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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Diary of Lady Murasaki
Murasaki Shikibu · 117 pages
The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan
Michitsuna no Haha · 208 pages
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan
Lady Sarashina · 176 pages
The Tale of Murasaki
Liza Dalby · 437 pages
Out of the life and work of Lady Murasaki, the author of, the world's first novel, The Tale of Genji, Liza Dalby has woven an exquisite and irresistible fiction that with rich, nuanced authenticity and lyrical drama, brings an elaborate past world to vivid life.The sensitive and modest daughter of a mid-ranking court poet, Murasaki Shikibu staves off loneliness with her active imagination, telling
Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002
David Sedaris · 528 pages
The Princess Diarist
Carrie Fisher · 264 pages
In 1976, Carrie Fisher was a teenager filming a movie, with an all-consuming crush on her costar. And it just happened to become one of the most famous films of all time -- the first Star wars movie. When she recently discovered the journals she had kept, she found them full of plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naiveté, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. In revisit
Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
Michihiko Hachiya · 256 pages
The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the city. Though his responsibilities in the appalling chaos of a devastated city were awesome, he found time to record the story daily, with compassion and tenderness.
I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith · 360 pages
Cassandra, the 17-year-old narrator, lives an eccentric existence in a crumbling castle in the English countryside in the 1930s. Her father is a former bestselling novelist now suffering from a chronic case of writer's block and her glamorous but bohemian stepmother Topaz is a sometime artist model. Money is in short supply but Cassandra and her discontented older sister Rose are forced to make th
Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years
Michael Palin · 672 pages
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank · 285 pages
Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has been read by tens of millions of people all over the world. It remains a beloved and deeply admired testament to the indestructible nature of the human spirit. Restored in this Definitive Edition are diary entries that were omitted from the original edition. T
I Await the Devil's Coming
Mary MacLane · 162 pages
Mary MacLane’s I Await the Devil’s Coming is a shocking, brave and intellectually challenging diary of a 19-year-old girl living in Butte, Montana in 1902. Written in potent, raw prose that propelled the author to celebrity upon publication, the book has become almost completely forgotten. In the early 20th century, MacLane’s name was synonymous with sexuality; she is widely hailed as being one
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales
Heather Fawcett · 368 pages
The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea
Lady Hyegyeong · 329 pages
The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Selection
Samuel Pepys · 1,152 pages
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll · 273 pages
On the Way Home: The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894
Laura Ingalls Wilder · 112 pages
Describes the sights and events a frontier family encounters travelling from South Dakota to the Ozarks.
The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Three: 1925-1930
Virginia Woolf · 408 pages
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami · 179 pages
Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
Alan Rickman · 469 pages