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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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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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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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Julie; or, The New Heloise

Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s *Julie; or, The New Heloise* is an 18th-century French epistolary novel presented entirely as a...

18TH Century Classic French Romance

8.6 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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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

This 2003 British novel by Mark Haddon is written as the first-person diary of a teenage boy with autism investigating t...

Mystery 21ST Century British Diary

8.3 Great

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Rose Under Fire

Rose Under Fire is a 2013 young adult epistolary novel by Elizabeth Wein that follows a female pilot's harrowing surviva...

War 2010S Diary Ya

7.6 Good

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Sloppy Firsts

Megan McCafferty's 2001 young adult novel follows teenager Jessica Darling's struggles with high school and social isola...

Contemporary Romance Diary Ya

7.6 Good

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Second Helpings

Published in 2003 by Megan McCafferty, this sequel continues to track teenager Jessica Darling's senior year of high sch...

Romance Sequel Diary Ya

7.6 Good

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True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole

Written by British author Sue Townsend, True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole is a 1989 epistolary novel continuing the...

Comic British 1980S Diary

7.2 Good

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Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging is a 1999 comedic epistolary novel by British author Louise Rennison that presen...

Comic British 1990S Diary

7.2 Good

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Why We Broke Up

Why We Broke Up is a 2011 young adult epistolary novel by Daniel Handler that details a teenage romance's end through a...

Romance Illustrated 2010S Ya

7.0 Good

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The Bunker Diary

The Bunker Diary is a 2013 young adult epistolary novel by British author Kevin Brooks, notable for winning the Carnegie...

Thriller 2010S Captivity Diary

6.9 Fair

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Charmed Thirds

Released in 2006, Megan McCafferty's third Jessica Darling novel shifts to an epistolary and diary format to capture the...

College Romance Diary Ya

6.9 Fair

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P.S. I Like You

Kasie West's 2016 young adult romance novel revolves around an anonymous pen-pal relationship sparked by a note left in...

Contemporary West Romance Notes

6.9 Fair

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Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas is a 2001 epistolary novel by James Patterson that tells the story of a woman's marriage an...

American Romance Grief 2000S

6.5 Fair

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Fourth Comings

Megan McCafferty's 2007 novel compresses its narrative into a weekend of frantic journal entries as protagonist Jessica...

Romance Sequel Diary Ya

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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Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries

Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries is a 2016 epistolary novel by British author Helen Fielding, notable as the third inst...

Comedy Romance Sequel Diary

5.6 Mediocre