Best Memoirs Published in the 1990s

1.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 3.92 avg rating — 289,209 ratings
2.
Notes from a Small Island
Notes from a Small Island 3.92 avg rating — 117,839 ratings
3.
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood 4.02 avg rating — 3,511 ratings
4.
Moab Is My Washpot (Memoir, #1)
Moab Is My Washpot (Memoir, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 24,905 ratings
5.
Winter Warmers: Memories of Coping With Winters Past: [a book of stories and illustrations]
Winter Warmers: Memories of Coping With Winters Past: [a book of stories and illustrations]
by: Rib Davis
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
6.
Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir
Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir 4.05 avg rating — 11,205 ratings
7.
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China 4.30 avg rating — 120,282 ratings
7.
Miss Rhythm
Miss Rhythm 4.19 avg rating — 32 ratings
9.
True Blue
True Blue 3.69 avg rating — 102 ratings
10.
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe 3.85 avg rating — 78,057 ratings
11.
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table 4.08 avg rating — 38,840 ratings
12.
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness 3.99 avg rating — 30,921 ratings
13.
Drinking: A Love Story
Drinking: A Love Story 4.09 avg rating — 21,113 ratings
13.
The Good Life: The Autobiography Of Tony Bennett
The Good Life: The Autobiography Of Tony Bennett 3.72 avg rating — 161 ratings
15.
Red Scarf Girl
Red Scarf Girl 3.79 avg rating — 16,932 ratings
15.
A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures
A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures 3.97 avg rating — 1,247 ratings
17.
Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism
Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism 4.10 avg rating — 16,787 ratings
18.
Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of France (Provence, #3)
Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of France (Provence, #3) 4.01 avg rating — 12,393 ratings
18.
Blues All Around Me: The Autobiography of B.B. King
Blues All Around Me: The Autobiography of B.B. King
by: B.B. King
4.12 avg rating — 937 ratings
20.
Red Azalea: A Memoir
Red Azalea: A Memoir 3.84 avg rating — 10,639 ratings
21.
The Man Who Ate Everything
The Man Who Ate Everything 3.88 avg rating — 9,154 ratings
22.
Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod
Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod 4.29 avg rating — 8,449 ratings
22.
American Splendor, #15
American Splendor, #15 3.96 avg rating — 23 ratings
24.
Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio
Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio 4.44 avg rating — 8,009 ratings
25.
Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs
Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs 3.95 avg rating — 6,593 ratings
25.
The New American Splendor Anthology
The New American Splendor Anthology 4.21 avg rating — 696 ratings
27.
Return from Tomorrow
Return from Tomorrow 4.30 avg rating — 4,336 ratings
27.
Our Cancer Year
Our Cancer Year 3.91 avg rating — 1,295 ratings
29.
My Life in Dog Years
My Life in Dog Years 4.16 avg rating — 4,085 ratings
30.
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
31.
After Long Silence: A Memoir
After Long Silence: A Memoir 4.03 avg rating — 3,518 ratings
31.
Palooka-Ville #1
Palooka-Ville #1
by: Seth
3.76 avg rating — 68 ratings
33.
Trials of the Earth: The True Story of a Pioneer Woman
Trials of the Earth: The True Story of a Pioneer Woman 3.93 avg rating — 3,254 ratings
33.
Peepshow # 1
Peepshow # 1
by: Joe Matt
4.18 avg rating — 44 ratings
35.
Palimpsest
Palimpsest 4.01 avg rating — 2,024 ratings
35.
Dirty Plotte #1
Dirty Plotte #1 4.39 avg rating — 103 ratings
37.
The Pigman & Me (The Pigman, #3)
The Pigman & Me (The Pigman, #3) 3.75 avg rating — 1,022 ratings
38.
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
39.
Long Ago In France: The Years In Dijon
Long Ago In France: The Years In Dijon 3.92 avg rating — 747 ratings
40.
Nothing to Do But Stay
Nothing to Do But Stay 3.98 avg rating — 688 ratings
41.
Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Curious Adventures
Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Curious Adventures 3.07 avg rating — 550 ratings
42.
Mrs. Thatcher's Minister: The Private Diaries of Alan Clark
Mrs. Thatcher's Minister: The Private Diaries of Alan Clark 4.03 avg rating — 550 ratings
43.
Rachel Calof's Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains
Rachel Calof's Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains 4.10 avg rating — 501 ratings
44.
Daddy's Girl: Comics
Daddy's Girl: Comics 3.80 avg rating — 444 ratings
45.
Coming Home Crazy: An Alphabet of China Essays
Coming Home Crazy: An Alphabet of China Essays
by: Bill Holm
4.07 avg rating — 309 ratings
46.
Last Places: A Journey in the North
Last Places: A Journey in the North 4.02 avg rating — 290 ratings
47.
If Symptoms Persist: Anecdotes from a Doctor
If Symptoms Persist: Anecdotes from a Doctor 3.97 avg rating — 249 ratings
48.
The Amazing "True" Story of a Teenage Single Mom
The Amazing "True" Story of a Teenage Single Mom 3.94 avg rating — 228 ratings
49.
Written by Herself: Autobiographies of American Women: An Anthology
Written by Herself: Autobiographies of American Women: An Anthology 4.12 avg rating — 224 ratings
50.
Eastern Sun, Winter Moon: An Autobiographical Odyssey
Eastern Sun, Winter Moon: An Autobiographical Odyssey 4.17 avg rating — 198 ratings
51.
A Boy Named Phyllis: A Suburban Memoir
A Boy Named Phyllis: A Suburban Memoir 3.72 avg rating — 181 ratings
52.
The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica
The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica 3.99 avg rating — 171 ratings
53.
Chicago Days/Hoboken Nights
Chicago Days/Hoboken Nights 4.15 avg rating — 165 ratings
54.
A House in Flanders
A House in Flanders 4.02 avg rating — 159 ratings
55.
The Heart Can Be Filled Anywhere on Earth
The Heart Can Be Filled Anywhere on Earth
by: Bill Holm
4.21 avg rating — 149 ratings
56.
The Hole in the Flag: A Romanian Exile's Story of Return & Revolution
The Hole in the Flag: A Romanian Exile's Story of Return & Revolution 4.15 avg rating — 125 ratings
57.
Stay Me, Oh Comfort Me: Journals and Stories, 1933-1941
Stay Me, Oh Comfort Me: Journals and Stories, 1933-1941 4.09 avg rating — 118 ratings
58.
Walking on Walnuts
Walking on Walnuts 3.82 avg rating — 78 ratings
59.
Homesteading
Homesteading 3.77 avg rating — 62 ratings
60.
Tracks Across Alaska: A Dog Sled Journey
Tracks Across Alaska: A Dog Sled Journey 3.87 avg rating — 55 ratings
61.
An Evening Among Headhunters: & Other Reports from Roads Less Traveled
An Evening Among Headhunters: & Other Reports from Roads Less Traveled 3.79 avg rating — 47 ratings
62.
Recipe for Disaster
Recipe for Disaster 3.96 avg rating — 26 ratings
63.
Patchwork Child: Early Memories
Patchwork Child: Early Memories 3.91 avg rating — 23 ratings
64.
A Kind of Magic
A Kind of Magic 3.74 avg rating — 23 ratings
65.
A Bundle from Britain
A Bundle from Britain 3.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
66.
Mary Carbery's West Cork Journals
Mary Carbery's West Cork Journals 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
67.
Accidental Genius
Accidental Genius 3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
68.
The Lock Keeper's Daughter
The Lock Keeper's Daughter 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
69.
Fetched-Up Yankee: A New England Boyhood Remembered
Fetched-Up Yankee: A New England Boyhood Remembered 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
70.
LZ Cowboy: A Cowboy's Journal 1979-1981
LZ Cowboy: A Cowboy's Journal 1979-1981 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
71.
Crete Was My Waterloo
Crete Was My Waterloo 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
72.
Daughter of the Regiment: Memoirs of a Childhood in the Frontier Army, 1878-1898
Daughter of the Regiment: Memoirs of a Childhood in the Frontier Army, 1878-1898 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
73.
Soldiers of the Old Army (Volume 15) (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series)
Soldiers of the Old Army (Volume 15) (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
74.
A Stroud Valley Childhood
A Stroud Valley Childhood liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
75.
The Spacious Days
The Spacious Days 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
76.
Living Through the Blitz
Living Through the Blitz really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
77.
Under the Cherry Trees: The Autobiography of a Gloucestershire Lad
Under the Cherry Trees: The Autobiography of a Gloucestershire Lad 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
78.
A Lincolnshire childhood
A Lincolnshire childhood liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
79.
Born Yesterday: Memories of a Scottish Childhood (Transaction Large Print Books)
Born Yesterday: Memories of a Scottish Childhood (Transaction Large Print Books) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
80.
Clayhanger: A Wartime Childhood
Clayhanger: A Wartime Childhood liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating