50 Best Memoires

The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years - The New York Times’s book critics select the most outstanding memoirs published since 1969.

Position	Details	Rating	Readers Count
#1	Fierce Attachments: A Memoir Vivian Gornick	4	4 reads
#2	The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts Maxine Hong Kingston	3.14	17 reads
#3	Fun home Alison Bechdel	4.04	160 reads
#4	The Liars' Club Mary Karr	3.6	18 reads
#5	Hitch-22 Christopher Hitchens	3	3 reads
#6	Men We Reaped: A Memoir Jesmyn Ward	4.5	21 reads
#7	Palimpsest Gore Vidal	0	0 reads
#8	Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir Hilary Mantel	0	0 reads
#9	A Childhood	0	0 reads
#10	Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance Barack Obama	4.01	76 reads
#11	Patrimony Philip Roth	3.5	2 reads
#12	All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw Theodore Rosengarten Nate Shaw	0	0 reads
#13	Lives Other than My Own: A Memoir Linda Coverdale Emmanuel Carrère	0	0 reads
#14	A Tale of Love and Darkness Amos Oz Nicholas de Lange (Translator)	4.25	4 reads
#15	This Boy's Life: A Memoir Tobias Wolff	3.67	11 reads
#16	A Life's Work Rachel Cusk	5	5 reads
#17	Boyhood J.M. Coetzee	5	2 reads
#18	Conundrum Jan Morris	3.5	2 reads
#19	Wave Sonali Deraniyagala	4.4	12 reads
#20	Always Unreliable Clive James	0	1 read
#21	Travels with Lizbeth Lars Eighner	3	2 reads
#22	Hold Still Sally Mann	5	4 reads
#23	Country Girl Country Girl: A Memoir Edna O'Brien	0	0 reads
#24	Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Marjane Satrapi Mattias Ripa (Translator)	4.36	194 reads
#25	Negroland: A Memoir Margo Jefferson	0	0 reads
#26	Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys Viv Albertine	4.43	8 reads
#27	Experience Martin Amis	0	0 reads
#28	Slow Days, Fast Company Eve Babitz	5	5 reads
#29	Growing Up Russell Baker Gilbert Riswold	4.5	2 reads
#30	Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir Anatole Broyard	3	1 read
#31	The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion	4.07	144 reads
#32	Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life William Finnegan	4.26	35 reads
#33	Personal History Katharine Graham	4.25	4 reads
#34	Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism Temple Grandin	3.8	8 reads
#35	Autobiography of a Face Lucy Grealy	3.83	6 reads
#36	Dancing With Cuba Alma Guillermoprieto Esther Allen (Translator)	0	0 reads
#37	Minor Characters Joyce Johnson	0	0 reads
#38	The Memory Chalet Tony Judt	4	3 reads
#39	Heavy Kiese Laymon	4.62	25 reads
#40	Priestdaddy Patricia Lockwood	3.91	37 reads
#41	H is for Hawk Helen Macdonald	3.91	62 reads
#42	The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother James McBride	4.04	31 reads
#43	Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1) Frank McCourt	3.84	105 reads
#44	Cockroaches Scholastique Mukasonga	4.5	2 reads
#45	Life Keith Richards James Fox	3.78	24 reads
#46	A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950 Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.	0	0 reads
#47	My Lives Edmund White	0	0 reads
#48	Why be Happy when You Could be Normal? Jeanette Winterson	4.82	14 reads
#49	Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration David Wojnarowicz	4.33	5 reads

Position	Details	Rating	Readers Count
#1	Fierce Attachments: A Memoir Vivian Gornick	4	4 reads
#2	The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts Maxine Hong Kingston	3.14	17 reads
#3	Fun home Alison Bechdel	4.04	160 reads
#4	The Liars' Club Mary Karr	3.6	18 reads
#5	Hitch-22 Christopher Hitchens	3	3 reads
#6	Men We Reaped: A Memoir Jesmyn Ward	4.5	21 reads
#7	Palimpsest Gore Vidal	0	0 reads
#8	Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir Hilary Mantel	0	0 reads
#9	A Childhood	0	0 reads
#10	Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance Barack Obama	4.01	76 reads
#11	Patrimony Philip Roth	3.5	2 reads
#12	All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw Theodore Rosengarten Nate Shaw	0	0 reads
#13	Lives Other than My Own: A Memoir Linda Coverdale Emmanuel Carrère	0	0 reads
#14	A Tale of Love and Darkness Amos Oz Nicholas de Lange (Translator)	4.25	4 reads
#15	This Boy's Life: A Memoir Tobias Wolff	3.67	11 reads
#16	A Life's Work Rachel Cusk	5	5 reads
#17	Boyhood J.M. Coetzee	5	2 reads
#18	Conundrum Jan Morris	3.5	2 reads
#19	Wave Sonali Deraniyagala	4.4	12 reads
#20	Always Unreliable Clive James	0	1 read
#21	Travels with Lizbeth Lars Eighner	3	2 reads
#22	Hold Still Sally Mann	5	4 reads
#23	Country Girl Country Girl: A Memoir Edna O'Brien	0	0 reads
#24	Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Marjane Satrapi Mattias Ripa (Translator)	4.36	194 reads
#25	Negroland: A Memoir Margo Jefferson	0	0 reads
#26	Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys Viv Albertine	4.43	8 reads
#27	Experience Martin Amis	0	0 reads
#28	Slow Days, Fast Company Eve Babitz	5	5 reads
#29	Growing Up Russell Baker Gilbert Riswold	4.5	2 reads
#30	Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir Anatole Broyard	3	1 read
#31	The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion	4.07	144 reads
#32	Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life William Finnegan	4.26	35 reads
#33	Personal History Katharine Graham	4.25	4 reads
#34	Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism Temple Grandin	3.8	8 reads
#35	Autobiography of a Face Lucy Grealy	3.83	6 reads
#36	Dancing With Cuba Alma Guillermoprieto Esther Allen (Translator)	0	0 reads
#37	Minor Characters Joyce Johnson	0	0 reads
#38	The Memory Chalet Tony Judt	4	3 reads
#39	Heavy Kiese Laymon	4.62	25 reads
#40	Priestdaddy Patricia Lockwood	3.91	37 reads
#41	H is for Hawk Helen Macdonald	3.91	62 reads
#42	The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother James McBride	4.04	31 reads
#43	Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1) Frank McCourt	3.84	105 reads
#44	Cockroaches Scholastique Mukasonga	4.5	2 reads
#45	Life Keith Richards James Fox	3.78	24 reads
#46	A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950 Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.	0	0 reads
#47	My Lives Edmund White	0	0 reads
#48	Why be Happy when You Could be Normal? Jeanette Winterson	4.82	14 reads
#49	Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration David Wojnarowicz	4.33	5 reads

50 Best Memoires

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