RIYL+Diary+Format

=Dear Diary= //Amelia’s Notebook// by Marissa Moss (“Amelia” series) (handwritten notebook with drawings) //Among Friends// by Caroline Cooney (diary format from multiple points of view) //Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging// by Louise Rennison (diary format – British humor) //Annie's Baby: The Diary of Anonymous Pregnant Teenager// edited by Beatrice Sparks, PhD. //Before We Were Free// by Julia Alvarez (diary format, escape from Dominican Republic) //Dear America Series// (historical diaries from girls) //Dear Dumb Diary// series by Jim Benton (diary format) //Dear Ellen Bee: A Civil War Scrapbook of Two Union Spies// by Mary E. Lyons //Don't You Dare Read This Mrs. Dunphrey// by Margaret Peterson Haddix (diary of neglected teenager) //Go Ask Alice// by Anonomous (diary of drug addiction) //Hard Love// by Ellen Wittinger (zine format) //My Name is America// Series (historical diaries from boys) //P. S. Longer Letter Later// and //Snail Mail No More// by Paula Danziger and Ann M. Martin (letter format) //Rats Saw God// by Rob Thomas (100 page assignment) //Regarding the Fountain//, //Regarding the Sink// (“Regarding the…” series by Klise) (letters/documents/pics) //Royal Diaries Series// (historical diaries from princesses) //Tangerine// by Edward Bloor (diary format) //The Perks of Being a Wallflower// (diary format) //The Princess Diaries// by Meg Cabot (diary format) //Witch Child// by Celia Rees (diary of witch hunts) //Catherine, Called Birdy// by Karen Cushman (diary from a girl in the Middle Ages)


 * Books in Letter or Diary Form (Public Library) Compiled on YALSABK**

1000 White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie The Adrian Mole diaries by Sue Townsend The Boy Series: Boy Meets Girl, The Boy Next Door, and Every Boy's Got One by Meg Cabot Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding Cathy's ring : if found call (650) 266-8263 by Sean Stewart ; Jordan Weisman ; Cathy Brigg The "Cecy and Kate" series by Patricia Wrede & Caroline Stevermer: Sorcery and Cecilia; The Grand Tour; The Mislaid Magician The color purple by Alice Walker The Diary of Mattie Spenser by Sandra Dallas Dracula by Bram Stoker Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea Griffin and Sabine by Nick Bantock The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows A history of the African-American people (proposed) by Strom Thurmond : a novel as told to Percival Everett & James Kincaid Journal: The Short Life and Mysterious Death of Amy Zoe Mason Les Liasons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Letters From the Earth, Mark Twain Letters from Yellowstone by Diane Smith Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer The Life History of a Star by Kelly Easton Life on the Refrigerator Door by Alice Kuipers The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. by Sandra Gulland On Agate Hill by Lee Smith Pamela, or virtue rewarded by Samuel Richardson The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks by Robertson Davies Pictures From An Expedition by Diane Smith The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot The pull of the moon by Elizabeth Berg The queen of the tambourine Jane Gardam Rosie Dunne by Cecelia Ahearn S. by John Updike Sarah's Season by Martha Moore Davis The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis Shamela by Henry Fielding So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba These is My Words by Nancy Turner Up the down staircase by by Bel Kaufman The Venetian's wife : a strangely sensual tale of a Renaissance explorer, a computer, and a transformation by Nick Bantock We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver The Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright The Whalestoe Letters by Mark Z. Danielewski The white tiger : a novel by Aravind Adiga A woman of independent means by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey Cathy's ring : if found call (650) 266-8263 by Sean Stewart ; Jordan Weisman ; Cathy Brigg Don't You Dare Read This Mrs. Dunphrey by Margaret Peterson Haddix Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

Compiled by Tina Maura Albee Collection Development Coordinator West Palm Beach Public Library