Here me out, non-fiction can be tricky to rate bc a memoir/autobiography is someone’s real life story. A book on world events, it’s educational, how can I minimize the value of being informed on things that have taken place over the course of history. These are things that people lived through. And ofc there are the other niche topics.
I feel like I would be doing a great disservice to rate a non-fic book by how easy it was to follow along, or how interesting it was when it’s something sensitive like history or someone’s life.
How do you guys rate your non-fiction books?
by Odd-Examination7475
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I will exactly rate the book by how easy it was to follow the narrative thread, or how interesting it was (or what kind of tone the author took or what their sources were or how much editorializing they did).
Part of the skill of writing a biography, or a memoir is making it easy to follow and interesting. If you look at professional book reviews for nonfiction books, that’s the kind of stuff they talk about.