List of fictional diaries

Fictional diaries

• For Your Eyes Only! by Joanne Rocklin
• 3 Nbs of Julian Drew by James M. Deem
• The Adrian Mole series by Sue Townsend
• The African Safari Papers by Robert Sedlack
• A Gathering of Days by Joan W. Blos
• Alice, I Think by Susan Juby
• The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes series by Anne Mazer
• The American Diary of a Japanese Girl by Yone Noguchi
• Any Human Heart:The Intimate Journals of Logan Mountstuart by William Boyd
• The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler
• Bert diaries by Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson.
• The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
• Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
• California Diaries (series) by Ann M. Martin
• Candid Confessions by Patrick Maher
• Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
• Charmed Thirds by Megan McCafferty
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison
• Dangling Man by Saul Bellow
• Dear Dumb Diary by Jim Benton
• The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester
• Diary by Chuck Palahniuk.
• Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos
• The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red by Ridley Pearson
• Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol
• Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith
• Diary of a Pilgrimage by Jerome K Jerome
• Diary of a Seducer by Søren Kierkegaard
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
• Dinotopia by James Gurney
• Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Dork Diaries by Rachel Renee Russell
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• Dracula's Diary by Michael Corby & Michael Geare
• Exploits of a Reluctant (But Extremely Goodlooking) Hero by Maureen Fergus
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
• Frankenstein's Monster: A Novel by Susan Heyboer O' Keefe
• From the Files of Madison Finn series by Laura Dower
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (book) by Anita Loos
• Go Ask Malice: A Slayer's Diary by Robert Joseph Levy
• Hidden Passions: Secrets from the Diaries of Tabitha Lenox by Alice Alfonsi and James E. Reilly
• Houseboy by Ferdinand Oyono
• Jazmin's Notebook by Nikki Grimes
• A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
• The Little White Bird by J.M.Barrie
• Love, Sara by Mary Beth Lundgren
• Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
• Mémoires d'Hadrien (Memoirs of Hadrian) by Marguerite Yourcenar
• Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph by Frances Sheridan
• The Moneypenny Diaries by Samantha Weinburg
• The Moth Diaries by Rachel Klein
• My Story, a series of historical novels for children
• Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal
• Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
• Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller
• Pamela by Samuel Richardson
• The Pendragon Adventure by D. J. MacHale (a series of ten novels)
• The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
• The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer by Jennifer Lynch
• The Story of B by Daniel Quinn
• Random Acts of Senseless Violence by Jack Womack
• Returnable Girl by Pamela Lowell
• Runaway by Wendelin Van Draanen
• Second Helpings by Megan McCafferty
• The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn by Robin Maxwell
• Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty
• So Much To Tell You by John Marsden
• Spud by John van de Ruit
• Spud: the Madness Continues by John van de Ruit
• Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson
• The Tale of Murasaki by Liza Dalby
• Tintin's Travel Diaries by Margaret Walker
• The Turner Diaries, by Andrew MacDonald
• The Vampire Diaries by L.J. Smith - Note: This has only partial diary entries in diary format. The rest of the book is in text form.
• The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Walking Backward, by Catherine Austen
• Youth in Revolt by C.D. Pyane
• Z for Zachariah, by Robert C. O'Brien

• 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)

Diaries appearing in fiction

• Amy Dunne's diary in Gone Girl
• 500 year diary, A Journal of Impossible Things, River Song's diary, kept by the Doctor, Joan Redfern and Melody Pond/River Song respectively 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 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.
• Mrs Dale's Diary in the BBC radio series of the same name.
• The Diary of Horace Wimp by Electric Light Orchestra.
• The Grail Diary kept by Dr. Henry Walton Jones Sr. in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
• The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones. Written by Indiana himself, it chronicles approximately 57 or 58 years of his life including all of his adventures.
• Jonathan Gilbert's Journal's in The Vampire Diaries
• The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing sections in "Cloud Atlas".
• The diary of Laura Palmer in David Lynch's "Twin Peaks".
• The diaries of Flannery Culp in Daniel Handler's The Basic Eight.
• Elena Gilbert's Journal in The Vampire Diaries
• Stefan Salvatore's Journal in The Vampire Diaries
• Dr Delia Surrige's diary in V for Vendetta (film).

Hoaxes

• The Diary of a Farmer’s Wife 1796-1797 by Anne Hughes (1937)
• 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 Leon Carmen under the pseudonym "Wanda Koolmatrie" (1994)
• Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood 1939-1948 by "Binjamin Wilkomirski" really Bruno Grosjean (1995)
• A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (2003)

See also

• Epistolary novel

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