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Dewey Decimal Classification System

 

000-099 ---  General Works (encyclopedias, almanacs, trivia books, etc)

100-199 --- Philosophy & Psychology  

200-299 --- Religion & Mythology

300-399 --- Social Sciences (economics, sociology, civics, law, education, careers, folklore) 

400-499 --- Language  (dictionaries, thesauri, grammar, foreign languages)

500-599 --- Pure Sciences  (math, physics, astronomy, chemistry, geology, biology, zoology)

600-699 --- Technology & Applied Sciences (medicine, engineering, agriculture, cooking, 

                     business, aviation)

700-799 --- Arts (architecture, drawing, sculppture, painting, music, photography, sports)

800-899 --- Literature (poetry, plays, literary criticism, etc)

900—999 --- Geography & History  

92s --- Collective Biography (books about the lives of more than one person)

B ---    Biography

F ---    Fiction

SC –- Story Collection  (books of short stories)

R ---Reference