A Childhood
By
Harry Crews
Harry Crews(Illustrations),
Michael McCurdy
Michael McCurdy(Illustrator)

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49 books

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

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Palimpsest
A Childhood
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All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
A Life's Work
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219 books

Star

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50 Best Memoires

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Men We Reaped: A Memoir
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To Read Artmem

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Left Bank: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940–1950
As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries, 1964-1980
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Non Fiction

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The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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Favorite

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39 books

Ny Times Memoir List

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Hitch 22: A Memoir
Men We Reaped: A Memoir
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Giving up the Ghost
A Childhood
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

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American

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To Kill a Mockingbird
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn
Bright Lights, Big City
Model Behaviour
Philomena

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Gothic

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The Black Cat
The Purloined Letter/Murders in Rue Morgue
The Masque of the Red Death

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Formally Studied

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Billy Budd: With Reader's Guide
Notes From Underground
The Awakening
The Shawl
The Lottery
A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas

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20 books

Southern American Gothic

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Sanctuary
Requiem for a Nun
Light In August
As I Lay Dying
The Sound and the Fury
She Rides Shotgun
Trash: Stories

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Memoir

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阿部定手記―愛の半生
The Horseman: Obsessions of a Zoophile
The Diary of a Young Girl
A Very Easy Death
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Letters from New-York

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Grit Lit

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A Childhood
A Feast of Snakes
The Gospel Singer
Where All Light Tends to Go
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Bastard Out of Carolina
Trash: Stories

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1st Priority

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They Both Die at the End
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Little Fires Everywhere
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Secret History

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Literary Man's healing list by Alex Perez

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