Lists of Bests: Notable Memoirs http://www.listsofbests.com/list/42167 please add if you recommend any! Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:45:39 GMT en-us 0 50 206 50 0 The Education of Henry Adams http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2854499 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Adams</div> Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962291 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962291"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307275639.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mitch Albom</div> Hole in My Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2423611 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2423611"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099475871.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Gantos</div> Paula http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2783609 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2783609"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01PW92EBJYL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isabel Allende</div> I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15754 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15754"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553279378.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maya Angelou</div> I.Asimov: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/98628 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/98628"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/055356997X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isaac Asimov</div> Growing Up http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1575595 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1575595"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451168380.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Russell Baker</div> Notes of a Native Son http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2934740 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Baldwin</div> Angela's Ashes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2804998 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2804998"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11UQDQuHB4L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frank McCourt</div> All Over But the Shoutin http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2536595 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rick Bragg</div> Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2943225 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Linda Brent edited by L. Maria Child</div> A Rumor of War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2671921 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2671921"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0712664459.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Caputo</div> Life and Death in Shanghai http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2609728 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2609728"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/000654861X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nien Cheng</div> Colors of the Mountain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10540 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10540"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385720602.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056439404_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Da Chen</div> Stop-Time: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2528 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2528"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140044469.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frank Conroy</div> The End of the World as We Know It http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2043656 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Goolrick</div> The Water is Wide http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/979847 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/979847"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553381571.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pat Conroy</div> Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53171 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53171"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156031302.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lynne Cox</div> An American Story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/87704 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/87704"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/037542069X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Debra Dickerson</div> An American Childhood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1190 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1190"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060915188.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Annie Dillard</div> Out of Isak Dinesen in Africa: Karen Blixen's Untold Story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/964926 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/964926"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/096438938X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Linda Donelson</div> Broken Cord http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/194765 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/194765"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060916826.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Dorris</div> Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56857 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56857"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1580495761.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frederick Douglass</div> A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9267 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9267"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375725784.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dave Eggers</div> Running with Scissors: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961222 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961222"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312425414.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Augusten Burroughs</div> Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of my Ancestors (Literary Travel) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/724051 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/724051"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0792253736.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louise Erdrich</div> The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/49507 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/49507"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743255062.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Benjamin Franklin</div> Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23767 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23767"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375758992.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexandra Fuller</div> Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/131385 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/131385"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316290610.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Fussell</div> Colored People http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18842 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18842"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/067973919X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Louis Gates Jr.</div> Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19453 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19453"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684847957.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Doris Kearns Goodwin</div> Fever Pitch http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31239 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31239"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1573226882.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nick Hornby</div> Autobiography of a Face http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/918 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/918"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060569662.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1124914252_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lucy Grealy</div> A Moveable Feast http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1596027 <div id="position">34</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> Dispatches http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18790 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18790"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679735259.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44908650_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Herr</div> Rocket Boys http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10098 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10098"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385333218.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer Hickam</div> The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/923674 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/923674"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393323056.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056439917_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Linda Hogan</div> Native Heart http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2943227 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2943227"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/118XDYZSSDL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Horn</div> Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968379 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968379"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060854081.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zora Neale Hurston</div> The Autobiography of Malcolm X http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/463526 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/463526"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140028242.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45800409_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Malcolm X</div> The Liars' Club: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2061486 <div id="position">41</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Karr</div> Girl, Interrupted http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2769881 <div id="position">42</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Susanna Kaysen</div> Autobiography of My Mother http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/288365 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/288365"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452274664.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jamaica Kincaid</div> A Small Place http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51947 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51947"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374527075.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jamaica Kincaid</div> My Brother http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/517345 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/517345"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374525625.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jamaica Kincaid</div> On Writing : A Memoir Of The Craft http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/351630 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/351630"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0743506650.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18631 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18631"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679721886.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maxine Hong Kingston</div> A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29807 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29807"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1558743669.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dave Pelzer</div> A Man Named Dave: A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14117 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14117"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452281903.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dave Pelzer</div> The Privilege of Youth: A Teenager's Story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/155147 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/155147"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452286298.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dave Pelzer</div>