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Elegant, gorgeous memoirs
A Listmania! list by goodbooks (Oxford, England)

1. Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (Penguin Modern Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov

The list author says:
	"Speak Memory, Vladimir Nabokov, perhaps the most elegant memoir ever written"

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2. Wandering Between Two Worlds: Essays on Faith and Art by Anita Mathias

The list author says:
	"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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3. Memories Of A Catholic Girlhood (Vintage Classics) by Mary McCarthy

The list author says:
	"Memories of a Catholic childhood, Mary McCarthy, Creatively written, as gripping a read as the best fiction"

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4. The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton

The list author says:
	"Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton. What a life! And how well told!"

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5. Meatless Days (Cloth) by Suleri

The list author says:
	"Meatless Days, Sara Suleri, Rich highly-charged Shakespearean rhetoric"

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6. Out of Africa (Penguin Modern Classics) by Karen Blixen

The list author says:
	"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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7. My Grandmothers and I by Diana Holman-Hunt

The list author says:
	"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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8. This Boy's Life (Bloomsbury Paperbacks) by Tobias Wolff

The list author says:
	"This Boy's Life, Tobias Wolff. A searing and artistic memoir"

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9. Surprised by Joy by C. S. Lewis

The list author says:
	"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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10. My Life: A Guided Tour : the Autobiography of Kenneth N. Taylor by Kenneth Nathaniel Taylor

The list author says:
	"My LIfe: A Guided Tour. The translator of the Living Bible, and brilliant Christian businessman's very honest memoir"

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11. The Confessions of St.Augustine by Saint Augustine

The list author says:
	"Confessions, St. Augustine, One of the earliest memoirs, reads as lucidly and rapidly as a detective novel"

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12. Praeterita (Everyman's Library Classics) by John Ruskin

The list author says:
	"Praeterita, Weird, wild, wonderful, and TRUE. A life lived with intensity and passion. Ruskin redefines the word genius!"

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13. Frost In May (Virago Modern Classics) by Antonia White

The list author says:
	"Frost in May, Antonia White. Another novel which reads like a memoir, and prob. is autobiographical. Beautifully written."

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14. Out of Egypt: A Memoir by Andre Aciman

The list author says:
	"Out of Eygypt, Andre Aciman. Aciman's startling arresting style makes this story memorable"

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15. ALL THE STRANGE HOURS by Loren Eiseley

The list author says:
	"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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16. Baker Russell : Good Times (Plume) by Russell Baker

The list author says:
	"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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17. Messages from My Father by Calvin Trillin

The list author says:
	"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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18. A Walker in the City by Alfred Kazin

The list author says:
	"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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19. Janet Frame: Complete Autobiography by Janet Frame

The list author says:
	"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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20. Cab at the Door: AND Midnight Oil (Modern Library) by V. S. Pritchett

The list author says:
	"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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21. Father and Son (Oxford World's Classics) by Edmund Gosse

The list author says:
	"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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22. An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi

The list author says:
	"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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23. An American Childhood (Picador Books) by Annie Dillard

The list author says:
	"An American Childhood. Annie Dillard. I love this book. Simple structure. A rich life lived in books, unpretentiously described."

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24. Romantic Education by Patricia Hampl

The list author says:
	"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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