LoC, Could it be? - fundevogel

I just wanted to see how my reading falls according to LOC in relation to Dewey. And I'm curious if might finish this list before I am any where near finishing Dewey. The lettering system doesn't come as natural to me as the numbering one so forgive my inclusion of categories I haven't read from. I have no clue what letters are and aren't used without reference.

LoC listings

71/225 = 31%

A : 1/10
AC
AE
AG
AI
AM Mr Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder – Lawrence Weschler
AN
AP
AS
AY
AZ

B : 9/15
B The Handbook of Epictetus – Epictetus 8/6/10
BC
BD
BF The Satanic Bible – Anton Szander LaVey 2/14/11
BH
BJ The Moral Landscape - Sam Harris 8/24/11
BL Religion and Science – Bertrand Russell 6/14/10
BM
BP
BQ
BR Fear and Trembling - Sören Kierkegaard
BS Who Wrote the Bible? – Richard Elliott Friedman 5/6/10
BT Mere Christianity – C. S. Lewis
BV A Short History of Christian Theophagy - Preserved Smith 3/10/11
BX Immodest Acts - Judith C. Brown 6/13/13

C : 1/9
CB
CC
CD
CE
CJ
CN
CR Gentlemen’s Blood: A History of Dueling – Barbara Holland
CS
CT

D : 3/21
D Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
DA
DAW
DB
DC
DD
DE
DF
DG
DH
DJ
DJK
DK
DL
DP
DQ
DR
DS History Begins at Sumer - Samuel Noah Kramer 4/14/10
DT Dead Men Do Tell Tales - Byron De Prorok 4/30/15
DU
DX

E : 1/1
E185 Nigger: the Strange Career of a Troublesome Word – Randall Kennedy 8/30/11

F : 1/1
F73 Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 – Stephen Puleo

G : 4/10
G A Night To Remember – Walter Lord
GA
GB
GC
GE
GF
GN Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa - Hans Silvester 1/30/11
GR The Uses of Enchantment – Bruno Bettelheim 1/19/12
GT The world beard and moustache championships - Micael Ames
GV

H : 9/16
H
HA
HB The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View - Ellen Meiksins Wood 4/3/23
HC
HD How to Make It - Erin Austen Abbott
HE
HF How to Start a Home-based Etsy Business - Gina Luker 3/17/16
HG Debt: The First 5,000 Years - David Graeber 1/8/14
HJ
HM Obedience to Authority - Stanley Milgram 1/11/13
HN
HQ In the Garden of Desire – Wendy Maltz 12/26/10
HS
HT Disposable People - Kevin Bales 6/26/14
HV The Gulag Archipelago I-II – Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn 4/16/13
HX The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx 8/23/12

J : 3/13
J
JA
JC The Social Contract - Jean-Jacques Rousseau 6/4/12
JF
JJ
JK Plunkitt of Tammany Hall - George Washington Plunkitt 6/4/12
JL
JN
JQ
JS
JV Bloody Foreigners - Robert Winder 5/22/17
JX
JZ

K : 2/15
K
KB
KBM
KBP
KBR
KBU
KD-KDK
KDZ
KE
KF BLACK'S LAW: A Criminal Lawyer Reveals His Defense Strategies in Four Cliffhanger Cases – Roy Black
KG
KH
KJ-KKZ
KL-KWX The Code of Hammurabi - King Hammurabi 4/11/10
KZ

L : 1/11
L
LA
LB Getting Schooled - Garret Keizer 6/20/14
LC
LD
LE
LF
LG
LH
LJ
LT

M : 1/3
M
ML Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (audio) - Oliver Sacks 2/28/10
MT

N : 7/8
N Off the wall: A Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg – Calvin Tomkins
NA
NB Advanced Mouldmaking and Casting - Nick Brooks 4/13/17
NC The Book of Bunny Suicides – Andy Riley 10/09/10
ND The Douce Apocalypse (The Library of Illuminated Manuscripts) - A. G. Hassall 4/23/10
NE Lynd Ward: Gods' Man, Madman's Drum, Wild Pilgrimage - Lynd Ward 2/25/11
NK The Bayeux Tapestry - David MacKenzie Wilson 7/15/10
NX Jack Goldstein and the CalArts Mafia - Richard Hertz 10/5/15

P : 13/19
P The Last Speakers - K. David Harrison 3/31/11
PA Antigone - Sophocles
PB
PC Merde!: The Real French You Were Never Taught at School - Genevieve 7/3/13
PD Norwegian : A Book of Self-Instruction in the Norwegian Riksmål - Alf Sommerfelt 12/1/13
PE Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog – Kitty Burns Florey
PF
PG English Grammar for Students of Russian - Edwina Jannie Cruise 3/16/18
PH
PJ
PK
PL Devil on the Cross - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o 6/2/15
PM
PN I Killed Adolf Hitler – Jason 10/20/10
PQ Borges: Collected Fictions – Jorge Luis Borges 6/23/10
PR Dracula's Guest: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories - Michael Sims – Michael Sims 8/22/10
PS Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller - 6/4/12
PT The Annotated Brothers Grimm – Maria Tatar 7/14/10
PZ The Russian Fairy Book – Nathan Haskel Dole 7/8/10

Q: 4/12
Q The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments – George Johnson 6/11/10
QA
QB
QC The Grand Design - Stephen Hawking 8/28/11
QD
QE
QH
QK
QL Of Wolves and Men – Barry Lopez 9/24/12
QM
QP
QR Vaccinated - Paul Offit 4/12/13

R : 4/17
R Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers – Mary Roach
RA Plagues and Peoples - William H. McNeill 7/19/13
RB
RC Girl, Interrupted – Susanna Kaysen
RD My Lobotomy – Howard Dully
RE
RF
RG
RJ
RK
RL
RM
RS
RT
RV
RX
RZ

S : 3/6
S
SB Gardening 101 - Martha Stewart Living 7/9/10
SD
SF All Creatures Great and Small – James Harriet
SH
SK The Man-Eaters of Tsavo – J. H. Patterson

T : 4/17
T
TA
TC
TD
TE
TF
TG
TH
TJ
TK Above the Fold - Brian Miller 1/20/12
TL Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons – George Pendle
TN
TP
TR Stop Motion - Susannah Shaw 6/29/13
TS
TT The Prop Builder's Molding & Casting Handbook - Thurston James 10/15/14
TX

U : 1/9
U The Men Who Stare at Goats – Jon Ronson
UA
UB
UC
UD
UE
UF
UG
UH

V : 0/10
V
VA
VB
VC
VD
VE
VF
VG
VK
VM

Z : 1/2
Z (General) The Roman Index of Forbidden Books – Francis S. Betten 4/21/11
ZA

Welcome! You have some interesting-looking books there.

Thanks, you've probably seen most of them listed in my dewey list.

I added two, The Code of Hammurabi (KL) and History Begins at Sumer (DS).

Apparently I had a mini fixation on ancient Mesopotamia this month. I found both pretty easy to read, though after reading them I feel like I would have to read a good bit more to get a solid understanding of the area's ancient history. There's an awful lot of it and I really wasn't up to reading a definitive history of Mesopotamia so it was really nice to get a taste of it here to whet the appetite.

Hi fundevogel, I'll be joining you here as well on your LoC journey as well as Dewey one.

good to see you :)

Stuff I've added between now and April. Reviews are in my Dewey list (with the exception of the Russian Fairy book, its review is on its Librarything page)...but you probably already read them if you were interested.

BS Who Wrote the Bible? – Richard Elliott Friedman 5/6/10
Q The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments – George Johnson 6/11/10
BL Religion and Science – Bertrand Russell 6/14/10
PQ Borges: Collected Fictions – Jorge Luis Borges 6/23/10
PZ The Russian Fairy Book – Nathan Haskel Dole 7/8/10
SB Gardening 101 - Martha Stewart Living 7/9/10

Since my last post I've added:

PT The Annotated Brothers Grimm – Maria Tatar 7/14/10
NK The Bayeux Tapestry - David MacKenzie Wilson 7/15/10
B The Handbook of Epictetus – Epictetus 8/6/10
PR Dracula's Guest: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories - Michael Sims 8/22/10
NC The Book of Bunny Suicides – Andy Riley 10/09/10
PN I Killed Adolf Hitler – Jason 10/20/10
HQ In the Garden of Desire – Wendy Maltz 12/26/10

Some of those just replace other books. Just don't ask me which.

48/222 = 21%

update:

GN Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa - Hans Silvester 1/30/11
BF The Satanic Bible – Anton Szander LaVey 2/14/11
NE Lynd Ward: Gods' Man, Madman's Drum, Wild Pilgrimage - Lynd Ward 2/25/11
BV A Short History of Christian Theophagy - Preserved Smith 3/10/11
P The Last Speakers - K. David Harrison 3/31/11
Z The Roman Index of Forbidden Books – Francis S. Betten 4/21/11
BJ The Moral Landscape - Sam Harris 8/24/11
QC The Grand Design - Stephen Hawking 8/28/11
E185 Nigger: the Strange Career of a Troublesome Word – Randall Kennedy 8/30/11

Like last time some of these are replacements.

52/222 = 23%

I noticed we have different total numbers.. i haven't gone through everything yet... but I think you might be missing BM - Buddhism

Sloppy update!

GR The Uses of Enchantment – Bruno Bettelheim 1/19/12
HX The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx 8/23/12
JC The Social Contract - Jean-Jacques Rousseau 6/4/12
JK Plunkitt of Tammany Hall - George Wasahington Plunkitt 6/4/12
PS Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller - 6/4/12
TK Above the Fold - Brian Miller 1/20/12

55/222 = 24%

HM Obedience to Authority - Stanley Milgram 1/11/13
QL Of Wolves and Men – Barry Lopez 9/24/12

Looks like just 2 since my last sloppy update. Pay no attention to the fact that my counts were all screwed up before.

51/225 = 22%

sloppy update!

BX Immodest Acts - Judith C. Brown 6/13/13
HV The Gulag Archipelago I-II – Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn 4/16/13
PC Merde!: The Real French You Were Never Taught at School - Genevieve 7/3/13
QR Vaccinated - Paul Offit 4/12/13
RA Plagues and Peoples - William H. McNeill 7/19/13
TR Stop Motion - Susannah Shaw 6/29/13

59/225 = 26%

I really don't care why my counts seem to jump around so much. What matters is I am filling in more books.

I'm just glad to see someone else is still participating in this challenge!

Incidentally your touchstone for "Stop Motion" is going to a Flash comic book; Stop Motion is the right one.

It's sorta an afterthought to the Dewey challenge for me. I figure anyone here who cares will see my commentary over there and I'm mostly just curious how the LoC challenge fills out for me as a consequence of the Dewey. A small part of me hopes I may finish it long before Dewey, but who knows. Maybe they're both tilting windmills.

PD Norwegian : A Book of Self-Instruction in the Norwegian Riksmål - Alf Sommerfelt 12/1/13
HG Debt: The First 5,000 Years - David Graeber 1/8/14

Looks like just two new sections again since the last update.

61/225 = 27%

LB Getting Schooled - Garret Keizer 6/20/14
HT Disposable People - Kevin Bales 6/26/14
TT The Prop Builder's Molding & Casting Handbook -Thurston James 10/15/14
HF The Go-Giver - Bob Burg & John David Mann 11/15/14

65/225 = 29%

DT Dead Men Do Tell Tales - Byron De Prorok 4/30/15
PL Devil on the Cross - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o 6/2/15

67/225 = 29%

Both about Africa. I needed some proper post-colonial African literature after Prorok. Devil On the Cross did not disappoint.

NX Jack Goldstein and the CalArts Mafia - Richard Hertz 10/5/15
HF How to Start a Home-based Etsy Business - Gina Luker 3/17/16

Added 2, but the Etsy book isn't a new section for me, it just replaced a book I loathed.

68/225 = 30%

HB The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View - Ellen Meiksins Wood 4/3/23

I added a book I just finished!

So dormant no longer!

69/225 = 30%