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__"Outliers"__ is non-fiction. It discusses why and how certain people and/or groups succeed in specific genres. For example, the book mentions why Asians, particularly Chinese people, are so good at math. The author, Malcom Gladwell, linked this phenomenon to the traditional production of Chinese rice paddies! According to him, the mathematical principles are cultural, rather than a genetic disposition, since like math, farming rice paddies boils down to hard work and dedication. Hmmm....maybe I should've been a rice farmer? __"The Memory Keeper's Daughter"__ is a novel (fiction). It's starts out in the 1960's and is about a male doctor who delivers his own twins. When he discovers that one of the babies has Down's Syndrome, he gives the child to a nurse to take to a special home. That's what many people did in the 1960's with special needs children. However, instead of leaving the baby in a home, the nurse raises the child as her own. The doctor's wife (the twins' real mother) is unaware that she delivered two children. The writing is unbelievably good.