Novels That Feature a Character’s Diary or Journal

In Gillian Flynn’s novel Gone Girl, Amy creates a fake diary to cast suspicion about her disappearance on her husband. Although Amy’s diary is only one piece in this novel’s central puzzle, some other works of fiction feature a diary format as their primary structure.

Here are some fictional works that incorporate a character’s diary or journal. Please suggest additions to this list in the comments.

• One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
• No! I Don’t Want to Join a Book Club by Virginia Ironside
• The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D. by Nichole Bernier
• I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
• The Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol
• A Tale For The Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
• Rustication by Charles Palliser
• The Diaries of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend
• Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid (and sequels) by Jeff Kinney