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Dear Diary

Amelia’s Notebook by Marissa Moss (“Amelia” series) (handwritten notebook with drawings)

Among Friends by Caroline Cooney (diary format from multiple points of view)

Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison (diary format – British humor)

Annie's Baby: The Diary of Anonymous Pregnant Teenager edited by Beatrice Sparks, PhD.

Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez (diary format, escape from Dominican Republic)

Dear America Series (historical diaries from girls)

Dear Dumb Diary series by Jim Benton (diary format)

Dear Ellen Bee: A Civil War Scrapbook of Two Union Spies by Mary E. Lyons

Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

Don't You Dare Read This Mrs. Dunphrey by Margaret Peterson Haddix (diary of neglected teenager)

Dork Diaries by Renee Russell

Go Ask Alice by Anonomous (diary of drug addiction)

Hard Love by Ellen Wittinger (zine format)

My Name is America Series (historical diaries from boys)

P. S. Longer Letter Later and Snail Mail No More by Paula Danziger and Ann M. Martin (letter format)

Rats Saw God by Rob Thomas (100 page assignment)

Regarding the Fountain, Regarding the Sink (“Regarding the…” series by Klise) (letters/documents/pics)

Royal Diaries Series (historical diaries from princesses)

Tangerine by Edward Bloor (diary format)

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (diary format)

The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot (diary format)

Witch Child by Celia Rees (diary of witch hunts)

Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman (diary from a girl in the Middle Ages)

Books in Letter or Diary Form (Public Library) Compiled on YALSABK

1000 White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus

84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

The Adrian Mole diaries by Sue Townsend

The Boy Series: Boy Meets Girl, The Boy Next Door, and Every Boy's Got One by Meg Cabot

Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding

Cathy's ring : if found call (650) 266-8263 by Sean Stewart; Jordan Weisman; Cathy Brigg

The "Cecy and Kate" series by Patricia Wrede & Caroline Stevermer: Sorcery and Cecilia; The Grand Tour; The Mislaid Magician

The color purple by Alice Walker

The Diary of Mattie Spenser by Sandra Dallas

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea

Griffin and Sabine by Nick Bantock

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

A history of the African-American people (proposed) by Strom Thurmond : a novel as told to Percival Everett & James Kincaid

Journal: The Short Life and Mysterious Death of Amy Zoe Mason

Les Liasons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Letters From the Earth, Mark Twain

Letters from Yellowstone by Diane Smith

Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

The Life History of a Star by Kelly Easton

Life on the Refrigerator Door by Alice Kuipers

The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. by Sandra Gulland

On Agate Hill by Lee Smith

Pamela, or virtue rewarded by Samuel Richardson

The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks by Robertson Davies

Pictures From An Expedition by Diane Smith

The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot

The pull of the moon by Elizabeth Berg

The queen of the tambourine Jane Gardam

Rosie Dunne by Cecelia Ahearn

S. by John Updike

Sarah's Season by Martha Moore Davis

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

Shamela by Henry Fielding

So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba

These is My Words by Nancy Turner

Up the down staircase by by Bel Kaufman

The Venetian's wife : a strangely sensual tale of a Renaissance explorer, a computer, and a transformation by Nick Bantock

We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver

The Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright

The Whalestoe Letters by Mark Z. Danielewski

The white tiger : a novel by Aravind Adiga

A woman of independent means by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Cathy's ring : if found call (650) 266-8263 by Sean Stewart; Jordan Weisman; Cathy Brigg

Don't You Dare Read This Mrs. Dunphrey by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

See Also:

• RIYL Diary of a Wimpy Kid

• RIYL Alternative Formats

• Personal Journal