The Memoir as Literature

Thirty Books for Great Reading

• J.R. Ackerley, My Father and Myself
• James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son
• Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death
• John Berger, Photocopies
• H.D., The Gift
• Joan Didion, Where I Was From
• Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
• Nick Flynn, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
• Vivian Gornick, Fierce Attachments
• Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face
• Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories
• Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
• Fenton Johnson, Geography of the Heart
• C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams Reflections
• Mary Karr, The Liar’s Club
• Primo Levi, Periodic Table
• Ruben Martinez, Crossing Over
• N. Scott Momaday, The Names
• Vladimir Nabokov, Speak Memory
• Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family
• Richard Rodriguez, Days of Obligation
• Richard Shelton, Going Back to Bisbee
• Floyd Skloot, In the Shadow of Memory
• Wallace Stegner, Wolf Willow
• Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
• Gerald Stern, What I Can’t Bear Losing
• Walt Whitman, Specimen Days
• Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge
• Geoffrey Wolff, Duke of Deception
• Tobias Wolff, This Boy’s Life

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