I just started reading Citizen Reader's blog. Quite interesting stuff here. I like this quote about nonfiction readers:

"How do nonfiction readers differ from fiction readers?

From Neal Wyatt*: "Reading nonfiction, even highly narrative nonfiction, is a different experience than reading fiction." She calls this the Learning/Experiencing appeal.

From Catherine Sheldrick Ross**: NF readers often read NF and F; exclusive NF readers like the "real'"; readers pick NF when they expect interruptions; they read to be entertained AND "to take something away"; they are avid readers in general

A personal definition: Not so much escapist readers as involvist readers" Sarah Cords

I used to find that I would read a fiction book and then a nonfiction book, just to change things up a bit. I do like to learn new things. I also like to read nonfiction books about the subject matter of a fiction title. Last year I read " The Love-Charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War by Lara Feigel." I had read so many books about World War II that this was an interesting idea, what it was like for certain writers in the London Blitz. Graham Greene would use his experiences in the Blitz to write his famous novel, "The End of the Affair" in 1951. I remember this book that I've read many years ago and watched the movie also. 

I just finished a realistic book, "Need to Know" by Karen Cleveland, a former CIA analyst. It's her debut novel and is quite the thriller. Hard to put down. All I kept thinking, this can't end well. But I am glad that I read it and I probably will remember this one for a very long time. Very plot driven action, movie-like drama. The nonfiction book that I read about CIA operatives was " The Company We Keep: A Husband-and-Wife True-Life Spy Story by Robert and Dayna Baer."  That one was interesting.