List five books that are diaries or in Diary format
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2bluesalamanders
Catherine, Called Birdy
Venetian's Wife
Terrier
The Sagan Diary
Travels with Charley (I think; it's been a while since I read it)
Venetian's Wife
Terrier
The Sagan Diary
Travels with Charley (I think; it's been a while since I read it)
3lilithcat
Oh, this one's too easy:
The Diary of Samuel Sewall, 1674-1729, by Samuel Sewall
Diary of Hansel and Gretel, by Kees Moerbeek
Diaries, 1942-1945 : Ancestral voices & Prophesying peace, by James Lees-Milne
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, by Anita Loos
Transcendental Wild Oats and Excerpts from the Fruitlands Diary, by Louisa May Alcott
The Diary of Samuel Sewall, 1674-1729, by Samuel Sewall
Diary of Hansel and Gretel, by Kees Moerbeek
Diaries, 1942-1945 : Ancestral voices & Prophesying peace, by James Lees-Milne
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, by Anita Loos
Transcendental Wild Oats and Excerpts from the Fruitlands Diary, by Louisa May Alcott
4ine1976
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. :)
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
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)
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
> 5
You might want to save Ella Minnow Pea for when someone gets around to doing a "List Five Books" for epistolary novels.
You might want to save Ella Minnow Pea for when someone gets around to doing a "List Five Books" for epistolary novels.
7LynnB
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?
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I read almost entirely library books, and wouldn't be able to be here just on what I physically own at the moment.
14varielle
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
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
15myshelves
Spandau: The Secret Diaries Albert Speer
Mr Hudson's Diaries Michael Hardwick
All For the Union : the Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
Notes from the Underground Fyodor Dostoyevsky
An Elizabethan in 1582: The Diary of Richard Madox, Fellow of All Souls Elizabeth Story Donno
Mr Hudson's Diaries Michael Hardwick
All For the Union : the Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
Notes from the Underground Fyodor Dostoyevsky
An Elizabethan in 1582: The Diary of Richard Madox, Fellow of All Souls Elizabeth Story Donno
16thorold
Trixie by Wallace Graves
I capture the castle by Dodie Smith
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (partly a diary)
Edith's Diary by Patricia Highsmith
I can't believe that no-one's done:
The diary of a nobody by George Grossmith (& Weedon)
I capture the castle by Dodie Smith
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (partly a diary)
Edith's Diary by Patricia Highsmith
I can't believe that no-one's done:
The diary of a nobody by George Grossmith (& Weedon)
17AngelaB86
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. :)
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
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
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
19gforce7
Some more Sue Townsend:-
Adrian Mole And the Weapons of Mass Destruction
Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years
True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole, Margaret Hilda Roberts and Susan Lilian Townsend
&
Famine Diary: Journey to a New World by James Moangan
Mr. Bean's Diary by Rowan Atkinsonlol :p
Adrian Mole And the Weapons of Mass Destruction
Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years
True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole, Margaret Hilda Roberts and Susan Lilian Townsend
&
Famine Diary: Journey to a New World by James Moangan
Mr. Bean's Diary by Rowan Atkinsonlol :p