50 Best Memoires
- May 30, 2024
- 49 Books
- Stats
- nytimes.com
The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years - The New York Times’s book critics select the most outstanding memoirs published since 1969.
The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years - The New York Times’s book critics select the most outstanding memoirs published since 1969.
 Fierce Attachments: A Memoir
| 4.25 |
 The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
| 3.39 |
 Fun home
| 4 |
 The Liars' Club
| 3.82 |
 Hitch-22
| 2.67 |
 Men We Reaped: A Memoir
| 4.48 |
 Palimpsest
| 0 |
 Giving up the Ghost
| 5 |
 A Childhood | 0 |
 Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
| 4.02 |
 Patrimony
| 3.5 |
 All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
| 0 |
 Lives Other than My Own: A Memoir
| 0 |
 A Tale of Love and Darkness
| 4.25 |
 This Boy's Life: A Memoir
| 4 |
 A Life's Work
| 5 |
 Boyhood
| 0 |
 Conundrum
| 3.5 |
 Wave
| 4.33 |
 Always Unreliable
| 0 |
 Travels with Lizbeth
| 3 |
 Hold Still
| 5 |
 Country Girl Country Girl: A Memoir
| 0 |
 Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
| 4.33 |
 Negroland: A Memoir
| 0 |
 Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
| 4.43 |
 Experience
| 0 |
 Slow Days, Fast Company
| 5 |
 Growing Up
| 4.5 |
 Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir
| 3 |
 The Year of Magical Thinking
| 4.08 |
 Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
| 4.33 |
 Personal History
| 4.33 |
 Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism
| 3.8 |
 Autobiography of a Face
| 3.92 |
 Dancing With Cuba
| 0 |
 Minor Characters
| 0 |
 The Memory Chalet
| 4.33 |
 Heavy
| 4.64 |
 Priestdaddy
| 3.93 |
 H is for Hawk
| 3.9 |
 The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
| 4.04 |
 Las cenizas de Ángela
| 3.86 |
 Cockroaches
| 4.5 |
 Life
| 3.84 |
 A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950
| 0 |
 My Lives
| 0 |
 Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
| 4.42 |
 Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
| 4.25 |