1. Henry James "The Landscape Painter" (1866)
2. Constance Fenimore Woolson, "Misery Landing" (1874)
3. Anton Chekhob, "From the Diary of a Violent-Tempered Man" (1887)
4. Shiga Naoya, "The Diary of Claudius" (1912)
5. Lu Xun, "Diary of a Madman" (1918)
6. Marcel Ayme, "Tickets on Time, Extracts from the Diary of Jules Flemon" (1942)
7. Virginia Woolf, "The Legacy" (1944)
8. Donald Barthelme, "Me and Miss Mandible" (1961)
9. Silvina Ocampo, "The Diary of Porfiria Bernal, the Account of Miss Antonia Fielding" (1961)
10. Wolfdietrich Schnurre, "Diary of a Dayfly" (1964)
11. Janes Bowles, "Emmy Moore's Journal" (1973)
12. Ian McEwan, "Solid Geometry" (1973)
13. Ursula K. Le Guin "The Diary of a Rose" (1976)
14. Gina Berriault, "The Diary of K.W." (1982)
15. Ivan Vladislavic, "Journal of a Wall" (1989)
16. Sherley Anne Williams, "Meditations on History" (1989)
17. Greg Egan, "The Hundred Light-Year Diary" (1992)
18. Michelle Cliff, "A Public Woman" (1996)
19. Helen Simpson, "Diary of an Interesting Year" (2009)
20. Mpho Phalwane "Per Annum" (2018)