Lists of Bests: Notable Memoirs

Send to Printer Notable Memoirs please add if you recommend any! (found at: http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Jefferson_HS/lessons/shayes/memoirs.htm, http://www.bordersstores.com/features/list.jsp?list=best2006bioliterary)
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	1.	?	The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
	2.		Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom
	3.		Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos
	4.		Paula by Isabel Allende
	5.		I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
	6.		I.Asimov: A Memoir by Isaac Asimov
	7.		Growing Up by Russell Baker
	8.	?	Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
	9.		Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
	10.	?	All Over But the Shoutin by Rick Bragg
	11.	?	Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Linda Brent edited by L. Maria Child
	12.		A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo
	13.		Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng
	14.		Colors of the Mountain by Da Chen
	15.		Stop-Time: A Memoir by Frank Conroy
	16.	?	The End of the World as We Know It by Robert Goolrick
	17.		The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy
	18.		Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer by Lynne Cox
	19.		An American Story by Debra Dickerson
	20.		An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
	21.		Out of Isak Dinesen in Africa: Karen Blixen's Untold Story by Linda Donelson
	22.		Broken Cord by Michael Dorris
	23.		Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
	24.		A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
	25.		Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
	26.		Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of my Ancestors (Literary Travel) by Louise Erdrich
	27.		The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
	28.		Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller
	29.		Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic by Paul Fussell
	30.		Colored People by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
	31.		Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir by Doris Kearns Goodwin
	32.		Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
	33.		Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
	34.	?	A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
	35.		Dispatches by Michael Herr
	36.		Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam
	37.		The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir by Linda Hogan
	38.		Native Heart by Gabriel Horn
	39.		Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography (P.S.) by Zora Neale Hurston
	40.		The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
	41.	?	The Liars' Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr
	42.	?	Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
	43.		Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid
	44.		A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
	45.		My Brother by Jamaica Kincaid
	46.		On Writing : A Memoir Of The Craft
	47.		The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
	48.		A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive by Dave Pelzer
	49.		A Man Named Dave: A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness by Dave Pelzer
	50.		The Privilege of Youth: A Teenager's Story by Dave Pelzer
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