What are some red flags when looking for nonfiction books?

YA tier covers
anything about some big bad Other

Publisher.
Cited material.

>>9557739
The "business" section. 99% are filled with Harvard Business Review tier buzzwords, pop psych on leadership, and lazy case studies. I'm not referring to economics or finance books.

>>9557739
written by anyone but a white male

Written by a populariser, rather than an academic reporting on their own field and findings. If you see a bunch of reviews on Goodreads complaining about how dry the writing is then it's probably good.

>>9557739

Soviet Union were the bad guys.

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>>9557739

>barely any sources
>barely any footnotes
>written by a woman
>has an agenda (the nazis/ussr wasn't evil, etc.)
>the people giving it high reviews on amazon/goodreads are women and/or illiterate-looking old men

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>pick a philosophy book
>read it
>open my laptop
>book a plane
>travel from Ginevra to Cambridge, Massachussets
>find the philosopher who wrote that book
>ask him questions about controversial stances that emerge from his philosophical system
>he rejects those controversies
>fly back to Ginevra
>get in my house again
>take my literary journal
>write my thoughts on that last book in the "fiction" section.

Usually I avoid books written by journalists and books without footnotes.

>>9557739
>introductions written by women

New York Times Best Seller

>>9557739
>Bestseller
>More than 20k copies sold
>picture of authors face looking inquisitive on cover

>>9557739
The author is a woman.

>>9559345
Who is Anne Applebaum?