Be More Bookish - Week 8, Assignment 3

Memoirs can be found scattered throughout our collection based on the subject matter, but the majority are in our Biography section, which is where we keep poet, musician, and author Joy Harjo's Crazy Brave.

Collections of essays like New Jersey-born comedian Chris Gethard's A Bad Idea I'm About to Do live in the 814s, but essay collections just like this one can be found all over the 800s depending on their country of origin.  

Crime doesn't have its own classification in the Dewey decimal system, but it does fall under social sciences in the 300s. Most crime books, including true crime, would be in the 364s along with other criminology books, but The Setup: A True Story of Dirty Cops, Soccer Moms, and Reality TV by Pete Crooks actually goes in 363, presumably because it focuses on more than one social issue.

Faith is probably the second largest classification on this list after memoirs because the 200s are all religion, so searching for faith narrative nonfiction would definitely require some more information to recommend a good title. For example, Sister Freaks: Stories of Women Who Gave Up Everything for God goes under 270 because it deals with a variety of women's stories, varied in geographic locations and narrative.