2025 Reading Challenge discussion

10/10!! I actually completed this challenge. Surprised myself and enjoyed it too.

Finished another! Now at 3/5.

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (305.5690954792)

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100-199 - Lateral Thinking - ***
700-799 - Born a Crime - *****

5/10

Congratulations Ginib!

Irene, I've updated your total for the new goal. Good luck. :)

Update: 7/10
000-099 (002.021 B6134n)
Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve: What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing by Ben Blatt

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2/10

I'll try for 10. I'll try to go through my TBR list and try to move some of the 3000 books I have already listed.

000-099: Computer Science, Bibliographies, Library Sciences, Encyclopedias & Books of Facts, Associations, Organizations & Museums, News Media, Journalism & Publishing, General Collections, Manuscripts & Rare Books Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News by Bernard Goldberg

100-199: Philosophy, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Parapsychology & Occultism, Philosophical Schools of Thought, Psychology, Logic, Ethics, Ancient, Medieval & Eastern Philosophy, Modern Western Philosophy Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes by Thomas Cathcart


√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 Satan: His Personality, Power and Overthrow

300-399: Social Sciences, Sociology, General Statistics, Political Science, Economics, Law, Public Administration, Social Services, Education, Commerce, Customs, Etiquette, Folklore. A More Perfect Union: What We the People Can Do to Reclaim Our Constitutional Liberties by Ben Carson

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 The Gene: An Intimate History - Mukherjee, Siddhartha

600-699: Technology (Applied Sciences), Medical Sciences, Engineering, Agriculture, Home Economics & Family Living, Management, Chemical Engineering, Manufacturing, Buildings Animals Make Us Human by Temple Grandin

√700-799: Arts, Civic and Landscape Art, Architecture, Plastic Arts and Sculpture, Drawing & Decorative Arts, Painting, Graphic Arts, Photography, Music, Recreational & Performing Arts Knitting Counterpanes: Traditional Coverlet Patterns for Contemporary Knitters - Mary Walker Phillips

800-899: Literature, American Literature, English & Old English Literature, German Literature, Literatures of Romance Languages, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, Italic, Latin, Hellenic, Classical Greek Classics of American Literature (The Great Courses) by Arnold Weinstein or A Way with Words: Writing, Rhetoric, and the Art of Persuasion by Michael D. C. Drout

900-999: History, Geography/Travel, Ancient History, General History of Europe, General History of Asia, Far East, Africa, North America, South America, Other Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans by Fagan, Brian M. or The Gathering Storm (The Second World War, #1) Churchill, Winston S.

Welcome, Anne! With 3000 books on your to-read, you have me beat. I feel like I can see that in my future, though.

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000-099: Netymology: From Apps to Zombies: A Linguistic Celebration of the Digital World (004)
100-199: This Year I Will...: How to Finally Change a Habit, Keep a Resolution, or Make a Dream Come True (158.1)
200-299: Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (289.33)
300-399: The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness (332.024)
400-499: The Story of English in 100 Words (422)
500-599:
600-699: Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets (616.8523)
700-799: The Beauty, Vol. 1 (741.5)
800-899: Alice in Tumblr-land (808.87)
900-999: The 143rd in Iraq: Boots on the ground training Iraq police in spite of it all (956.7)

Completed: 9/10

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Completed Challenge - 10/10

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5/10

Tina,
Congratulations! This was a tough challenge, but an interesting one.

Cassandra wrote: "Welcome, Anne! With 3000 books on your to-read, you have me beat. I feel like I can see that in my future, though."

Thanks! It is so easy to put those books on the list. I need to focus on the ones I really want to read, though

Update 275
2/10

200-299
700-799

Knitting Counterpanes: Traditional Coverlet Patterns for Contemporary Knitters Mary Walker Phillips

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2/10

306.61 Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about Contentment

Now that the semester is over, I can start my summer reading!

Here's what I have so far:

700-799: Yes Please
800-899: 11/22/63

Completed: 2/10

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000-099: Netymology: From Apps to Zombies: A Linguistic Celebration of the Digital World (004)
100-199: This Year I Will...: How to Finally Change a Habit, Keep a Resolution, or Make a Dream Come True (158.1)
200-299: Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (289.33)
300-399: The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness (332.024)
400-499: The Story of English in 100 Words (422)
500-599: The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar: Evolution's Most Unbelievable Solutions to Life's Biggest Problems (578.47)
600-699: Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets (616.8523)
700-799: The Beauty, Vol. 1 (741.5)
800-899: Alice in Tumblr-land (808.87)
900-999: The 143rd in Iraq: Boots on the ground training Iraq police in spite of it all (956.7)

Completed: 10/10

Update to msg 179: 7/10

✔ 700-799: The Museum of Scandals: Art That Shocked the World 709

UPDATE:

3/6

200-299
294 - Buddhism for Dummies

800-899
808 - If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

900-999
910 - A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe

UPDATE:

300-399: Australia
700-799: Yes Please
800-899: 11/22/63

3/10 Completed

Updating...

Goal: 5 books from 5 categories.
Progress: 7 books, 4 categories. (Do the 800s even count? All fiction technically goes in the 800s >.>')

✓200-299: Religion
○ 271 (Religious congregations and orders in church history)The Scent Of Holiness: Lessons From a Women's Monastery by Constantina R. Palmer

✓300-399: Social Sciences
○ 304.809 (Movement of people, historical and geographic treatment) The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
○ 364.2 (Causes of crime and delinquency) Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment by Michael Javen Fortner
○ 364.9 (Historical treatment of crime and its alleviation) The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

✓800-899: Literature (aka Free Space!)
○ 813.54 (American Fiction 1945-to date)Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

✓900-999: History and Geography
○ 951.93 (History of North Korea) The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story by Hyeonseo Lee
○ 973.09 (U.S. History & Criticism) First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies by Kate Anderson Brower

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591.96711 The Bafut Beagles

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Samantha (AK) wrote: "Do the 800s even count? All fiction technically goes in the 800s"

It is more for the literary studies and criticism than novels itself.

@Alexander:

Interesting... I'd been told otherwise. And the cataloging-in-publication data for novels usually lists the 800s, if it's present, which is why I asked.

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Update: 8/10
200s - 205.693
The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates by Frans de Waal (5 stars)

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4/10

✔7. 600-699: Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To

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000 - 099
1. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts (025.82)
2. The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries (070.4)
100 - 199
3. Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes (102)
► 4. A Beginner's Guide to Reality: Exploring Our Everyday Adventures in Wonderland (110)
200 - 299
5. Norse Mythology (293.13)
►6. The Tao of Pooh (299.51)
300 - 399
7. Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape (306.70)
8.
400 - 499
►9. Other-Wordly: Words Both Strange and Lovely from Around the World (415)
►10. Breaking Out of Beginner's Spanish (468.24)
500 - 599
11. Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race (510.92)
12.
600 - 699
13. How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind: Dealing with Your House's Dirty Little Secrets (648.5)
►14. Cook & Freeze: 150 Delicious Dishes to Serve Now and Later (641.61)
700 - 799
15. Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between (791.43)
16. A Life in Parts (791.45)
800 - 899
17. The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction (824.914)
18.
900 - 999
19. Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana (977.2)
20.

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6/10

Upd. msg. 106: 4/10 read

299 The Satanic Bible

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4/6
294 - Buddhism for Dummies
808 - If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
910 - A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe
306 - All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

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5/7

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5/10

✔4. 300-399: The Art of War

Updated message 56 completed 6/6 :)

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4/5
Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections: A Practical Guide for Museums (069)

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300-399: Australia
600-699: Eat Fat, Get Thin
700-799: Yes Please
800-899: 11/22/63

4/10 Completed

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5/5
In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom (610)

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7/10

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300-399. Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2017.07.22, ★★★★☆).

[5/10]

Update: 9/10
100-199 (153.4)
Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories by Rob Brotherton (4 stars)

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I've completed the challenge but I'm going to keep going. Maybe I'll be able to get one from each category!
6/5
6. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory (363)

I updated message #11.

Read: 4/6

Yay! I read my ten books!

Dewey Decimal Non-Fiction Challenge

Challenge Accepted: January 1, 2017
Challenge Completed: July 27, 2017

I'm in for ten in any combination of categories I find interesting (minimum of three categories).

Last updated through:

000-099 -

100-199 -

200-299 -

300 - 399 - Devoured: From Chicken Wings to Kale Smoothies--How What We Eat Defines Who We Are 394.1209 (1-25-17)
Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America by Michael Ruhlman 381.456 6-10-17

400 - 499 -

500 - 599 -

600 - 699 - Molly on the Range by Molly Yeh 641.5973 6-9-17
What to Eat by Marion Nestle 613.2 6-18-17
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach 612.3 7-21-17

700 - 799 - Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe by Becky Wade 796.42 2-20-17

800 - 899 - Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal by Amy Krouse Rosenthal 818.607 6-23-17
J. K. Rowling: A Biography by Connie Ann Kirk 823.914 6-27-17
I've Got Sand In All the Wrong Places by Lisa Scottoline 818.602 7-22-17

900 - 999 - The Who, the What, and the When: 65 Artists Illustrate the Secret Sidekicks of History 920.02 (1-13-17)

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Please up my goal to 5 please.

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

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Completed 3/7/17 Rating 4 stars

616.99424

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying by Marie Kondō Completed 7/7/17 Rating 4 stars

648

4/5

828.9202 Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops12/10

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12/10

Yay! I have read 5 out of 5. I'm going to keep tracking to see if I can cover a few more categories.

Here is my list:
1. 000-099:
2. 100-199: Leisure: The Basis Of Culture (193)
3. 200-299: The Four Loves (241) ✓
4. 300-399: Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (305.5690954792) ✓
5. 400-499:
6. 500-599:
7. 600-699:
8. 700-799: The Film Experience: An Introduction (791.43)
9. 800-899: Till We Have Faces (823.912) ✓
10. 900-999:

Update: 4/8

✔ 100-199
Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination (158.1)

13/10

Message 81 has been updated

381.45002 The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the Delight of Not Getting What You Wanted

Update msg 10. FINISHED!

Update: Message 91
7/5 CHALLENGE COMPLETED (but I'm still going)
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts (025)

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