New York ? Another Oprah book club pick has raised the issue of fact vs. fiction.

Barnes & Noble.com and Amazon.com said Tuesday they were making changes to certify Elie Wiesel’s “Night” as nonfiction. Barnes & Noble.com is removing the book from its fiction list, while Amazon.com is changing the categorization of “Night” and revising an editorial description to make clear that it does not consider the book a novel.

“We hope to make these changes as quickly as possible,” said Jani Strand, a spokeswoman for Amazon.com.

Wiesel did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

On Monday, Winfrey announced that Wiesel’s classic account of his family’s placement in the Auschwitz death camp was her latest choice. “Night” quickly topped the best-seller list on Amazon.com, displacing Winfrey’s previous selection, James Frey’s “A Million Little Pieces.”

Nobel Peace prize winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel's classic account of his family's placement in the Auschwitz death camp, Night, is Oprah Winfrey's latest book pick. The book quickly topped the best-seller list on Amazon.com but is raising questions about its classification as fiction or nonfiction.

Frey’s story of substance abuse has been widely disputed, with the author acknowledging that he had embellished parts of the book, as reported by the investigative Web site, The Smoking Gun. Frey and Winfrey have defended “A Million Little Pieces,” saying any factual problems were transcended by the book’s emotional power.

No such allegations are being made about “Night,” but there has long been confusion over how to label it. While Wiesel and his publisher, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, call it a memoir, “Night” is frequently listed as fiction on course syllabuses and was called a novel in a 1983 New York Times review of a Wiesel biography. “Night” is described in an Amazon.com editorial review as “technically a novel,” albeit so close to Wiesel’s life that “it’s generally – and not inaccurately – read as an autobiography.”

Wiesel first wrote the book in the 1950s in Yiddish, then translated it into French. Hill & Wang, which Farrar, Straus now owns, published the original English-language edition in 1960. Wiesel’s wife, Marion Wiesel, has translated the current English version.

Amazon.com has been categorizing the new edition of “Night” under “literature and fiction,” but is switching the book to “biographies and memoirs,” blaming the problem on its “data source.”

“Amazon.com’s data source for the Oprah’s Book Club edition of ‘Night’ inaccurately classified the book as fiction,” said Strand, who declined to offer details.

Meanwhile, Amazon’s editorial description of an earlier edition, published by Bantam in the 1980s, is being edited “to make it explicitly clear that ‘Night’ is nonfiction,” Strand said. The Bantam version, which already is classified under “biographies and memoirs,” was No. 3 on Amazon.com Tuesday.

On Winfrey’s Web site, a description of the book notes that “although some facts vary slightly from his own personal and familial history, ‘Night’ should be considered an autobiography.” Ruth Wisse, a professor of Yiddish and comparative literature at Harvard University, considers Wiesel’s book a memoir, but said it’s often labeled fiction because of the book’s sophisticated narrative style, which resembles a novel.