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?
I rate all books with 3 categories, 1-5.
The first is the quality of the writing (Q) some would say this is the objective criteria . the second is the experience of reading it (E) which is subjective, the third is the impact it has on me (would i recommend it, would i reread it, super-subjective).
QxE + I for a max score of 30.