List five books that are diaries or in Diary format

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List five books that are diaries or in Diary format

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1dara85
May 24, 2007, 10:46 am

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2bluesalamanders
May 24, 2007, 11:14 am

4ine1976
Edited: May 24, 2007, 12:22 pm

This is fun!

Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend
Het Achterhuis by Anne Frank
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (I'm pretty sure the chapters were structured like a diary, with date and first-person narrative, but please correct me if I'm wrong)
The diary of Samuel Pepys

Edited because on the first try, I couldn't seem to get the touchstones to work properly... and those make it even more fun. :)

5christiguc
May 24, 2007, 1:35 pm

I don't think I have any that are strictly diary format. With imagination, these come close:

Down the River by Edward Abbey
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa (part of it)
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (a series of diary entries by different people)
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (Watson's diaries in this and many other Sherlock Holmes adventures)
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn (not actually a diary but an exchange of letters and notes)

6lilithcat
May 24, 2007, 1:39 pm

> 5

You might want to save Ella Minnow Pea for when someone gets around to doing a "List Five Books" for epistolary novels.

7LynnB
May 24, 2007, 2:39 pm

The Nanny Diaries
The Stone Diaries
Everything You Know A father receives his estranged daughter's journals shortly after her death.
Nineteen Minutes There are only a few diary entries in this book, but they are key and reveal something very unexpected in the plot.
Raw Shark Texts includes someone with memory loss reading his past journals

I think Lullabies for Little Criminals was written in diary format, but I'm not sure.....does anyone know?

8MerryMary
Edited: May 24, 2007, 7:39 pm

I love this - it's a trivia feast!

Diary of Trilby Frost by Dianne Glaser.

Diary of a young girl by Anne Frank

We are witnesses by Jacob Boas

Tangerine by Edward Bloor

Don't you dare read this, Mrs. Dumphrey by Margaret Haddix

Last title is the wrong touchstone.

9Seajack
May 24, 2007, 7:57 pm

Bridge Jones : The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding
Diary of a Mad Housewife by Sue Kaufman
The Plague and I by Betty MacDonald
No! I Don't Want to Join a Book Club by Virginia Ironside
In Ethiopia with a Mule by Dervla Murphy

11aviddiva
Jun 9, 2007, 1:53 am

Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin
Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French
Bring Me a Unicorn by Anne Morrow Lindberg
The Singing Creek Where The Willows Grow by Opal Whiteley
Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster (although I think this one may be letters...)
Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763

12VictoriaPL
Jun 10, 2007, 5:56 pm

OK, this is my first stab at this, so go easy on me. I didn't know if we're supposed to use books from our libraries or any books we knew of, so I just used books that I own.

The Promise by Donna Boyd
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice
Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin
Lovelock by Orson Scott Card

13Seajack
Jun 10, 2007, 6:04 pm

I read almost entirely library books, and wouldn't be able to be here just on what I physically own at the moment.

14varielle
Edited: Jun 19, 2007, 12:36 pm

The Shorter Pepys by Samuel Pepys
The Lost Diaries of Frans Hals by Michael Kernan
The Country Diary of an Edwardian lady by Edith Hoden
The Hidden Writer: Diaries and the Creative Life by Alexandra Johnson
The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin

16thorold
Edited: Jun 19, 2007, 2:17 pm

17AngelaB86
Jun 19, 2007, 2:52 pm

These is My Words, excellent historical fiction about a woman making a life for herself and her family in the Arizona territories

Children of the Holocaust and World War II: Their Secret Diaries

Mary, Queen of Scots, Queen Without a Country

Kaiulani: the People's Princess

Elisabeth: the Princess Bride

Those last three are cheating, they're from the Royal Diaries series. :)

18wonderlake
Jun 21, 2007, 5:19 am

My current reading!
Diary of a Mad old man by Junichiro Tanizaki

others I can think of:
- The secret diary of Adrian Mole & others in the series by Sue Townsend
The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, Adrian Mole: The Cappucino Years
- The secret diary of Laura Palmer