italy
196 Philosophy of Spain & Portugal
197 Philosophy of former Soviet Union
198 Philosophy of Scandinavia
199 Philosophy in other geographic areas

200 Religion
201 Religious mythology & social theology
202 Doctrines
203 Public worship & other practices
204 Religious experience, life & practice
205 Religious ethics
206 Leaders & organization
207 Missions & religious education
208 Sources
209 Sects & reform movements

210 Philosophy & theory of religion
211 Concepts of God
212 Existence, knowability & attributes of God
213 Creation
214 Theodicy
215 Science & religion
216 Unassigned
217 Unassigned
218 Humankind
219 Unassigned

220 Bible
221 Old Testament (Tanakh)
222 Historical books of Old Testament
223 Poetic books of Old Testament
224 Prophetic books of Old Testament
225 New Testament
226 Gospels & Acts
227 Epistles
228 Revelation (Apocalypse)
229 Apocrypha & pseudepigrapha

230 Christianity & Christian theology
231 God
232 Jesus Christ & his family
233 Humankind
234 Salvation & grace
235 Spiritual beings
236 Eschatology
237 Unassigned
238 Creeds & catechisms
239 Apologetics & polemics

240 Christian moral & devotional theology
241 Christian ethics
242 Devotional literature
243 Evangelistic writings for individuals
244 Unassigned
245 Unassigned
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
252 Texts of sermons
253 Pastoral office & work
254 Parish administration
255 Religious congregations & orders
256 Unassigned
257 Unassigned
258 Unassigned
259 Pastoral care of families & kinds of persons

260 Social & ecclesiastical theology
261 Social theology
262 Ecclesiology
263 Days, times & places of observance
264 Public worship
265 Sacraments, other rites & acts
266 Missions
267 Associations for religious work
268 Religious education
269 Spiritual renewal

270 History of Christianity & Christian church
271 Religious orders in church history
272 Persecutions in church history
273 Doctrinal controversies & heresies
274 History of Christianity in Europe
275 History of Christianity in Asia
276 History of Christianity in Africa
277 History of Christianity in North America
278 History of Christianity in South America
279 History of Christianity 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 Unassigned
289 Other denominations & sects

290 Other religions
291 Unassigned
292 Greek & Roman religion
293 Germanic religion
294 Religions of Indic origin
295 Zoroastrianism
296 Judaism
297 Islam, Babism & Bahai Faith
298 (Optional number)
299 Religions not provided for elsewhere

300 Social sciences
301 Sociology & anthropology
302 Social interaction
303 Social processes
304 Factors affecting social behavior
305 Social groups
306 Culture & institutions
307 Communities
308 Unassigned
309 Unassigned

310 Collections of general statistics
311 Unassigned
312 Unassigned
313 Unassigned
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 areas

320 Political science
321 Systems of governments & states
322 Relation of state to organized groups
323 Civil & political rights
324 The political process
325 International migration & colonization
326 Slavery & emancipation
327 International relations
328 The legislative process
329 Unassigned

330 Economics
331 Labor economics
332 Financial economics
333 Economics of land & energy
334 Cooperatives
335 Socialism & related systems
336 Public finance
337 International economics
338 Production
339 Macroeconomics & related topics

340 Law
341 Law of nations
342 Constitutional & administrative law
343 Military, tax, trade & industrial law
344 Labor, social, education & cultural law
345 Criminal law
346 Private law
347 Civil procedure & courts
348 Laws, regulations & cases
349 Law of specific jurisdictions & areas

350 Public administration & military science
351 Public administration
352 General considerations of public administration
353 Specific fields of public administration
354 Administration of economy & environment
355 Military science
356 Infantry forces & warfare
357 Mounted forces & warfare
358 Air & other specialized forces
359 Sea forces & warfare

360 Social problems & services; associations
361 Social problems & social welfare in general
362 Social welfare problems & services
363 Other social problems & services
364 Criminology
365 Penal & related institutions
366 Associations
367 General clubs
368 Insurance
369 Miscellaneous kinds of associations

370 Education
371 Schools & their activities; special education
372 Elementary education
373 Secondary education
374 Adult education
375 Curricula
376 Unassigned
377 Unassigned
378 Higher education
379 Public policy issues in education

380 Commerce, communications & transportation
381 Commerce
382 International commerce
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 Unassigned
397 Unassigned
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 Kinds of persons treatment
409 Geographic & persons treatment

410 Linguistics
411 Writing systems
412 Etymology
413 Dictionaries
414 Phonology & phonetics
415 Grammar
416 Unassigned
417 Dialectology & historical linguistics
418 Standard usage & applied linguistics
419 Sign languages

420 English & Old English
421 English writing system & phonology
422 English etymology
423 English dictionaries
424 Unassigned
425 English grammar
426 Unassigned
427 English language variations
428 Standard English usage
429 Old English (Anglo-Saxon)

430 Germanic languages; German
431 German writing systems & phonology
432 German etymology
433 German dictionaries
434 Unassigned
435 German grammar
436 Unassigned
437 German language variations
438 Standard German usage
439 Other Germanic languages

440 Romance languages; French
441 French writing systems & phonology
442 French etymology
443 French dictionaries
444 Unassigned
445 French grammar
446 Unassigned
447 French language variations
448 Standard French usage
449 Occitan & Catalan

450 Italian, Romanian & related languages
451 Italian writing systems & phonology
452 Italian etymology
453 Italian dictionaries
454 Unassigned
455 Italian grammar
456 Unassigned
457 Italian language variations
458 Standard Italian usage
459 Romanian & related languages

460 Spanish & Portuguese languages
461 Spanish writing systems & phonology
462 Spanish etymology
463 Spanish dictionaries
464 Unassigned
465 Spanish grammar
466 Unassigned
467 Spanish language variations
468 Standard Spanish usage
469 Portuguese

470 Italic languages; Latin
471 Classical Latin writing & phonology
472 Classical Latin etymology
473 Classical Latin dictionaries
474 Unassigned
475 Classical Latin grammar
476 Unassigned
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 Unassigned
485 Classical Greek grammar
486 Unassigned
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 languages
493 Non-Semitic Afro-Asiatic languages
494 Altaic, Uralic, Hyperborean & Dravidian
495 Languages of East & Southeast Asia
496 African languages
497 North American native languages
498 South American native languages
499 Austronesian & other languages

500 Natural sciences & mathematics
501 Philosophy & theory
502 Miscellany
503 Dictionaries & encyclopedias
504 Unassigned
505 Serial publications
506 Organizations & management
507 Education, research & related topics
508 Natural history
509 Historical, geographic & persons treatment

510 Mathematics
511 General principles of mathematics
512 Algebra
513 Arithmetic
514 Topology
515 Analysis
516 Geometry
517 Unassigned
518 Numerical analysis
519 Probabilities & applied mathematics

520 Astronomy & allied sciences
521 Celestial mechanics
522 Techniques, equipment & materials
523 Specific celestial bodies & phenomena
524 Unassigned
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 & infrared & ultraviolet phenomena
536 Heat
537 Electricity & electronics
538 Magnetism
539 Modern physics

540 Chemistry & allied sciences
541 Physical chemistry
542 Techniques, equipment & materials
543 Analytical chemistry
544 Unassigned
545 Unassigned
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; fossil microorganisms
562 Fossil invertebrates
563 Fossil marine & seashore invertebrates
564 Fossil mollusks & molluscoids
565 Fossil arthropods
566 Fossil chordates
567 Fossil cold-blooded vertebrates; fossil fishes
568 Fossil birds
569 Fossil mammals

570 Life sciences; biology
571 Physiology & related subjects
572 Biochemistry
573 Specific physiological systems in animals
574 Unassigned
575 Specific parts of & systems in plants
576 Genetics & evolution
577 Ecology
578 Natural history of organisms
579 Microorganisms, fungi & algae

580 Plants (Botany)
581 Specific topics in natural history
582 Plants noted for characteristics & flowers
583 Dicotyledons
584 Monocotyledons
585 Gymnosperms; conifers
586 Seedless plants
587 Vascular seedless plants
588 Bryophytes
589 Unassigned

590 Animals (Zoology)
591 Specific topics in natural history
592 Invertebrates
593 Marine & seashore invertebrates
594 Mollusks & molluscoids
595 Arthropods
596 Chordates
597 Cold-blooded vertebrates; fishes
598 Birds
599 Mammals

600 Technology
601 Philosophy & theory
602 Miscellany
603 Dictionaries & encyclopedias
604 Special topics
605 Serial publications
606 Organizations
607 Education, research & related topics
608 Inventions & patents
609 Historical, geographic & persons treatment

610 Medicine & health
611 Human anatomy, cytology & histology
612 Human physiology
613 Personal health & safety
614 Incidence & prevention of disease
615 Pharmacology & therapeutics
616 Diseases
617 Surgery & related medical specialties
618 Gynecology, obstetrics, pediatrics & geriatrics
619 Unassigned

620 Engineering & allied operations
621 Applied physics
622 Mining & related operations
623 Military & nautical engineering
624 Civil engineering
625 Engineering of railroads & roads
626 Unassigned
627 Hydraulic engineering
628 Sanitary & municipal engineering
629 Other branches of engineering

630 Agriculture & related technologies
631 Techniques, equipment & materials
632 Plant injuries, diseases & pests
633 Field & plantation crops
634 Orchards, fruits & forestry
635 Garden crops (Horticulture)
636 Animal husbandry
637 Processing dairy & related products
638 Insect culture
639 Hunting, fishing & conservation

640 Home & family management
641 Food & drink
642 Meals & table service
643 Housing & household equipment
644 Household utilities
645 Household furnishings
646 Sewing, clothing & personal living
647 Management of public households
648 Housekeeping
649 Child rearing & home care of persons

650 Management & auxiliary services
651 Office services
652 Processes of written communication
653 Shorthand
654 Unassigned
655 Unassigned
656 Unassigned
657 Accounting
658 General management
659 Advertising & public relations

660 Chemical engineering
661 Industrial chemicals
662 Explosives, fuels & related products
663 Beverage technology
664 Food technology
665 Industrial oils, fats, waxes & gases
666 Ceramic & allied technologies
667 Cleaning, color & coating technologies
668 Technology of other organic products
669 Metallurgy

670 Manufacturing
671 Metalworking & primary 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 Hardware & household appliances
684 Furnishings & home workshops
685 Leather, fur goods & related products
686 Printing & related activities
687 Clothing & accessories
688 Other final products & packaging
689 Unassigned

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 Unassigned

700 The arts; fine & decorative arts
701 Philosophy of fine & decorative arts
702 Miscellany of fine & decorative arts
703 Dictionaries of fine & decorative arts
704 Special topics in fine & decorative arts
705 Serial publications of fine & decorative arts
706 Organizations & management
707 Education, research & related topics
708 Galleries, museums & private collections
709 Historical, geographic & persons treatment

710 Civic & landscape art
711 Area planning
712 Landscape architecture
713 Landscape architecture of trafficways
714 Water features
715 Woody plants
716 Herbaceous plants
717 Structures in landscape architecture
718 Landscape design of cemeteries
719 Natural landscapes

720 Architecture
721 Architectural structure
722 Architecture to ca. 300
723 Architecture from ca. 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 ca. 500
733 Greek, Etruscan & Roman sculpture
734 Sculpture from ca. 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
742 Perspective
743 Drawing & drawings by subject
744 Unassigned
745 Decorative arts
746 Textile arts
747 Interior decoration
748 Glass
749 Furniture & accessories

750 Painting & paintings
751 Techniques, equipment, materials & forms
752 Color
753 Symbolism, allegory, mythology & legend
754 Genre paintings
755 Religion
756 Unassigned
757 Human figures
758 Other subjects
759 Historical, geographic & persons treatment

760 Graphic arts; printmaking & prints
761 Relief processes (Block printing)
762 Unassigned
763 Lithographic processes
764 Chromolithography & serigraphy
765 Metal engraving
766 Mezzotinting, aquatinting & related processes
767 Etching & drypoint
768 Unassigned
769 Prints

770 Photography, photographs & computer art
771 Techniques, equipment & materials
772 Metallic salt processes
773 Pigment processes of printing
774 Holography
775 Digital photography
776 Computer art (Digital art)
777 Unassigned
778 Fields & kinds of photography
779 Photographs

780 Music
781 General principles & musical forms
782 Vocal music
783 Music for single voices; the voice
784 Instruments & instrumental ensembles
785 Ensembles with one instrument per part
786 Keyboard & other instruments
787 Stringed instruments
788 Wind instruments
789 (Optional number)

790 Recreational & performing arts
791 Public performances
792 Stage presentations
793 Indoor games & amusements
794 Indoor games of skill
795 Games of chance
796 Athletic & outdoor sports & games
797 Aquatic & air sports
798 Equestrian sports & animal racing
799 Fishing, hunting & shooting

800 Literature & rhetoric
801 Philosophy & theory
802 Miscellany
803 Dictionaries & encyclopedias
804 Unassigned
805 Serial publications
806 Organizations & management
807 Education, research & related topics
808 Rhetoric & collections of literature
809 History, description & criticism

810 American literature in English
811 American poetry in English
812 American drama in English
813 American fiction in English
814 American essays in English
815 American speeches in English
816 American letters in English
817 American humor & satire in English
818 American miscellaneous writings
819 (Optional number)

820 English & Old English literatures
821 English poetry
822 English drama
823 English fiction
824 English essays
825 English speeches
826 English letters
827 English humor & satire
828 English miscellaneous writings
829 Old English (Anglo-Saxon)

830 Literatures of Germanic languages
831 German poetry
832 German drama
833 German fiction
834 German essays
835 German speeches
836 German letters
837 German humor & satire
838 German miscellaneous writings
839 Other Germanic literatures

840 Literatures of Romance languages
841 French poetry
842 French drama
843 French fiction
844 French essays
845 French speeches
846 French letters
847 French humor & satire
848 French miscellaneous writings
849 Occitan & Catalan literatures

850 Italian, Romanian & related literatures
851 Italian poetry
852 Italian drama
853 Italian fiction
854 Italian essays
855 Italian speeches
856 Italian letters
857 Italian humor & satire
858 Italian miscellaneous writings
859 Romanian & related literatures

860 Spanish & Portuguese literatures
861 Spanish poetry
862 Spanish drama
863 Spanish fiction
864 Spanish essays
865 Spanish speeches
866 Spanish letters
867 Spanish humor & satire
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 humor & satire
878 Latin miscellaneous writings
879 Literatures of other Italic languages

880 Hellenic literatures; classical Greek
881 Classical Greek poetry
882 Classical Greek dramatic poetry & drama
883 Classical Greek epic poetry & fiction
884 Classical Greek lyric poetry
885 Classical Greek speeches
886 Classical Greek letters
887 Classical Greek humor & satire
888 Classical Greek miscellaneous writings
889 Modern Greek literature

890 Literatures of other languages
891 East Indo-European & Celtic literatures
892 Afro-Asiatic literatures; Semitic literatures
893 Non-Semitic Afro-Asiatic literatures
894 Altaic, Uralic, Hyperborean & Dravidian
895 Literatures of East & Southeast Asia
896 African literatures
897 North American native literatures
898 South American native literatures
899 Austronesian & other literatures

900 History & geography
901 Philosophy & theory
902 Miscellany
903 Dictionaries & encyclopedias
904 Collected accounts of events
905 Serial publications
906 Organizations & management
907 Education, research & related topics
908 Kinds of persons treatment
909 World history

910 Geography & travel
911 Historical geography
912 Atlases, maps, charts & plans
913 Geography of & travel in ancient world
914 Geography of & travel in Europe
915 Geography of & travel in Asia
916 Geography of & travel in Africa
917 Geography of & travel in North America
918 Geography of & travel in South America
919 Geography of & travel in other areas

920 Biography, genealogy & insignia
921 (Optional number)
922 (Optional number)
923 (Optional number)
924 (Optional number)
925 (Optional number)
926 (Optional number)
927 (Optional number)
928 (Optional number)
929 Genealogy, names & insignia

930 History of ancient world to ca. 499
931 China to 420
932 Egypt to 640
933 Palestine to 70
934 India to 647
935 Mesopotamia & Iranian Plateau to 637
936 Europe north & west of Italy to ca. 499
937 Italy & adjacent territories to 476
938 Greece to 323
939 Other parts of ancient world to ca. 640

940 History of Europe
941 British Isles
942 England & Wales
943 Central Europe; Germany
944 France & Monaco
945 Italian Peninsula & adjacent islands
946 Iberian Peninsula & adjacent islands
947 Eastern Europe; Russia
948 Scandinavia
949 Other parts of Europe

950 History of Asia; Far East
951 China & adjacent areas
952 Japan
953 Arabian Peninsula & adjacent areas
954 South Asia; India
955 Iran
956 Middle East (Near East)
957 Siberia (Asiatic Russia)
958 Central Asia
959 Southeast Asia

960 History of Africa
961 Tunisia & Libya
962 Egypt & Sudan
963 Ethiopia & Eritrea
964 Northwest African coast & offshore islands
965 Algeria
966 West Africa & offshore islands
967 Central Africa & offshore islands
968 Southern Africa; Republic of South Africa
969 South Indian Ocean islands

970 History of North America
971 Canada
972 Middle America; Mexico
973 United States
974 Northeastern United States
975 Southeastern United States
976 South central United States
977 North central United States
978 Western United States
979 Great Basin & Pacific Slope region

980 History of South America
981 Brazil
982 Argentina
983 Chile
984 Bolivia
985 Peru
986 Colombia & Ecuador
987 Venezuela
988 Guiana
989 Paraguay & Uruguay

990 History of other areas
991 Unassigned
992 Unassigned
993 New Zealand
994 Australia
995 Melanesia; New Guinea
996 Other parts of Pacific; Polynesia
997 Atlantic Ocean islands
998 Arctic islands & Antarctica
999 Extraterrestrial worlds

If you're planning on using touchstones to update the list, you might want to abandon this thread and start a new one that puts each set of ten sections into a separate post. Otherwise it takes forever to load each time you want to update your list.

Thanks for the welcome fundevogel!

I'm not even close being able to keep track of what I've read so far; I'm still trying to figure out how the DDS hierarchy works. So far it's been a blast.

Thanks for the info on touchstones. Saw that you started a new thread because touchstones were taking too long to load. I will definitely post in sections as you have...once I get there. :)

So the hierachy makes for ten primary or "main' classes, 100 divisions and 1000 sections.

So most books will start with a number related to a broad subject area and then additional numbers are added to note more and more specific information about the book, e.g., (per Wikipedia) a book concerning the European Economy would likely have a DDS number of 330.94. i.e., 330 for economics + .9 for geographic treatment, or, more spefically, .94 for European geography.

Letters get added to the DDC number to differentiate books with the same number. The letters that get added are usually the first few letters from the author's last name.

Apparently, Arabic numerals are sometimes used to represent each class in the DDS. Hm.

Following Carlym's advice, I will post only 10 categories at a time for my actual DDC count so that the touchstones don't take absolutely forever to upload.

That project will just have to wait for tomorrow night, as I've got some work work to return to.

Welcome voracious_reader! I'm looking forward to seeing your lists.

(And I prefer to think of it as rising to a new level of geekdom, not "sinking" -- embrace your inner geek!)

Good point lorax!

000s read: 5

000 Computer science, information & general works:
001 Knowledge: Not by Fire but by Ice by Robert W Felix
020 Library & information sciences: The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett
004 Data processing & computer science: The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
007 Unassigned
008 Unassigned
009 Unassigned

010 Bibliography:

020 Library & information sciences:
024 Unassigned
029 Unassigned

030 General encyclopedic works:

040 Unassigned:
041 Unassigned
042 Unassigned
043 Unassigned
044 Unassigned
045 Unassigned
046 Unassigned
047 Unassigned
048 Unassigned
049 Unassigned

050 General serial publications:

060 General organizations & museum science:

070 News media, journalism & publishing:

080 General collections:
081 Collections in American English: Great Books of the Western World, 2 Volumes by Mortimer J. Adler
082 Collections in English: The Book of Poisonous Quotes by Colin Jarmin

090 Manuscripts & rare books

100s read: 19

100 Philosophy & psychology: On the Improvement of the Understanding by Benedict de Spinoza; Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates by Thomas Cathcart

110 Metaphysics:
111 Ontology: The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner by Friedrich Nietzsche
112 Unassigned

120 Epistemology, causation & humankind:
121 Epistemology: Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke

130 Parapsychology & occultism:
132 Unassigned
134 Unassigned
136 Unassigned

140 Specific philosophical schools

150 Psychology: Beyond the Pleasure Principle by Sigmund Freud
151 Unassigned
157 Unassigned
158 Applied psychology: 5 Principles for a Successful Life: From Our Family to Yours by Newt Gingrich and Jackie Gingrich Cushman
159 Unassigned

160 Logic
163 Unassigned
164 Unassigned

170 Ethics: Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant; Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
171 Ethical systems: An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

180 Ancient, medieval & eastern philosophy: Plato's Meno by Richard McKirahan
184 Platonic philosophy: The Collected Dialogues of Plato by Plato
185 Aristotelian philosophy: Complete Works of Aristotle, volumes 1 and 2 by Aristotle
186 Skeptic & Neoplatonic philosophies: The Essential Plotinus: Representative Treatises from the Enneads by Plotinus

190 Modern western philosophy: The Roads to Modernity: The British, French and American Enlightenments by Gertrude Himmelfarb
193 Philosophy of Germany & Austria: Philosophical Essays by G.W. Leibnitz; Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Friedrich Nietzsche; Basic Writings by Martin Heidegger; Phenomenology of Spirit by G.W.F. Hegel
194 Philosophy of France: Discourse on the Method and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

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200s read: 26

200 Religion: She Said Yes: The Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernall by Misty Bernall
201 Religious mythology & social theology: Philosophical Fragments by Soren Kierkegaard
208 Sources: Martin Luther: Selections From His Writings by Martin Luther; Introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas by Thomas Aquinas

210 Philosophy & theory of religion:
213 Creation: Who is Jesus? Answers to Your Questions About the Historical Jesus by Dominic Crossan
216 Unassigned
217 Unassigned
218 Humankind
219 Unassigned

220 Bible: The Holy Bible: Illuminated Family Edition pub. Thunder Bay Press; King James Bible
222 Historical books of Old Testament: Five Books of Moses by Dr. Everett Fox
225 New Testament: The New Testment trans. by Richard Lattimore
229 Apocrypha & pseudepigrapha: The Gospel of Judas by Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer, and Gregor Wurst

230 Christianity & Christian theology: Pensees by Blaise Pascal
232 Jesus Christ & his family: The Christmas Story from the Gospels of Matthew and Luke by Marguerite Northrup
235 Spiritual beings: The Birth of Satan by T.J. Wray
236 Eschatology: The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
237 Unassigned

240 Christian moral & devotional theology:
241 Christian ethics: Adam, Eve and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity by Elaine Pagels; Love and Responsibility by Pope John Paul II
244 Unassigned
245 Unassigned
248 Christian experience, practice & life: Ways of the Christian Mystics by Thomas Merton

250 Christian orders & local church
256 Unassigned
257 Unassigned
258 Unassigned

260 Social & ecclesiastical theology:
261 Social theology: Consecrated Venom: The Serpent and the Tree of Knowledge by Caryl Johnston
269 Spiritual renewal: 15 Days of Prayer with Saint Thomas Aquinas by Andre Pinet

270 History of Christianity & Christian church: The Victory of Reason by Rodney Stark; Cities of God by Rodney Stark; Confessions by Saint Augustine

280 Christian denominations & sects:
282 Roman Catholic Church: Catholicism Today: A Survey of Catholic Belief and Practice by Matthew F. Kohmescher

290 Other religions:
291 Unassigned: Unlock the Prison Doors by Terry Barber; God Thinks You're Wonderful by Max Lucado
297 Islam, Babism & Bahai Faith: The Truth About Muhammad by Robert Spencer

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300s read: 53

300 Social sciences:
302 Social interaction: To a Very Special Friend by Pam Brown, Helen Exley, and Juliette Clarke
303 Social processes: The Demoralization of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values by Gertrude Himmelfarb
305 Social groups: A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
306 Culture & institutions: My Horizontal Life by Chelsea Handler
308 Unassigned
309 Unassigned

310 Collections of general statistics
311 Unassigned
312 Unassigned
313 Unassigned

320 Political science: The 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle that Changed the World by W. Cleon Skousen; Basic Political Writings by Jean Jacques Rousseau; Hobbes: Leviathan 1 and 2 by Herbert W. Schneider; Democracy in America, volumes 1 and 2 by Alexis De Tocqueville; Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
321 Systems of governments & states: The Republic of Plato by Plato
323 Civil & political rights: On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
329 Unassigned

330 Economics: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt; An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volumes I and II by Adam Smith; How Capitalism Saved America by Thomas DiLorenzo; Free to Choose: A Personal Statement by Milton Friedman
332 Financial economics: The Courage to be Rich: Creating a Life of Material and Spiritual Abundance by Suze Orman; The Fast Forward MBA in Financial Planning by Ed McCarthy
335 Socialism & related systems: The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

340 Law: McGraw-Hill's Spanish English Legal Dictionary by Henry Saint Dahl; Patterns of American Jurisprudence by Neil Duxbury
342 Constitutional & administrative law: American Constitution by Alfred Hinsey Kelly
345 Criminal law: Constitutional Chaos by Andrew P. Napolitano; Black's Law by Roy Black

350 Public administration & military science:

360 Social problems & services; associations:
362 Social welfare problems & services: Alex: The Story of a Child's Life by Frank Deford; A Child Called It by David Pelzer; Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet; Notes Left Behind by Brooke Desserich and Keith Desserich
363 Other social problems & services: Blue Blood by Edward Conlon
364 Criminology: True Stories of Law and Order: The Real Crimes Behind the Best Episodes of the Hit TV Show by Kevin Dwyer and Jure Fiorillo; Blood Echoes by Thomas H. Cook; Buried Mistakes by Michael Kaplan; Portrait of a Killer by Patricia Cornwell; In Cold Blood by Truman Capote; JonBenet: Inside the Ramsay Investigation by Steve Thomas; Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh; Denial: A Memoir of Terror by Jessica Stern

370 Education: The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis
371 Schools & their activities; special education: The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss; Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
376 Unassigned
377 Unassigned
378 Higher education: The Corner: A History of Student Life at the University of Virginia by Coy Barefoot; Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth by Ben Shapiro; Pledged by Alexandra Robbins

380 Commerce, communications & transportation:
390 Customs, etiquette & folklore:
392 Customs of life cycle & domestic life: Master Dating by Felicia Rose Adler
394 General customs: 52 Simple Ways to Make Christmas Special by Jan Dargatz
395 Etiquette (Manners): The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette by Amy Vanderbilt
396 Unassigned
397 Unassigned
398 Folklore: With a Whoop and a Holler: A Bushel of Lore from Way Down South by Nancy Van Laan; Aesop's Fables by Aesop

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400s read: 13

400 Language:

410 Linguistics:
413 Dictionaries: Cassell's Concise Latin-English Dictionary by D.P. Simpson
416 Unassigned

420 English & Old English:
423 English dictionaries: Oxford Fowler's Modern English Usage Dictionary by H.W. Fowler
424 Unassigned
426 Unassigned
428 Standard English usage: Eats, Shoots, and Leaves by Lynne Truss; The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Mystery and Mastery of Practical English by Roy Peter Clark

430 Germanic languages; German:
433 German dictionaries: Bantam New College German/English Dictionary by John Traupman
434 Unassigned
436 Unassigned

440 Romance languages; French:
443 French dictionaries: Bantam New College French and English Dictionary by Roger Steiner; French-English, English-French by Marguerite-Marie DuBois; Cassell's French and English Dictionary by J.H. Douglas
444 Unassigned
446 Unassigned
448 Standard French usage: 501 French Verbs by Christopher Kendris

450 Italian, Romanian & related languages:
454 Unassigned
456 Unassigned

460 Spanish & Portuguese languages
464 Unassigned
466 Unassigned
468 Standard Spanish usage: Mastering Spanish, Level 1 by stockwellr::R. Stockwell

470 Italic languages; Latin:
474 Unassigned
476 Unassigned
477 Old, postclassical & Vulgar Latin: Sophocles Oidipous Tyrannos by Jeffrey Rusten

480 Hellenic languages; classical Greek:
484 Unassigned
486 Unassigned
487 Preclassical & postclassical Greek: The Analytical Lexicon to the Greek New Testament by William D. Mounce
489 Other Hellenic languages: Greek: An Intensive Course by Hardy Hansen

490 Other languages:

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500s read: 10

500 Natural sciences & mathematics: The American Wilderness: Essays by John Muir
504 Unassigned
508 Natural history: The Illustrated Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson

510 Mathematics
511 General principles of mathematics: The Geometry of Rene Descartes by Rene Descartes; Essays on the Theory of Numbers by Richard Dedekind
517 Unassigned

520 Astronomy & allied sciences:
524 Unassigned

530 Physics: A Survey of Physical Theory by Max Planck; Relativity Simply Explained by Martin Gardner
531 Classical mechanics; solid mechanics: Two New Sciences: Including Centres of Gravity and Force of Percussion by Galileo, Galilei; The Principia by Isaac Newton

540 Chemistry & allied sciences: Elements of Chemistry by Antoine Lavoisier
544 Unassigned
545 Unassigned

550 Earth sciences:
551 Geology, hydrology & meteorology: The Little Ice Age by Brian M. Fagan

560 Paleontology; paleozoology:

570 Life sciences; biology:
574 Unassigned

580 Plants (Botany):
589 Unassigned

590 Animals (Zoology):

600s read: 15

600 Technology:

610 Medicine & health:
613 Personal health & safety: Kama Sutra ed. by Madelyn Carol Fajardo; Romantic Massage by Anne K. Rush
614 Incidence and prevention of disease: Plagues and Peoples by William H. McNeill
615 Pharmacology & therapeutics: The Book of Massage by Lucinda Lidell
616 Diseases: Press Pause Before You Eat by Dr. Mintle; A Caregiver's Guide to Lewy Bodies Dementia by Helen Buell Whitworth; The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout
618 Gynecology, obstetrics, pediatrics & geriatrics: Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May Gaskin
619 Unassigned

620 Engineering & allied operations:
626 Unassigned

630 Agriculture & related technologies:
636 Animal husbandry: Dewey: The Small-town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicky Myron; Dancing with Cats by Burton Silver and Heather Busch

640 Home & family management:
641 Food & drink: Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook; Santa Fe Recipe by Carl Stromquist
646 Sewing, clothin & personal living: Exorcising Your Ex by Elizabeth Kuster
649 Child rearing & home care of persons: Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Baby Sleep Longer by Harvey Karp

650 Management & auxiliary services: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra
654 Unassigned
655 Unassigned
656 Unassigned

660 Chemical engineering:

670 Manufacturing:

680 Manufacture for specific uses:
689 Unassigned

690 Buildings:
699 Unassigned

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700s read: 12

700 The arts; fine & decorative arts:
709 Historical, geographic & persons treatment: History of Art by H.W. Janson; Symbolism by Michael Gibson

710 Civic & landscape art:

720 Architecture: From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe
726 Buildings for religious purposes: Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King

730 Plastic arts; sculpture:

740 Drawing & decorative arts:
744 Unassigned
745 Decorative arts: The Book of Kells ed. by Bernard Meehan

750 Painting & paintings:
751 Techniques, equipment, materials & forms: Botanical Illustration Course: With the Eden Project by Meriel Thurstan
756 Unassigned
759 Historical, geographic & persons treatment: The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss by Theodor Geisel; Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Russell Ash; PreRaphaelites in Love by Gay Daly; Titian: The Last Days by Mark Hudson

760 Graphic arts; printmaking & prints:
762 Unassigned
768 Unassigned

770 Photography, photographs & computer art:
777 Unassigned

780 Music:

790 Recreational & performing arts:
791 Public performances: Coppola and Eiko on Bram Stoker's Dracula by Francis Ford Coppola; Hollywood Interrupted by Andrew Breitbart

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I am breaking the 800s into multiple posts because of the sheer volume of touchstones.

800s read: 201

800 Literature & rhetoric:
804 Unassigned
808 Rhetoric & collections of literature: A Collection of Love Gifts by Helen Steiner Rice; Erotic Poems collected by Peter Washington; Aeschylus II by Aeschylus; The Copyeditor's Handbook by Amy Einsohn; Elements of Style, 3rd ed. and 4th ed. by William Strunk, Jr.; Clear and Simple as the Truth by Francis Noel Thomas; The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches;
809 History, description & criticism: Introduction to Great Books: Second 2 Series by Great Books Foundation; On Writers and Writing by John Gardner

810 American literature in English:
811 American poetry in English: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg by Carl Sandburg; Harvest Poems: 1910-1960 by Carl Sandburg; The New Spoon River by Edgar Lee Masters; The Collected Poetry of W.H. Auden by W.H. Auden; Cat Haiku by Deborah Coates
812 American drama in English: J.B.: A Play in Verse by Archibald MacLeish
813 American fiction in English: The Jordan Tracks by Stephen Wise; Death Dance by Linda Fairstein; The September Society by Charles Finch; The Shack by William P. Young; The Judge by Dwight Allen; The Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber; The Air We Breath by Andrea Barrett; The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks; The White Queen by Philippa Gregory; Look Again by Lisa Scottoline; The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer; Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult; Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins; The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield; Phadre edited by Larousse; The Third Miracle by Richard Vetere; The Last Great Dance on Earth by Sandra Gulland; The Haunted Tea-Cosy: A Dispirited and Distasteful Diversion for Christmas by Edward Gorey; Good Omens by Neil Gaiman; Adventures in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain; The Fig Eater by Jody Shields; The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand; The Rival Queens and Unnatural Fire by Fidelis Morgan; 41 Stories by O'Henry; Bartleby the Scrivener and Billy Budd and Other Tales by Herman Melville; A Separate Peace by John Knowles; The Haunting by Shirley Jackson; The House of Sight and Shadow by Nicholas Griffin; The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Sixteen Pleasures by Robert Hellenga; The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. by Sandra Gulland; Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe by Sandra Gulland; Grimm's Last Fairytale by Haydn Middleton; The Princess Bride by Williams Goldman; An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser; Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton; Cause of Death and The Body Farm by Patricia Cornwell; To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee; The Awakening by Kate Chopin; The Alienist and The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr; The Palace Thief by Ethan Canin; The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck; A Thread of Grace, Children of God and The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell; Angels and Demons by Dan Brown; I am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe; The Company: A Portrait of Murder by Arabella Edge; Coraline by Neil Gaiman; Five Mile House by Karen Novak; The Legend of Bagger Vance by Stephen Pressfield; Pandora's Daughter by Iris Johansen; The Diary by Eileen Goudge; Romancing Miss Bronte by Juliet Gael; American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld; Anthem by Ayn Rand; Gossip of the Starlings by Nina de Gramont; Sweetwater Creek by Anne Rivers Siddons; We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson; Dead Ringer by Lisa Scottoline; Doc by Mary Doria Russell
814 American essays in English: Hooking Up by Tom Wolfe; Dave Barry is Not Making This Up by Dave Barry
817 American humor & satire in English: Best Lawyer Jokes Ever by Beth Tripmacher
818 American miscellaneous writings: Querencia by Stephen Bodio

800s continued:

820 English & Old English literatures:Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
821 English poetry: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot; Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare; A Chaucer Glossary by Norman Davis; Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer; Paradise Lost by John Milton
822 English drama: The Unabridged Williams Shakespeare by Williams Shakespeare; The Winter's Tale by Williams Shakespeare; The Twelfth Night, The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet; Measure for Measure, Macbeth, King Richard II, King Lear, King Henry IV, Julius Caesar, Henry V, Hamlet by Williams Shakespeare; A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
823 English fiction: The Boy in Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne; Becoming Jane Austen by Jon Spence; I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith; Tales of the Beedle Bard by J.K. Rowling; I Saw Three Ships by Elizabeth Goudge; On Pilgrimage by Jennifer Lash; Harry Potter, Books 1-7 by J.K. Rowling; Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte; The Novels of Muriel Spark, Volumes 1 and 2 by Muriel Spark; Dracula by Bram Stoker; Gulliver's Travels by Jonathon Swift; Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; The Monk by Matthew G. Lewis; Brave New World by Aldous Huxley; The End of the Affair by Graham Greene; The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald; Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll; Adventures d'Alice Au Pays Des Merveilles by Lewis Carroll; Possession by A.S. Byatt; Jane Eyre by Emily Bronte; Complete Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen; The Inheritance by Louisa May Alcott; Night Train by Martin Amis; Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis; The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis; The Inheritance by Christopher Paolini; Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding; The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory; His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman; The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins; The Convent by Panos Karnezis; A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams; Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
827 English humor & satire: The Wit of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde

800s continued:

829 Old English (Anglo-Saxon): The Exeter Book Riddles: Revised Edition by Anonymous

830 Literatures of Germanic languages:
831 German poetry: Selected Poems and Fragments by Friedrich Holderlin; Some Poems of Friedrich Hoelderlin by Friedrich Hoelderlin
839 Other Germanic literatures: The Bridal Wreath: Kristin Lavransdatter, Vol. 1 by Sigrid Undset; Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen

840 Literatures of Romance languages:
841 French poetry: Baudelaire: Poems by Charles Baudelaire; Le Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire
842 French drama: Phedre: Dual Language Edition by Jean Racine; Phaedra, by Racine trans by. Richard Wilbur; The Misanthrope and Tartuffe by Moliere
843 French fiction: Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert; Candide by Voltaire; The Princesse de Cleves by Madam de Lafayette; The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century by Stendhal; Le Rouge et Le Noir by Stendhal; Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert; The Lover and Blue Eyes, Black Hair by Marguerite Duras;
844 French essays: Michel de Montaigne: Essays by Michel de Montaigne
848 French miscellaneous writings: Britannicus by Jean Racine; Le Misanthrope by Moliere; Orange Trees of Versailles by Annie Petrie

850 Italian, Romanian & related literatures:
851 Italian poetry: The Divine Comedy, Volumes 1-3 by Dante Alighieri

860 Spanish & Portuguese literatures:
863 Spanish fiction: A History of Don Quixote by Cervantes
868 Spanish miscellaneous writings: The Art of Wordly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracian trans. by Christopher Maurer

870 Italic literatures; Latin literature:
871 Latin poetry: Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus
872 Latin dramatic poetry & drama: The Aeneid by Virgil
878 Latin miscellaneous writings: Complete Works of Tacitus by Tacitus

880 Hellenic literatures; classical GreekL
882 Classical Greek dramatic poetry & drama: Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra and Philoctetes by Sophocles; Oedipus the King, Oedipus and Colonus by Sophocles; Euripides IV and V by Euripides; The Frogs by Aristophanes; The Congresswomen by Aristophanes; Aeschylus I by Aeschylus; The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides I by Euripides
883 Classical Greek epic poetry & fiction: The Iliad of Homer by Homer; Odyssey trans. by Richard Lattimore

890 Literatures of other languages:
891 East Indo-European & Celtic literatures: The Golden Cockrell by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin; The Overcoat and Other Short Stories by Nikolai Gogol; The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Five Great Short Stories by Anton Chekhov

900s read: 17

900 History & geography: The Stoning of Soraya M.: A True Story by Freidoune Sahebjam
909 World history

910 Geography & travel:

920 Biography, genealogy & insignia: Brave Companions by David McCullough; Plutarch's Lives, Volumes 1 and 2 by Plutarch
921 (Optional number): My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir by Clarence Thomas

930 History of ancient world to ca. 499: The History by Herodotus
937 Italy & adjacent territories to 476: Caligula: Emperor of Rome by Arthur Ferrill
938 Greece to 323: The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

940 History of Europe: The Last Duel by Eric Jager; Night by Elie Wiesel; Anne Frank-Diary of a Young Girl ed. by Otto M. Frank
949 Other parts of Europe: Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

950 History of Asia; Far East

960 History of Africa

970 History of North America
973 United States: The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens; I Love You, Ronnie by Nancy Raegan; Rebel-in-Chief by Fred Barnes; Speech-less: Tales of a White House Survivor by Matthew Latimer

980 History of South America:

990 History of other areas:
991 Unassigned
992 Unassigned
996 Other parts of Pacific; Polynesia: Images of Hawaii by Leonard Lueras

You already have tons done! You should count up how many overall and how many sections you've completed.

I think I'll do that right now. I considered doing it at midnight last night but was able to shut off my OCD enough to get to bed. :)

Maybe we should have gotten degrees in library sciences or something...

000s-4 out of 100
100s-14 out of 100
200s-20 out of 100
300s-23 out of 100
400s-10 out of 100
500s-7 out of 100
600s-9 out of 100
700s-7 out of 100
800s-31 out of 100
900s-10 out of 100

133 out of 1000
63 out of 100

The count leaves me with the following questions:

How are you all handling the unassigned categories?
Are you counting those as read? There are still some older books out their with "unassigned" numbers in some instances. I wouldn't want to loose the ability to track those as well.

Any ideas?

If anyone is feeling bored and looking for something to do, please feel free to check count. I tried to be accurate, but I imagine I've made multiple mistakes even in doing so.

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>42 Voracious_Reader:: I'm reducing the denominator unless I read one in those categories; then I add one to the numerator and one back to the denominator. Especially for the "no longer used" categories, some books are still assigned to the unused ones.

I'm ignoring unassigned categories unless I've read a book in them -- so if there are 89 assigned categories in a section, I'll count out of 89, rather than 100. If I then read something in an unassigned category, I'd count out of 90. I think that's what most people are doing -- there's no wrong way, but counting dozens of categories as read just because they're unassigned doesn't seem meaningful to me.

I'm ignoring them for now - just counting categories actually read out of 100. I guess I'll count them as "read" when that's all I need to finish out a section. But on my private progress report, where I keep track of percentage complete for the entire challenge, I am taking them out of the denominator.

908 is plenty to worry about :)

True.

My OCD compels me to dislike unassigned categories. :)

Anybody have a DD # for Twilight by Stephenie Meyer? I assume #813?

It ought be. American novels rarely appear anywhere else.

From the OCLC's Classify service:

That 741.5 is ridiculous...unless it refers to a comic book version, in which case it shouldn't have been packed in with the novel in the graph anyway.

Yep, graphic novel, indeed.

Wow! I've never seen that website before. You just made my day fleela.

:)

You should look for other books about Islam other than a book that is simply an attack on the religion.

You may want to check out "Misquoting Jesus" the truth about Jesus.

I'm always interested in book recommendations, but I wasn't 100% sure which of the books I've listed offended you. I looked back through the thread of comments and didn't see any particular thread/mention of books other than lists of things read (at least here).

Please share.

And reading a book is not the same thing as endorsing its contents . . . .

True carlym.

I stole your method of book selection for my book club (at least for the first book). :)

What are y'all reading?

We're still in the creating-a-list-to-vote-on phase. I've asked that they send me their suggestions by tomorrow. Once I get the suggestions, I've set up a blog with HTML that will let them vote thumbs up or thumbs down on books (requesting them to vote thumbs down on only two). I'll add you as a registered reader to the blog and send you the URL once it's up and going so that you can see it and the list of possibilities.

Very cool!

What dewey would you use for Reading Lolita in Tehran?

The details page for each book will show the number, if LT has that info: http://www.librarything.com/work/4904/details

It looks like the system is overwhelmed by the number of touchstones in some of the posts. Maybe just use a touchstone for the first book in each category?

63, 64>

Both LoC and the LT consensus (which isn't terribly reliable anymore; I liked it much better back when you could see all the options) give 820.9; 820 is the generic "English literature" category, and it seems like a good option for where a non-fiction book about English literature would go. So that's where I would put it, as well.

I guess the B is for biography? I'd go with lorax's conclusion.

Lorax and DaynaRT--I agree. I'm going with 820 even though it's tempting to use 955.

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