50 лучших мемуаров за последние 50 лет. Выбор литературных критиков The New York Times. Мало переведено...
1. Vivian Gornick. "Fierce Attachments" (1987)
2. Maxine Hong Kingston. "The Woman Warrior" (1976)
3. Alison Bechdel. "Fun Home" (2006)
4.
Мэри Карр. "Клуб лжецов. Только обман поможет понять правду" (1995)
5.
Кристофер Хитчинс. "Хитч 22" (2010)
6. Jesmyn Ward. "Men We Reaped" (2013)
7. Gore Vidal. "Palimpsest" (1995)
8. Hilary Mantel. "Giving Up the Ghost" (2003)
9. Harry Crews. "A Childhood" (1978)
10. Barack Obama. "Dreams From My Father" (1995)
11.
Филип Рот. "По наследству " (1991)
12. Theodore Rosengarten. "All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw" (1974)
13.
Эмманюэль Каррер. "Жизни, не похожие на мою" (2011)
14.
Оз Амос. "Повесть о любви и тьме" (2004)
15.
Тобиас Вулф . "Жизнь этого парня " (1989)
16. Rachel Cusk. "A Life’s Work" (2002)
17.
Кутзее Джозеф Максвелл. "Детство" (1997)
18. Jan Morris. "Conundrum" (1974)
19. Sonali Deraniyagala. "Wave" (2013)
20. Clive James. "Always Unreliable: Unreliable Memoirs, Falling Towards England and May Week Was in June" (2004)
21. Lars Eighner. "Travels With Lizbeth" (1993)
22. Sally Mann. "Hold Still" (2015)
23.
Эдна О'Брайен. "Деревенские девчонки" (2013)
24.
Сатрапи Маржан. "Персеполис. Автобиографический роман" (2003)
25. Margo Jefferson. "Negroland" (2015)
26. Viv Albertine. "Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys." (2014)
27. Martin Amis. "Experience" (2000)
28. Eve Babitz. "Slow Days, Fast Company" (1977)
29. Russell Baker. "Growing Up" (1982)
30. Anatole Broyard. "Kafka Was the Rage" (1993)
31. Ta-Nehisi Coates. "Between the World and Me" (2015)
32. Joan Didion. "The Year of Magical Thinking" (2005)
33. William Finnegan. "Barbarian Days" (2015)
34. Katharine Graham. "Personal History" (1997)
35. Temple Grandin. "Thinking in Pictures" (1995)
36. Lucy Grealy. "Autobiography of a Face" (1994)
37. Alma Guillermoprieto. "Dancing With Cuba" (2004)
38. Joyce Johnson. "Minor Characters" (1983)
39. Tony Judt. "The Memory Chalet" (2010)
40. Kiese Laymon. "Heavy" (2018)
41. Patricia Lockwood. "Priestdaddy" (2017)
42.
Макдональд Хелен. "Я" значит "ястреб" (2015)
43. James McBride. "The Color of Water" (1996)
44.
МакКорт Фрэнк. "Прах Анджелы" (1996)
45. Scholastique Mukasonga. "Cockroaches" (2016)
46.
Ричардс Кейт. "Жизнь" (2010)
47. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. "A Life in the Twentieth Century" (2000)
48. Edmund White. "My Lives" (2006)
49. Jeanette Winterson. "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?" (2012)
50. David Wojnarowicz. "Close to the Knives" (1991)