Nickelini Joins In Too . . .

I don't need anymore challenges, but this looks like too much fun, and I've already read books in each class, so I think I'll join in. I just have one question: are these numbers written in stone? Some of the DD numbers assigned by LT don't seem to fit. Also, if a book isn't assigned a number, can I add it?

This is all new to me--I haven't thought of books this way before. Maybe I'll get crazy and go join the LC Classification Challenge too.

000 Computer, Information, General

011 Book Lust, Pearl

028 The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life, Leveen
028 So Many Books, So Little Time, Nelson

070 Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now, Wong

081 Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Counts, and the Never Ending Queues, David Rackoff
081 -- Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism, the Very Best of Christopher Hitchens (I think my library had this under some other DD category)

100 Philosophy

100 - Nonsense: Red Herrings, Straw Men and Sacred Cows: How We Abuse Logic in Our Everyday Language, Robert J Gula

128 - Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error, Kathryn Schulz

133.109 -- The English Ghost, Ackroyd

149.73 50 Popular Beliefs that People Think are True, Guy P Harrison

150.19 918::Man's Search for Meaning, Frankl
152.4 -- You've Been Publicly Shamed, Ronson
153.69 -- The Definitive Book of Body Language, Pease & Pease
155.5 259169::See Jane Win, Rimm
155.23 - Brightsided, Barbara Ehrenreich
158 -- Mental Traps: The Overthinker's Guide to a Happier Life, Kukla - philosophy

179.3 1230884::Old MacDonald's Factory Farm

189.4 37475::Abelard and Heloise, Peter Abelard

194.19 2509725::Discourse on Method, Decartes

200 Religion

A few of the more interesting ones from the 200s:

200 End of Faith, Harris
201.39 - A Short History of Myth, Karen Armstrong

211 - The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins
211.8092 Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists, Barker
211.80 -- Manual for Creating Atheists, Boghossian (I can see why this is in the 200s, but it's really a book on using the Socratic method, and the principles reach far beyond religion. In honesty, I think it belongs in the 100s)

230 Misquoting Jesus, Ehrman
236.9 Have a Nice Doomsday, Nicholas Guyatt,

271.53 The Jesuit and the Incas: the Extraordinary Life of Padre Blas Valera, Hyland
271.97 Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, Christopher Hitchens
277.308 Quiverfull, Kathryn Joyce
277.308 Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, Michelle Goldberg

282 Hildegard of Bingen: the Woman of Her Age, Maddocks
284.3 Buddhism without Beliefs, Batchelor
289.30 - Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and breaking Free of Warren Jeffs, by Elissa Wall
289.33 Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith, Jon Krakauer
289.371 The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brids and Lost Boys in a Polygamous Mormon Sect, Daphne Bramham

294.363 Penguin Lives Buddha, Karen Armstrong
297.082 Caged Virgin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali
299 The Serpent and the Rainbow, Davis

300 Social Science

301 The Naked Swiss - O'Dea - sociology in Switzerland
302.23 - Enlightened Sexism, Susan Douglas
303 Guns, Germs and Steel, Diamond
303 - Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields, Charles Bowden
304 Collapse, Diamond
305. Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale, Catherine Orenstein
305 - Murder in Amsterdam, Ian Buruma
305 - Women and Writing, Virginia Woolf
305.2 -- Through the Keyhole: Sex, Scandal and the Secret Life of the Country House, Law
305.4 A Room of One's Own, Woolf
305 Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing OUr Daughters from marketers' Schemes, Lamb
305.23 Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture, Orenstein
305.42 22 Living Dolls, Natasha Walter
305.56 Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, Ehrenreich
305.5 -- Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Boo
305.8941 The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia, Piers Vitebsky
306.095 Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, Barbara Demick
306.73 The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with virginity is Hurting Young Women, Valenti
307.76 Planet of Slums, Mike Davis
307.76 Feminist City: A Field Guide, Leslie Kern

320.1092 Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power, Ross King
323 Means of Reproduction, Michelle Goldberg

362 Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid, Lau
362.19 And the Band Played On:Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic, Shilts
363 Missing Sarah, de Vries
363.738 Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
364 -- Cold Case Vancouver, Lazarus - crime
364.16 Stealing History: Tomb Raiders, Smugglers, and the Looting of the Ancient World, Atwood
364.16 Catch Me If You Can, Abagnale

398 -- Vampires and Other Monstrous Creatures, Pemberton-Smythe - folklore
398.209 Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and Other Classic Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Angela Carter
398.21 - Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast, Robin McKinley
398.26 Gossip from the Forest: The Tangled Roots of Our Forests and Fairytales, Sara Maitland
398.46 - Book of Imaginary Beings - Borges - mythology

Hmmm. I think I like this class!

400 Language

Some good 400s

420 The Story of English, McCrum
420.9 The Mother Tongue, Bryson
423 The Disheveled Dictionary, Gordon
428 The Deluxe Transitive Vampire, Gordon

500 Science

500 The Short History of Nearly Everything, Bryson
509.4 The Beginnings of Western Science, Lindberg

519.2 The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives, Leonard Mlodinow

535.6 Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox, Finlay (touchstone goes to a different Finlay book and doesn't give me the option to fix it.)

551 The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850, Fagan
551 the Long Summer, How Climate Changed Civilization, Fagan
551.5 Weather Detective, Peter Wohleben

582.16 -- Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate, Discoveries from a Secret World, Wohlleben -- botany, trees

599.93 The Seven Daughters of Eve, Sykes
599.93 Lone Survivors, Chris Stringer

600 Technology

610.92 This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor, Susan Wicklund
612 Gut: the Inside Story of the Body's Most Underrated Organ, Guilia Enders
613.25 French Women Don't Get Fat, Mirelle Guilliano
614.4 This Will Kill You: A Guide to the Ways in Which We Go, Newquist
616 Does Every Woman Have an Eating Disorder?, Stacey M Rosenfeld
616.55 Beyond the Pale, Emily Urquhart
616.85 Darkness Visible: a Memoir of Madness, Styron

616.85 Evil: the Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side - Shaw - psychology & sociology
616.909 -- The First Horseman: Disease in Human History, Arbeth (in technology, but is actually a history book about disease)
616.909 Soap and Water & Common Sense - Henry - health & contagious disease
615.7 How to Change Your Mind - Pollen - health benefits of psychedelic drugs

629 West With the Night, Markham

634.956 - Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe, by Charlotte Gill
635 Winter Garden Glory, Bloom
635.93 Lavender Garden, Kourik
635.987 How to Build, Maintain and Use a Compost System, Smith

640 Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping, Levine
641 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Kingsolver
641.3 Devil's Picnic - Grescoe - banned food, drinks & drug
641.594 Alpine Cooking, Meredith Erickson
649.14 Siblings without Rivalry, Faber

650.1 How to Find Fulfilling Work (School of Life), Roman Krznaric
650.14 What Color is Your Parachute?, Richard Nelson Bolles
650.1 -- The Productivity Project, Bailey

686.224 -- Just My Type: a book about fonts, Garfield -- technology

700 Arts and Recreation

Some of these seem they should be in another category.

709 Art of the Western World, Cole

712 the Four Season Landscape

728.80942 Some Country Houses and Their Owners, Lees-Milne
728.80 English Country Houses - Sackville-West - architecture

741.59 Three Classic Children's Stories, James Donnelly
741.51 -- 99 Ways to Tell a Story, Madden

759.2 Deceived With Kindness: a Bloomsbury Childhood, Angelica Garnett
759.5 Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-century Italy: A Primer int he Social History of Pictorial Style, Baxandall

769.22 Dore's Illustrations for "Paradise Lost", Dore

780- How Music Works, David Byrne
781.64 -- Eminent Hipsters, Fagan

791.450 Unbearable Lightness, Rossi
791.45 Age of Oprah, Janice Peck
791 Colin Firth: a Biography, Alison Maloney
796.52 Into Thin Air, Krakauer

800 Literature

I'm not listing actually fiction here, but only books about literature. I don't think half these books should be 800s

808 Best American Science Writing 2009, Natalie Angier, ed.
808 The Virginia Woolf Writers' Workshop: Seven Lessons to Inspire Great Writing, Jones
808.02 -- But Can I Start a Sentence With But: Advice from the Chicago Style Q&A -- writing advice
808.02 -- If You Want to Write, Ueland
808.42 On Writing Well, William Zinsser
808.3 The Joy of Writing Sex: a Guide for Fiction Writers, Elizabeth Benedict

809 The Golden Thread: A Reader's Journey Through the Great Books, Meyer
809. Bitch in a Bonnet: Reclaiming Jane Austen From the Stiffs, the Snobs, the Simps and the Saps Vol 1, Robert Rodi
809.89 The Gilded Chalet - Rooney - literature & Switzerland

811. Joy is So Exhausting, Susan Holbrook
813 The Story of God: a Biblical Comedy about Love (and Hate), Chris Matheson
813.009 -- Short Introduction to Bestsellers, Sutherland
818.603 Without You There Is No Us, Suki Kim

821.912 Shropshire Lad, AE Housman
823 A Room of One's Own (reread)
823.7 The Cambridge Companion to Pride and Prejudice, Janet Todd
823.7 -- Jane Austen Cover to Cover, Sullivan (very silly classification. This is an art book and should be in the 700s)
823.7 -- Among the Janeites, Yaffe (again, silly classification. This is a sociological look at a fandom. I guess someone sees "Jane Austen" and the 823 gets slapped on)
823.7 -- In Search of Mary Shelley: the Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein, Sampson
823.914 Maeve Binchy Writers' Club, Maeve Binchy
824.91 -- We Should All Be Feminists, Adichie (again, what a lazy category to stick this in)
828.92 What We Talk About When We Talk About the Tube, John Lanchester
828.9208 -- Buttoned Up, Fantastic Man (wrong again -- this is a sociology book about a specific group of people living in East London, and the clothes they wear, written by a Dutch fashion magazine).

843 - Swallows of Kabul, Yasmina Khadra
848.91 -- Exercises in Style, Queneau

891.55 - Women Without Men, Shahrnush Parsipur

900 History, Geography, Biography

Interesting 900s:

909 Great Books, Denby (why isn't this an 800?)
909 Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, the Rise of China, and Global Terrorism, de Blij
909 Sapiens - Harari - history or anthropology

910 The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, Bawlf
910 Reading National Geographic, Lutz
910.202 Travel as a Political Act, Rick Steves

911 The Making of the English Landscape, Hoskins
914 Henry James and Lamb House, Garnett
914 Virginia Woolf and Monk's House, Shone
914 -- Lonely Planet: the Italian Lakes - Geography & Travel, Europe
914 - The Dark Heart of Italy, Tobias Jones
914.4 One More Croissant For the Road, Felicity Cloake
914.504 Italy Out of Hand - Hodgson - travel

920 North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both, Cea Sunrise Person
923.2 -- The Countess: the Scandalous Life of Frances Villiers, Clarke - biography, government

940 Survival in Auschwitz, Levi
942 London Scene: Six Essays on London Life, Woolf
942 A Short History of England: the Glorious Story of a Rowdy Nation
945.31 Venice Rising: Aqua Granda, Pandemic, Rebirth - recent history, Venice
945.34 Italian Neighbours - Parks - life in Italy
945.51 Rise & Fall of the House of Medici - Hibbert - history
949.4 -- Swiss Watching, Bewes - History, Other Parts of Europe
949.47 -- The Alps: a Human History from Hannibal to Heidi, O'Shea - History, Other Parts of Europe
949 Infidel, Ali

967 Out of Africa, Dinesen (Blixen)

970.004- The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King
971.06 - Souvenir of Canada, Douglas Coupland
971.133 -- Vancouver in the Seventies: Photos from the Decade That Changed the City, Bird -- history, Canada

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why isn't this an 800?

Possibly because the source you added from was wrong; if that's the case, it's probably just a typo. I had to fix about half a dozen in my own library.

Alternatively, this looks like it really might lean more toward history/culture than literature (I see the LC classification is CB, rather than falling in the Ps). I checked my local libraries through Worldcat; most put it in 909, with one in 809 and one in 378 (higher education); that last is the Los Angeles Public Library which I've noticed frequently has wacky outliers for classification, and which I usually ignore.

ah, thanks . . . so the numbers aren't carved in stone. I was wondering about that.

I've been eying a few of Erhman's books, the subjects seem interesting, are they well written?

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Not carved in stone at all. As I understand it -- and I'm not a librarian so this is probably incomplete -- unlike the LC classification system, there's no single authority generating Dewey numbers, so there can be legitimate variation as well as outright errors.

#14- I've been eying a few of Erhman's books, the subjects seem interesting, are they well written?
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Hmmm . . . I remember thinking it was a worthwhile read, but I'd read similar and so didn't find it earth-shattering. The thing that I found interesting is Erhman's background and how all that intense study of Christianity led him to renounce Christianity. I can't remember if it was especially well-written, but it certainly wasn't poorly written. Hope that answers your question.

Even the Long Island libraries, which have a common catalog, disagree on the call number, 2 of the 33 village libraries owning it use 809 (vs 909) for Great Books. I had thought Nassau County used centralized processing of books, but I guess not.

Their catalog shows the main subject as Western Civilization; hence, the 909 call number.

and one in 378 (higher education); that last is the Los Angeles Public Library which I've noticed frequently has wacky outliers for classification, and which I usually ignore.

Well, there's a logic to that too, because it's about a journalist who goes back to Columbia University to take this course--a lot of it talks about higher education. I guess many books really could go in all sorts of categories (hence all the different tags I use). Thanks, everyone, for showing me how this works.

I had an outstanding year of non-fiction reading, even better than my fiction, I think.

823 - A Room of One's Own (reread), and
305 - Women and Writing, Virginia Woolf -- essays

Living Dolls, Natasha Walter 305.42 22(can't find Dewey info on this one), and,
302.23 - Enlightened Sexism, Susan Douglas -- feminism

236.9 -Have a Nice Doomsday, Nicholas Guyatt, and
277.308 Quiverfull, Kathryn Joyce -- Cultural studies, religion

155.23 - Brightsided, Barbara Ehrenreich -- cultural studies, general

808 - Best American Science Writing 2009, Natalie Angier, ed.

The rest I'd categorize as cultural studies, political and human rights:

307.76 Planet of Slums, Mike Davis
791.45 Age of Oprah, Janice Peck
910.202 Travel as a Political Act, Rick Steves
305 - Murder in Amsterdam, Ian Buruma
323 Means of Reproduction, Michelle Goldberg
297.082 Caged Virgin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Every single one of these was a great read.

I started Murder in Amsterdam once but set it aside; it sounds like I'll have to give it another chance.

For Living Dolls, Library of Congress gives a Dewey number of 305.42 22 (link: http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/545942634?page=frame&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.... )

Thanks--that seems like a logical number.

Yikes, I haven't visited this thread for almost two years. I think that is in part because I'm not doing much non-fiction reading. However, I would recommend these:

211.8092 Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists, Barker

305 Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing OUr Daughters from marketers' Schemes, Lamb
305.23 Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture, Orenstein

614.4 This Will Kill You: A Guide to the Ways in Which We Go, Newquist
635.987 How to Build, Maintain and Use a Compost System, Smith

791.450 Unbearable Lightness, Rossi

914 Henry James and Lamb House, Garnett
914 Virginia Woolf and Monk's House, Shone

and one I don't know the number for (but suspect it might also be 914): Some Country Houses and Their Owners, Lees-Milne. ETA: 728.80942.

One more really good one that I can't find the DD# for: The Cage: the Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers, Weiss.

ETA: Lucien found it at 320.

I looked up one location for Some Country Houses and their owners and found a call number for this book at the Bishop's Castle Library in Shropshire as 728.80942. So, I think this is an architecture type DD number. This book is not in many libraries.

>24 Nickelini:

The OCLC Classfiy page has The Cage as most frequently 320 plus a small percentage at 954.

Vpfluke & Lucien - thanks! Will update my posts.

#25 - I think this is an architecture type DD number. This book is not in many libraries.

Okay, well I can see it going in architecture, although it's more like the books in 914 that I listed in my post. I'm not surprised it's not in many libraries -- my edition is a funny little paperback Penguin "English Journeys" series that is not the type of thing libraries tend to purchase. I'm not sure when it was last in print before that, but it's a shame that it's not more widely available because it's a fun book--and educational too.

Hey! I didn't know you were in this group! How are you feeling about it lately?

Oh, I only stop by every so often to see what I can add to my list. I've never actively pursued this, but I do find it interesting. I like to be well-rounded in my reading, so this kinda shows me how I'm doing.

Yeah - it's fun! Interesting to see how it will effect my reading choices. For example I'm reading Economix right now and enjoy it and checked my Dewey list thinking it would be a new area only to find out I already have 3 books in that category. I enjoyed the books I read and hadn't thought of them as economics, which I think of as hard and boring.

Here is my annual update:

100 - Nonsense: Red Herrings, Straw Men and Sacred Cows: How We Abuse Logic in Our Everyday Language, Robert J Gula

211 - The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins
289.30 - Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and breaking Free of Warren Jeffs, by Elissa Wall

610.92 This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor, Susan Wicklund
634.956 - Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe, by Charlotte Gill

971.06 - Souvenir of Canada, Douglas Coupland

And one I can't find the DD number for: 50 Popular Beliefs that People Think are True, Guy P Harrison / ETA: 149.73

For "50 Popular Beliefs" the Brooklyn Public Library and the one in Greenwich CT use 149.73, however the library in Great Neck, NY (on Long Island) uses 133. I would go with 149.73 - I used Worldcat to figure this out.

Thanks! Will update.

As an update, I looked up the Nassau County library catalog (ALISWEB), and most libraries, beyond Great Neck use 149.73, but a couple use 001.96 or 001.94

001 probably makes more sense, but I don't have time to edit it now. Thanks for the update.

Just doing some updating. Added these:

128 - Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margins of Error, Kathyrn Schultz
201.39 A Short History of Myth, Karen Armstrong
303 - Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields
398.21 - Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast, Robin McKinley
599.93 - Lone Survivors, Chris Stringer
741.59 Three Classic Children's Stories, James Donnelly
759.2 - Deceived With Kindness, Angelica Garnett
780.9 - How Music Works, David Byrne
843 - Swallows of Kabul, Yasmina Khadra
891.55 - Women Without Men, Shahrnush Parsipur
942 - A Short History of England: the Glorious Story of a Rowdy Nation, Simon Jenkins

Anyone have any ideas why Three Classic Children's Stories is 741 and Beauty is a 398? They seem like they should be in the same general category.

Generally 398 is folklore and fairy tales and 741 is comics and graphic novels. Not having read either I can't say if they fit the usual categorizing.

Okay, well, the 741 is illustrated, and the artist is Edward Gorey, who is a bigger deal than the author, so I guess there is a logic there. Thanks!

The one library on Long Island (Malverne) which owns Three Classic Children's Stories classifies it as 398. So, there is no general agreement out there.

Time for my yearly update. I'm not the best participant in this group, but reporting in bulk gives me an interesting view on what I've been reading. As always, this is the reading that I consider non-fiction.

289.371 The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brids and Lost Boys in a Polygamous Mormon Sect, Daphne Bramham
294.363 Penguin Lives Buddha, Karen Armstrong

306.095 Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, Barbara Demick
305. Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale, Catherine Orenstein*
363.738 Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
398.209 Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and Other Classic Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Angela Carter
398.26 Gossip from the Forest: The Tangled Roots of Our Forests and Fairytales, Sara Maitland

519.2 The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives, Leonard Mlodinow

612 Gut: the Inside Story of the Body's Most Underrated Organ, Guilia Enders
650.1 How to Find Fulfilling Work (School of Life), Roman Krznaric
650.14 What Color is Your Parachute?, Richard Nelson Bolles

791.430 James Ivory in Conversation: How Merchant Ivory Makes Its Movies, Robert Emmet Long

808.42 On Writing Well, William Zinsser
808.3 The Joy of Writing Sex: a Guide for Fiction Writers, Elizabeth Benedict
809. Bitch in a Bonnet: Reclaiming Jane Austen From the Stiffs, the Snobs, the Simps and the Saps Vol 1, Robert Rodi
811. Joy is So Exhausting, Susan Holbrook
818.603 Without You There Is No Us, Suki Kim *
821.912 Shropshire Lad, AE Housman
823.7 The Cambridge Companion to Pride and Prejudice, Janet Todd
823.914 Maeve Binchy Writers' Club, Maeve Binchy
828.92 What We Talk About When We Talk About the Tube, John Lanchester *

* I think these three are in the wrong category. I expected Without You There is No Us to go in the 300s, along with Nothing to Envy. At 818, 818 American miscellaneous writings in English, it's not wrong, but wow, talk about lazy categorizing. There's a better spot for it. As for What We Talk About When We Talk About the Tube at 828 English miscellaneous writings, which again is just sort of a nothing catch all. And Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked goes under "groups of people"? Huh? Any comments? (this group has been very helpful in the past)

There are four I can't find. Can anyone help? (and where do you look?)

North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both, Cea Sunrise Person
Does Every Woman Have an Eating Disorder?, Stacey M Rosenfeld
Colin Firth: a Biography, Alison Maloney
The Story of God: a Biblical Comedy about Love (and Hate), Chris Matheson

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And of the books in my previous post, these are the ones I highly recommend. If you want details, just let me know.

306.095 Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, Barbara Demick
305. Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale, Catherine Orenstein
398.26 Gossip from the Forest: The Tangled Roots of Our Forests and Fairytales, Sara Maitland
500/612 Gut: the Inside Story of the Body's Most Underrated Organ, Guilia Enders
808.3 The Joy of Writing Sex: a Guide for Fiction Writers, Elizabeth Benedict (this is probably not what you think it is. Click through to my review if you're interested)
809. Bitch in a Bonnet: Reclaiming Jane Austen From the Stiffs, the Snobs, the Simps and the Saps Vol 1, Robert Rodi
818.603 Without You There Is No Us, Suki Kim *
823.7 The Cambridge Companion to Pride and Prejudice, Janet Todd
828.92 What We Talk About When We Talk About the Tube, John Lanchester *

North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both, Cea Sunrise Person
The Story of God: a Biblical Comedy about Love (and Hate), Chris Matheson

I generally use OCLC's "Classify" when there isn't a Dewey either in my physical copy or in the source I used. If you prefer to use a single source for consistency, the LoC usually has Dewey numbers even though they aren't an authoritative source the way they are for LC numbers.

North of Normal is placed in 746, which is for textile arts, which seems odd; is the author a knitter or tailor or something? Otherwise biographies go in the 92x (and about half of the sources OCLC uses just have the Dewey as "B" for biography).

Does Every Woman... is placed in 616 for diseases, which seems to fit.

Biographies would go either in 92x or under the appropriate subject matter for the person covered. In this case that's 791 for TV and movies. (Lots of people use biographies to fill hard-to-fill sections.)

The Story of God is placed in 813 for American fiction in English.

Oh, and I think Gut is misclassified. 500 is generic "Science" and wouldn't be used for something as specific as that; the "Classify" tool puts it in 612, next to Mary Roach's Gulp which seems a better fit.

>44 lorax: That's logical. I'm going to move it. Thanks.

>43 lorax: Thanks for all of that! Very helpful.

North of Normal is placed in 746, which is for textile arts, which seems odd; is the author a knitter or tailor or something? Otherwise biographies go in the 92x (and about half of the sources OCLC uses just have the Dewey as "B" for biography).

Odd indeed! Nothing about textile arts in that book. Hippies, drugs, communes, wilderness survival, crime, high fashion model -- any of those would work.

>43 lorax: (Lots of people use biographies to fill hard-to-fill sections.)

Thanks for biographies! They're a great help in this game.

I'm having fun with Dewey today. I just looked at my library and see that out of the 100 Dewey categories (00x-99x), I've read books from 71 categories, have books waiting in my TBR pile for another 10, which leaves 19 categories with nothing (mostly 400s, with a few others scattered throughout). It amazes me how I've read through the 200s without being preached at.

I see a new focus in my future . . . I hope to be back in a few months with a nice long list to share.

Here's the non-fiction I've read since last posting a list:

081 -- Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism, the Very Best of Christopher Hitchens (I think my library had this under some other DD category)
133.109 -- The English Ghost, Ackroyd
152.4 -- You've Been Publicly Shamed, Ronson
153.69 -- The Definitive Book of Body Language, Pease & Pease
211.80 -- Manual for Creating Atheists, Boghossian (I can see why this is in the 200s, but it's really a book on using the Socratic method, and the principles reach far beyond religion. In honesty, I think it belongs in the 100s)
305.2 -- Through the Keyhole: Sex, Scandal and the Secret Life of the Country House, Law (highly recommended if you're interested in the topic)
305.5 -- Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Boo
616.909 -- The First Horseman: Disease in Human History, Arbeth (in technology, but is actually a history book about disease)
650.1 -- The Productivity Project, Bailey
741.51 -- 99 Ways to Tell a Story, Madden
781.64 -- Eminent Hipsters, Fagan
808.02 -- If You Want to Write, Ueland
813.009 -- Short Introduction to Bestsellers, Sutherland
823.7 -- Jane Austen Cover to Cover, Sullivan (very silly classification. This is an art book and should be in the 700s)
823.7 -- Among the Janeites, Yaffe (again, silly classification. This is a sociological look at a fandom. I guess someone sees "Jane Austen" and the 823 gets slapped on)
824.91 -- We Should All Be Feminists, Adichie (again, what a lazy category to stick this in)
828.9208 -- Buttoned Up, Fantastic Man (wrong again -- this is a sociology book about a specific group of people living in East London, and the clothes they wear, written by a Dutch fashion magazine).
848.91 -- Exercises in Style, Queneau
970.004 -- The Inconvenient Indian, King

I have a whole slew in the 800s that I think are just lazy on the part of the people doing the classifying. Most of these have a better spot.

On my goodness, 2 years ago this month is when I last posted. Well life has been a bit crazy since then, but it seems to be settling so I expect I'll be back sooner than 2020. Here are the non-fiction books I've read since then:

158 -- Mental Traps: The Overthinker's Guide to a Happier Life, Kukla - philosophy
398 -- Vampires and Other Monstrous Creatures, Pemberton-Smythe - folklore
364 -- Cold Case Vancouver, Lazarus - crime
582.16 -- Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate, Discoveries from a Secret World, Wohlleben -- botany, trees
686.224 -- Just My Type: a book about fonts, Garfield -- technology
808.02 -- But Can I Start a Sentence With But: Advice from the Chicago Style Q&A -- writing advice
823.7 -- In Search of Mary Shelley: the Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein, Sampson
914 -- Lonely Planet: the Italian Lakes - Geography & Travel, Europe
923.2 -- The Countess: the Scandalous Life of Frances Villiers, Clarke - biography, government
949.4 -- Swiss Watching, Bewes - History, Other Parts of Europe
949.47 -- The Alps: a Human History from Hannibal to Heidi, O'Shea - History, Other Parts of Europe
971.133 -- Vancouver in the Seventies: Photos from the Decade That Changed the City, Bird -- history, Canada

I told you I'd be back before 2020. I finished off 2018 with 2 non-fiction books in December:

914 - The Dark Heart of Italy, Tobias Jones -- a look at real life in Italy, as opposed to the fairytales where an American/Brit moves to Tuscany/Umbria, buys a villa and discovers wonderful things. Recommended for anyone who wants to move to Italy.

305.8941 - The Reindeer People: Living with Animals & Spirits in Siberia, Peirs Vitesbsky - Very readable and interesting account of the indigenous people of eastern Russia from the fall of the USSR to around 2003. Also, reindeer.

Oh, my, how did it get to be almost 2 years since I updated this thread?

301 The Naked Swiss - O'Dea - sociology in Switzerland
398.46 - Book of Imaginary Beings - Borges - mythology
616.85 Evil: the Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side - Shaw - psychology & sociology
616.909 Soap and Water & Common Sense - Henry - health & contagious disease
615.7 How to Change Your Mind - Pollen - health benefits of psychedelic drugs
641.3 Devil's Picnic - Grescoe - banned food, drinks & drug
728.80 English Country Houses - Sackville-West - architecture
809.89 The Gilded Chalet - Rooney - literature & Switzerland
909 Sapiens - Harari - history or anthropology
914.504 Italy Out of Hand - Hodgson - travel
945.34 Italian Neighbours - Parks - life in Italy
945.51 Rise & Fall of the House of Medici - Hibbert - history

And some I can't find the DD# for:

Confessions of a Former Fox News Christian, Seth Andrews (I'm guessing 211 or 299)
Storia di Lucca - Jones (probably 945)
Why Do the Swiss Have Such Great Sex - Curtis - travel?

Catching up on old threads and I noticed the above.

I've found some DDCs if you're interested:

Confessions of a Former Fox News Christian: DDC 320.513. It's a book primarily about modern political liberalism, so it fits there.
Storia di Lucca is indeed at 945.53
Why Do the Swiss Have Such Great Sex: This one's a toughie. If it's more about the culture and history of Swiss people, then I'd go with 305.835. If it's about the general history of Switzerland, then it's 949.4. If it's more geography- and travel-based, then it goes to 914.94. Your call.

>53 NielsenGW:
Sweet! Thanks a bunch

Updates since my last post:

Feminist City: A Field Guide, Leslie Kern - 307.76
Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power, Ross King - 320.1092
Why Should I Learn to Speak Italian, Gerry Dubbin - 458.2
The Weather Detective, Peter Wohileben - 551.5
French Women Don't Get Fat, Mirelle Guilliano - 613.25
Beyond the Pale, Emily Urquhart - 616.55
Alpine Cooking, Meredith Erickson - 641.594
One More Croissant For the Road, Felicity Cloark - 914.4

And one I can't figure out: Venice Rising: Aqua Granda, Pandemic, Rebirth - memoir? history? travel? essays?

That's a nice first half of the year.

I looked into Venice Rising and my best guess is 945.31. It looks like an oral history of modern day Venice, but doesn't seem to focus on one social group or cause, but I'm just going by the summary bits.

>56 NielsenGW: Thanks ever so much. 945.31 sounds like a good match.