This document outlines the World Health Organization's 2016 classification of central nervous system tumors. It lists 17 categories of CNS tumors and provides brief descriptions of some of the tumor types within categories 1, 2, and 10, including diffuse astrocytic and oligodendroglial tumors, other astrocytic tumors characterized by more circumscribed growth and specific genetic alterations, and the various subtypes of meningiomas ranging from low to high grade.