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.
| #1 |  Fierce Attachments: A Memoir
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| #2 |  The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
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| #3 |  Fun home
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| #4 |  The Liars' Club
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| #5 |  Hitch-22
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| #6 |  Men We Reaped: A Memoir
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| #7 |  Palimpsest
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| #8 |  Giving up the Ghost
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| #9 |  A Childhood |
| #10 |  Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
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| #11 |  Patrimony
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| #12 |  All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
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| #13 |  Lives Other than My Own: A Memoir
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| #14 |  A Tale of Love and Darkness
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| #15 |  This Boy's Life: A Memoir
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| #16 |  A Life's Work
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| #17 |  Boyhood
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| #18 |  Conundrum
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| #19 |  Wave
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| #20 |  Always Unreliable
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| #21 |  Travels with Lizbeth
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| #22 |  Hold Still
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| #23 |  Country Girl Country Girl: A Memoir
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| #24 |  Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
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| #25 |  Negroland: A Memoir
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| #26 |  Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
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| #27 |  Experience
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| #28 |  Slow Days, Fast Company
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| #29 |  Growing Up
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| #30 |  Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir
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| #31 |  The Year of Magical Thinking
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| #32 |  Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
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| #33 |  Personal History
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| #34 |  Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism
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| #35 |  Autobiography of a Face
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| #36 |  Dancing With Cuba
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| #37 |  Minor Characters
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| #38 |  The Memory Chalet
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| #39 |  Heavy
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| #40 |  Priestdaddy
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| #41 |  H is for Hawk
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| #42 |  The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
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| #43 |  Las cenizas de Ángela
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| #44 |  Cockroaches
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| #45 |  Life
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| #46 |  A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950
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| #47 |  My Lives
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| #48 |  Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
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| #49 |  Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
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