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?
When it comes to memoirs/autobios, I tend to rate them on how much they share about their lives. When it comes to historic events, I will give high ratings if the author clearly did a lot of research and digging on a topic where information is not readily available. I can appreciate an easy to follow book and also a very scholarly one as well. I read a lot of different kinds of books, I will give high ratings for authors who hold my attention to the point where I’m not reading other books in between (which is often).