Non-Fiction Reviews DDC
Inspired by Eva at A Striped Armchair (you can see her version here), and a love of classification schemes and DDC, here are all my non-fiction reviews organized according to Dewey Decimal Classification. Just another (really) nerdy way to have fun and to see the (blindingly obvious) gaps in my reading.
· 000s Generalities · 100s Philosophy & Psychology · 200s Religion · 300s Social Sciences · 400s Language · 500s Science · 600s Technology · 700s Arts & Recreation · 800s Literature · 900s History & Geography ·
000 – Computer Science, Knowledge & Systems
006.754 The Accidental Billionaires: Sex, Money, Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook by Ben Mezrich
020 – Library & Information Services
027.665092 Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian by Avi Steinberg
090 -Manuscripts and Rare Books
098.30994 Hoax Nation: Australian Fakes and Frauds from Plato to Norma Khouri by Simon Caterson
100s – Philosophy & Psychology
300 – Social sciences, sociology & anthropology
305.42 Princesses & Pornstars: Sex, Power, Identity by Emily Maguire
306 Hey! Nietzsche! Leave Them Kids Alone!: The Romantic Movement, Rock & Roll, and the End of Civilization as We Know It by Craig Schuftan
306.0973 Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman
306.4 Virgin: An Untouched History by Hanne Blank
306.742 Madame Brussels: This Moral Pandemonium by L.M. Robinson
306.9 Sweet Sorrow: A Beginner’s Guide to Death by Mark Wakely
320 – Political Science
324.973 Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 by Hunter S. Thompson
330 – Economics
338.766362 Pop: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company by Constance L. Hays
360 – Social Problems & Social Services
362.21 The Silent Twins by Marjorie Wallace
363.75 Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker in Training by Tom Jokinen
365.942 Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan
370 – Education
373.7888 Columbine by Dave Cullen
380 – Commerce, Communications & Transportation
381.45 E.W. Cole: Chasing the Rainbow by Lisa Lang
420 – English & Old English languages
422.2 A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi: Words We Pinched From Other Languages by Chloe Rhodes
428.2 My Grammar and I (Or Should That Be ‘Me’?): Old-School Ways to Sharpen Your English by Caroline Taggart and J.A. Wines
510 – Mathematics
512.7 As Easy As Pi: Stuff About Numbers That Isn’t (Just) Maths by Jamie Buchan
610 – Medicine & Health
612.6 Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Sex and Science by Mary Roach
612.80285 The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
612.82 Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf
616. 8527 Taming the Black Dog: A Guide to Overcoming Depression by Bev Aisbett
740 -Drawing and Decorative Arts
741.5942 Watchmen and Philosophy: A Rorschach Test edited by Mark D. White
747.9 Books Do Furnish a Room by Leslie Geddes-Brown
760 – Graphic Arts
760.04428 Our Girls: Aussie Pin-Ups of the 40s and 50s by Madeleine Hamilton
780 – Music
780 Everything: A Book About Manic Street Preachers by Simon Price
781.66 The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Mick Mars, Vince Neil and Nikki Sixx with Neil Strauss
781.660973 Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad
781.660973 Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story by Chuck Klosterman
790 – Sports, Games and Entertainment
791.4572 Mad Men Unbuttoned: A Romp Through 1960s America by Natasha Vargas-Cooper
810 – American Literature in English
813.5 Illumination & Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography by Carson McCullers
813.54 The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll
813.54 The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
814.54 Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
814.54 The White Album by Joan Didion
814.54 How to Be Alone: Essays by Jonathan Franzen
814.6 Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories by Chuck Palahniuk
818.5409 84 Charing Cross Road / The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff
970 – History of North America
976.3064 Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
990 -History of Other Areas
994.51 Melbourne Remade: The Inner City Since the 70s by Seamus O’Hanlon
994.51 Radical Melbourne: A Secret History by Jeff & Jill Sparrow