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I Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithThe Princess Diaries by Meg CabotThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyBridget Jones’s Diary by Helen FieldingThe Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend
Best Diary Novels
169 books — 266 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankA Writer's Diary by Virginia WoolfThe Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia PlathA Woman in Berlin by AnonymousIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs
Women's Journals and Diaries in History
469 books — 212 voters

Wreck This Journal by Keri SmithThis Is Not a Book by Keri SmithListography Journal by Lisa NolaHow to Be an Explorer of the World by Keri SmithMess by Keri Smith
Journals That Spark Extreme Creativity
265 books — 198 voters
The Martian by Andy WeirThe Frozen River by Ariel LawhonThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodDracula by Bram StokerThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
52 Book Club 2025: #32 - Includes A Diary Entry
169 books — 122 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankWhat We Think We Become by Durgesh SatpathyThe Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel PepysBerlin Diaries, 1940-1945 by Marie VassiltchikovDon't Peek by Marita A. Hansen
Non-Fiction Diaries
125 books — 77 voters
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskySpeak by Laurie Halse AndersonLife As We Knew It by Susan Beth PfefferThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman AlexieThis World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Epistolary Young Adult Novels
79 books — 57 voters

Shōgun by James ClavellThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasRoots by Alex HaleyWolf Hall by Hilary MantelWhen Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman
Truly Massive Biography, Real or Imagined
264 books — 40 voters
Positive Winning Soul Defeating Prader-Willi Syndrome by Rhoda L. Ross-WilliamsI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouWill in the World by Stephen GreenblattOn Writing by Stephen KingWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
Writers' Lives (nonfiction)
367 books — 32 voters

Jus Breathe by B. Lynn CarterLove Letters to the Dead by Ava DellairaWhy We Broke Up by Daniel HandlerGena/Finn by Hannah MoskowitzFeeling Sorry for Celia by Jaclyn Moriarty
YA & Middle Grade Epistolary Novels
203 books — 28 voters
Anastasia by Carolyn MeyerElizabeth I by Kathryn LaskyVoyage on the Great Titanic by Ellen Emerson WhiteMarie Antoinette by Kathryn LaskyA Journey to the New World by Kathryn Lasky
Scholastic Diaries
281 books — 25 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankA Woman in Berlin by AnonymousJambusters by Julie SummersDesert Exile by Yoshiko UchidaBlitz Writing by Inez Holden
Everyday Lives in History: 1940s (nonfiction)
130 books — 23 voters
The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress by Mark TwainTwo Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr.Voyage of the Beagle by Charles DarwinSailing Alone around the World by Joshua SlocumThe Travels by Marco Polo
Classic Travelogues
27 books — 21 voters

The Covert Buccaneer by S. Lucia Kanter St. AmourThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankHarriet the Spy by Louise FitzhughWalk Two Moons by Sharon CreechBreaking Up by Aimee Friedman
Secret Diary
24 books — 21 voters
Growing a Seminary in Ethiopia by Carl E. HansenMayflower by Nathaniel PhilbrickRoger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul by John M. BarryMaking Haste from Babylon by Nick BunkerThe Name of War by Jill Lepore
Puritans (nonfiction)
114 books — 13 voters

Twopence to Cross the Mersey by Helen ForresterGrowing Up by Russell BakerA Girl from Yamhill by Beverly ClearyThe Dream by Harry BernsteinLittle Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
Great Depression Memoirs
44 books — 11 voters
Desert Solitaire by Edward AbbeyPilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie DillardWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauThe Good Life by Scott NearingFire Season by Philip Connors
Homestead Memoirs
125 books — 10 voters

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferWhere'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria SempleAttachments by Rainbow RowellLady Susan by Jane AustenIlluminae by Amie Kaufman
Epistolary Novels and Novels in Documents
53 books — 9 voters
Diary of a Waitress by Carolyn MeyerYours from the Tower by Sally NichollsA Gathering of Days by Joan W. BlosThe Poison Diaries by Maryrose WoodDeadly by Julie Chibbaro
Children's Epistolary Historical Fiction
26 books — 6 voters

The Carrie Diaries by Candace BushnellThe Princess Diaries by Meg CabotTrainers V. Tiaras by Grace DentRubies in the Snow by Kate HubbardBlue Diary by Alice Hoffman
Diary Covers
47 books — 5 voters
From Meidelach to Matriarchs ~ A Journal by Mirta Ines TruppGreat Cover Journal by Kallie KnightMy Reading Journal by The Collective for the Supp...The Quotes From Women Writers Journal and Appointment Book 2021 by The Collective for the Supp...
Books I love to write in
4 books — 5 voters

Diary of a Worm by Doreen CroninDiary of a Fly by Doreen CroninKitty by Robyn SupranerDiary of a Spider by Doreen CroninUFO Diary by Satoshi Kitamura
Diary Picture Books
11 books — 4 voters
Leonardo's Notebooks by Leonardo da VinciSouth and West by Joan DidionThe Duty of Delight by Dorothy DayThe Mirror Has Scars by Nilakshi GargThe Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon
Notebooks, Journals and Diaries of Remarkable People
49 books — 4 voters

Baptized in Blood by Charles Reagan WilsonGod's Almost Chosen Peoples by George C. RableA Consuming Fire by Eugene D. GenoveseChristian Reconstruction by Joe M. RichardsonOur Country by Grant R. Brodrecht
Christians and the American Civil War, 1861-1865 (nonfiction)
47 books — 3 voters
Bite Me by Ally HilfigerBelieve Me by Yolanda HadidTending Clay, Unearthing Stars by M.J. AnthonyOut of the Woods by Katina I. MakrisSick by Porochista Khakpour
Lyme Disease Memoirs
7 books — 3 voters

A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca SolnitThe Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka UgrešićReborn by Susan SontagAs Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh by Susan SontagThe Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje
Mentioned in Lost Children Archive: On Landscape, Love, and History
50 books — 2 voters
The Come As You Are Workbook & Come as You Are By Emily Nagos... by Emily NagoskiPurple Sex & Love Beyond Your Dreams by Dr. J.Girl Boner Journal by August McLaughlin
Women's Sexuality Journals & Workbooks
3 books — 2 voters

ESV Scripture Journal by AnonymousESV Scripture Journal by AnonymousESV Scripture Journal by AnonymousESV Scripture Journal by AnonymousESV Scripture Journal by Anonymous
ESV Scripture Journal
34 books — 1 voter
Black Sun by Edward AbbeyDesolation Angels by Jack KerouacFire Season by Philip ConnorsFire Towers of the Catskills by Martin PodskochAdirondack Fire Towers by Martin Podskoch
Firewatch
17 books — 1 voter

Squelch! The First Annual Journal of the Bowling Green Writer... by Bowling Green Writers' Work...Squelch! The Second Annual Journal of the Bowling Green Write... by Bowling Green Writers' Work...Squelch by Bowling Green Writers' Work...
SQUELCH! Journal of the Bowling Green Writers' Workshop
3 books — 1 voter
Grief One Day at a Time by Alan D. WolfeltSavor by Shauna NiequistA Spring Within Us by Richard RohrStars Inside Her by Terri St. CloudThe Five Minute Journal by Alex Ikonn
Brené Brown’s Library | Journal/Meditation [Brene Brown]
7 books — 1 voter

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