Best family memoirs

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Books about the author's family - usually going back three or so generations. I am especially interested in ones which are set during interesting periods of history. (Please do NOT add Wild Swans to this list...)
1
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
de Art Spiegelman
10,685 membres
255 ressenyes
½ 4.4
3 Members
SqueakyChu, guyalice, avatiakh
2
La meva família i altres animals
de Gerald Durrell
5,267 membres
150 ressenyes
4.2
3 Members
Moomin_Mama, thorold, avatiakh
3
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
de Art Spiegelman
7,344 membres
139 ressenyes
½ 4.5
3 Members
SqueakyChu, guyalice, avatiakh
4
Cheaper by the Dozen
de Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
4,746 membres
80 ressenyes
4
2 Members
dara85, aulsmith
5
Fun Home: un tragicòmic familiar
de Alison Bechdel
8,170 membres
368 ressenyes
4.2
2 Members
guyalice, Dilara86
6
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
de Jeanette Winterson
2,103 membres
102 ressenyes
4.1
2 Members
thorold, Cecrow
7
Running in the Family
de Michael Ondaatje
1,709 membres
30 ressenyes
3.9
2 Members
wandering_star, Cecrow
8
Two Lives
de Vikram Seth
1,197 membres
27 ressenyes
½ 3.7
2 Members
wandering_star, thorold
9
Hons and Rebels
de Jessica Mitford
1,198 membres
27 ressenyes
4.1
Member
thorold
10
Novel·la familiar
de John Lanchester
187 membres
10 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Member
wandering_star
11
Lemon Sherbet and Dolly Blue: The Story of an Accidental Family
de Lynn Knight
24 membres
1 ressenya
½ 4.5
Member
elkiedee
12
Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
de Nigel Nicolson
1,236 membres
17 ressenyes
4
Member
thorold
13
The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers
de Harry Bernstein
975 membres
39 ressenyes
4.1
Member
dara85
14
Memory
de Philippe Grimbert
540 membres
22 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Member
Dilara86
15
Teta, Mother, and Me: Three Generations of Arab Women
de Jean Said Makdisi
59 membres
1 ressenya
5
Member
wandering_star
16
Little Heathens
de Mildred Armstrong Kalish
1,139 membres
43 ressenyes
½ 3.6
Member
dara85
17
The Longest Trip Home
de John Grogan
518 membres
39 ressenyes
3.9
Member
SqueakyChu
18
Victoire
de Maryse Condé
82 membres
3 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Member
Dilara86
19
La llebre amb ulls d'ambre
de Edmund De Waal
3,675 membres
158 ressenyes
4
Member
wandering_star
20
The Concubine's Children
de Denise Chong
490 membres
17 ressenyes
3.8
Member
dara85
21
My Father and Myself
de J. R. Ackerley
462 membres
7 ressenyes
3.9
Member
thorold
Explicacions
thorold: What do you do when you discover that your father's private life was even more disreputable than your own? Write a book...
22
You Can't Catch Death: A Daughter's Memoir
de Ianthe Brautigan
170 membres
3 ressenyes
4
Member
SqueakyChu
23
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
de Malika Oufkir
2,029 membres
48 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Member
dara85
24
Out of Egypt: A Memoir
de André Aciman
543 membres
8 ressenyes
4
Member
wandering_star
25
Growing Up Amish: A Memoir
de Ira Wagler
501 membres
37 ressenyes
3.2
Member
dara85
26
Escape
de Carolyn Jessop
1,759 membres
107 ressenyes
3.9
Member
dara85
27
Adoption Papers
de Jackie Kay
83 membres
3 ressenyes
3.9
Member
thorold
28
Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments
de Edmund Gosse
717 membres
11 ressenyes
4.1
Member
thorold