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Both texts (Borderland: Crossing between Fiction and Nonfiction in Readers’ Advisory by Jennifer Brannen and Reading Nonfiction for pleasure: What Motivates Readers? by Catherine Sheldrick Ross) said the same thing in substance. While libraries physically and clearly separate fiction from non-fiction, readers do not always make that distinction, especially with narrative fiction with story and characters development. If a reader reads for “pleasure”, most of the time s/he will not care about the separation between fiction and narrative nonfiction. What really attract a reader is the appeal factors and interest, not books categorization. During a reader’s advisory interview, librarians should focus on those, the appeal factors, and suggest titles from both nonfiction and fiction genres. This way, readers can decide what they are in the mood to read, independently of the books classification. The idea beyond those two texts is the distinction between nonfiction and fiction is not the same as the distinction between pleasure reading and fact-finder reading. People read fiction and nonfiction for pleasure.