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Ultimate Best Books

Genre: Memoir (6 books)

The best classic books from the Memoir genre.

A Moveable Feast

A Moveable Feast

Ernest Hemingway

3.67 (3)

Then there was the bad weather.

#232
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2,941
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The Color of Water

The Color of Water

James McBride

5.0 (1)

As a boy, I never knew where my mother was from -- where she was born, who her parents were.

#370
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1,385
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Joan Didion

5.0 (3)

This is a story about love and death in the golden land, and begins with the country.

#415
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1,044
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Mountains Beyond Mountains

Mountains Beyond Mountains

Tracy Kidder

5.0 (1)

Six years after the fact, Dr. Paul Edward Farmer reminded me, "We met because of a beheading, of all things."

#439
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959
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The road from Coorain

The road from Coorain

Jill Ker Conway

4.0 (3)

The western plains of New South Wales are grasslands.

#548
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452
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The Journal of Jules Renard

The Journal of Jules Renard

Jules Renard

5.0 (1)

#615
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269
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