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Diaries Books
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The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as diaries)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,256,692 ratings — published 1947
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as diaries)
avg rating 4.28 — 26,884 ratings — published 2000
Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life (Dork Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as diaries)
avg rating 4.10 — 119,916 ratings — published 2009
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as diaries)
avg rating 3.98 — 796,281 ratings — published 2007
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as diaries)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,393 ratings — published
Tales from a Not-So-Popular Party Girl (Dork Diaries, #2)
by (shelved 46 times as diaries)
avg rating 4.22 — 68,299 ratings — published 2010
Tales from a Not-So-Talented Pop Star (Dork Diaries, #3)
by (shelved 46 times as diaries)
avg rating 4.24 — 52,986 ratings — published 2011
Diaries, 1910-1923 (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as diaries)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,218 ratings — published 1949
Rodrick Rules (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #2)
by (shelved 42 times as diaries)
avg rating 4.16 — 199,220 ratings — published 2008
A Writer's Diary (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as diaries)
avg rating 4.16 — 6,656 ratings — published 1953
The Last Straw (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #3)
by (shelved 38 times as diaries)
avg rating 4.14 — 173,022 ratings — published 2009
Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as diaries)
avg rating 3.96 — 36,454 ratings — published 2017
Dog Days (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #4)
by (shelved 35 times as diaries)
avg rating 4.17 — 164,749 ratings — published 2009
Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as diaries)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,263 ratings — published 2008
The Ugly Truth (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #5)
by (shelved 34 times as diaries)
avg rating 4.18 — 144,991 ratings — published 2010
Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile - 57 B.C. (Audio CD)
by (shelved 33 times as diaries)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,059 ratings — published 1999
Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor, England, 1544 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as diaries)
avg rating 3.95 — 10,965 ratings — published 1999
Tales from a Not-So-Happy Heartbreaker (Dork Diaries, #6)
by (shelved 32 times as diaries)
avg rating 4.33 — 31,236 ratings — published 2013
Tales from a Not-So-Graceful Ice Princess (Dork Diaries, #4)
by (shelved 32 times as diaries)
avg rating 4.29 — 35,610 ratings — published 2012
Tales from a Not-So-Smart Miss Know-It-All (Dork Diaries, #5)
by (shelved 31 times as diaries)
avg rating 4.34 — 36,342 ratings — published 2012
The Princess Diaries (The Princess Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as diaries)
avg rating 3.81 — 263,501 ratings — published 2000
The Diary of Samuel Pepys (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as diaries)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,380 ratings — published 1669
Cabin Fever (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #6)
by (shelved 29 times as diaries)
avg rating 4.23 — 135,982 ratings — published 2011
The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One: 1915-1919 (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as diaries)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,792 ratings — published 1977
The Third Wheel (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #7)
by (shelved 28 times as diaries)
avg rating 4.19 — 108,328 ratings — published 2012
Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912 (Dear America)
by (shelved 28 times as diaries)
avg rating 4.01 — 11,590 ratings — published 1998
Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria, France, 1769 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as diaries)
avg rating 3.91 — 10,087 ratings — published 2000
Hard Luck (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #8)
by (shelved 25 times as diaries)
avg rating 4.26 — 99,248 ratings — published 2013
Mary, Queen of Scots: Queen Without a Country, France 1553 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as diaries)
avg rating 3.84 — 5,723 ratings — published 2002
Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess, Russia, 1914 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as diaries)
avg rating 3.93 — 10,737 ratings — published 2000
Isabel: Jewel of Castilla, Spain, 1466 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as diaries)
avg rating 3.75 — 6,612 ratings — published 2000
Eleanor: Crown Jewel of Aquitaine, France, 1136 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as diaries)
avg rating 3.90 — 5,373 ratings — published 2002
A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620 (Dear America)
by (shelved 23 times as diaries)
avg rating 3.69 — 9,634 ratings — published 1996
Henry and June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as diaries)
avg rating 3.94 — 13,920 ratings — published 1986
The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 2 1934-1939 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as diaries)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,978 ratings — published 1967
Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba, Angola, Africa, 1595 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as diaries)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,720 ratings — published 2003
The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1777 (Dear America)
by (shelved 22 times as diaries)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,278 ratings — published 1996
Jahanara: Princess of Princesses, India, 1627 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as diaries)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,954 ratings — published 2002
A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as diaries)
avg rating 4.21 — 18,820 ratings — published 2021
Go Ask Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as diaries)
avg rating 3.73 — 294,221 ratings — published 1971
Lady of Ch'iao Kuo: Red Bird of the South, Southern China, A.D. 531 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as diaries)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,908 ratings — published 2001
A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as diaries)
avg rating 4.29 — 18,142 ratings — published 1953
Kaiulani: The People's Princess, Hawaii, 1889 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as diaries)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,376 ratings — published 2002
Victoria: May Blossom of Britannia, England, 1829 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as diaries)
avg rating 3.70 — 4,633 ratings — published 2001
Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as diaries)
avg rating 3.77 — 12,559 ratings — published 1993
Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as diaries)
avg rating 3.58 — 16,849 ratings — published 2022
Sŏndŏk: Princess of the Moon and Stars, Korea, A.D. 595 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as diaries)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,010 ratings — published 2002
So Far From Home: the Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847 (Dear America)
by (shelved 20 times as diaries)
avg rating 3.74 — 5,559 ratings — published 2003
Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, 1763 (Dear America)
by (shelved 20 times as diaries)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,059 ratings — published 1998
Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell (Dear America)
by (shelved 20 times as diaries)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,720 ratings — published 1997
“I have always loved the feel of books, the way they give a literal weight to words and make of them a sacred object I can hold. I'd made my own books as soon as I'd learned to write, tying sheets of construction paper together with ribbon to make a spine, then inscribing my name on the frontispiece in the most ceremonial script I could manage.”
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“Put pen to paper.
The people who build their truest, most beautiful lives usually do. It's hard to jump from dreaming to doing. As every architect or designer knows, here is a critical step between vision and reality. Before imagination becomes three-dimensional, it usually needs to become two-dimensional.
[...]
Let's look at what we've written and decide that these are not pipe dreams; these are our marching orders. These are the blueprints for our lives.”
― Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life
The people who build their truest, most beautiful lives usually do. It's hard to jump from dreaming to doing. As every architect or designer knows, here is a critical step between vision and reality. Before imagination becomes three-dimensional, it usually needs to become two-dimensional.
[...]
Let's look at what we've written and decide that these are not pipe dreams; these are our marching orders. These are the blueprints for our lives.”
― Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life












