Books I've read will be linked; ones I own or potentially might read will have a star*

000 – Computer science, information & general works

081 The Darwin Awards - Wendy Northcutt

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100 – Philosophy and psychology

153.4 Blink: the Power of Thinking without thinking - Malcom Gladwell

128.4 The Book of Calamities*
153 A Whack on the Side of the Head*

300 – Social sciences

302 The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
360 Social Services; Associations
362.1 28: Stories of AIDS in Africa - Stephanie Nolen
364.15 The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
364.152 In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

302 The Necklace
394.1 An Omnivore's Dilemna: A Natural history in 4 Meals*
370 Failing Our Kids: How we are ruining our public schools*
305.48 Kabul Beauty School - Deborah Rodriguez*

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400 – Language

428.2 Eats, Shoots, and Leaves - Lynn Truss

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500 – Science

500 A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
510: Mathematics
520: Astronomy and Allied Science
520 The Quirks and Quarks Guide to Space - Jim Labans
522 Miss Leavitt's Stars - George Johnson
526 Longitude - Dava Sobel
530: Physics
530 e=mc^2 - David Bodanis
530 Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman - Richard Feynman
530.14 The Trouble with Physics - Lee Smolin

599.9 SYK The Seven Daughters of Eve*
539.7 The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene*
516.204 The Golden Ratio - Mario Livio*

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600 – Technology

638.6 Dewey:The Small Town Library Cat Who Touched the World - Vicki Myron

641 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver

658 Bo's Lasting Lessons*
614.52 The Great Influenza by John Barry*

700 – Arts and recreation

741.59 Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi

791.45 Survivor - Mark Burnett
792 Without You - Anthony Rapp
792.028 Never Have Your Dog Stuffed - Alan Alda
793 Brainiac - Ken Jennings
796.962 Searching for Bobby Orr - Stephen Brunt
796.962 Hockey Dreams: Memories of a Man Who Couldn't Play - David Adams Richards

792.7 I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This - Bob Newhart*
792.7 Candy Girl - Cody Diablo*

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800 – Literature

808 Shakespeare Wrote for Money - Nick Hornby
814.54 Ex-Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader - Anne Fadiman
820.9 Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi

818.09 The Innocents Abroad - Mark Twain*
823.92 Say You're One of Them - Uwem Akpan*
832 BRE The Life of Galileo*

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900 – History, geography, and biography

914.04 Neither Here Nor There - Bill Bryson
914.96 Istanbul - Memories of a City - Orhan Pamuk

921 Dispatches from the Edge - Anderson Cooper
921 Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - Bill Bryson

949.702 Zlata's Diary -Zlata Filipovic

966.4 Long Way Gone - Ishmael Beah

971 Souvenir of Canada - Douglas Coupland
973 Assassination Vacation - Sarah Vowell

910.91634 Titanic's Last Secrets - Brad Matsen*
942.1 Necropolis: London and its Dead - Catherine Arnold*
967.5 DALShaking Hands With the Devil - Romeo Dallaire*

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Good start! welcome to the challenge.