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Navigating what at she calls the " extravagantly rich world of nonfiction," renowned readers' advisor (RA) Wyatt builds readers' advisory bridges from fiction to compelling and increasingly popular nonfiction to encompass the library's entire collection. She focuses on eight popular categories: history, true crime, true adventure, science, memoir, food/cooking, travel, and sports. Within each, she explains the scope, popularity, style, major authors and works, and the subject's position in readers' advisory interviews.

Wyatt addresses who is reading nonfiction and why, while providing RAs with the tools and language to incorporate nonfiction into discussions that point readers to what to read next. In easy-to-follow steps, Wyatt

Explains the hows and whys of offering fiction and nonfiction suggestions together Illustrates ways to get up to speed fast in nonfiction Shows how to lead readers to a variety of books using her "read-around" and "reading map" strategies Provides tools to build nonfiction subject guides for the collection

This hands-on guide includes nonfiction bibliography, key authors, benchmark books with annotations, and core collections. It is destined to become the nonfiction 'bible' for readers' advisory and collection development, helping librarians, library workers, and patrons select great reading from the entire library collection!

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• Acknowledgments(p. ix)
• Introduction(p. xi)
• 1 A Readers' Advisory Approach to Nonfiction(p. 1)
• 2 Offering the Service(p. 26)
• 3 Food and Cooking(p. 46)
• 4 Science, Mathematics, and Nature Writing(p. 60)
• 5 Memoirs(p. 82)
• 6 Sports(p. 100)
• 7 True Crime(p. 120)
• 8 Travel(p. 138)
• 9 True Adventure(p. 151)
• 10 History and Historical Biography(p. 168)
• 11 General Nonfiction(p. 190)
• 12 Learning and Marketing the Collection(p. 217)
• 13 Whole Collection Readers' Advisory Service(p. 230)
• Appendixes
• A How to Build a Nonfiction Subject Guide(p. 247)
• B A Nonfiction Reading Plan: The Ten Books from Each Subject Area to Consider Reading(p. 254)
• C Annotation Form(p. 260)
• D Reading Notes(p. 264)
• E The Readers' Advisory Matrix(p. 267)
• Index(p. 271)

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Library Journal Review

For librarians hoping to provide readers' advisory (RA) for nonfiction, Wyatt, editor of LJ's The Reader's Shelf column and author of its online Wyatt's World, starts with an overview of the genre's four key characteristics (narrative context, subject, type, and appeal). She then explains how each can be used to match readers with books and how librarians can better familiarize themselves with material in their nonfiction collections. She devotes her middle chapters to highlighting popular nonfiction genres (food and cooking, sports, history, science, etc.) and listing benchmark titles with which librarians should already be aware. Wyatt ends with suggestions on how to market nonfiction collections as well as combine them with traditional fiction RA, concluding with step-by-step instructions for creating read-arounds and reading maps. Wyatt makes excellent use of examples to explain her points, and the appendixes on building nonfiction subject guides, a nonfiction reading plan for librarians, and a sample annotation form leave librarians with plenty of guidance for starting to implement her suggestions. Recommended for public libraries.-Julie Elliott, Indiana Univ. Lib., South Bend (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

*Starred Review* Attention in advisory is expanding beyond fiction, and Wyatt, a collection development librarian, has published a primer for its practice with nonfiction readers. Opening chapters clearly introduce concepts of nonfiction advisory and contrast practice with nonfiction and fiction readers. Nine chapters discuss core writers, books, and research resources in major subject areas. The final chapters examine how professionals can stay current with the large nonfiction market and promote collections holistically with read-arounds and reading maps. Appendixes provide practical methods and forms for building subject guides, creating a nonfiction reading plan, and keeping annotations of one's reading. This book, especially strong in its coverage of methods, combines well with The Real Story: A Guide to Nonfiction Reading Interests, by Sarah Statz Cords (Libraries Unlimited, 2006), which focuses on annotations of and read-alikes for individual titles. Both are highly recommended to librarians who serve narrative nonfiction readers.--Hollands, Neil Copyright 2007 Booklist