My Dewey Decimal Challenge List

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I'm starting the Dewey Decimal Challenge simply, with the 100 Challenge. I will select a few catagories to read the full break-down of, but for the most part, I will not. Whenever possible, I selected a different book to include in this list than I did in the Library of Congress Challenge. Because there are fewer books in this challenge, if it has been a while since I read a book in one of the headings, I listed a book to be read (which is why some categories are practically empty).

The schedules list can be found here.

[edit] 000 Computer science, knowledge & systems

• Monsters: An Investigator's Guide to Magical Beings (001.944)

010 Bibliographies

• More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason (011.73)

020 Library & information sciences

• Library: An Unquiet History. (027.009)

030 Encyclopedias & books of facts

• An Underground Education (031.02)

040 [Unassigned]

050 Magazines, journals & serials

• American Libraries (051)

060 Associations, organizations & museums

• Treasures of the British Museum (069.09421)

070 News media, journalism & publishing

• The Dallas morning News (070.15)

080 Quotations

• Our Dumb Century (081)

090 Manuscripts & rare books

• Need one

[edit] 100 Philosophy

• Philosophy for Dummies (100)

110 Metaphysics

• Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art (111.85)

120 Epistemology

• Doubt: A History (121.5)

130 Parapsychology & occultism

• Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs (133.4)

140 Philosophical schools of thought

• Darwin's Dangerous Idea

150 Psychology

• Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking (153.4)

160 Logic

• Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking (160)-Current Read

170 Ethics

• The Tragic Vision of Politics: Ethics, Interest and Orders

180 Ancient, medieval & eastern philosophy

• Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages (189.4)

190 Modern western philosophy

• Rousseau's Dog: Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment

[edit] 200 Religion

• God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (200)

210 Philosophy & theory of religion

• Need one

220 The Bible

• The Year of Living Biblically (220)

230 Christianity & Christian theology

• Not in Our Classrooms: Why Intelligent Design is Wrong for our Schools (231.7)

240 Christian practice & observance

• One Nation Under God: The History of Prayer in America (248.3)

250 Christian pastoral practice & religious orders

• Need one

260 Christian organization, social work & worship

• God's Politics: How the Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It (261.7)

270 History of Christianity

• The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelicals America are Winning the Culture War (277.3)

280 Christian denominations

• Need one

290 Other religions -Don't ya just love that anything non-Christian just gets dumped here (or in the case of the NeoPagan religions, over in Occult-this is one of my biggest beefs with Dewey)

• Lord of Light and Shadows (291.2)

[edit] 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology

• The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences (300.1)
• 301 Sociology & anthropology
  • The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public (301.072)
• 302 Social interaction
  • [The Tipping Point] (302)-link this once it's working again
• 303 Social processes
  • The Wisdom of Crowds (303.3)
• 304 Factors affecting social behavior
  • A Language Older than Words
• 305 Social groups
  • Female Chauvinist Pigs (305.42)
• 306 Culture & institutions
  • A History of the Wife (306.872)
• 307 Communities
  • The City: A Global History

310 Statistics

• Need one

320 Political science

• How the Republicans Stole Christmas 322.1

330 Economics

• Freakonomics (330)

340 Law

• How to Try a Murder: The Handbook for Armchair Lawyers (345.7302)

350 Public administration & military science

• Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War (358.38)

360 Social problems & social services

• You Can Prevent Global Warming (and Save Money!): 51 Easy Ways

370 Education

• The Incredible 5-Point Scale (371.94)

380 Commerce, communications & transportation

• An Alphabetical Life: Living it Up in a World of Books

390 Customs, etiquette & folklore

• Need one
• 391 Costume & personal appearance
  • A History of the Breast (391.6)
• 392 Customs of life cycle & domestic life
  • Need one
• 393 Death customs
  • Need one
• 394 General customs
  • A History of the World in 6 Glasses (394.1)
• 395 Etiquette (Manners)
  • Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today 395
• 398 Folklore
  • Heavy Words Lightly Thrown (398.80941)
• 399 Customs of war & diplomacy
  • Need One

[edit] 400 Language

• Language Myths

410 Linguistics

• Letter Perfect: The Marvelous History of Our Alphabet from A to Z (411)

420 English & Old English languages

• Grammar Snobs are Great Big Meanies (428.002)

430 German & related languages

• Need one

440 French & related languages

• Jiffy Phrasebook: French

450 Italian, Romanian & related languages

• Need one

460 Spanish & Portuguese languages

• Need one

470 Latin & Italic languages

• More Latin for the Illiterati: A Guide to Everyday Medical, Legal and Religious Latin

480 Classical & modern Greek languages

• Who Killed Homer? The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom

490 Other languages

• A to Zen: A Book of Japanese Culture (495.6)

[edit] 500 Science

• A Short HIstory of Nearly Everything (500)

510 Mathematics

• Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (513)

520 Astronomy

• Bad Astronomy (520)

530 Physics

• Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions (530.01)

540 Chemistry

• Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History (540)

550 Earth sciences & geology

• Coal: A Human History (553.2)

560 Fossils & prehistoric life

• Fossils, the Evolution and Extinction of Species (560)

570 Life sciences; biology

• The Top 10 Myths About Evolution

580 Plants (Botany)

• Botany for Gardeners (581)

590 Animals (Zoology)

• Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (591.5)

[edit] 600 Technology

• Death Rays, Jet Packs, Stunts, and Supercars: The Fantastic Physics of Film's Most Celebrated Secret Agent (600)

610 Medicine & health

• Pervasive Developmental Disorders: An Altered perspective (616.85)

620 Engineering

• The Psychology of Everyday Things (620.8)

630 Agriculture

• Tulipomania: The Story of the World's most Coveted Flower and the Extraordinary Passions it Aroused (635.9)

640 Home & family management

• Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes from and Why We need to Get it Back (641.5973)

650 Management & public relations

• A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder (650.1)

660 Chemical engineering

• The Science of Jurassic Park (660.65)

670 Manufacturing

• The Encyclopedia of How it Works: from Abacus to Zoom Lens

680 Manufacture for specific uses

• Jeans: A Cultural History of an American Icon

690 Building & construction

• Need one

[edit] 700 Arts

• Censoring Culture: Contemporary Threats to Free Expression

710 Landscaping & area planning

• Ortho's Plans for Beds and Borders

720 Architecture

• Guide to Gargoyles and Other Grotesques (729.5)

730 Sculpture, ceramics & metalwork

• The Art of Gianlorenzo Bernini: Selected Sculpture

740 Drawing & decorative arts (It seems very odd to me that quilting should be in the same place as drawing...)

• An American Sampler: Folk Art from the Shelburne Museum

750 Painting

• Understanding paintings (750)

760 Graphic arts

• Need one

770 Photography & computer art

• A Book of Books (778)

780 Music

• I Hate Myself and Want to Die: The 52 Most Depressing Songs You've Ever heard

790 Sports, games & entertainment

• 101 Relaxation Games for Children

[edit] 800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism

• Feeling Like a Kid: Childhood and Children's Literature

810 American literature in English

• Ender's Game (813.54)

820 English & Old English literatures

• A Spot of Bother (823.914)

830 German & related literatures

• The Metamorphosis (833.912)

840 French & related literatures

• Les Miserables (843.7)

850 Italian, Romanian & related literatures

• The Name of the Rose

860 Spanish & Portuguese literatures

• Fighting Windmills: Encounters with Don Quixote

870 Latin & Italic literatures

• The Classical Roman Reader: New Encounters with Ancient Rome

880 Classical & modern Greek literatures

• The Norton Book of Classical Literature

890 Other literatures

• Gilgamesh Epic and Old Testament Parallels

[edit] 900 History

• The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (902.07)

910 Geography & travel

• The Mapmakers

920 Biography & genealogy

• What's in a Name? (929.4)

930 History of ancient world (to ca. 499)

• Eyewitness to Discovery: First-Person Accounts of More than Fifty of the World's Greatest Archaeological Discoveries

940 History of Europe

• How the Irish Saved Civilization

950 History of Asia

• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

960 History of Africa

• Need one

970 History of North America

• Lies my Teacher Told me (973)

980 History of South America

• Daily Life in the Inca Empire (985.01)

990 History of other areas

• The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty (996.1)