undeadgoat's Dewey Decimal challenge

This group seems quite cool, and I really admire you guys who are actually trying for all of them! My goal is just to keep track, at least for now; I'm going to start slow, with books I own, have entered into LT, and have read . . .

028 Reading, use of other information media -- Leave me Alone, I'm Reading, Maureen Corrigan
153 Mental processes & intelligence -- How the Mind Works, Steven Pinker
155 Differential & developmental psychology -- The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker
232 Jesus Christ & his family -- La historia de navidad, Jane Ray (originally published in English as The Story of Christmas, but I don't believe I've ever read it in English . . .)
303 Social processes -- Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
305 Social groups -- Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich
306 Culture & institutions -- Why is Sex Fun?, Jared Diamond
320 Political science -- Augustus, Anthony Everitt
370 Education -- Culture Shock! A Student's Guide
398 Folklore -- Golden Tales: Myths and Legends from Latin America, Lulu Delacre
400 Language -- The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker (Sidenote: I actually found this book by browsing Dewey Decimal nonfiction shelves. And then I loved it and it has influenced my life plans and so on. And I might have never read it had I been bored in a slightly different way the summer I was 14 . . .)
415 Structural systems (Grammar) -- Words and Rules, Steven Pinker
477 Old, Postclassical, Vulgar Latin -- X-Treme Latin, Henry Beard
523 Specific celestial bodies & phenomena -- The Science of Discworld, Terry Pratchett
529 Chronology -- The Calendar: History, Lore, Legend, Jaqueline de Bourgoing
578 Natural history of organisms -- The Song of the Dodo, David Quammen
741 Drawing & drawings -- The Sandman Vol. 10: The Wake, Neil Gaiman
782 Vocal music -- Grunt: Pigorian Chant from Snouto Dominiko de Silo
793 Indoor games & amusements -- The Wyrdest Link: A Discworld Quizbook
808 Rhetoric & collections of literature -- Best American Travel Writing 2000
813 American literature in English: Fiction -- Little Women (among many others)
814 American literature in English: Essays -- Me Talk Pretty One Day
818 American literature in English: Miscellaneous writings -- America: The Book
823 English fiction -- Jane Eyre (again, among many, many others)
843 French fiction -- The Little Prince
871 Latin poetry -- The Nature of the Universe
902 Geography & history: Miscellany The Cartoon History of the Universe: part III
910 Geography & travel -- The Lonely Planet Guide to Experimental Travel (among others)
914 Geography & travel: Europe -- A Year in the World
919 Geography & travel: Other areas -- In a Sunburned Country
937 History of ancient world; Italy & adjacent territories -- Cicero
945 General history of Europe; Italian Peninsula & adjacent islands -- Under the Tuscan Sun
949 General history of Europe; Other parts of Europe -- Balkan Ghosts
973 General history of North America; United States -- Static, Amy Goodman

Books I own but have not yet read (or finished) that will give me a new number once I read them:
306 Culture & institutions -- English with an Accent, Rosina Lippi-Green
409 Language: Geographical & persons treatment -- Host of Tongues, Nancy Conklin
808 Rhetoric & collections of literature --The Best American Essays 2000
821 English poetry -- Byron: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
851 Italian poetry -- The Inferno
873 Latin epic poetry & fiction -- The Aeneid
888 Classical Greek miscellaneous writings -- Great Dialogues, Plato
930 History of ancient world -- The Histories, Herodotus
938 History of ancient world; Greece -- The Peloponnesian War, Thucydides
942 General history of Europe; England & Wales -- The Year 1000
944 General history of Europe; France & Monaco -- Encore Provence
951 General history of Asia; China & adjacent areas -- The Rape of Nanking

Struck-through TBRs mean I've found another way to get that number on my list.

Some questions I'm noticing coming up: What about references/books to browse? Cookbooks? Textbooks only partially worked? Etc. Are other people counting these, or are you holding out for a cover-to-cover read in each category?

Welcome to the group! You've done a great job of getting some variety without the challenge.

As for your questions-mostly it's up to you, how you want to set your rules for the challenge. Because I'm a defacto career student (I'm a reference librarian at a university), I don't count reference books that I've only browsed. I also don't count textbooks unless I've read them all. I have no opinions about cookbooks, since I have read quite a few things in that classification that were about cookbooks, but not actual cookbooks.

This post is going to be a catching place for books I see around (mostly in this group) that I have already read that give me a new number.

409 Language; Geographical persons and treatment -- Empires of the Word
410 Linguistics -- The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax
417 Dialectology & historical linguistics -- The Power of Babel
420 English & Old English -- Mother Tongue
423 English dictionaries -- The Professor and the Madman
428 Standard English usage -- Eats, Shoots and Leaves

I'm also sticking with books I've read all the way through. There's at least one case of a textbook where I've gone through every chapter, but feel I need to reread anyway just in case I skipped a paragraph. I'm not sure how productive this attitude is, but it's just the way I think.

I like your idea of keeping a list of books you've come across here!

Aaaand here we have library books, complete with the number the library gave them not checked off LT, for extra fun and enjoyment!

401 Language: Philosophy & theory -- The Unfolding of Language, Guy Deutscher
500 Natural sciences & mathematics -- A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
822 English drama -- The History Boys, Alan Bennett
907 History and Geography: Education, research, related topics -- The Lessons of History, Will and Ariel Durant
930 History of ancient world -- Travels with Herodotus, Ryszard Kapuscinski

great start!