raidergirl3's DD Challenge

Books I've read will be linked; ones I own or potentially might read will have a star*

000 – Computer science, information & general works

081 The Darwin Awards - Wendy Northcutt

100 – Philosophy and psychology

153.4 Blink: the Power of Thinking without thinking - Malcom Gladwell

128.4 The Book of Calamities*
153 A Whack on the Side of the Head*
182.2 The Music of Pythagoras*

300 – Social sciences

302 The Necklace - Cheryl Jarvis
302 The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell

360 Social Services; Associations
362.1 28: Stories of AIDS in Africa - Stephanie Nolen
364.15 The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
364.152 In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
364.152 The Suspicions of Mr Whicher - Kate Summerscale

394.1 An Omnivore's Dilemna: A Natural history in 4 Meals*
370 Failing Our Kids: How we are ruining our public schools*
305.48 Kabul Beauty School - Deborah Rodriguez*

400 – Language

423.092 The Professor and the Madman - Simon Winchester
428.2 Eats, Shoots, and Leaves - Lynn Truss

500 – Science
500 The Quirks and Quarks Guide to Space - Jim Lebans
500 A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

510: Mathematics
515 The Calculus Diaries - Jennifer Ouellette

520: Astronomy and Allied Science
520 The Quirks and Quarks Guide to Space - Jim Labans
522 Miss Leavitt's Stars - George Johnson
523.1 We Need to Talk About Kelvin - Marcus Chown
523.4922 How I Killed Pluto and Why it Had it Coming - Mike Brown
526 Longitude - Dava Sobel

530: Physics
530 e=mc^2 - David Bodanis
530 Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman - Richard Feynman
530.092 Isaac Newton - James Gleick
530.11 Einstein for Beginners - Joseph Schwartz
530.14 The Trouble with Physics - Lee Smolin

540: Chemistry
540.92 Lavoisier in the Year One - Madison Smartt Bell

590
594.38 The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating - Elizabeth Tova Bailey

599.9 SYK The Seven Daughters of Eve*
539.7 The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene*
516.204 The Golden Ratio - Mario Livio*
551.463 The Wave - Susan Casey*

600 – Technology

610:Medical Science; Medicine
611 Stiff - Mary Roach
612.8 Annoying - Joe Palca
616 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
616.855 The Mind's Eye - Oliver Sacks

630:Agriculture
636.809 Dewey:The Small Town Library Cat Who Touched the World - Vicki Myron

640: Home Economics & Family Living
641 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver

650: Management and Auxiliary Services
659 The Age of Persuasion Terry O'Reilly & Mike Tennant

658 Bo's Lasting Lessons*
614.52 The Great Influenza by John Barry*

700 – Arts and recreation

741.59 Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi

780.92 1982 - Jian Ghomeshi

791.45 Survivor - Mark Burnett
791.43028 Wishful Drinking - Carrie Fisher
792 Without You - Anthony Rapp
792.028 Never Have Your Dog Stuffed - Alan Alda
792.7 Candy Girl - Cody Diablo
792.703 Bossypants - Tina Fey
793 Brainiac - Ken Jennings
796.962 Searching for Bobby Orr - Stephen Brunt
796.962 Hockey Dreams: Memories of a Man Who Couldn't Play - David Adams Richards
796.962 Gretzky's Tears - Stephen Brunt

792.7 I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This - Bob Newhart*

800 – Literature

808 Shakespeare Wrote for Money - Nick Hornby
813.2 Invincible Louisa - Cornelia Meigs
814.54 Ex-Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader - Anne Fadiman
817 Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? - Mindy Kaling
818.5203 A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
818.5409 Q's Legacy - Helene Hanff
819.809 Nellie McClung - Charlotte Gray
820.9 Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi

818.09 The Innocents Abroad - Mark Twain*
823.92 Say You're One of Them - Uwem Akpan*
832 BRE The Life of Galileo*

900 – History, geography, and biography

910 No Vulgar Hotel - Judith Martin
914.04 Neither Here Nor There - Bill Bryson
914.96 Istanbul - Memories of a City - Orhan Pamuk

920 Nellie McClung - Charlotte Gray
920 She Got Up Off the Couch - Haven Kimmel
920 The Staircase Letters - Arthur Motyer
921 Dispatches from the Edge - Anderson Cooper
921 The Film Club - David Gilmour
921 Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - Bill Bryson

946.82 Driving Over Lemons - Chris Stewart
949.702 Zlata's Diary -Zlata Filipovic

966.4 Long Way Gone - Ishmael Beah

971 Souvenir of Canada - Douglas Coupland
973 Assassination Vacation - Sarah Vowell
977.2 A Girl Named Zippy - Haven Kimmel

910.91634 Titanic's Last Secrets - Brad Matsen*
942.1 Necropolis: London and its Dead - Catherine Arnold*
967.5 DALShaking Hands With the Devil - Romeo Dallaire*

Good start! welcome to the challenge.

2010 Listing of books, by 100s
the ones I've read are linked, the others are potential reads

000

100

200

300
302 The Necklace

400
The Madman and the Professor Simon Winchester

500
The Elegant Universe
The Seven Daughters of Eve

600
616 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
659 The Age of Persuasion Terry O'Reilly & Mike Tennant

700
792.7 Candy Girl - Cody Diablo DNF

800
813.2 Invincible Louisa - Cornelia Meigs
818.5409 Q's Legacy - Helene Hanff
819.809 Nellie McClung - Charlotte Gray

900
920 She Got Up Off the Couch - Haven Kimmel
946.82 Driving Over Lemons - Chris Stewart

The Age of Persuasion looks interesting. How did you like it?

I really enjoyed The Age of Persuasion. Easy to read, with great behind the scene stories, and a real historical look at marketing.