I love fantasy novels, but these days I prefer memoirs and histories to realistic fiction. I mostly read realistic fiction (especially if it’s a contemporary setting) to experience lives and perspectives other than my own, and, well…. If I can get a nonfiction version of that, why wouldn’t I take it over a made-up one? And I love all the messy complications of real life and real people that would get left out of a plot arc or an invented character.