A Childhood
By
Harry Crews
Harry Crews(Illustrations),
Michael McCurdy
Michael McCurdy(Illustrator)
1978 • 192 pages

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49 books

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

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219 books

Star

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49 books

50 Best Memoires

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32 books

To Read Artmem

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Left Bank: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940–1950

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40 books

Non Fiction

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Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way (EXPANDED AND UPDATED)
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America

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28 books

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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
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39 books

Ny Times Memoir List

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Giving up the Ghost

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American

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To Kill a Mockingbird
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn
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Model Behaviour

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Gothic

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William Wilson
The Black Cat

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232 books

Formally Studied

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Billy Budd
Notes from Underground
The Awakening
The Shawl

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20 books

Southern American Gothic

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Sanctuary
Light In August
As I Lay Dying
The Sound and the Fury

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29 books

Memoir

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阿部定手記―愛の半生
The Horseman: Obsessions of a Zoophile
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A Very Easy Death
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

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10 books

Grit Lit

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The Gospel Singer
Where All Light Tends to Go
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