The Modern Library

TWENTY OF THE BEST WRITTEN SINCE 1950

J. R. Ackerley

My Father and Myself 1968

Nirad C. Chaudhuri

The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian 1951

Frank Conroy

Stop Time 1968

Jill Ker Conway

The Road to Corain 1989

Harry Crews

A Childhood: The Biography of a Place 1978

Quentin Crisp

The Naked Civil Servant 1968

G. H. Hardy

A Mathematician’s Apology 1951

Lillian Hellman

An Unfinished Woman 1969

Pentimento 1973

Scoundrel Time 1976

Michael Herr

Dispatches 1977

Christopher Hope

White Boy Running 1988

Mary Karr

The Liar’s Club 1995

Maxine Hong Kingston

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Childhood Among Ghosts 1976

China Men 1980

Robert McAlmon and Kay Boyle

Being Geniuses Together 1920–1930 (1984 edition)

Frank McCourt

Angela’s Ashes 1997

Rian Malan

My Traitor’s Heart 1990

Arthur Miller

Timebends 1987

Jessica Mitford

Hons and Rebels 1977

Frank Moorhouse

Martini: A Memoir 2005

Sally Morgan

My Place 1987

Blake Morrison

When Did You Last See Your Father? 1996

Nuala O’Faolain

Are You Somebody 1997