Usually at some point during the year we re-visit the categories for the next year. Traditionally, we've had a general "non-fiction" category, which got dropped this year. However, I observe that of the five books that got fully nominated for this month's "Free-For-All" category (which I'm not a big fan of, BTW), four were what I would call general non-fiction, though at least one you could reasonably call history, and another you could classify as science (if a bit of a stretch). IAC, I found it interesting that when given a completely open choice of category, we went for a category that got dropped this year. Perhaps we should consider that when we go to choose categories for next year.
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