The 10 Best Memoirs of the Decade (2010s)

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Literary Hub, 17 Books

The 10 Best Memoirs of the Decade (2010-2019) chosen by the Literary Hub staff.
Total came to 17 as they also had some dissenting opinions - those are left unranked.

This list was originally published in 2019 and was added to this site over 1 year ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
2109 Just Kids Patti Smith 2010 American English
1750 Men We Reaped Jesmyn Ward 2013 American English
1701 The Argonauts Maggie Nelson 2015 American English
2675 H Is For Hawk Helen MacDonald 2014 British English
1817 Barbarian Days William Finnegan 2015 American English
6119 Negroland Margo Jefferson 2015 American English
9037 In The Darkroom Susan Faludi 2016 American English
597 The Years Annie Ernaux 2008 French French
5451 The Yellow House Sarah M. Broom 2019 American English
13740 When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back Naja Marie Aidt 2017 Danish Danish
10863 The Odd Woman And The City Vivian Gornick 2015 American English
7991 On The Move Oliver Sacks 2015 British English
6528 Hold Still Sally Mann 2015 American English
13699 The Home Place J. Drew Lanham 2016 American English
13910 Belonging Nora Krug 2018 German English
3939 In The Dream House Carmen Maria Machado 2019 American English
13222 House Of Psychotic Women Kier-La Janisse 2012 Unknown English