Unlike in an ordinary library, books in High Hallack are not put on shelves in alphabetical order - that's because High Hallack is a browsing library. The approximately ten thousand volumes held on site have been divided into a hundred different categories, listed below, so that books on similar subject are grouped together, which makes researching a lot easier. What is more, within the categories themselves the books are put in a chronological order, which gives the reader an opportunity to keep track of the development of the subject with passing of time.


The following categories are used:

Adventure (Non-fiction) Adventure (Fiction) Africa (Non-fiction) Africa (Fiction) Animals (Non-fiction) Animals (Fiction) Antiques & Collecting (Non-fiction) Archaeology (Non-fiction) Archaeology (Speculative) Architecture Art Arthurian Tales (Non-fiction) Arthurian Tales (Fiction) Biography (Non-fiction) Biography (Fictional) Biography (Autobiography) Biography (Historical) Cats (Non-fiction) Cats (Fiction) China (Non-fiction) China (Fiction) Christian (Fiction) Crafts & Hobbies (Non-fiction) Diaries (Non-fiction) Diaries (Fiction) Dictionaries (Reference) Dress (Accessories) Dress (General) Egypt (Fiction) Egypt (Non-fiction) Fantasy (Fiction) Fantasy (Non-fiction) Fiction (Modern) Folk & Fairy Tales Gothic (Fiction) History (Ancient) History (Fictional) History (General) History (Medieval) History (Military) History (Naval) History (Social) Holidays Horror (General) Horror (Ghosts) Horror (Occult) Humor (Cartoons) Humor (General) India (Fiction) India (Non-fiction)

Japan (Fiction) Japan (Non-fiction) Juvenile (Fiction) Juvenile (Non-fiction) Korea (Fiction) Korea (Non-fiction) Literature (Classics) Literature (Critical) Magic (General) Magic (Wiccan/Pagan) Maps & Atlases (Reference) Military (Fiction) Military (Non-fiction) Music Mystery (Historical) Mystery (Non-fiction) Mystery (True Crime) Mystery Mythology Native Americans (Fiction) Native Americans (Non-fiction) Natural History (Flora & Fauna) Natural History (General) Naval Adventure (Fiction) Occult & Supernatural Poetry Regency (Fiction) Regency (Non-fiction) Religion (Fiction) Religion (New Age) Religion (Non-fiction) Romance (Non-Regency) Science & Technology (Fiction) Science & Technology (Non-fiction) Science Fiction (Fiction) Science Fiction (Non-fiction) Spiritualism (Fiction) Spiritualism (Non-fiction) Suspense (Fiction) Toys (Dolls/Dollhouses) Toys (General) Toys (Paper Dolls) Travel (Fiction) Travel (Non-fiction) Western Studies (Fiction) Western Studies (History) Western Studies (Non-fiction) Writers' Aids Young Adult (Fiction) Young Adult (Non-fiction)