swap_horiz The Third Lie Alternatives

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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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Doctor Glas

Hjalmar Söderberg’s *Doctor Glas* is a 1905 Swedish novel presented entirely through letters and documents. The story ex...

Classic Psychological 20TH Century Swedish

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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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 Diary of a Nobody

The Diary of a Nobody is an epistolary novel by W.G. Grossmith detailing the unremarkable existence of Charles Pooter. T...

Satire Comedy Victorian Diary

8.3 Great

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The Diary of a Provincial Lady

The Diary of a Provincial Lady is an epistolary novel by E.M. Delafield offering a sharp satirical look at British socie...

Comedy British 1930S Diary

8.2 Great

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Diary of a Nobody

Written by George and Weedon Grossmith, this 1892 Victorian comic novel details the mundane daily life of a middle-class...

19TH Century Satire Comedy British

8.1 Great

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Code Name Verity

Code Name Verity presents a gripping narrative through letters and documents revealing the story of two British women wo...

War 2010S Documents Ya

8.1 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 Journal of Jules Renard

*The Journal of Jules Renard* is a posthumously published collection of diary entries by the French author, notable for...

French 19TH Century Literary Autobiographical

7.9 Good

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The Diaries of Adam and Eve

Mark Twain's humorous epistolary novella reimagines Genesis by presenting the contrasting diary perspectives of the firs...

American Humor Twain Parody

7.8 Good

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The Proof

Published in 1988 by Agota Kristof, this sequel continues the dark narrative through the eyes of one twin brother, using...

Hungarian Sequel War Diary

7.8 Good

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Goodbye, Vitamin

Goodbye, Vitamin is a 2017 diary-format novel by Rachel Khong, notable for its poignant chronicle of a woman caring for...

American Family Memory 2010S

7.7 Good

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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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The Diary of a Superfluous Man

Ivan Turgenev's 1850 Russian novella uses diary entries to chronicle a dying aristocrat's final days, cementing the 19th...

Russian Realism 19TH Century Diary

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