Bedda's LC Challenge

I'm going to give this a try. It should help that my library uses the LC Classification so for a lot of them I'll just have to browse the shelves. It will probably still take me a very long time. I'm going to use the books I've read over the last couple of months but mostly I will be using books I have yet to read. Well, that's the plan. When I start to feel like I'm getting nowhere I might go back through everything I can remember reading to try to fill in some of the categories.

Class A – General Works

AG – Dictionaries and other general reference works - 100 Places You Will Never Visit by Dan Smith
AZ – History of scholarship and learning. The humanities - Guidebook to Learning by Mortimer J. Adler

Class B – Philosophy, Psychology, Religion

B – Philosophy (General) - Brain Wars by Mario Beauregard
BF – Psychology - Mindset by Carol Dweck
BJ – Ethics - Hagakure by Yamamoto Tsunetomo
BS – The Bible - You'll Get Through This by Max Lucado
BV – Practical Theology - The Normal Christian Life by Watchman Nee
BX – Christian Denominations - What of the Mormons? by Gordon B. Hinckley

Class C – Auxiliary Sciences of History (General)

CB – History of Civilization - Chariots of the Gods by Erich von Daniken
CT – Biography - Rest in Pieces by Bess Lovejoy

Class D – World History (except American History)

D – History (General) - Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
DA – Great Britain - Wars of the Roses by Charles Derek Ross
DG – Italy, Malta - The Rise of the Roman Empire by Polybius

Class E – American History

E - American History - Roots by Alex Haley

Class F – Local History of the United States and British, Dutch, French, and Latin America

F – Local History of the United States and British, Dutch, French, and Latin America - Lost City of the Inca by Hiram Bingham

Class G – Geography, Anthropology, Recreation

G – Geography (General) - Brendan Voyage by Timothy Severin
GV – Recreation. Leisure - A Smarter Way to Learn Pool by George Fels

Class H – Social Sciences

HV – Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology - In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
HX – Socialism. Communism. Anarchism - Utopia by Thomas More

Class J – Political Science

JC – Political theory - Dignity by Donna Hicks

Class K – Law

KF – United States - Every Woman Should Go to Law School by Margaret Basch

Class L – Education

LC – Special aspects of education - The Promise of a Pencil by Adam Braun

Class M – Music

Class N – Fine Arts

NA – Architecture - Frank Lloyd Wright: A Gatefold Portfolio by Robin Langley Sommer
NC – Drawing, Design, Illustration - DaVinci's Ghost by Toby Lester

Class P – Language and Literature

PA – Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature - Oedipus the King by Sophocles
PE – English language - I Love It When You Talk Retro by Ralph Keyes
PL – Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania - Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
PN – Literature (General) - Bossypants by Tiny Fey
PQ – French literature – Italian literature – Spanish literature – Portuguese literature - Inferno by Dante Alighieri
PR – English literature - When We Were Romans by Matthew Kneale
PS – American literature - Edge of the World by Kevin Anderson
PT – German literature, Dutch literature, Flemish literature since 1830, Afrikaans literature, Scandinavian literature, Old Norse literature: Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian, Modern Icelandic literature, Faroese literature, Danish literature, Norwegian literature, Swedish literature - Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
PZ – Fiction and juvenile belles lettres - Bluffton by Matt Phelan

Class Q – Science

Q – Science (General) - What If? by Randall Munroe
QC – Physics - Rain: A Natural and Cultural History by Cynthia Barnett
QD – Chemistry - The Periodic Table: A Field Guide to the Elements by Paul Parsons
QL – Zoology - Born Free by Joy Adamson

Class R – Medicine

RC – Internal medicine - The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat by Oliver Sacks
RF – Otorhinolaryngology - Coming to My Senses by Claire H. Blatchford

Class S – Agriculture

SB – Horticulture. Plant propagation. Plant breeding - Banana: Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World by Dan Koeppel
SF – Animal husbandry. Animal science - Oink: My Life With Minipigs by Matt Whyman
SH – Aquaculture. Fisheries. Angling - Shark Drunk by Morten Stroksnes
SK – Hunting - Last Horizons by Peter Capstick

Class T – Technology

T – Technology (General) - Where's My Jetpack by Daniel H. Wilson
TF – Railroad engineering and operation - Nothing Like it in the World by Stephen E. Ambrose
TL – Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics - Marketing the Moon by David Meerman Scott
TP – Chemical technology - Proof: The Science of Booze by Adam Rogers
TT – Handicrafts. Arts and crafts - Mail-Order Mysteries by Kirk Demarais
TX – Home economics - Fork it over by Alan Richman

Class U – Military Science

UA – Armies: Organization, distribution, military situation - Bomboozled by Susan Roy

Class V – Naval Science

V – Naval science (General) - No Hero by Mark Owen

Class Z – Bibliography, Library Science

Z – Books (General), Writing, Paleography, Book industries and trade, Libraries, Bibliography - What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund
ZA – Information resources/materials - Virtual Unreality by Charles Seife

Welcome! How was The Brendan Voyage? I enjoyed The Spice Islands Voyage by the same author (DS, Dewey 959). It looks like Brendan is much earlier; did it seem dated to you?

The Brendan Voyage didn't seem dated to me at all. I enjoyed it. A little adventure, some history and travelogue in parts. Maybe a little more about tanning leather than I needed to know, but a good story.

I've managed to fill in a few more categories.

BF - Mindset by Carol Dweck
BX- What of the Mormons? by Gordon B. Hinckley
F - Lost City of the Incas by Hiram Bingham
GV- A Smarter Way to Learn Pool by George Fels
PQ - Inferno by Dante Alighieri
SK - Last Horizons by Peter Capstick

I work at a library so a lot of books pass through my hands in a day. I've noticed that since I started doing this challenge whenever I see a book that looks interesting instead of reading the inside flap or back of the book I turn to the spine to see what the call number is. The call number decides how high I put it on my to be read list.

My latest titles are:

B - Brain Wars by Mario Beauregard
CT - Rest in Pieces by Bess Lovejoy
DG - The Rise of the Roman Empire by Polybius
LC - The Promise of a Pencil by Adam Braun
NC - DaVinci's Ghost by Toby Lester
PT - Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
PZ - Bluffton by Matt Phelan
TF - Nothing Like it in the World by Stephen E. Ambrose
TT - Mail-Order Mysteries by Kirk Demarais
Z - What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund

Okay. So I overestimated the speed at which I would add books to this list. I guess I could make faster progress if I devoted all my reading to this but I like fiction too much for that. So I am making progress but slowly. I am starting to worry about how slow it will get when more of these sections are filled.

My latest titles are:

BJ - Hagakure by Yamamoto Tsunetomo
D - Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
PN - Bossypants by Tina Fey
QL - Born Free by Joy Adamson
SB - Banana: Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World by Dan Koeppel
SF - Oink: My Life With Minipigs by Matt Whyman
TL - Marketing the Moon by David Meerman Scott
UA - Bomboozled by Susan Roy

Newest additions:

AG - 100 Places You Will Never Visit by Dan Smith
JC - Dignity by Donna Hicks
PE - I Love It When You Talk Retro by Ralph Keyes
PL - Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
Q - What If? by Randall Munroe

Okay. I've been a little distracted from, well, everything. So I haven't posted anything new in a while. And I don't have much to post now. But I hope to get things going again so it won't be another half a year before I have more books to add.

BS - You'll Get Through This by Max Lucado
CB - Chariots of the Gods by Erich von Daniken
DA - Wars of the Roses by Charles Derek Ross
HV - In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
V - No Hero by Mark Owen
ZA - Virtual Unreality by Charles Seife

KF - Every Woman Should Go to Law School by Margaret Basch
QC - Rain: A Natural and Cultural History by Cynthia Barnett
RF - Coming to My Senses by Claire H. Blatchford
T - Where's My Jetpack by Daniel H. Wilson
TP - Proof: The Science of Booze by Adam Rogers

AZ - Guidebook to Learning by Mortimer Adler
E - Roots by Alex Haley
HX - Utopia by Thomas More
PA - Oedipus the King by Sophocles
SH - Shark Drunk by Morten Stroksnes