List of fictional diaries

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This is a list of works of fiction written in diary format:

• The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer by Jennifer Lynch
• The Adrian Mole series by Sue Townsend
• Alice, I Think by Susan Juby
• The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes series by Anne Mazer
• The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
• Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
• Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• The Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison
• The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester
• Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos
• Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol
• Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
• Diary of a Seducer by Søren Kierkegaard
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
• For Love or Money by Michael J. Ritchie
• From the Files of Madison Finn series by Laura Dower
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (book) by Anita Loos
• A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
• Mémoires d'Hadrien (Memoirs of Hadrian) by Marguerite Yourcenar
• Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph by Frances Sheridan
• Pamela by Samuel Richardson
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
• Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty
• The Tale of Murasaki by Liza Dalby
• The Turner Diaries, by Andrew MacDonald
• The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Z for Zachariah, by Robert C. O'Brien

[edit] Diaries appearing in fiction

• 500 year diary, kept by the Doctor in the television series Doctor Who
• Eustace Clarence Scrubb's diary in Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
• Tom Riddle's diary in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
• Superman's giant-sized diary kept at his Fortress of Solitude
• The diaries of Cam Triompe in the Elfquest comics (mentioned in the sub-series Fire-Eye and The Rebels)
• The diaries of every sentient being ever to live on the Discworld appear in Mort and other Discworld books by Terry Pratchett
• The character Darren Shan keeps a diary throughout the The Saga of Darren Shan, written by Darren Shan.
• Cathy's Book: If Found Call 650-266-8233 by Sean Stewart & Jordan Weisman.
• Caroline Snow's diary in Low Red Moon by Caitlín R. Kiernan.

[edit] Hoaxes

• Hitler Diaries by Konrad Kujau (1983)
• Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks (1971)
• Confessions of a Dangerous Mind by Chuck Barris (2002)
• The Education of Little Tree by Asa Earl Carter (1977)
• A Rock and a Hard Place by Anthony Godby Johnson (1993)
• My Own Sweet Time by "Wanda Koolmatrie," really Leon Carmen (1994)
• Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood 1939-1948 by "Binjamin Wilkomirski" really Bruno Grosjean (1995)
• A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (2003)

[edit] Disputed

• Various works edited by Beatrice Sparks (author of Go Ask Alice) including:
  • Jay's Journal (1979)
  • It Happened to Nancy: By an Anonymous Teenager (1994)
  • Almost Lost: The True Story of an Anonymous Teenager's Life on the Streets (1996)
  • It's My Candle: By an Anonymous Teenager - A True Story from His Diary (1996)
  • Annie's Baby: The Diary of Anonymous, A Pregnant Teenager (1998)
  • Treacherous Love: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager (2000)
  • Kim: Empty Inside: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager (2002)
  • Finding Katie : The Diary of Anonymous, A Teenager in Foster Care (2005)