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?
Just because it’s about history or someone’s life doesn’t mean it can’t be poorly written. Did the story(ies) captivate you? Did the author tell a concise story or was it rambling and go off in random directions? Did the author make it easy to understand what they were talking about and the concepts described in the book.