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To be non-fiction a book must be that, it must be true.  A non-fiction by description is true, fiction is false.  That’s why science fiction ISNT true same as historical fiction.  Auto and normal biographies are meant to be true as well and memoirs must be too.  No person can find or remembers one hundred percent of someone life so it’s fine if it’s a bit untrue one way or another and so long as the story itself is not changed by a large margin.  A book that is labeled non-fiction or any other that is supposed to be true I think should be around ninetyish percent true.  I do think as well half-truths aren’t good at all.  The truth must be told is a story that is meant to be true not lies, not half-truths, they must be true. A lie here and there is excusable only if you don’t remember the event or if you can’t find data on the event.  It is important that if you are writing a non-fiction book that you tell the truth as it happened not how you want it to happen.  I don’t think though that we necessarily need lines between genres.  I think they are useful if you’re looking for something in particular but only if that otherwise I don’t think they are beneficial for a reader.  If a writer is known for a type of book and writes a type he hasn’t before it is more inclined to be ignored.  Such as if Stephen King who writes horrors writes a romance it is quite possible it will be ignored by a large margin of his readers.