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List of fictional diaries

January 01, 1970

This is a list of fictional diaries categorized by type, including fictional works in diary form, diaries appearing in fictional works, and hoax diaries.

The first installment of Diary of a Nobody in Punch (1888)

The first category, fictional works in diary form, lists fictional works where the story, or a major part of the story, is told in the form of a character's diary.[1] Diary form is frequently used in fiction for young adults and tweens as well as adults.[2][3] It has been used for multiple books in a series following the diarist's life over many years, such as the Adrian Mole series, the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, and the Dork Diaries series, all of which chronicle the lives of characters who start a diary as children or adolescents and continue their diary as they mature over time. Fictionalised diaries set during distinct historical periods or events have been used since at least the 1970s to bring history to life for young people.[4] Dear America, My Australian Story and related series are recent examples of this genre. The form is also frequently used for fiction about adult women's lives,[5] some notable examples being Bridget Jones's Diary, The Color Purple, and Pamela.

The second category lists fictional works that are not written in diary form, but in which a character keeps a diary, or a diary is otherwise featured as part of the story. Some common uses for diaries in fiction are to reveal to the reader material that is concealed from other characters, to divulge information about past events, or as a device to provide real or false evidence to investigators in mystery or crime fiction.[6] Examples of diaries being used in one of these ways include Amy Dunne's false diary in Gone Girl and Laura Palmer's secret diary in Twin Peaks.

The third category lists hoax diaries, that were presented as being true diaries of real people when first published, but were later discovered to be fiction. Go Ask Alice, the first of a number of books by Beatrice Sparks purported to be based on diaries of real teenagers, was originally presented by Sparks as the non-fictional diary of an anonymous teenage girl,[7] but was later classified by publishers as fiction.[8]

Fictional works in diary form edit

Diaries appearing in fictional works edit

Hoax diaries edit

Further information: Fake memoirs
  • The Diary of a Surgeon in the Year 1751–1752 (1938)
  • Surgeon's Mate: the diary of John Knyveton, surgeon in the British fleet during the Seven Years War 1756–1762 (1942)
  • Man midwife; the further experiences of John Knyveton, M.D., late surgeon in the British fleet, during the years 1763–1809 (1946)
  • Diary of Elizabeth Pepys (1991) by Dale Spender[12]
  • The Journal of Mrs Pepys (1998) by Sara George.[12]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Duyfhuizen, Bernard (Winter 1986). "Diary Narratives in Fact and Fiction. Reviewed Works: Diary Fiction: Writing as Action by H. Porter Abbott; A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries by Thomas Mallon; The Diary Novel by Lorna Martens". Novel: A Forum on Fiction. 19 (2). Duke University Press: 171–178. doi:10.2307/1345552. JSTOR 1345552.
  2. ^ Westcott, Rebecca (2014-04-03). "Children's Books Top 10s: Top 10 Diary Books". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2016-01-05.
  3. ^ Redmond, Moira (2014-01-14). "Dear Diary, How Did You Become Part of Our Literary Culture?". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2016-01-05.
  4. ^ Storey, Dee C. (April 1982). "Reading in the Content Areas: Fictionalized Biographies and Diaries for Social Studies". The Reading Teacher. 35 (7). International Literacy Association and Wiley: 796–798. JSTOR 20198101.
  5. ^ Abbott, H. Porter (2005). "Diary". In Herman, David; Jahn, Manfred; Ryan, Marie-Laure (eds.). Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. Routledge. p. 106. ISBN 1134458401.
  6. ^ Emrys, A.B. (2011). Willkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the Evolution of the Casebook Novel. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-4786-2.
  7. ^ Alleen Pace Nilsen, "The House That Alice Built", School Library Journal, October 1979, pp. 109-112.
  8. ^ Ben Yagoda, Memoir: A History. New York: Riverhead Books, 2009.
  9. ^ Thirlwell, Adam. "Imaginary Conspiracies". The New York Review of Books 2022. ISSN 0028-7504. Retrieved 2021-10-26.
  10. ^ "The Luminous Novel by Mario Levrero review – an extraordinary autofictional diary". the Guardian. 2021-08-13. Retrieved 2021-10-26.
  11. ^ Jeanne Preston (Editor), The Diary of a Farmer's Wife, 1796–97, Penguin Books Ltd; New edition 29 October 1992, ISBN 0140157069, accessed 13 December 2015)
  12. ^ a b Tomalin, Claire (18 October 2002). "Letters: Oct 19: Spoofs and Pepys". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 June 2019.

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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources List of fictional diaries news newspapers books scholar JSTOR October 2021 Learn how and when to remove this message This is a list of fictional diaries categorized by type including fictional works in diary form diaries appearing in fictional works and hoax diaries The first installment of Diary of a Nobody in Punch 1888 The first category fictional works in diary form lists fictional works where the story or a major part of the story is told in the form of a character s diary 1 Diary form is frequently used in fiction for young adults and tweens as well as adults 2 3 It has been used for multiple books in a series following the diarist s life over many years such as the Adrian Mole series the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series and the Dork Diaries series all of which chronicle the lives of characters who start a diary as children or adolescents and continue their diary as they mature over time Fictionalised diaries set during distinct historical periods or events have been used since at least the 1970s to bring history to life for young people 4 Dear America My Australian Story and related series are recent examples of this genre The form is also frequently used for fiction about adult women s lives 5 some notable examples being Bridget Jones s Diary The Color Purple and Pamela The second category lists fictional works that are not written in diary form but in which a character keeps a diary or a diary is otherwise featured as part of the story Some common uses for diaries in fiction are to reveal to the reader material that is concealed from other characters to divulge information about past events or as a device to provide real or false evidence to investigators in mystery or crime fiction 6 Examples of diaries being used in one of these ways include Amy Dunne s false diary in Gone Girl and Laura Palmer s secret diary in Twin Peaks The third category lists hoax diaries that were presented as being true diaries of real people when first published but were later discovered to be fiction Go Ask Alice the first of a number of books by Beatrice Sparks purported to be based on diaries of real teenagers was originally presented by Sparks as the non fictional diary of an anonymous teenage girl 7 but was later classified by publishers as fiction 8 Contents 1 Fictional works in diary form 2 Diaries appearing in fictional works 3 Hoax diaries 4 See also 5 ReferencesFictional works in diary form editThe 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 Any Human Heart The Intimate Journals of Logan Mountstuart by William Boyd The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler Bert diaries by Anders Jacobsson and Soren Olsson The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe Bridget Jones s Diary by Helen Fielding The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G B Edwards The Bunker Diary by Kevin Brooks California Diaries series by Ann M Martin 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 America Dear Canada and My America series of historical novels for children in the form of diaries Dear Dumb Diary by Jim Benton The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester Diary by Chuck Palahniuk Diary of a Chav by Grace Dent Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer My Life at Rose Red by Ridley Pearson The Diaries of Emilio Renzi 3 volumes The Formative Years The Happy Years A Day in the Life by Ricardo Piglia 9 The Diary of a Farmer s Wife 1796 1797 by Anne Hughes Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol this title has also been used by Lu Xun and Guy de Maupassant Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith Diary of a Pilgrimage by Jerome K Jerome The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks by Robertson Davies Diary of a Seducer by Soren Kierkegaard Diary of a Somebody by Christopher Matthew 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 Double Eclipse by Melissa de la Cruz Dracula by Bram Stoker Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes From the Files of Madison Finn series by Laura Dower A Gathering of Days by Joan W Blos Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 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 The Horla by Guy de Maupassant Houseboy by Ferdinand Oyono I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith I Trissy by Norma Fox Mazer Jazmin s Notebook by Nikki Grimes A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver The Little White Bird by J M Barrie Love That Dog by Sharon Creech The Lost Diaries of Nigel Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones by Henry Jones Jr The Luminous Novel by Mario Levrero 10 Memoires d Hadrien Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph by Frances Sheridan The Memory Book of Starr Faithfull A Novel by Gloria Vanderbilt Michael A German Destiny in Diary Form by Joseph Goebbels The Moneypenny Diaries by Samantha Weinberg under the pseudonym Kate Westbrook A Month of Sundays by John Updike The Moth Diaries by Rachel Klein My Story My Australian Story My Story New Zealand My Name Is America series of historical novels for children in the form of diaries Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller Pamela by Samuel Richardson Parable of the Sower by Octavia E Butler Parable of the Talents by Octavia E Butler The Pendragon Adventure by D J MacHale a series of ten novels Penny Pollard s Diary by Robin Klein 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 Runaway by Wendelin Van Draanen Second Helpings by Megan McCafferty The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 by Sue Townsend 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 House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky The Tale of Murasaki by Liza Dalby The Turner Diaries by William Luther Pierce under the pseudonym Andrew MacDonald The Vampire Diaries by L J Smith 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 Youth in Revolt by C D Pyane Z for Zachariah by Robert C O Brien Z213 Exit by Dimitris Lyacos Various works edited by Beatrice Sparks author of Go Ask Alice including Jay s Journal 1979 Some material may have been taken from a real diary kept by Alden Barrett a Utah teenager who committed suicide 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 The U S Copyright Office has noted that some material for this book was taken from a pre existing diary Finding Katie The Diary of Anonymous A Teenager in Foster Care 2005 Diaries appearing in fictional works editAdventure Time The Diary animated episode Nurse Poundcake keeps her diary An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon Lune keeps journals The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler Flannery Culp keeps diaries Cloud Atlas Sections of the novel deal with the Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing Doctor Who television series The Doctor keeps a 500 year diary Joan Redfern keeps A Journal of Impossible Things and Melody Pond River Song keeps River Song s Diary Elfquest comics Cam Triomphe keeps a diary mentioned in the sub series Fire Eye and The Rebels The End of the Affair by Graham Greene Part of the narrative is revealed through a diary stolen from Sarah by the narrator Maurice Bendrix Future Diary manga and anime The combatants of the battle royale game each have their own unique cellphone diary with special abilities of describing the future Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Amy Dunne keeps a diary Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J K Rowling A magical diary created by Tom Riddle plays a role in the story and is eventually destroyed Homestuck Mindfang keeps a journal Rose chronicles her adventures within Sburb Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade film Dr Henry Walton Jones Sr keeps a Grail Diary John Winchester s diary in the TV show Supernatural The diary Sam and Dean s father keeps to record a list of supernatural creatures Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov The narrator Humbert keeps a diary where he records his secret thoughts about Lolita and her mother Low Red Moon by Caitlin R Kiernan Caroline Snow keeps a diary Mort and other Discworld books by Terry Pratchett The diaries of every sentient being ever to live on the Discworld appear Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut Memoirs of a Monogamous Casanova the erotic diary of the protagonist Howard W Campbell Mrs Dale s Diary BBC Radio Series The diary mentioned in the title is part of the story Ready Player One Upon death James Donovan Halliday releases Anorak s Almanac an extensive look into the pop culture he consumed The Saga of Darren Shan by Darren Shan The character Darren Shan keeps a diary Star Trek episodes often contain entries in the Captain s log Superman comics Superman keeps a giant sized diary at his Fortress of Solitude The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte The character Helen Graham gives the narrator Gilbert Markham her diaries to read the diaries constitute the second volume of the novel Twin Peaks television series by David Lynch Laura Palmer keeps a diary V for Vendetta Dr Delia Surrige keeps a diary Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C S Lewis Eustace Clarence Scrubb keeps a diary The Vampire Diaries television series Elena Gilbert Jonathan Gilbert and Stefan Salvatore all keep journals Watchmen The vigilante Rorschach keeps a journal which becomes a significant plot point Hoax diaries editFurther information Fake memoirs Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks 1971 Hitler Diaries by Konrad Kujau 1983 Mussolini diaries The Diary of a Farmer s Wife 1796 1797 by Anne Hughes 11 Three medical diaries by John Knyveton actually by Ernest Gray The Diary of a Surgeon in the Year 1751 1752 1938 Surgeon s Mate the diary of John Knyveton surgeon in the British fleet during the Seven Years War 1756 1762 1942 Man midwife the further experiences of John Knyveton M D late surgeon in the British fleet during the years 1763 1809 1946 Diary of Elizabeth Pepys 1991 by Dale Spender 12 The Journal of Mrs Pepys 1998 by Sara George 12 See also editEpistolary novel List of diaristsReferences edit Duyfhuizen Bernard Winter 1986 Diary Narratives in Fact and Fiction Reviewed Works Diary Fiction Writing as Action by H Porter Abbott A Book of One s Own People and Their Diaries by Thomas Mallon The Diary Novel by Lorna Martens Novel A Forum on Fiction 19 2 Duke University Press 171 178 doi 10 2307 1345552 JSTOR 1345552 Westcott Rebecca 2014 04 03 Children s Books Top 10s Top 10 Diary Books The Guardian London Retrieved 2016 01 05 Redmond Moira 2014 01 14 Dear Diary How Did You Become Part of Our Literary Culture The Guardian London Retrieved 2016 01 05 Storey Dee C April 1982 Reading in the Content Areas Fictionalized Biographies and Diaries for Social Studies The Reading Teacher 35 7 International Literacy Association and Wiley 796 798 JSTOR 20198101 Abbott H Porter 2005 Diary In Herman David Jahn Manfred Ryan Marie Laure eds Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory Routledge p 106 ISBN 1134458401 Emrys A B 2011 Willkie Collins Vera Caspary and the Evolution of the Casebook Novel Jefferson North Carolina McFarland amp Company ISBN 978 0 7864 4786 2 Alleen Pace Nilsen The House That Alice Built School Library Journal October 1979 pp 109 112 Ben Yagoda Memoir A History New York Riverhead Books 2009 Thirlwell Adam Imaginary Conspiracies The New York Review of Books 2022 ISSN 0028 7504 Retrieved 2021 10 26 The Luminous Novel by Mario Levrero review an extraordinary autofictional diary the Guardian 2021 08 13 Retrieved 2021 10 26 Jeanne Preston Editor The Diary of a Farmer s Wife 1796 97 Penguin Books Ltd New edition 29 October 1992 ISBN 0140157069 accessed 13 December 2015 a b Tomalin Claire 18 October 2002 Letters Oct 19 Spoofs and Pepys The Guardian Retrieved 13 June 2019 This literature related list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items 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