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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
I think you make a very valid point about the two different types of non-fiction and examples of the personal sort are among some of our top reads - A Tale of Love and Darknessis unforgettable, as is A Time of Gifts.
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Oz got around the need for absolute fidelity to the facts by calling his memoir an "autobiographical novel" and with PLF, there's the issue of selective or faulty memory (a factor in any memoir, of course), compounded by that lost journal. Both are entirely mesmerizing and for my purposes, certainly true enough. Even third-person history requires interpretation.
For a history book the club read that I think meets the literary bar, I'd suggest John Hemming's
The Conquest of the Incas.