The New York Times's 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years
- December 19, 2021
- 49 Books
- Stats
- nytimes.com
The New York Times' Book critics far and wide have selected the top best memoirs published since 1969.
The New York Times' Book critics far and wide have selected the top best memoirs published since 1969.
 A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950
| 0 |
 Cockroaches
| 4.5 |
 The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
| 4.04 |
 The Memory Chalet
| 4.33 |
 Dancing With Cuba
| 0 |
 Autobiography of a Face
| 3.92 |
 Personal History
| 4.33 |
 Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
| 4.33 |
 Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir
| 3 |
 Growing Up
| 4.5 |
 Slow Days, Fast Company
| 5 |
 Experience
| 0 |
 Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
| 4.43 |
 Hold Still
| 5 |
 Always Unreliable
| 0 |
 Boyhood
| 0 |
 A Life's Work
| 5 |
 All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
| 0 |
 Patrimony
| 3.5 |
 A Childhood | 0 |
 Palimpsest
| 0 |
 Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
| 4.25 |
 Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
| 4.42 |
 My Lives
| 0 |
 Life
| 3.67 |
 Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
| 3.82 |
 H is for Hawk
| 3.9 |
 Priestdaddy
| 3.93 |
 Heavy
| 4.64 |
 Minor Characters
| 0 |
 Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism
| 3.8 |
 The Year of Magical Thinking
| 4.08 |
 Between the World and Me
| 4.56 |
 Negroland
| 4 |
 Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
| 4.33 |
 Country girl
| 0 |
 Travels with Lizbeth
| 3 |
 Wave
| 0 |
 Conundrum
| 3.5 |
 This Boy's Life: A Memoir
| 4 |
 Lives Other Than My Own
| 0 |
 Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
| 4.02 |
 Giving up the Ghost
| 5 |
 Men We Reaped: A Memoir
| 4.48 |
 Hitch-22
| 2.67 |
 The Liars' Club
| 3.82 |
 Fun home
| 4 |
 The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
| 3.39 |
 Fierce Attachments: A Memoir
| 4.25 |