The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years

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TeosOrder Label
Fierce Attachments: A Memoir (2005) (tekijä: Vivian Gornick)
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1975) (tekijä: Maxine Hong Kingston)
2
Hautuukoti : tragikoominen perheeni (2006) (tekijä: Alison Bechdel)
3
The Liars' Club: A Memoir (1995) (tekijä: Mary Karr)
4
Hitch-22 (2010) (tekijä: Christopher Hitchens)
5
Men We Reaped (2013) (tekijä: Jesmyn Ward)
6
Palimpsest: A Memoir (1995) (tekijä: Gore Vidal)
7
Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir (2003) (tekijä: Hilary Mantel)
8
A Childhood: The Biography of a Place (1978) (tekijä: Harry Crews)
9
Unelmia isältäni - Kertomus rodusta ja sukuperinnöstä (1995) (tekijä: Barack Obama)
10
Patrimonio. Una historia verdadera (1991) (tekijä: Philip Roth)
11
All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw (1974) (tekijä: Theodore Rosengarten)
12
Lives Other Than My Own (2009) (tekijä: Emmanuel Carrère)
13
Tarina rakkaudesta ja pimeydestä (2002) (tekijä: Amos Oz)
14
This Boy's Life (1989) (tekijä: Tobias Wolff)
15
A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother (2003) (tekijä: Rachel Cusk)
16
Poikavuodet : kohtauksia syrjäisestä elämästä (1997) (tekijä: J. M. Coetzee)
17
Conundrum (1974) (tekijä: Jan Morris)
18
Wave (2013) (tekijä: Sonali Deraniyagala)
19
Always Unreliable: Memoirs (2004) (tekijä: Clive James)
20
Travels With Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets (1993) (tekijä: Lars Eighner)
21
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs (2015) (tekijä: Sally Mann)
22
Country Girl (2012) (tekijä: Edna O'Brien)
23
Persepolis (2000) (tekijä: Marjane Satrapi)
24
Negroland: A Memoir (2015) (tekijä: Margo Jefferson)
25
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys. (2014) (tekijä: Viv Albertine)
Experience (2000) (tekijä: Martin Amis)
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. (1977) (tekijä: Eve Babitz)
Growing Up (1982) (tekijä: Russell Baker)
Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir (1993) (tekijä: Anatole Broyard)
Between the World and Me (2015) (tekijä: Ta-Nehisi Coates)
Maagisen ajattelun aika (2005) (tekijä: Joan Didion)
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life (2015) (tekijä: William Finnegan)
Personal History (1997) (tekijä: Katharine Graham)
Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism (1995) (tekijä: Temple Grandin)
Autobiography of a Face (1994) (tekijä: Lucy Grealy)
Dancing With Cuba (2004) (tekijä: Alma Guillermoprieto)
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (1983) (tekijä: Joyce Johnson)
The Memory Chalet (2010) (tekijä: Tony Judt)
Heavy: An American Memoir (2018) (tekijä: Kiese Laymon)
Priestdaddy: A Memoir (2017) (tekijä: Patricia Lockwood)
H niin kuin haukka (2014) (tekijä: Helen Macdonald)
Veden väri (1995) (tekijä: James McBride)
Seitsemännen portaan enkeli (1996) (tekijä: Frank McCourt)
Cockroaches (2006) (tekijä: Scholastique Mukasonga)
Elämä (2010) (tekijä: Keith Richards)
A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950 (2000) (tekijä: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.)
My Lives: An Autobiography (2005) (tekijä: Edmund White)
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (2011) (tekijä: Jeanette Winterson)
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration (1991) (tekijä: David Wojnarowicz)

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