The Best British Memoirs

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My Family & Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
My Family & Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 61,502 ratings
2.
Cider With Rosie
Cider With Rosie 3.91 avg rating — 14,858 ratings
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Moab Is My Washpot (Memoir, #1)
Moab Is My Washpot (Memoir, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 24,908 ratings
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This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
by: Adam Kay
4.40 avg rating — 316,973 ratings
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Testament of Youth
Testament of Youth 4.11 avg rating — 12,164 ratings
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Lark Rise To Candleford
Lark Rise To Candleford 4.01 avg rating — 4,864 ratings
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Goodbye to All That
Goodbye to All That 3.93 avg rating — 15,318 ratings
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Twopence to Cross the Mersey
Twopence to Cross the Mersey 4.25 avg rating — 2,170 ratings
9.
Boy
Boy 4.07 avg rating — 72,270 ratings
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Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens
Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens 3.86 avg rating — 10,157 ratings
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No Cunning Plan
No Cunning Plan 3.91 avg rating — 892 ratings
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Me
Me 4.32 avg rating — 70,321 ratings
13.
On the Edge
On the Edge 3.93 avg rating — 5,192 ratings
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Below Stairs
Below Stairs 3.58 avg rating — 14,239 ratings
15.
Forever Young
Forever Young 3.85 avg rating — 4,807 ratings
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Daughter of Empire: My Life as a Mountbatten
Daughter of Empire: My Life as a Mountbatten 3.71 avg rating — 2,298 ratings
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Thanks a Lot, Mr. Kibblewhite: My Story
Thanks a Lot, Mr. Kibblewhite: My Story 4.06 avg rating — 4,729 ratings
18.
Wait for Me!
Wait for Me! 3.80 avg rating — 3,343 ratings
19.
Playing Under the Piano: From Downton to Darkest Peru
Playing Under the Piano: From Downton to Darkest Peru 3.97 avg rating — 1,511 ratings
20.
A Childhood in Scotland
A Childhood in Scotland 4.16 avg rating — 99 ratings
21.
Lost Voices of the Edwardians
Lost Voices of the Edwardians really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Autobiography
Autobiography 4.07 avg rating — 1,399 ratings
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Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns 4.14 avg rating — 3,547 ratings
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Tenement Kid
Tenement Kid really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,113 ratings
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The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times 4.19 avg rating — 77,384 ratings
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The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District 4.14 avg rating — 15,152 ratings
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The Final Curtsey
The Final Curtsey 3.87 avg rating — 2,117 ratings
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Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown 4.06 avg rating — 30,068 ratings
28.
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life 4.06 avg rating — 67,540 ratings
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Bit of a Blur: The Autobiography
Bit of a Blur: The Autobiography 3.74 avg rating — 3,145 ratings
31.
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? 4.01 avg rating — 45,382 ratings
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The Maid's Tale: A revealing memoir of life below stairs
The Maid's Tale: A revealing memoir of life below stairs
by: Tom Quinn
4.09 avg rating — 798 ratings
33.
Going Solo (Roald Dahl's Autobiography, #2)
Going Solo (Roald Dahl's Autobiography, #2) 4.06 avg rating — 32,616 ratings
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A Ragged Schooling: Growing up in the classic slum
A Ragged Schooling: Growing up in the classic slum 3.93 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Wham! George & Me
Wham! George & Me 4.05 avg rating — 6,649 ratings
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Long Way Back
Long Way Back 4.19 avg rating — 401 ratings
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Birds, Beasts and Relatives (Corfu Trilogy #2)
Birds, Beasts and Relatives (Corfu Trilogy #2) 4.33 avg rating — 10,593 ratings
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The Year of Eating Dangerously: A Global Adventure in Search of Culinary Extremes
The Year of Eating Dangerously: A Global Adventure in Search of Culinary Extremes 3.11 avg rating — 450 ratings
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Lighter than My Shadow
Lighter than My Shadow 4.40 avg rating — 6,762 ratings
40.
Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs
Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs 3.95 avg rating — 6,593 ratings
40.
A Donkey in the Meadow: Tales from a Cornish Flower Farm
A Donkey in the Meadow: Tales from a Cornish Flower Farm 4.23 avg rating — 114 ratings
42.
Hons and Rebels
Hons and Rebels 4.11 avg rating — 5,317 ratings
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The Lick of Love: How dogs changed my life
The Lick of Love: How dogs changed my life 4.43 avg rating — 202 ratings
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Who I Am
Who I Am 3.91 avg rating — 4,887 ratings
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Whatever Next?: Lessons from an Unexpected Life
Whatever Next?: Lessons from an Unexpected Life really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,481 ratings
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Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II
Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II 4.14 avg rating — 4,009 ratings
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It's a Love Story
It's a Love Story 4.36 avg rating — 1,121 ratings
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Lonely Boy
Lonely Boy 4.05 avg rating — 2,901 ratings
48.
The Grand Tour: Letters and Photographs from the British Empire Expedition 1922
The Grand Tour: Letters and Photographs from the British Empire Expedition 1922 3.79 avg rating — 849 ratings
50.
Ticket to the World: My 80s Story
Ticket to the World: My 80s Story 3.74 avg rating — 73 ratings
51.
A Gull on the Roof: Tales from a Cornish Flower Farm
A Gull on the Roof: Tales from a Cornish Flower Farm 3.93 avg rating — 205 ratings
52.
Father and Son
Father and Son 3.75 avg rating — 1,087 ratings
53.
Shoes were for Sunday
Shoes were for Sunday 4.01 avg rating — 994 ratings
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No Cake, No Jam: Hardship and happiness in wartime London
No Cake, No Jam: Hardship and happiness in wartime London 4.25 avg rating — 979 ratings
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Apathy for the Devil: A Seventies Memoir
Apathy for the Devil: A Seventies Memoir
by: Nick Kent
3.85 avg rating — 853 ratings
56.
Adventures in Two Worlds
Adventures in Two Worlds 4.17 avg rating — 442 ratings
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A Child in the Forest
A Child in the Forest 3.92 avg rating — 351 ratings
58.
A Distant Prospect
A Distant Prospect 4.05 avg rating — 22 ratings
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If Symptoms Persist: Anecdotes from a Doctor
If Symptoms Persist: Anecdotes from a Doctor 3.97 avg rating — 249 ratings
60.
Further Adventures of a Grumpy Old Rock Star
Further Adventures of a Grumpy Old Rock Star 4.19 avg rating — 243 ratings
61.
Time Remembered
Time Remembered
by: Miss Read
4.21 avg rating — 198 ratings
62.
Guardian Angel: My Journey from Leftism to Sanity
Guardian Angel: My Journey from Leftism to Sanity 4.40 avg rating — 211 ratings
63.
A Bevy of Beasts
A Bevy of Beasts 4.18 avg rating — 172 ratings
64.
Sixty Years a Nurse
Sixty Years a Nurse 4.01 avg rating — 157 ratings
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A Boy at the Hogarth Press
A Boy at the Hogarth Press 3.69 avg rating — 150 ratings
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Long Ago When I Was Young
Long Ago When I Was Young
by: E. Nesbit
3.79 avg rating — 99 ratings
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The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham 3.95 avg rating — 94 ratings
68.
To Keep the Ball Rolling: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell
To Keep the Ball Rolling: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 92 ratings
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The Young Ardizzone
The Young Ardizzone 4.08 avg rating — 65 ratings
70.
The Art of Coarse Sailing
The Art of Coarse Sailing 4.03 avg rating — 63 ratings
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As We Were: A Victorian Peep-Show
As We Were: A Victorian Peep-Show 3.79 avg rating — 47 ratings
72.
Left Hand, Right Hand!
Left Hand, Right Hand! 3.83 avg rating — 41 ratings
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A Lady's Experiences in the Wild West in 1883 (1888)
A Lady's Experiences in the Wild West in 1883 (1888) 3.69 avg rating — 35 ratings
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First Childhood
First Childhood 4.12 avg rating — 33 ratings
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A Kingston Lacy Childhood
A Kingston Lacy Childhood 3.96 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Home from the Sea: The Autobiography of Captain Rostron of the Carpathia, the Man Who Rescued the Titanic Survivors
Home from the Sea: The Autobiography of Captain Rostron of the Carpathia, the Man Who Rescued the Titanic Survivors 4.29 avg rating — 24 ratings
77.
A Kind of Magic
A Kind of Magic 3.74 avg rating — 23 ratings
78.
Polly: Memories of an East End Girl
Polly: Memories of an East End Girl 3.62 avg rating — 21 ratings
79.
Memoirs of William Hickey
Memoirs of William Hickey 4.22 avg rating — 23 ratings
80.
The Log of a Sea-Waif: Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life
The Log of a Sea-Waif: Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings
81.
The Boy Who Shot Down an Airship
The Boy Who Shot Down an Airship 3.53 avg rating — 19 ratings
82.
The Days Before Yesterday
The Days Before Yesterday 4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings
83.
No Pipe Dreams for Father
No Pipe Dreams for Father 3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Vanished Pomps of Yesterday
Vanished Pomps of Yesterday 4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings
85.
A House Called Memory
A House Called Memory 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Clap Hands for the Singing Molecatcher: Scenes from a Scottish Childhood
Clap Hands for the Singing Molecatcher: Scenes from a Scottish Childhood 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Tempestuous Petticoat
Tempestuous Petticoat 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
88.
With Wellington in the Peninsula: The Adventures of a Highland Soldier, 1808-1814
With Wellington in the Peninsula: The Adventures of a Highland Soldier, 1808-1814 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Five to Seven: The Story of a 1920s Childhood
Five to Seven: The Story of a 1920s Childhood 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Grace and Favour: The Memoirs of Loelia, Duchess of Westminster
Grace and Favour: The Memoirs of Loelia, Duchess of Westminster 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
91.
Children of Bethnal Green
Children of Bethnal Green really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
92.
Land Girls at the Old Rectory (Old Pond Books)
Land Girls at the Old Rectory (Old Pond Books) 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Bugle Boy
Bugle Boy really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
94.
Mary Carbery's West Cork Journals
Mary Carbery's West Cork Journals 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
95.
The Lock Keeper's Daughter
The Lock Keeper's Daughter 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
96.
Here, There and Everywhere
Here, There and Everywhere really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
97.
A Child's War: The Occupation of the Channel Islands Through a Child's Eyes
A Child's War: The Occupation of the Channel Islands Through a Child's Eyes 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
98.
Living on Tick: Tales from a Huddersfiel
Living on Tick: Tales from a Huddersfiel 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
99.
Sally in Rhodesia
Sally in Rhodesia 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
100.
Memoir of the Early Life of William Cowper
Memoir of the Early Life of William Cowper 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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