The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years

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

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