List of fictional diaries
This is a list of works of fiction written in diary format:
- The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer by Jennifer Lynch
- Any Human Heart:The Intimate Jorunals of Logan Mountstuart by William Boyd
- The Adrian Mole series by Sue Townsend
- 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
- Bert diaries by Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson.
- The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
- Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
- Candid Confessions by Patrick Maher
- Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- The Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison
- 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 Wimpy Kid (series) by Jeff Kinney
- Dinotopia by James Gurney
- Diary of a Seducer by Søren Kierkegaard
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- Dracula's Diary by Michael Corby & Michael Geare
- 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
- 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
- A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
- The Little White Bird by J.M.Barrie
- 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
- Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal
- My Story, a series of historical novels for children.
- Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller
- Nausea (novel) by Jean-Paul_Satre
- Pamela by Samuel Richardson
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
- Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty
- So Much To Tell You by John Marsden
- Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson
- Tintin's Travel Diaries by Margaret Walker
- 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
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.
- 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.
- The diaries of Flannery Culp in Daniel Handler's The Basic Eight.
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)
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)