 | Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (Penguin Modern Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: £7.46 / Used from: £4.86 Speak Memory, Vladimir Nabokov, perhaps the most elegant memoir ever written
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 | Wandering Between Two Worlds: Essays on Faith and Art by Anita Mathias
Wandering between Two Worlds by Anita Mathias, an elegant and diverse memoir of a rebellious Indian childhood, culminating in a conversion, and entering Mother Teresa's convent as a nun.
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 | Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (Vintage Classics) by Mary McCarthy
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £0.01 Memories of a Catholic childhood, Mary McCarthy, Creatively written, as gripping a read as the best fiction
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 | The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
Buy used from: £7.34 Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton. What a life! And how well told!
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 | Meatless Days (Cloth) by Suleri
Buy used from: £9.84 Meatless Days, Sara Suleri, Rich highly-charged Shakespearean rhetoric
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 | Out of Africa (Penguin Modern Classics) by Isak Dinesen
Buy new: £6.55 / Used from: £0.01 Out of Africa by Isak Dinesan. Her prose has that particular twist of second language writers. Both prose and book are gorgeous.
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 | My Grandmothers and I by Diana Holman-Hunt
Buy used from: £2.98 My Grandmothers and I, Diana Holman-Hunt. This sprightly, totally hilarious memoir reads like a novel. Well-written, sensitive, funny and delightful.
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 | This Boy's Life (Bloomsbury Paperbacks) by Tobias Wolff
Buy new: £5.61 / Used from: £1.28 This Boy's Life, Tobias Wolff. A searing and artistic memoir
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 | Surprised by Joy (The C.S. Lewis signature classics) by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.50 Surprised by Joy, C.S. Lewis. Honest, elegant. One can be a Christian, and a rigourously honest thinker at the same time-- of course!
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 | My Life: A Guided Tour : the Autobiography of Kenneth N. Taylor by Kenneth Nathaniel Taylor
Buy used from: £0.01 My LIfe: A Guided Tour. The translator of the Living Bible, and brilliant Christian businessman's very honest memoir
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 | The Confessions of St.Augustine by Saint Augustine
Buy used from: £1.49 Confessions, St. Augustine, One of the earliest memoirs, reads as lucidly and rapidly as a detective novel
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 | Praeterita (Everyman's Library Classics) by John Ruskin
Buy new: £8.35 / Used from: £5.99 Praeterita, Weird, wild, wonderful, and TRUE. A life lived with intensity and passion. Ruskin redefines the word genius!
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 | Frost in May (Virago Modern Classics) by Antonia White
Buy new: £5.30 / Used from: £0.75 Frost in May, Antonia White. Another novel which reads like a memoir, and prob. is autobiographical. Beautifully written.
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 | Out of Egypt: A Memoir by Andre Aciman
Buy new: £8.35 / Used from: £5.59 Out of Eygypt, Andre Aciman. Aciman's startling arresting style makes this story memorable
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| ALL THE STRANGE HOURS by Loren Eiseley
Buy used from: £0.95 All the Strange Hours, An Excation of a Life, Loren Eisely. A fascinating, unusual, elegaic mournful and beautiful memoir. One of my favs.
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 | Baker Russell : Good Times (Plume) by Russell Baker
Buy used from: £0.16 The Good Tinmes, Russell Baker. A memorable account of tortuous family relationships, as well as the American dream fleshed our and fully realized.
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 | Messages from My Father by Calvin Trillin
Buy used from: £0.04 Messages from my Father, Calvin Trillin. His elegant lucid style gives another version of a Jewish boy acheiving the American dream--or a writerly version of it.
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 | A Walker in the City by Alfred Kazin
Buy new: £8.73 / Used from: £4.32 Walker in the City by Alfred Kazin. A sensuous, detailed packed memoir of the achievement of literary ambition by a Jewish boy from Brooklyn.
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 | Janet Frame: Complete Autobiography by Janet Frame
Buy used from: £9.86 Autobiography. Janet Frame. Searingly honest, with no masks, and rising to poetry in not infrequent patches. The life of a woman whose writing was her only joy and salvation.
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 | Cab at the Door: AND Midnight Oil (Modern Library) by V.S. Pritchett
Buy used from: £14.16 A very vivid and memorable memoir. He describes the marriage of his self-indulgent, bigamist father, who had a secret mistress & 2nd fly & long-suffering mother, as the marriage of the rich and poor.
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 | Father and Son (Oxford World's Classics) by Edmund Gosse
Buy used from: £2.50 Father and Son, Edmund Gosse. The father's scientist head thrilled at Darwin, but he followed his heart, and refuted him, to his loyal, loving artist son's disappointment
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 | An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi
Buy used from: £1.00 The Story of my Experiments with Truth. An honest life of a sensitive, iron-willed, gentle lovely soul. A brilliant person and a non-Christian "Christian" anima naturalatis Christianitas.
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| An American Childhood (Picador Books) by Annie Dillard
Buy used from: £0.01 An American Childhood. Annie Dillard. I love this book. Simple structure. A rich life lived in books, unpretentiously described.
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 | Romantic Education by P Hampl
Buy new: £10.00 / Used from: £3.69 A Romantic Education, Patricia Hampl. Her gift of describing the ordinary makes you want to write. A book one must pay homage too.
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 | The Road from Coorain by Jill Kathryn Conway
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £0.01 The Road from Coorain, An account of a flinty determination to reinvent oneself. An account of ambition satisfied
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