The Greatest Books of All Time on Diary

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
641 Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding 1996 British English
1167 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Anita Loos 1925 American English
2087 A German Officer in Occupied Paris Ernst Jünger 1949 German German
2133 I Will Bear Witness Victor Klemperer 1995 German German
2539 Journal, 1935 44 Mihail Sebastian 1996 Romanian Romanian
3512 Mary Chesnut's Civil War Mary Boykin Chesnut 1981 American English
3637 Notes From The Blockade Lydia Ginzburg 1960 Russian Russian
4382 How To End A Story Helen Garner 2021 Australian English
4415 Diary Witold Gombrowicz 1986 Polish Polish
4539 Rules Of Summer Shaun Tan 2013 Australian English
5426 Squire Haggard's Journal Michael Green 1975 British English
5617 Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney 2007 American English
7056 A Passionate Apprentice Virginia Woolf 1990 British English
8346 Go Ask Alice Beatrice Sparks 1971 American English
8763 War Diaries Jean Paul Sartre 1940 French French
9229 Jadviga Párnája Pál Závada 1996 Hungarian Hungarian
9887 A Woman In Berlin Marta Hillers 1954 German German
11019 Alphabetical Diaries Sheila Heti 2024 Unknown Unknown
11174 Daybook Anne Truitt 1982 American English
12159 At Seventy May Sarton 1984 American English
12614 The Very Heart Of It Thomas Mallon 2025 American English
12832 A Woman's Civil War Cornelia Peake McDonald 1992 American English
13359 The Diary of Fanny Burney Fanny Burney 1768 British English
13885 Anne Frank Francine Prose 2009 American English
14983 Ongoingness Sarah Manguso 2015 American English
15897 Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763 James Boswell 1950 British English
15897 Journal Of Katherine Mansfield Katherine Mansfield 1927 New Zealand English
17114 The Long Season Jim Brosnan 1960 American English
17114 Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining Anne Mazer 2000 American English
17114 The Kitchen Diaries, Volume I + Ii Nigel Slater 2005 British English
17114 The Diary Of Alice James Alice James 1982 American English