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?
Because history can’t be presented as objective.
Authors will prioritize some facts over others in how they construct their narrative, two authors may include the same information, but will come out with two totally different ways of telling the same story.
All historical writing is presented as an argument to the reader, authors are trying to convince you of their version of historical events, and will adopt different points of focus to do so.