I don't read a ton of nonfiction, but this sounds like a fun way for me to broaden my reading and my knowledge of nonfiction books, so I'm in. I've started adding books that I've read this year, and I'm going to slowly but surely start broad and work my way into more detail (perhaps to every "ten," but we'll see how it goes).

000's:

004 The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
016 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, edited by Peter Boxall
028 The Pleasure of Reading, edited by Antonia Fraser (and a few others)

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100's:

none yet

200's:

261 Show Me God by Fred Heeren

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300's:

302 You Just Don't Understand by Deborah Tannen
306 Singled Out by Virginia Nicholson

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400's:

420 Made in America by Bill Bryson

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500's:

500 A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
523 A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
551 Krakatoa by Simon Winchester
598 A Supremely Bad Idea by Luke Dempsey

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600's:

610 Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
616 Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
641 Untangling My Chopsticks by Victoria Abott Riccardi

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700's:

741 Fruits Basket Volume 23 and many other graphic novels and manga
796 As They See 'Em by Bruce Weber (and more...)

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800's:

804 On the Art of Reading by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
808 Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
811 The Radiation Sonnets by Jane Yolen
813 The Beekeeper's Apprentice and many more
814 Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
818 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
821 The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun by J.R.R. Tolkien
822 The Tempest by Shakespeare
823 Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis and several others
843 The Little Prince by Antoine de St. Exupery
863 The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
891 Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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900's:

914 Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff
928 Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson*
940 Maus by Art Spiegelman
955 Things I've Been Silent About by Azar Nafisi

*Most libraries don't classify biographies in this way anymore, but since my local public library does, I'm going to use their classification when convenient.

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welcome! You've got a good approach to the challenge. Mini challenges are satisfying to complete for Dewey and you'll definitely find you self reading interesting things you wouldn't have found otherwise.

thanks, fundevogel! When I choose nonfiction, I tend to find I read in similar subject areas, so I figured this would be a fun way of reading outside my comfort zone and learning interesting new things at the same time. I'm looking forward to being a little more purposeful in the nonfiction I pick to read.

welcome - I'm another one who tends to read in the same limited subjects. I've found this challenge to be a good way to encourage myself to read new things.

sjmccreary - thanks for the welcome. I'm looking forward to the challenge and seeing what other people are reading, too.

Just an update to say that I'm reading You Just Don't Understand to fill a spot in the 300s. I haven't gotten very far, and it may be awhile because I own the book and tend to read books with due dates faster. But I expect it will be interesting reading.

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306 Singled Out by Virginia Nicholson - Another 100 down! This was an interesting look at single women living in England between the World Wars. After WW1, there were several more women than men who were known collectively as the "surplus women." This tells some of their stories, from women who had to work extremely hard jobs to support elderly parents from single, educated young women who had enough money to travel and absolutely love every minute of being single and several more in between. An interesting history about a topic I hadn't thought of much.

Currently reading -
302 You Just Don't Understand by Deborah Tannen and
598 A Supremely Bad Idea by Luke Dempsey

598 A Supremely Bad Idea by Luke Dempsey - loved the birding parts, was "meh" about everything else. His sarcastic sense of humor annoyed me rather than tickling my funny bone. An OK read.

302 You Just Don't Understand by Deborah Tannen

A convincing argument presented in a clear, conversational style for the differences in how men and women tend to talk - and perceive a conversation. Dr. Tannen supports her observation that men often approach a conversation in terms of status and women in terms of connection with real life anecdotes (I even recognized some conversations as mirrors of some that I've had!) and transcripts of experiments. Recommended.

#19 That one sounds very interesting - I'm adding it to the wishlist for later.

>20 sjmccreary - cool, I look forward to hearing what you think of it.

641 Untangling My Chopsticks by Victoria Abbott Riccardi

At the age of twenty-five, Victoria Abbott (unmarried at the time) traveled to Kyoto to learn the art of tea kaiseki, the meal that comes before the better-known tea ceremony. She was an excellent descriptor of the foods she made and tasted, though sometimes her style of writing annoyed me. About 26 recipes are included throughout.

420 Made in America by Bill Bryson

Whoops...forgot to update this thread when I finished this. In short, a fascinating mix of linguistics, history, and random details related to the English language in America. I've posted a longer review on the work page for anyone interested.

#23 Another one for the wishlist. I really need to stop read threads and start reading more books!

LOL...definitely a danger on this site, isn't it? The wishlist grows ever faster...

I'll need several lifetimes to get through my reading list.

#26 Not me, I'm still in denial. I can stop adding books anytime and get them all read in about 9 months. If I wanted to. I just don't want to. ;-)

haha...or you could take the point of view that I try to...I may not get to all the books I want to read in my lifetime but I will never reach the point where there's nothing I want to read. :-)