Best family memoirs

Descrição
Books about the author's family - usually going back three or so generations. I am especially interested in ones which are set during interesting periods of history. (Please do NOT add Wild Swans to this list...)
1
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
de Art Spiegelman
10,646 membros
254 resenhas
½ 4.4
3 Members
SqueakyChu, guyalice, avatiakh
2
My Family and Other Animals
de Gerald Durrell
5,252 membros
150 resenhas
4.2
3 Members
Moomin_Mama, thorold, avatiakh
3
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
de Art Spiegelman
7,321 membros
139 resenhas
½ 4.5
3 Members
SqueakyChu, guyalice, avatiakh
4
Cheaper by the Dozen
de Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
4,720 membros
80 resenhas
4
2 Members
dara85, aulsmith
5
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
de Alison Bechdel
8,136 membros
368 resenhas
4.2
2 Members
guyalice, Dilara86
6
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
de Jeanette Winterson
2,101 membros
102 resenhas
4.1
2 Members
thorold, Cecrow
7
Running in the Family
de Michael Ondaatje
1,704 membros
30 resenhas
3.9
2 Members
wandering_star, Cecrow
8
Two Lives
de Vikram Seth
1,193 membros
27 resenhas
½ 3.7
2 Members
wandering_star, thorold
9
Hons and Rebels
de Jessica Mitford
1,195 membros
26 resenhas
4.1
Member
thorold
10
Family Romance
de John Lanchester
185 membros
10 resenhas
½ 3.7
Member
wandering_star
11
Lemon Sherbet and Dolly Blue: The Story of an Accidental Family
de Lynn Knight
24 membros
1 resenha
½ 4.5
Member
elkiedee
12
Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
de Nigel Nicolson
1,232 membros
17 resenhas
4
Member
thorold
13
The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers
de Harry Bernstein
971 membros
39 resenhas
4.1
Member
dara85
14
Memory
de Philippe Grimbert
535 membros
22 resenhas
½ 3.7
Member
Dilara86
15
Teta, Mother, and Me: Three Generations of Arab Women
de Jean Said Makdisi
59 membros
1 resenha
5
Member
wandering_star
16
Little Heathens
de Mildred Armstrong Kalish
1,135 membros
43 resenhas
½ 3.6
Member
dara85
17
The Longest Trip Home
de John Grogan
517 membros
38 resenhas
3.9
Member
SqueakyChu
18
Victoire
de Maryse Condé
82 membros
3 resenhas
½ 3.7
Member
Dilara86
19
A lebre com olhos de âmbar
de Edmund De Waal
3,656 membros
157 resenhas
4
Member
wandering_star
20
The Concubine's Children
de Denise Chong
490 membros
17 resenhas
3.8
Member
dara85
21
My Father and Myself
de J. R. Ackerley
461 membros
7 resenhas
3.9
Member
thorold
Explicações
thorold: What do you do when you discover that your father's private life was even more disreputable than your own? Write a book...
22
You Can't Catch Death: A Daughter's Memoir
de Ianthe Brautigan
170 membros
3 resenhas
4
Member
SqueakyChu
23
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
de Malika Oufkir
2,027 membros
48 resenhas
½ 3.7
Member
dara85
24
Out of Egypt: A Memoir
de André Aciman
542 membros
7 resenhas
3.9
Member
wandering_star
25
Growing Up Amish: A Memoir
de Ira Wagler
502 membros
37 resenhas
3.2
Member
dara85
26
Escape
de Carolyn Jessop
1,753 membros
107 resenhas
3.9
Member
dara85
27
Adoption Papers
de Jackie Kay
83 membros
3 resenhas
3.9
Member
thorold
28
Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments
de Edmund Gosse
717 membros
11 resenhas
4.1
Member
thorold