Lists of Bests: jillymcbean's "501 Must-Read Memoirs" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/64288 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:55:48 GMT en-us 0 50 50 0 0 Paula / Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3226001 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isabel Allende</div> Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6192242 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6192242"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51cA0awJPRL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henri Frédéric Amiel</div> Brief Lives By John Aubrey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6192243 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Aubrey</div> Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4262 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4262"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192833723.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1134158342_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saint Augustine</div> Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/461794 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/461794"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060825197.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Simone de Beauvoir</div> Christy Brown: The Life that Inspired <i>My Left Foot</i> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6002505 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6002505"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51zD2sgY04L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Georgina Louise Hambleton</div> Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (Forgotten Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6192244 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6192244"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ymwAuCNnL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Benvenuto Cellini</div> The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1616784 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1616784"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0892550589.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cyril Connolly</div> Boy: Tales of Childhood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3489 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3489"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141303050.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056422045_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roald Dahl</div> My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2926405 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by </div> Angel at My Table (A Women's Press Classic) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1646282 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1646282"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0704346931.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1084427450_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Janet Frame</div> Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2640459 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Frank</div> The Journals of Andre Gide, 1889-1949: 1924-1949 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/204605 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Andre Gide</div> Goethe's autobiography,: Poetry and truth from my own life; http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2427881 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</div> Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments (Twentieth Century Classics S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/808321 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/808321"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140182764.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1081602709_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edmund Gosse</div> The Life of Graham Greene: Volume II: 1939-1955 (Vol 2) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/583309 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/583309"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014024526X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Norman Sherry</div> Black Like Me http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/664078 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/664078"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451208641.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Howard Griffin</div> 84 Charing Cross Road http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6158046 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Helene Hanff</div> Pentimento (Back Bay Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/826199 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/826199"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316352888.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lillian Hellman</div> Childhood, Youth and Exile (The World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/823926 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/823926"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0192815059.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexander Herzen</div> The Diary Of Alice James http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1268632 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1268632"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1555533973.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056515641_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alice James</div> Memories, Dreams, Reflections http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18669 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18669"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679723951.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122553698_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by C.G. Jung</div> Diaries 1919-23 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2811030 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Franz Kafka</div> THE STORY OF MY LIFE, by Helen Keller (1903; Modern ! Library, 2004) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5082183 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Book of Margery Kempe (Norton Critical Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/820238 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/820238"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393976394.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margery Kempe</div> I Will Bear Witness 1942-1945: A Diary of the Nazi Years http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9347 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9347"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0375756973.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438519_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Victor Klemperer</div> Barbados: The Castle of My Skin by George Lamming http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766985 <div id="position">27</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> A Grief Observed http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2788896 <div id="position">28</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by C. S. Lewis</div> The Towers of Tebizond http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2786857 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Journal of Katherine Mansfield http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/531225 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/531225"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/076614433X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1139901707_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Katherine Mansfield</div> The Seven Storey Mountain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3990 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3990"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156010860.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056422641_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Merton</div> The Pursuit of Love/Nancy Mitford http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6008592 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3960 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3960"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156005816.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Monette</div> Contemporary Authors: Biography - Morgan, Sally (Jane) (1951-) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1375395 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1375395"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0007SE04W.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (Vintage International) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18663 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18663"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679723390.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> Reading Lolita in Tehran http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/925845 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Azar Nafisi</div> Memoirs http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8631 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8631"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374527539.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438204_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pablo Neruda</div> Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/482110 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/482110"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226583570.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nigel Nicolson</div> Running in the Family http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18903 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18903"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679746692.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Ondaatje</div> Down and Out in Paris and London http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2355229 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2355229"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0786161477.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> The Voice of Paramahansa Yogananda - Collector's Series #10. In the Glory of the Spirit http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3948553 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3948553"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51cep7XUpDL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paramahansa Yogananda</div> The Diary of Samuel Pepys http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5214950 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5214950"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Xv2iSyUVL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Pepys</div> The Letters of the Younger Pliny (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1292201 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1292201"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140441271.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V35902294_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pliny the Younger</div> The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau (Forgotten Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5804920 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5804920"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41i-k8vIEkL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean-Jacques Rousseau</div> The Words http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66540 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66540"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394747097.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean-Paul Sartre</div> Journal of a Solitude http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2454701 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Thoreau, Henry David-Walden http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3542737 <div id="position">47</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> De Profundis - Oscar Wilde http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3222272 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3222272"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01dgYdiogBL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Oscar Wilde</div> Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1875850 <div id="position">49</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Autobiography of William Butler Yeats http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3231766 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Butle Yeats</div>