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The Yellow Wallpaper

The Yellow Wallpaper is an American novel presented as diary entries detailing the deteriorating mental state of a young...

American 19TH Century Gothic Feminist

9.3 Excellent

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Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady

Samuel Richardson’s *Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady* is an 18th-century English novel presented entirely as l...

18TH Century Classic Tragedy English

9.2 Excellent

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Memoirs of Hadrian

Memoirs of Hadrian is a classic novel presented as a series of letters written by Roman Emperor Hadrian himself. Notewor...

Classic Historical 1950S Roman

9.1 Excellent

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Herzog

Herzog, a 20th-century American novel by Saul Bellow, presents a profound exploration of identity and disillusionment. T...

Classic American 20TH Century Literary

8.9 Great

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Nausea

Nausea is a 1938 novel by French author Jean-Paul Sartre presented as a series of letters and journal entries. It explor...

Classic French Existential 1930S

8.9 Great

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A Journal of the Plague Year

Daniel Defoe’s *A Journal of the Plague Year* offers a detailed account of the 1665 outbreak in London through a series...

Journal 18TH Century Classic English

8.8 Great

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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Sherman Alexie's 2007 novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian uses journal entries and drawings to depict...

American 21ST Century Native American Diary

8.7 Great

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Riddley Walker

*Riddley Walker* is a 1980 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Russell Hoban, written as a first-person chronicle...

20TH Century Experimental Dystopian British

8.6 Great

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So Long a Letter

So Long a Letter is a 20th-century novel told entirely through letters. Senegalese author Mariama Bâ crafts a poignant s...

Classic 20TH Century Feminist Senegalese

8.5 Great

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I Capture the Castle

Dodie Smith's 1948 coming-of-age novel is written as a series of journal entries by a teenage girl living in a crumbling...

20TH Century Romance Coming Of Age British

8.4 Great

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Address Unknown

Kressmann Taylor’s Address Unknown presents a chilling portrayal of escalating tensions in pre-World War II Europe. The...

Classic 20TH Century Political Letters

8.4 Great

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Diary of a Provincial Lady

E.M. Delafield’s *Diary of a Provincial Lady* offers a realistic portrayal of life in rural England during the early 20t...

Classic Comic 20TH Century English

8.3 Great

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The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾

Sue Townsend's 1982 comedic diary novel chronicles the everyday struggles and intellectual pretensions of a British teen...

20TH Century Comedy Teenage British

7.9 Good

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The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole

Published in 1984 by British author Sue Townsend, The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole continues the comedic diary entries o...

20TH Century Comedy Teenage British

7.5 Good

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Houseboy

Houseboy is a 1956 epistolary novel by Cameroonian author Ferdinand Oyono, written as the diary of a young African man w...

Classic 1950S Colonial Diary

7.5 Good

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Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years

Sue Townsend's 1999 comedic novel Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years resumes the diary format, following its protagonist...

Satire 20TH Century Comedy British

7.2 Good

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Anne of Windy Poplars

Anne of Windy Poplars is a 1936 epistolary novel by Canadian author L.M. Montgomery, notable for continuing the famous s...

Classic Canadian 20TH Century School

7.2 Good

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The American Diary of a Japanese Girl

*The American Diary of a Japanese Girl* is a 1902 epistolary novel by Yone Noguchi, notable for being one of the earlies...

Travel Satire 20TH Century Diary

6.5 Fair

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Go Ask Alice

Presented as the actual diary of an anonymous teenager, this 1971 novel depicts the tragic descent into drug addiction a...

American 20TH Century Diary Drugs

5.9 Mediocre

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Letters of an Indian Judge to an English Gentlewoman

Published anonymously in 1773, *Letters of an Indian Judge to an English Gentlewoman* is an epistolary novel that critiq...

Classic Indian 20TH Century Colonial

5.6 Mediocre