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CALL NUMBERS / SUBJECTS

This page lets you look up online books by their Library of Congress call number category. It can serve as a crude listing by subject.

Not all books are represented here, but most online titles in library catalogs are listed.

Browse by Subject Category
Select the category that best fits what you are looking for:

A: General Works
B-BD: Philosophy
BF: Psychology (also parapsychology and the occult)
BH-BJ: Aesthetics, Ethics, Etiquette
BL-BX: Religion
BL: Religion: General, Miscellaneous, and Atheism
BM: Judaism (Jewish Bibles and biblical commentary are found in BS)
BP: Islam, Baha'i, and New Religions
BQ: Buddhism
BR-BX: Religion: Christianity and the Bible
BR: Christianity (General)
BS: The Bible (Hebrew and Christian)
BT: Christian Doctrine
BV: Christian Practice
BX: Christian Denominations
C: History: Auxiliary sciences
CB: History of Civilization
CD: Diplomatics, Archives, Seals
CR: Heraldry
CS: Genealogy (see also Biography and History for more genealogy-related titles)
CT: Biography (General) (many people's biographies are filed under the subject class they're most closely associated with)
D: History: General, and Regions Outside the Americas
DA Great Britain and Ireland
DAW Central Europe
DB Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia
DC France, Andorra, Monaco
DD Germany
DE Mediterreanean Region, Greco-Roman World
DF Greece
DG Italy
DH-DJ Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands
DJK Eastern Europe
DK Russia, Former Soviet Republics, Poland
DL Northern Europe, Scandinavia
DP Spain, Portugal
DR Balkan Region
DS Asia
DT Africa
DU Oceania, Australia, New Zealand
DX Roma (Gypsies)
E: History: United States (General)
F: History: United States (Regional), and the Americas
G: Geography, Anthropology, Folklore, Recreation
G-GB: Geography (General and Physical)
GC: Oceanography
GE: Environmental Sciences
GF: Human Geography
GN: Anthropology
GR: Folklore
GT: Manners and Customs (see also Etiquette in BJ)
GV: Recreation and Leisure
H: Social Sciences
HA: Statistics
HB-HJ: Economics and Business
HB: Economic Theory and Demography
HC-HD: Economic History and Conditions
HE: Transportation and Communications
HF: Commerce
HG: Finance
HJ: Public Finance
HM: Sociology (General)
HN: Social History, Problems, and Reform
HQ: Family, Marriage, Sex and Gender
HS: Societies and Clubs
HT: Cities, Communities, Ethnicity
HV: Social Service, Welfare, Criminology
HX: Socialism, Communism, Utopias, Anarchism
J: Political Science
K: Law (see also J for some constitutional works)
L: Education
M: Music
N: Fine Arts
P: Language and Literature
PA: Classical Languages and Literature
PB: Modern European Languages; Celtic Languages and Literature
PC: Romance Languages
PD: Old Germanic and Scandinavian Languages and Literature
PE: English Language
PF: West Germanic Languages
PG: Slavic (incl. Russian) Languages and  Literature
PH: Uralic and Basque (incl. Finnish and Hungarian) Languages and Literature
PJ-PL: Literature: African, Asian, and Pacific
PM: Indigeneous American and Artificial Languages
PN: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections
PQ: Literature: French, Italian, and Spanish
PR: Literature: English (non-American)
PS: Literature: American
PT: Literature: Germanic
Q: Science
QA: Mathematics and Computer Science
QB-QE: Physical Sciences
QB: Astronomy
QC: Physics
QD: Chemistry
QE: Geology
QH-QR: Biological Sciences
QH: Natural History and Biology (General)
QK: Botany
QL: Zoology
QM: Human Anatomy
QP: Physiology
QR: Microbiology
R: Medicine
S: Agriculture
T: Technology
TA: Engineering (General and Civil)
TC: Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering
TD: Technology and the Environment (including pollution)
TE-TG: Highways, Railways, and Bridges
TH: Building Construction
TJ: Mechanical Engineering
TK: Electrical Engineering (and computer networks); Nuclear Engineering
TL: Motor Vehicles, Air and Space Technology
TN: Mining and Metallurgy
TP: Chemical Technology
TR: Photography
TS: Manufacturing
TT: Handicrafts; Arts and Crafts
TX: Home Economics (including food and cooking)
U: Military Science
V: Naval Science
Z: Bibliography and Library Science

Browse the complete subject list
The complete list of books classified by call number is also available as a single large file (over 3 MB).

If you would like to see a detailed breakdown of the LC Classification, see this page from the Library of Congress. (It doesn't point to books, but it does show the various categories to a reasonably detailed level.)



The above page was created by John Mark Ockerbloom, and used with his permission.
Copyright 1993-2002 by John Mark Ockerbloom (onlinebooks@pobox.upenn.edu)

A Separate List of Classic Fiction, by Author:

A
Anderson, Sherwood.  Winesburg, Ohio.
Austen, Jane.   Emma.
Austen, Jane.  Mansfield Park.
Austen, Jane.  Sense and Sensibility

B
Bellamy, Edward.  Looking Backward.
Bierce, Ambrose.  Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.
Bierce, Ambrose.  Devil's Dictionary.
Bronte, Charlotte.  Jane Eyre.
Bronte, Emily.  Wuthering Heights
Bulfinch, Thomas.  Bulfinch's Mythology.
Bunyan, John . Pilgrim's Progress

C
Carroll, Lewis .  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Chaucer, Geoffrey.  Canterbury Tales
Chopin, Kate.  Awarkening.
Conrad, Joseph.   Heart of Darkness.
Conrad, Joseph.  Lord Jim.
Cooper, James Fenimore.  Last of the Mohicans.
Crane, Stephen.  Maggie: A Girl of the Streets.
Crane, Stephen.  Red Badge of Courage.

D
Dante Alighieri.  Divine Comedy.
Dickens, Charles.  David Copperfield
Dickens, Charles.  Tale of Two Cities.
Dickens, Charles.  Oliver Twist.
Dickens, Charles.  Christmas Carol.
Dickens, Charles.  Bleak House.
Dickens, Charles.  Hard Times.
Dickens, Charles.   Little Dorrit.
Dickens, Charles.  Nicholas Nickleby.
Dickens, Charles.  Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Dickens, Charles.  Old Curiousity Shop.
Dickens, Charles.  Pickwick Papers.
Dos Passos, John.  Three Soldiers.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor.  Brothers Karamazov.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor.  Crime and Punishment.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor.  Idiot.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor.  Notes from the Underground.
Doyle, Arthur Conan.  Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Dreiser, Theodore.  Sister Carrie.

E
Eliot, George.   Middlemarch.
Eliot, George.  Silas Marner.

F
Flaubert, Gustave.  Madame Bovary.
Forster, E.M.  Room with a View.

G
Goldsmith, Oliver.  Vicar of Wakefield.

H
Hardy, Thomas.  Far From the Madding Crowd.
Hardy, Thomas.  Jude the Obscure.
Hardy, Thomas.  Mayor of Casterbridge.
Hardy, Thomas.  Return of the Native.
Hardy.  Thomas.  Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel.  House of the Seven Gables.
Hesse, Herman.  Siddhartha.
Howells, William Dean.  Rise of Silas Lapham.
Hugo, Victor.  Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Hugo, Victor.  Les Miserables.

I
Irving, Washington.  Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
Irving, Washington.  Rip Van Winkle.

J
James, Henry.  Bostonians
James, Henry.  Daisy Miller.
James, Henry.  Turn of the Screw.
Joyce, James.  Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

K
Kafka, Franz.  Metamorphosis.
Kipling, Rudyard.  Jungle Book.
Kipling, Rudyard.  Kim.

L
Lawrence, D.H.  Sons and Lovers
Lewis, Sinclair.  Main Street.
London, Jack.  Call of the Wild.
London, Jack.  White Fang.

M
Maugham, W. Somerset.  Of Human Bondage.
Melville, Herman.  Billy Budd.
Melville, Herman. Bartleby
Melville, Herman.  Moby-Dick.
Melville, Herman.  Typee.
Milton, John.  Paradise Lost.

N

O

P
Poe, Edgar Allan.  Tell-tale Heart.
Poe, Edgar Allan.  Purloined Letter.
Poe, Edgar Allan.  Fall of the House of Usher.
Poe, Edgar Allan.  Pit and the Pendulum.
Poe, Edgar Allan.  Murders in the Rue Morgue.
Proust, Marcel.  Swann's Way

Q

R
Rand, Ayn.  Anthem.

S
Scott, Walter.   Ivanhoe. A Romance.
Scott, Walter.  Lady of the Lake.
Shakespeare, William.  Measure for Measure.
Shakespeare, William.  Midsummer Night's Dream.
Shakespeare, William.  All's Well That Ends Well.
Shakespeare, William.  Macbeth.
Shakespeare, William.  Love's Labour's Lost.
Shakespeare, William.  Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespeare, William.  Romeo and Juliet.
Shakespeare, William.  As You Like It.
Shakespeare, William.  Othello.
Shakespeare, William.  Comedy of Errors
Shakespeare, William.  Twelfth Night.
Shakespeare, William.  Antony and Cleopatra.
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet.
Shakespeare, William.  Tempest.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft.  Frankenstein.
Sinclair, Upton.  Jungle.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Kidnapped.
Stevenson, Robert Louis.  Treasure Island.
Stoker, Bram.  Dracula.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher.  Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Swift, Jonathan.  Gulliver's Travels

T
Tennyson, Alfred Lord.  Charge of the Light Brigade.
Tolstoy, Leo.  Death of Ivan Ilych.
Tolstoy, Leo.  War and Peace.
Twain, Mark .  Tom Sawyer, Detective
Twain, Mark.  Prince and the Pauper.
Twain, Mark.  Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Twain, Mark.  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

V
Verne, Jules.  Around the World in Eighty Days.
Verne. Jules.  Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea.
Voltaire.  Candide.

W
Wharton, Edith.  Ethan Frome.
Whitman, Walt.  Leaves of Grass.
Wilde, Oscar.   Picture of Dorian Gray.
Woolf, Virginia.  Jacob's Room.
Woolf, Virginia.  Voyage Out
 

Z
Zola, Emile.  Miller's Daughter.

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