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50 Best Memoires

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

1987 • 32 Readers • 224 pages 4.3

#2

#3

Fun home

2018 • 496 Readers • 240 pages 4

#4

The Liars' Club

1995 • 118 Readers • 320 pages 3.7

#5

Hitch-22

2010 • 12 Readers • 473 pages 2.5

#6

Men We Reaped: A Memoir

2013 • 146 Readers • 272 pages 4.4

#7

Palimpsest

1995 • 9 Readers • 435 pages 4

#8

Giving up the Ghost

2003 • 26 Readers • 272 pages 4

#9

A Childhood

1978 • 20 Readers • 192 pages 3.9

#10

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

1995 • 236 Readers • 461 pages 4

#11

Patrimony

1991 • 18 Readers • 240 pages 3.3

#14

A Tale of Love and Darkness

2002 • 48 Readers • 552 pages 4

#15

This Boy's Life: A Memoir

1989 • 58 Readers • 288 pages 4

#16

A Life's Work

2001 • 39 Readers • 224 pages 4.6

#17

Boyhood

#1 of 3 in Scenes from Provincial Life

1997 • 20 Readers • 166 pages 4.7

#18

Conundrum

1974 • 26 Readers • 192 pages 4

#19

Wave

2013 • 57 Readers • 208 pages 4

#20

Always Unreliable

#1 of 4 in Unreliable Memoirs

1980 • 5 Readers • 537 pages

#21

Travels with Lizbeth

2013 • 9 Readers • 298 pages 3

#22

Hold Still

2015 • 27 Readers • 482 pages 3.8

#24

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

#1 of 2 in Persepolis

2000 • 624 Readers • 165 pages 4.4

#25

Negroland: A Memoir

2015 • 5 Readers • 256 pages

#27

Experience

2000 • 14 Readers • 416 pages

#28

Slow Days, Fast Company

1977 • 90 Readers • 178 pages 4.5

#29

Growing Up

1982 • 15 Readers • 352 pages 3.2

#30

Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir

1993 • 13 Readers • 160 pages 3.5

#31

The Year of Magical Thinking

2005 • 625 Readers • 5h 1m 4

#32

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

2015 • 132 Readers • 447 pages 4.3

#33

Personal History

1997 • 40 Readers • 642 pages 4.3

#35

Autobiography of a Face

1994 • 65 Readers • 256 pages 3.9

#36

#37

Minor Characters

1983 • 11 Readers • 262 pages 4

#38

The Memory Chalet

2010 • 17 Readers • 226 pages 4.5

#39

Heavy

2018 • 200 Readers • 256 pages 4.6

#40

Priestdaddy

162 Readers 4

#41

H is for Hawk

2014 • 274 Readers • 324 pages 3.8

#43

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

#1 of 3 in Frank McCourt

1996 • 405 Readers • 368 pages 3.8

#44

Cockroaches

2006 • 18 Readers • 4h 4.2

#45

Life

2010 • 67 Readers • 564 pages 3.9

#47

My Lives

2005 • 6 Readers • 368 pages

#48

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

2011 • 132 Readers • 242 pages 4.3