Non-fiction Book Reviews

[Wayne Hurlbert]

Many of the discussions and contests are about fiction literature. Does anyone review non-fiction works in history, health, politics, business, family, education, science, technology, etc?

I review business and economics books, with the occasional history, science, and technology book thrown into the mix.

How about you? What non-fiction categories do you read and review?

[sari]

I read history and science. I recently reviewed a really great book titled Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation. It is a lot better than it sounds. I received a cute American History Trivia book to review which I am going to pass on to my dad.
Sadly it seems there is a bigger calling for fiction reviews than nonfiction. I would love to review more history and science books

[Wayne Hurlbert]

Actually, Occult America sounds like a fascinating book. :-)

Like you, I would love to review more history and science books as well. The vast majority of my non fiction reviews are business and economics books.

[sari]

I just saw the book in my local library, which surprised me as my local library is full of fiction and very little nonfiction. If you can find it I would highly recommend it.

[Jennifer Ochs]

Hi Wayne,

I recently reviewed a non-fiction book called Mr. Langshaw's Square Piano. Very interesting story, my review is posted at www.nybookcafe.com. Some older reviews in non-fiction are the Step by Step Guide to Self Publishing For Profit and The Sugarless Plum.

[Sophie]

I do a lot of history and science non fiction reviews, well technically I just started my blog, put I have been reviewing them elsewhere. Non-fiction science is my favorite genre, but I review new and old.

[Harvee Lau]

Hi, here's a non fiction review I just posted:
For football fans and especially would-be football fans, a review of A Sportscaster's Guide to Watching Football: Decoding America's Fav...

[Book Calendar]

I read quite a few books on management, ebusiness, and clean technology. I find ebusiness and clean technology to be
particularly interesting.

[pussreboots]

I've read and reviewed memoirs, biographies, histories, biology books, genetics, politics, political science, philosophy, travel and I'm sure others too.

[Wayne Hurlbert]

Does anyone find reviewing non fiction to be a different process from reviewing fiction? I know that I find reviewing them to be quite different.

[sari]

I am a little more forgiving with a poorly written novel than I am with a poorly written nonfiction. If the information in a nonficton is bogus or not well researched I have no problem pointing this out. With fiction I normaly stick to talking about the plot and characters.

[Aitor Artaiz]

I review both fiction and non-fiction books. My last review is on Underground by Haruki Murakami. It is a non-fiction book about the terrorist attack in Tokyo in 1995.
http://aitorartaiz.blogspot.com/

[emperatrix]

I don't read as much non-fiction as I do fiction, but I do occasionally review memoirs and biographies.