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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 and Weedon Grossmith

Diary of a Seducer by Søren Kierkegaard

Dracula by Bram Stoker

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 by Anita Loos

Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe

Mémoires d'Hadrien (Memoirs of Hadrian) by Marguerite Yourcenar

Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph by Frances Sheridan

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

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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.

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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)

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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)