varielle's LoC Challenge

I seem to have migrated over from the Deweys.

AC - The Last Days of Pompeii
AE - The Know-it-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
AM - Collecting: An Unruly Passion

B - The Dialogues of Plato
BC - Being Logical
BD - Luck: The Brilliant Randomness of Everyday Life
BF - A Complete Guide to the Tarot
BJ - The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom - a Toltec Wisdom Book
BL - The Art of Pilgrimage
BM - When Bad Things Happen to Good People
BR - Letter to a Christian Nation
BQ - The Tibetan Book of the Dead
BX - The Lutheran Hymnal

CB - The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know his World and Himself
CC - The Oxford Companion to Archaeology
CR - Gentlemen's Blood: A History of Dueling
CT - Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller

D - An Encyclopedia of World History
DA - The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around Great Britain
DB - The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries
DC - Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
DF - Courtesans and Fishcakes
DG - Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy
DP - As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
DS - 36 Views of Mt. Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan
DT - In an Antique Land
DU - In a Sunburned Country

E - Killing Custer: The Battle of the Little Big Horn and the Fate of the Plains Indians

F - Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations)

G - 1,000 Places to See Before you Die
GN - Prehistoric Avebury
GR - Faeries
GT - The Cocktail: The Influence of Spirits on the American Psyche
GV - Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball

HD - E-Myth Manager
HE - The Error World: An Affair With Stamps
HF - Stepping Up to Supervisor
HG - Learn to Earn
HN - Our Endangered Values
HQ - The Art of Sexual Ecstasy
HV - The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld
HX - Queen of Bohemia: The Life of Louise Bryant

JC - The Republic
JK - Jailed for Freedom

KF - The Constitution of the United States of America

LB - A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses and Dissertations

M - Singing the Living Tradition
MT - 101 Great Stories of the Ballet

N - Erotica Universalis
NA - A Concise History of American Architecture
NB - The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
NC - The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker
ND - Noa Noa: The Tahiti Journal of Paul Gauguin
NK - Decorating on the Cheap

PA - The Bacchae
PB - The Mabinogion
PC - Berlitz Spanish for Travellers
PE - The Oxford English Dictionary
PG - The Dictionary of the Khazars
PJ - Tales from the Arabian Nights
PK - The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
PL - Hard Boiled Wonderland at the end of the World
PM - Not Far from the River
PN - The 64 Square Looking Glass: Great Games of Chess in World Literature
PQ - Baudolino
PR - The Annotated Alice
PS - The Alchemist's Journal
PT - The Brothers Grimm Complete Fairy Tales
PZ - Delta of Venus

QA - Godel, Escher, Bach
QB - Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time
QC - The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics
QD - Alchemy: The Art of Knowing
QE - Rocks and Minerals
QH - The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History
QK - The Botany of Desire
QL - Far Away and Long Ago

R - Shambhala Guide to Traditional Chinese Medicine
RA - 911 Beauty Secrets
RC - The Feeling Good Handbook
RM - The ARt of Sensual Massage

S - Simple Living: One Couple's Search for a Better Life
SB - The 3,000 Mile Garden
SF - You and Your Cat

T - Safety and Health for Engineers
TH - Complete Fix it Yourself Manual
TN - Salt: A World History
TP - The Accidental Connoisseur
TT - What not to Wear
TX - Larousse Gastronomique

U - The Art of War

VA - The Terrible Hours: The Man Behind the Greatest Submarine Rescue in History

Z - At Home with Books: How Book Lovers Live with and Care for their Libraries

I seem to keep reading books in the same categories over and over again. Must broaden horizons!

Finally a new category! DB - The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries by Marilyn Johnson

That looks like a good one!

I just got that book, and I can't wait to read it!

Finally, a new one. I just finished A. J. Jacobs The Know-it-All and absolutely loved it. It freed my inner geek. I thought I was the only person who ever tried to read an entire encyclopedia. I failed, but he didn't fortunately.

At last, another new one Peter Maas' The Terrible Hours: The Man Behind the Greatest Submarine Rescue in History. A little dry, but very interesting.

I didn't realize it had been so long. Finally made a foray into logic with Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking so I finally have something for BC.

How did you like Being Logical? I think I have that one on a wishlist somewhere.

I've never had a logic class though I've got a grasp on the principles. It was short and to the point, but just a little bit dry for me.

Has it really been over two years since I added anything here??!! I'm adding Jailed for Freedom to JK. A bit dry, but informative. It did confirm my belief that Woodrow Wilson was an over-rated and highly destructive president.

I need to broaden my reading. Just knocked off HE with The Error World: An Affair with Stamps. It's autobiographical about the author's lifelong stamp collecting specializing in errors only to lose most of it in a divorce settlement due to a romantic misadventure. Interesting that the HE category is for transportation and communications.

The first new category in a while BM - When Bad Things Happen to Good People. As I've commented elsewhere, not really useful for rational or non-religious people, but if you are of that persuasion and find yourself being crushed by life, it might just be what you need.

Finally a new one. For CR Gentlemen's Blood: A History of Dueling, I have a peculiar interest in such things, so I highly recommend.

I really enjoyed that one. The bits on Chekov and Andrew Jackson were choice!

It's been a while, but here's a new one,

AM - Collecting: An Unruly Passion by Werner Muensterberger

Probably in this category because it looks at collecting as a mental illness. It could have gone in a lot of categories.

Aha! DF- Courtesans and Fishcakes

TP The Accidental Connoisseur an enjoyable exploration of the world of wine.

Got BR with Letter to a Christian Nation.