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
* The "Adrian Mole" series by Sue Townsend
* "Alice, I Think" by Susan Juby
* The "Amazing Days of Abby Hayes" series by Anne Mazer
* "The Book of the New Sun" by Gene Wolfe
* "Bridget Jones's Diary" by Helen Fielding
* "Catherine, Called Birdy" by Karen Cushman
* "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker
* The "Confessions of Georgia Nicolson" by Louise Rennison
* "The Debt to Pleasure" by John Lanchester
* "Diary of a Country Priest" by Georges Bernanos
* "Diary of a Madman" by Nikolai Gogol
* "Diary of a Nobody" by George Grossmith
* "Diary of Tom Riddle" by J.K Rowling
* "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
* "A Journal of the Plague Year" by Daniel Defoe
* "The Little White Bird" by J.M.Barrie
* "Mémoires d'Hadrien (Memoirs of Hadrian)" by Marguerite Yourcenar
* "Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph" by Frances Sheridan
* "Notes on a Scandal" by Zoë Heller
* "Pamela" by Samuel Richardson
* "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky
* "The Princess Diaries" by Meg Cabot
* "Sloppy Firsts" by Megan McCafferty
* "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.

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)
**"" (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)