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Hardcover

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

The New York Times' Book critics far and wide have selected the top best memoirs published since 1969.

A Childhood
A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950
A Life's Work
All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
Always Unreliable
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
Autobiography of a Face
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
Between the World and Me
Boyhood
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
Cockroaches
Conundrum
Country girl
Dancing With Cuba
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Experience
Fierce Attachments: A Memoir
Fun home
Giving up the Ghost
Growing Up
Heavy
H is for Hawk
Hitch-22
Hold Still
Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir
Life
Lives Other Than My Own
Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Minor Characters
My Lives
Negroland
Palimpsest
Patrimony
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Personal History
Priestdaddy
Slow Days, Fast Company
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
The Liars' Club
The Memory Chalet
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
The Year of Magical Thinking
Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism
This Boy's Life: A Memoir
Travels with Lizbeth
Wave
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?