Avis Black's votes on the list Best Memoirs Published in the 1980s

Listopia > Avis Black's votes on the list Best Memoirs Published in the 1980s (67 Books)

1	Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman 4.26 avg rating — 218,725 ratings Avis rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street by Michael Lewis 4.15 avg rating — 112,567 ratings Avis rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story by Ann Rule 4.14 avg rating — 112,579 ratings Avis rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	A Year in Provence (Provence, #1) by Peter Mayle 4.01 avg rating — 83,531 ratings Avis rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Boy by Roald Dahl 4.07 avg rating — 74,065 ratings Avis rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson 3.81 avg rating — 64,947 ratings Avis rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by Eugene B. Sledge 4.50 avg rating — 48,179 ratings Avis rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Going Solo (Roald Dahl's Autobiography, #2) by Roald Dahl 4.06 avg rating — 33,735 ratings Avis rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman 4.19 avg rating — 30,807 ratings Avis rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux (Goodreads Author) 4.24 avg rating — 21,333 ratings Avis rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway 4.02 avg rating — 13,469 ratings Avis rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje 3.83 avg rating — 9,990 ratings Avis rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	The Good War by Studs Terkel 4.30 avg rating — 4,865 ratings Avis rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Something Like an Autobiography by Akira Kurosawa 4.13 avg rating — 4,579 ratings Avis rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace by Le Ly Hayslip 4.13 avg rating — 4,393 ratings Avis rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James 3.87 avg rating — 4,306 ratings Avis rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez by Richard Rodríguez 3.33 avg rating — 3,631 ratings Avis rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Iron & Silk by Mark Salzman 3.97 avg rating — 3,582 ratings Avis rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Italian Neighbors by Tim Parks (Goodreads Author) 3.71 avg rating — 3,169 ratings Avis rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady by Florence King 4.01 avg rating — 1,989 ratings Avis rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making by Michael Caine 4.24 avg rating — 1,910 ratings Avis rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	The Girl with the White Flag by Tomiko Higa 4.26 avg rating — 1,271 ratings Avis rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot by John Callahan 3.92 avg rating — 966 ratings Avis rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Is That it? by Bob Geldof 3.93 avg rating — 857 ratings Avis rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family by Yoshiko Uchida 3.88 avg rating — 847 ratings Avis rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	To School Through The Fields by Alice Taylor (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 673 ratings Avis rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Fish Whistle: Commentaries, Uncommentaries, And Vulgar Excesses by Daniel Pinkwater 4.09 avg rating — 367 ratings Avis rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Clinging to the Wreckage: Another Part of Life by John Mortimer 3.97 avg rating — 364 ratings Avis rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Italian Days by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison 3.67 avg rating — 281 ratings Avis rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Time Remembered by Miss Read 4.23 avg rating — 202 ratings Avis rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Marilyn Monroe in Her Own Words by Roger Taylor 4.07 avg rating — 159 ratings Avis rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	How I Grew by Mary McCarthy 3.49 avg rating — 148 ratings Avis rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Second Person Rural by Noel Perrin 4.16 avg rating — 121 ratings Avis rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	A Childhood in Scotland by Christian Miller 4.17 avg rating — 103 ratings Avis rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Third Person Rural: Further Essays of a Sometime Farmer by Noel Perrin 4.11 avg rating — 101 ratings Avis rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Will This Do? An Autobiography by Hillary Waugh 3.73 avg rating — 101 ratings Avis rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	To Keep the Ball Rolling: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell by Anthony Powell 4.01 avg rating — 95 ratings Avis rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Growing up on the Chocolate Diet by Lora Brody 4.54 avg rating — 89 ratings Avis rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	A Life in Our Times: Memoirs by John Kenneth Galbraith 4.13 avg rating — 87 ratings Avis rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Recollections of a Handcart Pioneer of 1860: A Woman's Life on the Mormon Frontier by Mary Ann Hafen 4.07 avg rating — 71 ratings Avis rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Dakota Diaspora: Memoirs of a Jewish Homesteader by Sophie Trupin 3.86 avg rating — 51 ratings Avis rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Perfect Pitch by Nicolas Slonimsky 4.47 avg rating — 45 ratings Avis rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Panhandle Cowboy by John R. Erickson (Goodreads Author) 4.10 avg rating — 31 ratings Avis rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	A Kingston Lacy Childhood by PAMELA WATKIN 4.03 avg rating — 32 ratings Avis rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	A Penny's Worth of Minced Ham: Another Look at the Great Depression by Robert J. Hastings really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings Avis rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	The Boy Who Shot Down an Airship by Michael Frederick Green 3.50 avg rating — 20 ratings Avis rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	Pulling Leather: Being the Early Recollections of a Cowboy on the Wyoming Range, 1884-1889 by Reuben B. Mullins 3.79 avg rating — 19 ratings Avis rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	An Englishwoman In India: The Memoirs Of Harriet Tytler 1828 1858 by Harriet Tytler 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings Avis rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Liddell's Record by St. John Richardson Liddell 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings Avis rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	When God Was an Atheist Sailor: Memories of a Childhood at Sea 1902-1910 by Burgess Cogill 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings Avis rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	The Rich Mrs Robinson by Winifred Beechey 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings Avis rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	Five to Seven: The Story of a 1920s Childhood by Diana Noel 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings Avis rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	Scot Free: a journey from the Arctic to New Mexico by Alastair Scott really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings Avis rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	A Child's War: The Occupation of the Channel Islands Through a Child's Eyes by Molly Bihet 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings Avis rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	My Grandfather's House by Charles Ritchie 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings Avis rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	From middle England: A memory of the 1930s by Philip Oakes 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings Avis rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	Cowboys, Cooks, and Catastrophes by Reba P. Cunningham 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings Avis rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	Where Have All the Cowslips Gone? - Wessex Memories by Venetia Murray (Editor) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings Avis rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	A Nice Clean Plate: Recollections 1919 - 1931 by Lavinia Smiley 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings Avis rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen: A Memoir by Clifton Daniel liked it 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings Avis rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	A Book of Chores by Bob Artley 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings Avis rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	A Garland of Daisies: A Jersey Childhood by Margaret Vaudin 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings Avis rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	A Country School by Bob Artley 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings Avis rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	A Somerset Childhood by Phyllis Wyatt liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating Avis rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
65	Steel Beams & Iron Men by Mike Cherry liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating Avis rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	Dwellers all in time and space: A memory of the 1940s by Philip Oakes liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating Avis rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
67	My First Job by Pam Schweitzer liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating Avis rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars