Hello! I've been thinking about Go Ask Alice, a book I read when I was younger. It was originally marketed as a real diary from a 15-year-old drug addict, but it was later revealed to have actually been written by Beatrice Sparks, who lied about it being a journal originally and published a bunch of other journal-style fiction books posing as real diaries.
While misrepresenting something as true when it isn't is not great, I did like that some days are missing information, some days are skipped altogether, and some days have way more detail. It's like a little puzzle, and the writing style was very easy to read
Does anyone else know of any books that are written more like journal entries? I think this would be a really cool writing style for sci-fi for fantasy (especially if it's a little dystopian), so if anyone knows of any books like this (that are actual fiction), please share!
by MochaMellie
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I am a child at heart still because nothing because the royal diaries (historical middle grade (?) fiction) or the Cecelia and Kate Novels (historical fantasy YA/middle grade fiction) by Patricia Wreade and Caroline Stevermer.
This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone – is a love story between two time-traveling agents, Red and Blue, who are sworn enemies fighting a war to control time. The story unfolds through letters they send each other across time, starting with a taunting message from Blue to Red.
Three Body Problem by Catherine Shaw. Told through a series of letters from one sister to another.
*We* by Evgeni Zamyatin is written as “record entries (diary entries) by a person living in a distant dystopian future and is an excellent read. George Orwell was inspired by this work for his *1984*.
The second half of The Collector by John Fowles is written in the form of a journal, from the perspective of a woman who was held captive. (The first half of the book is written from the POV of her kidnapper, but not in journal format.)
I don’t think I know if any diary entry style books, but The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society is written entirely through letters and is one of my favorites of all time!
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones is written this way. The writers in each section change, so it’s all journal entries from like 3 different perspectives?
The Martian is written as log entries