Subjects | Open Library It looks like you're offline. Donate English (en) العربية (ar) Čeština (cs) Deutsch (de) English (en) Español (es) Français (fr) हिंदी (hi) Hrvatski (hr) Italiano (it) Português (pt) Română (ro) Sardu (sc) తెలుగు (te) Українська (uk) 中文 (zh) Last edited by jachamp May 23, 2025 | History Edit Subjects Arts Architecture Art Instruction Art History Dance Design Fashion Film Graphic Design Music Music Theory Painting Photography Animals Bears Cats Kittens Dogs Puppies Fiction Fantasy Historical Fiction Horror Humor Literature Magic Mystery and detective stories Plays Poetry Romance Science Fiction Short Stories Thriller Young Adult Science & Mathematics Biology Chemistry Mathematics Physics Programming Business & Finance Management Entrepreneurship Business Economics Business Success Finance Children's Kids Books Stories in Rhyme Baby Books Bedtime Books Picture Books History Ancient Civilization Archaeology Anthropology World War II Social Life and Customs Health & Wellness Cooking Cookbooks Mental Health Exercise Nutrition Self-help Biography Autobiographies History Politics and Government World War II Women Kings and Rulers Composers Artists Social Sciences Anthropology Religion Political Science Psychology Places Brazil India Indonesia United States Textbooks History Mathematics Geography Psychology Algebra Education Business & Economics Science Chemistry English Language Physics Computer Science Books by Language French Spanish German Russian Italian Chinese Japanese See more... What's a subject heading? As the wise Wikipedia says: "The Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) comprise a thesaurus (in the information science sense, a controlled vocabulary) of subject headings, maintained by the United States Library of Congress, for use in bibliographic records. LC Subject Headings are an integral part of bibliographic control, which is the function by which libraries collect, organize, and disseminate documents.... Subject headings are normally applied to every item within a library's collection and facilitate a user's access to items in the catalog that pertain to similar subject matter." Side note: Interestingly, professional library catalogers are often restricted to a limit of 3 in the number of subjects they may use. We collect general subjects, places mentioned, people mentioned, and even the time period the book is about. Feel free to imitate or enhance existing headings, or create an entirely new one. Or two. Or three. Or five. History Created February 25, 2021 4 revisions May 23, 2025 Edited by jachamp Add placeholder text to search input March 2, 2021 Edited by LeadSongDog Wikipedia hasn’t said that since 2010 February 25, 2021 Edited by Drini add body February 25, 2021 Created by Drini