The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years

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Fierce Attachments: A Memoir (2005) de Vivian Gornick
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1975) de Maxine Hong Kingston
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Fun Home: un tragicòmic familiar (2006) de Alison Bechdel
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The Liars' Club: A Memoir (1995) de Mary Karr
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Hitch-22 (2010) de Christopher Hitchens
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Men We Reaped (2013) de Jesmyn Ward
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Palimpsest: A Memoir (1995) de Gore Vidal
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Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir (2003) de Hilary Mantel
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A Childhood: The Biography of a Place (1978) de Harry Crews
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1995) de Barack Obama
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Patrimonio. Una historia verdadera (1991) de Philip Roth
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All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw (1974) de Theodore Rosengarten
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Lives Other Than My Own (2009) de Emmanuel Carrère
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Una història d'amor i de foscor (2002) de Amos Oz
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This Boy's Life (1989) de Tobias Wolff
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A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother (2003) de Rachel Cusk
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Infantesa : escenes de la vida a províncies (1997) de J. M. Coetzee
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Conundrum (1974) de Jan Morris
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Wave (2013) de Sonali Deraniyagala
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Always Unreliable: Memoirs (2004) de Clive James
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Travels With Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets (1993) de Lars Eighner
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Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs (2015) de Sally Mann
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Country Girl (2012) de Edna O'Brien
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (2000) de Marjane Satrapi
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Negroland: A Memoir (2015) de Margo Jefferson
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Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys. (2014) de Viv Albertine
Experiència (2000) de Martin Amis
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. (1977) de Eve Babitz
Growing Up (1982) de Russell Baker
Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir (1993) de Anatole Broyard
Between the World and Me (2015) de Ta-Nehisi Coates
L'Any del pensament màgic (2005) de Joan Didion
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life (2015) de William Finnegan
Personal History (1997) de Katharine Graham
Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism (1995) de Temple Grandin
Autobiography of a Face (1994) de Lucy Grealy
Dancing With Cuba (2004) de Alma Guillermoprieto
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (1983) de Joyce Johnson
El Refugi de la memòria (2010) de Tony Judt
Heavy: An American Memoir (2018) de Kiese Laymon
Priestdaddy: A Memoir (2017) de Patricia Lockwood
H Is for Hawk (2014) de Helen Macdonald
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (1995) de James McBride
Les Cendres d'Angela (1996) de Frank McCourt
Cockroaches (2006) de Scholastique Mukasonga
Life (2010) de Keith Richards
A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950 (2000) de Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
My Lives: An Autobiography (2005) de Edmund White
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (2011) de Jeanette Winterson
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration (1991) de David Wojnarowicz

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