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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.

#1

Fierce Attachments: A Memoir

1987 • 18 Readers • 224 pages 4.3

#2

#3

Fun home

2018 • 331 Readers • 240 pages 4

#4

The Liars' Club

1995 • 83 Readers • 320 pages 3.8

#5

Hitch-22

2010 • 10 Readers • 473 pages 2.7

#6

Men We Reaped: A Memoir

2013 • 103 Readers • 272 pages 4.5

#7

Palimpsest

1995 • 4 Readers • 435 pages

#8

Giving up the Ghost

2003 • 16 Readers • 272 pages 5

#10

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

1995 • 160 Readers • 461 pages 4

#11

Patrimony

1991 • 11 Readers • 240 pages 3.5

#14

A Tale of Love and Darkness

2002 • 34 Readers • 552 pages 4.3

#15

This Boy's Life: A Memoir

1989 • 42 Readers • 288 pages 4

#16

A Life's Work

2001 • 24 Readers • 224 pages 5

#17

Boyhood

1997 • 11 Readers • 166 pages

#18

Conundrum

1974 • 13 Readers • 192 pages 3.5

#19

Wave

2013 • 40 Readers • 208 pages 4

#20

Always Unreliable

1980 • 4 Readers • 537 pages

#21

Travels with Lizbeth

2013 • 6 Readers • 298 pages 3

#22

Hold Still

2015 • 13 Readers • 482 pages 5

#24

#25

Negroland: A Memoir

2015 • 5 Readers • 256 pages

#27

Experience

2000 • 9 Readers • 416 pages

#28

Slow Days, Fast Company

1977 • 51 Readers • 178 pages 5

#29

Growing Up

1982 • 8 Readers • 352 pages 4.5

#30

Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir

1993 • 10 Readers • 160 pages 3

#31

The Year of Magical Thinking

2005 • 457 Readers • 5h 1m 4.1

#32

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

2015 • 108 Readers • 447 pages 4.3

#33

Personal History

1997 • 26 Readers • 642 pages 4.3

#34

#35

Autobiography of a Face

1994 • 40 Readers • 256 pages 3.9

#36

#37

Minor Characters

1983 • 6 Readers • 262 pages

#38

The Memory Chalet

2010 • 14 Readers • 226 pages 4.3

#39

Heavy

2018 • 144 Readers • 256 pages 4.6

#40

Priestdaddy

102 Readers 3.9

#41

H is for Hawk

2014 • 200 Readers • 324 pages 3.9

#43

Las cenizas de Ángela

1996 • 239 Readers • 415 pages 3.9

#44

Cockroaches

2006 • 12 Readers • 165 pages 4.5

#45

Life

2010 • 58 Readers • 564 pages 3.9

#47

My Lives

2005 • 2 Readers • 368 pages

#48

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

2011 • 86 Readers • 242 pages 4.4