I read some INCREDIBLE memoirs and here are 10 of them

10 memoirs that are everything I like in books (Victorian England, WWI, East Central Europe, and Dame Hilary Mantel herself, plus Russell Crowe catching strays)

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-Victoria Amelina essay ("Nothing Bad Has Ever Happened"): https://www.arrowsmithpress.com/nothi...

Books Mentioned:
-The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant (edited by Elisabeth Jay)
-Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks
-Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
-How I Came to Know Fish by Ota Pavel (translated from Czech by Jindřiška Badal and Robert McDowell)
-The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
-Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History by Lea Ypi
-After the Wall: Confessions from an East German Childhood and the Life That Came Next by Jana Hensel (translated from German by Jefferson Chase)
-A Little Annihilation by Anna Janko (translated from Polish by Philip Boehm)
-A Loss: The Story of a Dead Soldier Told by His Sister by Olesya Khromeychuk
-Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel


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00:00 Introduction
00:35 #1: The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant
04:03 #2: Memorial Days
06:54 #3: Goodbye to All That
11:40 #4: How I Came to Know Fish
14:22 #5: The Woman Warrior
18:00 #6: Free
21:27 #7: After the Wall
25:26 #8: A Little Annihilation
28:21 #9: A Loss
31:54 #10: Giving Up the Ghost
35:01 Outrooo