The New York Times's 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years 49 books by Hardcover

Details	Readers Count
A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950 Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.	0 reads
Cockroaches Scholastique Mukasonga	2 reads
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother James McBride	31 reads
The Memory Chalet Tony Judt	3 reads
Dancing With Cuba Alma Guillermoprieto Esther Allen (Translator)	0 reads
Autobiography of a Face Lucy Grealy	6 reads
Personal History Katharine Graham	4 reads
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life William Finnegan	35 reads
Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir Anatole Broyard	1 read
Growing Up Russell Baker Gilbert Riswold	2 reads
Slow Days, Fast Company Eve Babitz	5 reads
Experience Martin Amis	0 reads
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys Viv Albertine	8 reads
Hold Still Sally Mann	4 reads
Always Unreliable Clive James	1 read
Boyhood J.M. Coetzee	2 reads
A Life's Work Rachel Cusk	5 reads
All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw Theodore Rosengarten Nate Shaw	0 reads
Patrimony Philip Roth	2 reads
A Childhood	0 reads
Palimpsest Gore Vidal	0 reads
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration David Wojnarowicz	5 reads
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Jeanette Winterson	9 reads
My Lives Edmund White	0 reads
Life Keith Richards James Fox	4 reads
Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt	15 reads
H is for Hawk Helen Macdonald	62 reads
Priestdaddy Patricia Lockwood	37 reads
Heavy Kiese Laymon	25 reads
Minor Characters Joyce Johnson	0 reads
Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism Temple Grandin	8 reads
The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion	144 reads
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates	304 reads
Negroland Margo Jefferson	3 reads
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Marjane Satrapi Mattias Ripa (Translator)	194 reads
Country girl Edna O'Brien	0 reads
Travels with Lizbeth Lars Eighner	2 reads
Wave Sonali Deraniyagala	0 reads
Conundrum Jan Morris	2 reads
This Boy's Life: A Memoir Tobias Wolff	11 reads
Lives Other Than My Own Emmanuel Carrère	0 reads
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance Barack Obama	76 reads
Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir Hilary Mantel	0 reads
Men We Reaped: A Memoir Jesmyn Ward	21 reads
Hitch-22 Christopher Hitchens	3 reads
The Liars' Club Mary Karr	18 reads
Fun home Alison Bechdel	160 reads
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts Maxine Hong Kingston	17 reads
Fierce Attachments: A Memoir Vivian Gornick	4 reads

Details	Readers Count
A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950 Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.	0 reads
Cockroaches Scholastique Mukasonga	2 reads
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother James McBride	31 reads
The Memory Chalet Tony Judt	3 reads
Dancing With Cuba Alma Guillermoprieto Esther Allen (Translator)	0 reads
Autobiography of a Face Lucy Grealy	6 reads
Personal History Katharine Graham	4 reads
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life William Finnegan	35 reads
Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir Anatole Broyard	1 read
Growing Up Russell Baker Gilbert Riswold	2 reads
Slow Days, Fast Company Eve Babitz	5 reads
Experience Martin Amis	0 reads
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys Viv Albertine	8 reads
Hold Still Sally Mann	4 reads
Always Unreliable Clive James	1 read
Boyhood J.M. Coetzee	2 reads
A Life's Work Rachel Cusk	5 reads
All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw Theodore Rosengarten Nate Shaw	0 reads
Patrimony Philip Roth	2 reads
A Childhood	0 reads
Palimpsest Gore Vidal	0 reads
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration David Wojnarowicz	5 reads
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Jeanette Winterson	9 reads
My Lives Edmund White	0 reads
Life Keith Richards James Fox	4 reads
Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt	15 reads
H is for Hawk Helen Macdonald	62 reads
Priestdaddy Patricia Lockwood	37 reads
Heavy Kiese Laymon	25 reads
Minor Characters Joyce Johnson	0 reads
Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism Temple Grandin	8 reads
The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion	144 reads
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates	304 reads
Negroland Margo Jefferson	3 reads
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Marjane Satrapi Mattias Ripa (Translator)	194 reads
Country girl Edna O'Brien	0 reads
Travels with Lizbeth Lars Eighner	2 reads
Wave Sonali Deraniyagala	0 reads
Conundrum Jan Morris	2 reads
This Boy's Life: A Memoir Tobias Wolff	11 reads
Lives Other Than My Own Emmanuel Carrère	0 reads
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance Barack Obama	76 reads
Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir Hilary Mantel	0 reads
Men We Reaped: A Memoir Jesmyn Ward	21 reads
Hitch-22 Christopher Hitchens	3 reads
The Liars' Club Mary Karr	18 reads
Fun home Alison Bechdel	160 reads
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts Maxine Hong Kingston	17 reads
Fierce Attachments: A Memoir Vivian Gornick	4 reads

The New York Times's 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years

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The New York Times's 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years