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’m pretty generous to memoirs because they are usually written by someone who I respect who has gone through hard times and shared them publicly. Like Britney Spears’ book was not well written, but I gave it five stars because she’s been through enough without needing to be critiqued on her ghost writer, it was brave of her to share her story. Narrative nonfiction I usually rate based on how interesting it was/easy to follow/accurate, etc. I am probably more generous with nonfiction as well.