Nonfiction Reviews by Dewey Decimal
In addition to alphabetically, I thought it would be fun to organise my nonfiction reviews thematically. The Dewey Decimal system is old, and at times dated, but it does achieve that purpose!
000s: Generalities | 100s: Philosophy & Psychology | 200s: Religion | 300s: Social Science | 400s: Language | 500s: Science | 600s: Technology | 700s: Arts & Recreation | 800s: Literature | 900s: History, Geography, & Biography
002: The Book
010s: Bibliographies
020s: Library & Information Sciences
- 020.92 Free For All by Don Borchert
- 027 The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel
- 028.9 Book by Book by Michael Dirda
- 028.9 Rereadings ed. by Anne Fadiman
- 028.9 A Reader on Reading by Alberto Manguel
- 028.908996 BookMarks: Reading in Black and White by Karla F. C. Holloway
- 028.90973 So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson
070s: News Media, Journalism, & Publishing
080s: General Collections
100s Philosophy and Psychology
101: Theory of Philosophy
129: Origin & Destiny of Individual Souls
130s: Paranormal Phenomena
- 130 Will Storr vs. the Supernatural by Will Storr
- 130.975656 Unbelievable by Stacy Horn
- 133.909034 Ghost Hunters by Deborah Blum
150s: Psychology
- 150 The Body Has a Mind of Its Own by Sandra and Matthew Blakeslee
- 152.166 The Scent of Desire by Rachel Herz
- 153.44 Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
- 155.433 The Curse of the Good Girl by Rachel Simmons
- 153.83 The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar
- 158 The Happiness Project by Gretchin Rubin
170s: Ethics
200s Religion
200s: Religion
- 200.82 Taking Back God by Leora Tanenbaum
- 201 Pathways to Bliss by Joseph Campbell
- 201 The Heart of Christianity by Marcus Borg
- 204.309 Prayer: a History by Carol Zaleski and Philip Zaleski
220s: the Bible
- 220.61 Reading the Bible Again for the First Time by Marcus Borg
- 221.052 And God Said by John M. Hoffman
230s: Christian Theology
- 231 The God We Never Knew by Marcus Borg
- 232 Jesus by Marcus Borg
- 235.2 My Life With the Saints by James Martin
240s: Christian Moral & Devotional Theology
270s: Christian Church History
- 270.3092 The Abacus and the Cross by Nancy Marie Brown
- 271.9 The Habit by Elizabeth Kujns
- 271.9 Through the Narrow Gate by Karen Armstrong
290s: Other & Comparative Religions
301: Sociology & Anthropology
303: Sociol Processes
304: Factors Affecting Social Behavior
305: Social Groups
- 305.231 Nurtureshock by Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman
- 305.235 The Body Project by Joan Jacobs Brumberg
- 305.2352 Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers by Stephanie Wellen Levine
- 305.4097 America’s Women by Gail Collins
- 305.42 Full Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti
- 305.4209 The Invisible Sex by J.M. Adovasio, Olga Soffer, and Jake Page
- 305.42097309042 Flapper by Joshua Zeitz
- 305.48 Sisters in War by Christina Asquith
- 305.488970730922 Every Day is a Good Day ed. by Wilma Mankiller
- 305.489652 Bachelor Girl by Betsy Israel
- 305.51 Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton
- 305.569092 Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
- 305.86807 Translation Nation by Hector Tobar
306: Culture & Institutions
- 306.3 Deep Economy by Bill McKibben
- 306.4 Hair Story by Ayana Byrd & Lori Tharps
- 306.4613 You’d Be So Pretty If by Dara Chadwick
- 306.7 Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation by Olivia Judson
- 306.7082 A Return to Modesty by Wendy Shalit
- 306.73084220973 Unhooked by Laura Sessions Stepp
- 306.7662 Swish by Joel Derfner
- 306.7663 Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers by Lillian Faderman
- 306.77 Normal by Amy Bloom
- 306.8743 In Her Own Sweet Time by Rachel Lehman Haupt
- 306.8743 You’re Wearing That? by Deborah Tannen
- 306.87432 Choosing You by Alexandra Soiseth
- 306.8754 You Were Always Mom’s Favorite! by Deborah Tannen
320s: Political Science
- 320.973 The United States Constitution: a Graphic Adaptation by Jonathan Hennessey and Aaron McConnell
- 327.1273 Class 11 by T.J. Waters
- 327.20924 Sketches from a Life by George Kennan
- 327.73 Memo to the President Elect by Madeleine Albright
- 327.730090511 America’s Secret War by George Friedman
- 328.73092 The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
330s: Economics
- 330.122 The End of the Free Market by Ian Bremmer
- 333.95616 Song for the Blue Ocean by Carl Safina
- 337 Connected by Daniel Altman
- 338.7 Creating a World Without Poverty by Muhammad Yunus
- 338.91 A Billion Bootstraps by Philip Smith and Eric Thurman
- 339.46 More than Good Intentions by Jacob Appel and Dean Karlan
340s: Law
- 341.48092 Chasing the Flame by Samantha Power
- 341.584 Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures by Kenneth Cain , Heidi Postlewaite , and Andrew Thomson
- 347.732634 The Supreme Court by Jeffrey Rosen
360s: Social Services
- 362.196 Asleep by Molly Caldwell Cosby
- 362.196 No Place Left to Bury the Dead by Nicole Itano
- 362.83 Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristoff and Sheryl Wudunn
- 363.2092 A Human Being Died That Night by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
- 363.259523097471 The Restless Sleep by Stacy Horn
- 363.809 Hunger by Sharman Apt Russell
- 364 If the Spirit Moves You by Justine Picardie
- 364.152 In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- 364.15230942109034 Death at the Priory by James Ruddick
- 364.1523097471 A Cold Case by Philip Gourevitch
- 364.162 The Rescue Artist by Edward Dolnick
370s: Education
- 370.1 Teach Like Your Hair’s On Fire by Rafe Esquith
- 371.821 The Trouble With Boys by Peg Tyre
- 372.1102 Among Schoolchildren by Tracy Kidder
- 378.755692 God’s Harvard by Hanna Rosin
- 379.158 Tested by Linda Perlstein
380s: Commerce, Communications, & Transport
390s: Customs, Etiquette, & Folklore
- 391 Style Naturally by Summer Rayne Oaks
- 391.5 Blonde Like Me by Natalia Ilyin
- 391.5 Rapunzel’s Daughters by Rose Weitz
- 391.5 The Thoughtful Dresser by Linda Grant
- 392.1096773 Born in the Big Rains by Fadumo Korn
- 392.54 My Mother’s Wedding Dress by Justine Picardie
- 394.12 Liquid Jade by Beatrice Hohenegger
- 394.120954 Eating India by Chitrita Banerji
- 394.25 Samba by Alma Guillermoprieto
- 394.266 Days of Death, Days of Life by Kristin Norget
- 395.24 Once Upon a Quinceanera by Julia Alvarez
- 398.209 A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong
- 394.2509729456 After the Dance by Edwidge Danticat
410s: Linguistics
- 417.7 Spoken Here by Mark Abley
- 418.02 Why Translation Matters by Edith Grossman
- 418.4 A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
420s: English & Old English
440s: Romance Languages-French
500s: Natural Sciences & Mathematics
- 500 The Canon by Natalie Angier
- 508 The Boilerplate Rhino by David Quammen
- 508.092 Chrysalis by Kim Todd
510s: Mathematics
- 511.2 Zero: the Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife
- 519.2 Chances Are by Ellen and Matthew Kaplan
520s: Astronomy & Allied Sciences
- 520.92 Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel
- 522.0904 Miss Leavitt’s Stars by George Johnson
- 523.8875 Death by Black Hole by Neil deGrasse Tyson
540s: Chemistry & Allied Sciences
550s: Earth Sciences
- 551.509 An Ocean of Air by Gabrielle Walker
- 551.518 Wind by Jan deBlieu
- 551.609012 Snowball Earth by Gabrielle Walker
- 557.9 Basin and Range by John McPhee
570s: Life Sciences
- 573.3 The Wisdom of the Bones by Alan Walker
- 577.309795 The Hidden Forest by Jon Luoma
- 579.342 Microcosm by Carl Zimmer
580s: Plants
- 582.13 Anatomy of a Rose by Sharman Apt Russell
- 582.16 Tree by David Suzuki and Wayne Grady
- 587.097274 Oaxaca Journal by Oliver Sacks
590s: Zoological Sciences
- 590.92 Reason for Hope by Jane Goodall
- 591.75609741 Suburban Safari by Hannah Holmes
- 598.42 Eye of the Albatross by Carl Safina
- 598.97 Wesley the Owl by Stacy O’Brien
- 599.332 The Hedgehog’s Dilemma by Hugh Warwick
- 599.538 Journey of the Pink Dolphins by Sy Montgomery
- 599.9 The Bone Woman by Clea Koff
610s: Medicine
- 611 Stiff by Mary Roach
- 611.01816 The X in Sex by David Bainbridge
- 612.008352 Body Drama by Nancy Amanda Redd
- 612.62 Woman: an Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier
- 612.662 Flow by Elissa Stein
- 612.75 Cranioklepty by Colin Dickey
- 612.81 Soul Made Flesh by Carl Zimmer
- 612.82 Phantoms in the Brain by V.S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee
- 612.82 Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf
- 613.2 Food Matters by Mark Bittman
- 614.13097 The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum
- 614.532 The Fever by Sonia Shah
- 616 Better by Atul Gawande
- 616.8 The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
- 616.8092 Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks
- 616.890082 Mad, Bad, and Sad by Lisa Appignanesi
- 617.092 Complications by Atul Gawande
- 618.1780092 Waiting for Daisy by Peggy Orenstein
- 618.2 Monique and the Mango Rains by Kris Holloway
- 618.20233 Baby Catcher by Peggy Vincent
620s: Engineering
630s: Agriculture
- 635.934409759 The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
- 636 Bones Would Rain from the Sky by Suzanne Clothier
- 636 The Other End of the Leash by Patricia McConnell
640s: Home Economics
- 640.73 Not Buying It by Judith Levine
- 641.22 Red, White, and Drunk All Over by Natalie MacLean
- 641.3 The Devil’s Picnic by Taras Grescoe
- 641.303 Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
- 641.3374 Chocolate by Mort Rosenblum
- 641.5636 Sistah Vegan by A. Breeze Harper
- 641.813 Moosewood Restaurant Daily Special by Moosewood Collective
- 642.4 A Year in a Vegetarian Kitchen by Jack Bishop
- 643.5 Shop Your Closet by Melanie Charlton Fascitell
- 646.7008422 20 Something, 20 Everything by Christine Hassler
- 646.70086 Kiss Me, I’m Single by Amanda Ford
- 646.7042 Better than Beauty by Alice Thompson and Helen Valentine
- 646.7042 A Guide to Elegance by Genevieve Antoine Dariaux
700s: The Arts
- 700.105 Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer
- 709 The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich
- 709.01 Loot by Sharon Waxman
- 709.2 Chagall by Jackie Wullschlager
720s: Architecture
741: Drawing & Decorative Arts
- 741.5 French Milk by Lucy Knisley
- 741.5 Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
- 741.5092 Jackie Ormes by Nancy Goldstein
- 741.5944 Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
- 741.5973 Freddie & Me by Mike Dawson
- 741.5973 Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
- 741.642092 The Principles of Uncertainty by Maira Kalman
- 745.5 The Creative Family by Amanda Blake Soule
- 746.92092 Alligators, Old Mink, and New Money by Alison and Melissa Houtte
759: Historical Painting & Paintings
779: Photographs
- 779.24 Women by Annie Leibovitz
- 779.250954 Born Into Brothels ed. by Zana Briski
- 779.93052350973 Girl Culture by Lauren Greenfield
780s: Music
790s: Recreational & Performing Arts
800s: Literature
801: Philosophy & Theory808: Rhetoric & Collections of Literature
- 808 How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster
- 808.042071079494 True Notebooks by Mark Salzman
- 808.1 A Grain of Poetry by Herbert Kohl
- 808.1 The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry
- 808.307 How to Read a Novel by John Sutherland
- 808.6 The Art of the Personal Letter by Margaret Shepherd
809: Literary History & Criticism
810s: American Literature in English
- 810.71 Soldier’s Heart by Elizabeth Samet
- 810.9006 The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
- 813.54 Grace (Eventually) by Anne Lamott
- 813.54 Ruined by Reading by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
- 813.54 The Habit of Being by Flannery O’Connor
- 813.54 How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen
- 813.54 I’m Looking Through You by Jennifer Finney Boylan
- 814.54 Classics for Pleasure by Michael Dirda
- 814.54 Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
- 814.54 Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman
- 814.54 I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron
- 818.5403 A Reading Diary by Alberto Manguel
- 818.5409 Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje
820s: English & Old English Literature
- 822.33 Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
- 823.009 How Novels Work by John Mullan
- 823.74 Jane Austen: Her Life and Letters by William and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh
- 823.8 Talking About Detective Fiction by P.D. James
- 823.809354 The Things that Matter by Edward Mendelson
- 823.912 The Magician’s Book by Laura Miller
- 823.912 Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee
- 824.914 Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith
- 823.914 Howards End is On the Landing by Susan Hill
- 828.809 Built by Books by Thomas Wright
830s: Literature of Germanic Languages
840s: Literature of the Romance Languages
860s: Spanish & Portuguese Literatures
900s: History, Geography, & Biography
909: World History
- 909.0491497 Bury Me Standing by Isabel Fonseca
- 909.09767 The Crusades Through Muslim Eyes by Amin Maalouf
- 909.09822 Route 66 A.D. by Tony Perrottet
910s: Geography & Travel
- 910.4 The Travels of Ibn Battutah ed. by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
- 910.4082 Wanderlust and Lipstick ed. by Beth Whitman
- 910.40922 Expat ed. by Christina Henry de Tessan
- 910.82 A Journey of One’s Own by Thalia Zepatos
- 910.92 Blue Latitudes by Tony Horwitz
- 910.92 The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh by Linda Colley
- 910.92 A Sense of the World by Jason Roberts
- 915.60453 Travels with a Tangerine by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
- 915.910453 Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin
- 917.285 The Jaguar Smile by Salman Rushdie
- 917.404 The Journal of Madam Knight by Sarah Kemble Knight
920s: Biography, Genealogy, Insignia
940s: General History of Europe
- 940.548673 The Spy Wore Red by Aline Romanones
- 941.105092 Queen of Scots by John Guy
- 942.1083 The London Scene by Virginia Woolf
- 944.361004240092 Almost French by Sarah Turnbull
- 945.310922 A Venetian Affair by Andrea di Robilant
- 947 Natasha’s Dance by Orlando Figes
950s: General History of Asia & Middle East
- 950.1 Life Along the Silk Road by Susan Whitfield
- 951.042 The Long March by Shuyun Sun
- 951.05092 Wild Swans by Jung Chang
- 951.058 Egg on Mao by Denise Chong
- 951.156 The Last Days of Old Beijing by Michael Meyer
- 951.5 Tibet, Tibet by Patrick French
- 951.9305 Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
- 953.053 Saudi Arabia Exposed by John Bradley
- 953.57 A Diamond in the Desert by Jo Tatchell
- 954.6 The Tiger Ladies of Kashmir by Sudha Koul
- 954.605092 Curfewed Night by Basharat Peer
- 954.840311 White Mughals by William Dalrymple
- 955.0542092 Persepolis, Vol. One: Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
- 956.054
Dreams and Shadows by Robin Wright
- 956.102092 Portrait of a Turkish Family by Irfa Organ
- 956.704431 Night Draws Near by Anthony Shadid
- 956.948 City of Oranges by Adam LeBor
- 959.1 Freedom From Fear by Aung San Suu Kyi
- 959.105 Letters From Burma by Aung San Suu Kyi
- 959.105092 From the Land of Green Ghosts by Pascal Khoo Thwe
- 959.1053 Everything is Broken by Emma Larkin
- 959.7043083 The Girl in the Picture by Denise Chong
- 959.83 Shooting the Boh by Tracy Johnston
960s: General History of Africa
- 960.32092 The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski
- 962.004924 Dream Homes by Joyce Zonana
- 962.404 The Translator by Daoud Hari
- 963.2 Notes From the Hyena’s Belly by Nega Mezlekia
- 966.404 A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
- 967.032 Africa’s World War by Gerard Prunier
- 967.51022 King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild
- 967.5103 In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz by Michela Wrong
- 968.06 Country of My Skull by Antjie Krog
- 968.91051 House of Stone by Christina Lamb
970s: General History of North America
- 970.013092 Far Traveller, The by Nancy Marie Brown
- 972 Ask a Mexican by Gustavo Arelleno
- 972.2Across the Wire by Luis Alberto Urrea
- 972.974A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
- 973 Booknotes: Stories from American History ed. by Brian Lamb
- 973.73115 Bound for Canaan by Fergus Bordewich
- 973.8092 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
- 973.91 Dancing in the Dark: a Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein
- 973.929092 Madam Secretary by Madeleine Albright
- 973.931 The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
- 974.03 The Age of Homespun by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
- 974.71 Harlem is Nowhere by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
- 974.710040551096073092 The Skin Between Us by Kym Ragusa
- 977.7655 The Oxford Project by Stephen Bloom and Peter Feldstein
- 978.703 Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinor Pruitt Stewart
980s: General History of South America
- 980.033 The Heart that Bleeds by Alma Guillermoprieto
- 985.02 The Last Days of the Incas by Kim MacQuarrie
990s: General History of Other Areas
Very cool! I love this idea!
Lezlie
Isn’t it fun? Rebecca is brilliant!
Oh my goodness. The nerdy joy of this is beginning to freak me out. Must copy this idea, I love cataloguing and the Dewey Decimal System even with all its many flaws.
I can’t wait to see your version of it! :D
I really *love* this idea! I’m thinking I will borrow it, with credit to you and ol’ Melvil Dewey of course. I’ll manage to convince myself it’s for “study purposes.” :)
Thanks Jess! :D
I love that you’ve organized your reviews this way. I need to organize mine and I might steal your idea.
Thank you Michelle! Steal away. :)
This is awesome! I think I’ll work on this for my blog during the next Bloggiesta. Don’t worry, I’ll credit you too.
Have fun w/ it Callista! :)
I am a little bit giddy with the whole gleeful dorkiness of this idea. I used to work in a library and now that I understand the Dewey system, I like it. I still find it fascinating to try to read from all the different categories, although, like anyone I have my favorites. How did you find out the particular call numbers for all the books?
I have issues w/ the cultural imperialism of the Dewey system. ;) I either used my library catalogue or the OCLC Dewey Browser.
My goodness… you are thorough!