2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Love this idea, I was wanting to read some nonfiction this year anyway so this works out great! I'm in for 10, 1 from each category, please.

Sign me up for 5 books/5 categories; I need to read more non-fic anyway.

I'm in for 5!

I'm in for all 10

0/10 Completed

Read Smart Kids with Learning Difficulties Dewey 371.2

Hamilton: The Revolution is done. Already in with An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned but Probably Didn't and Meditations

Please put me down for 5!

Hopefully this will help me move some of my non-fiction books out of my TBR book piles!

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Running with Scissors 800-899

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Put me down for all 10 please.


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I'd like to join in for 10 books, see how this goes!

Darlene, the challenge certainly does go through the end of December! I corrected the first post - thanks for calling that out.

Welcome to the challenge, everyone!

Message 56 updated
1/6
First book completed The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

1/10---Message 81 has been updated

618.9285882 S96L Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism

Update to message #7

10. 900-999: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (940.547252092)

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Hi,

I've updated message 83 to show that I am up and running on this challenge : 1 of 10 completed.

Thanks,

Dug

Read "Moms who Drink and Swear" by Nicole Knepper Dewey 306.87

I do not read a lot of non fiction so I think this will be a great stretch for me! I'll try one from each category!!

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Progress 0/10

Updated message 56
2/6
Read my second book Not My Father's Son- Thank you Lindsay for your earlier comment - moved it higher up the options list and I did enjoy it

Update: 2/10
900-999 (920.051)

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang (4 stars)

Nice, Kristin! That's a great way to read nonfiction.

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900-999 - 973 - "A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution" by C. Barkin

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Adam wrote: "Please put me down for 40:

002.09 THE BOOK: A COVER-TO-COVER EXPLORATION OF THE MOST POWERFUL OBJECT OF OUR TIME by Keith Houston
003.5 How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Lite..."

That's quite a list you have. More than I could ever handle in a years time. Good luck. Love your avatar. :)

I've finished my first book!

800-899: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg

WOW! Thought I knew Dewey decimals. nope. But I'm learning now. Thanks to whoever thought of this challenge.

First read just finished. 1/10 now.
100-199 Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant

I think it would be safe to say I'll not be reading any more of Kant. But I can say that I have read something of his. That's an accomplishment for me.

Updated message 28

700-799 - American Widow

800-899 - Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps

2/10

Update: Message 91
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The Poetic Museum: Reviving Historic Collections (069)

Joining in :)

Dewey Decimal Non-Fiction Challenge
Duration: 01 Jan 2017 - 31 Dec 2017
# of Books: going for 10, 1 from each category

Categories:

000-099: Computer Science, Bibliographies, Library Sciences, Encyclopedias & Books of Facts, Associations, Organizations & Museums, News Media, Journalism & Publishing, General Collections, Manuscripts & Rare Books

100-199: Philosophy, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Parapsychology & Occultism, Philosophical Schools of Thought, Psychology, Logic, Ethics, Ancient, Medieval & Eastern Philosophy, Modern Western Philosophy

200-299: Religion, Natural Theology, Bible, Christian Theology, Christian Moral & Devotional Theology, Christian Orders & Local Church, Christian Social Theology, Christian Church History, Christian Denominations & Sects, Other & Comparative Religions

300-399: Social Sciences, Sociology, General Statistics, Political Science, Economics, Law, Public Administration, Social Services, Education, Commerce, Customs, Etiquette, Folklore

400-499: Language, Linguistics, English & Old English, German, Romance Languages, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, Italic, Latin, Hellenic, Classical Greek, Other

500-599: Sciences, Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Paleontology, Life Sciences, Plants, Zoological Sciences

600-699: Technology (Applied Sciences), Medical Sciences, Engineering, Agriculture, Home Economics & Family Living, Management, Chemical Engineering, Manufacturing, Buildings

700-799: Arts, Civic and Landscape Art, Architecture, Plastic Arts and Sculpture, Drawing & Decorative Arts, Painting, Graphic Arts, Photography, Music, Recreational & Performing Arts

800-899: Literature, American Literature, English & Old English Literature, German Literature, Literatures of Romance Languages, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, Italic, Latin, Hellenic, Classical Greek

900-999: History, Geography/Travel, Ancient History, General History of Europe, General History of Asia, Far East, Africa, North America, South America, Other

Ginib wrote: "Hi, Cassandra,
This looks like a great stretch for me. I'd like to try for one from each category too."

2/10 now. Just finished a fun little read.
Mistakes That Work, Charlotte Foltz Jones for the 600-699 category.

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1/5 read

600-699 An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield

Hi Streed's! The only threads that members set up are the personal challenge (book count one) and for everything else, we use member corners.

For example, I track all of my challenges in my member corner. So while you won't have a thread for each challenge you participate in, you can have one that gathers as many or as few challenges as you decide to take on.

Does that help at all?

Ginib, you're quite ambitious for reading Kant! He's tricky.

Welcome, Streed's and Jacki*!

Updated message 28

100-199 - The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck: How to Stop Spending Time You Don't Have with People You Don't Like Doing Things You Don't Want to Do

900-999 - Night

4/10

Update to message #64

100-199: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

1/10

Updated Message 66
3/10

Updated message 26.

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I updated message #11.

Read: 1/6

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791.4502 I Know Nothing!

Message 81 has been updated

Update to message #64

400-499: Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English by John McWhorter

Anyone in search of a book for the 400-499 category, I cannot recommend this highly enough. It's fascinating and totally accessible to the lay person. And it's not just the same old, same old we've all heard of why English is so weird. It looks at some truly fascinating impacts on the language for which the evidence is strong but that are rarely discussed. 10 stars!!

2/10

Update: 4/10
500s - 570.95
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren (5 stars)

Update: 5/10
700 - 799 (This book is 741.5944.)
750 Years in Paris by Vincent Mahé (4 stars)

Welcome, Irene!

Update: 3/3 Books Completed ✔

1. 306.708 H- 100 Questions You'd Never Ask Your Parents: Straight Answers to Teens' Questions About Sex, Sexuality, and Health: by Elizabeth Henderson [Read 1/22/2017]

2. 932 M- The Ancient Egyptians by Elsa Marston [Read 1/18/2017]

3. 641.5 W- Handmade Gifts from the Kitchen: More than 100 Culinary Inspired Presents to Make and Bake: by Alison Walker [Read 1/16/2017]

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✔ 7. 600-699: Rocket Boys (629.1092273)

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Just a Geek: Unflinchingly honest tales of the search for life, love, and fulfillment beyond the Starship Enterprise by Wil Wheaton (791.45)

Louise wrote: "This looks really interesting and I plan to read more non fiction next year. I already have a couple in my TBR pile.
I will read 10"


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900 - 999 - Forty Autumns by Nina Willner

Updated message 93
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000-099 (Books of Facts)
The Book of General Ignorance [031.02]

UPDATE:

1/6

808 - If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

updated message #49

000-099: Netymology: From Apps to Zombies: A Linguistic Celebration of the Digital World (004)
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800-899: Alice in Tumblr-land (808.87)
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Completed: 2/10

I updated message #11.

Read: 2/6

Question- does poetry count for the 800s? I just read a poetry collection and then realized it's in the 800s (811) but wasn't sure if that is really fiction/non-fiction.

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2/5 read

600-699 An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield (629.45)
700-799 Not My Father's Son by Alan Cumming (792.02)