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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferDracula by Bram StokerThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyBridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
Epistolary Fiction
855 books — 846 voters
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferDracula by Bram StokerThe Color Purple by Alice Walker
Epistolary Novels
187 books — 268 voters

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 — 265 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonA Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
My Favourite Non Fiction Books
1,381 books — 263 voters

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregoryThe White Queen by Philippa GregoryThe Constant Princess by Philippa GregoryThe Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa GregoryNefertiti by Michelle Moran
Royal Fiction
525 books — 226 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 Life and Death of Anne Boleyn by Eric IvesThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregoryThe Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirThe Lady in the Tower by Alison WeirThe Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser
Best Books about Anne Boleyn
87 books — 185 voters

Voyage on the Great Titanic by Ellen Emerson WhiteThe Girl Who Came Home by Hazel GaynorThe Second Mrs. Astor by Shana AbeFateful by Claudia GrayRaise the Titanic! by Clive Cussler
Fiction about the Titanic
135 books — 182 voters
Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierGone Girl by Gillian FlynnDon't Close Your Eyes by Lynessa JamesComplicated Moonlight by Lynessa LayneThe Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Best Books of Secrets
239 books — 125 voters

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownBlack Elk Speaks by John G. NeihardtEmpire of the Summer Moon by S.C. GwynneLakota Woman by Mary Crow DogWhere White Men Fear to Tread by Russell Means
Native American Biography (nonfiction)
430 books — 122 voters
Go Ask Alice by Beatrice SparksThe Princess Diaries by Meg CabotLove, Stargirl by Jerry SpinelliDon't Peek by Marita A. HansenAngus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
YA Diary Novels
117 books — 116 voters

Anastasia by Carolyn MeyerThe Kitchen Boy by Robert AlexanderThe Lost Crown by Sarah MillerThe Romanov Brides by Clare McHughForty-Ninth by Boris Pronsky
Fiction featuring the Romanov Family
77 books — 111 voters
The Jolly Postman or Other People's Letters by Janet AhlbergDiary of a Worm by Doreen CroninThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankToot & Puddle by Holly HobbieDiary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
Children's Books with Letters, Mail, Notes, Diaries, Journals, or Postcards
155 books — 100 voters

Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen FieldingDracula by Bram StokerDaddy-Long-Legs by Jean WebsterThe Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue TownsendThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Fictional Diaries and Journals
155 books — 85 voters
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregoryExit the Actress by Priya ParmarI, Claudius by Robert GravesTales of Passion, Tales of Woe by Sandra GullandThe Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. by Sandra Gulland
Best First Person Historical Fiction
148 books — 85 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankAnne Frank Remembered by Miep GiesAnne Frank Beyond the Diary by Ruud van der RolAnne Frank by Melissa MüllerAnne Frank by Francine Prose
Anne Frank: The Best Books to read about her life and diary
80 books — 84 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

Wood, Talc And Mr. J by Chris RoseThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsGoodnight, and Thanks for the Vodka [2002] by HarpieHigh Couch of Silistra by Janet E. MorrisTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Best Main Character
100 books — 66 voters
A Life in Secrets by Sarah HelmThe Hiding Place by Corrie ten BoomThe Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Hahn BeerA Woman in Berlin by AnonymousWe Band of Angels by Elizabeth M. Norman
Women In World War II---Non-Fiction
226 books — 65 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankBridget Jones’s Diary by Helen FieldingThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman AlexieDiary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff KinneyThe Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
Books with Diary in the Title
629 books — 62 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel PepysThe Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia PlathVoyage of the Beagle by Charles DarwinA Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf
The Assassin's Cloak: Diaries and Journals
228 books — 59 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
Goodnight, and Thanks for the Vodka [2002] by HarpieThe Covert Buccaneer by S. Lucia Kanter St. Amour2003 - Thanks for the Vodka by HarpieThe Syrian Virgin by Zack LoveThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Books Written As Diaries <3
29 books — 56 voters

Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt StewartTomboy Bride by Harriet Fish BackusWe Pointed Them North by E.C. "Teddy Blue" AbbottDoc Susie by Virginia CornellA Bride Goes West by Nannie T. Alderson
The Old West in First Person
266 books — 46 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
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy1984 by George OrwellAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
I Won't Die Before I Read These:
82 books — 30 voters

Anastasia by Carolyn MeyerVoyage on the Great Titanic by Ellen Emerson WhiteElizabeth I by Kathryn LaskyCleopatra VII by Kristiana GregoryMarie Antoinette by Kathryn Lasky
Historical Fiction from Scholastic
103 books — 29 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

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