Half the time, “reader’s advisory” appears to mean “recommended fiction.” Have you noticed that nonfiction often gets the short end of the stick in terms of reader services?
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Well, except for true crime.
-Ruth
And maybe biography.
-Ruth
Sure, but how often do patrons ask about non-fiction that isn’t true crime or biography, as Ruth noted? I work in an academic library, and to my knowledge, we’ve never had someone come up and ask us to recommend some good physics books.
Actually, with the recent spate of popular science and popular history books focusing on a narrow subject, we are getting a few more requests for “a book like ‘Longitude’ or ‘Cod’ or ‘Salt.'” Or, for physics, “A Brief History of Time.”
-Ruth
Yeah, my days consists usually of people asking me for similar writers for Nora Robert and Danielle Steel, but never for Stephen Hawkings.