what are good collections of journals/diaries to read? besides like sylvia plath and kurt cobain if you have any recommendations bc i find it so fascinating but idk where to start!!

i’m gonna forget a lot and be lazy but from memory these are all notable/ enjoyable/ interesting ones i’ve read

diaries/ journals/ notebooks: 

• The Diaries of Paul Klee (this is my favorite book)
• Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz
  
• The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 , Vol. 2: 1934-1939 (there are seven volumes i believe, all worth reading.)
  
• The Fifties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period /// The Sixties: Last Journal 1960-1972 by Edmund Wilson (several volumes)
  
• Diaries, Volume 1: 1939-1960 by Christopher Isherwood (author of a single man, he has several volumes) 
• Katherine Mansfield Notebooks
  
• The Diary Of Soren Kierkegaard
  
• Becoming a Londoner: A Diary by David Plante
• Camus’ notebooks: Volume 1: 1935-1942, Volume 2: 1942-1951, Volume 3: 1951-1959
• Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag
• A Heaven of Words: Last Journals, 1956–1984 by Glenway Wescott
• Mausoleum of Lovers: Journals 1976-1991 by Hervé Guibert 
  
• The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery: The PEI Years, 1889-1900
  
• Kafka’s Diaries, 1910-1923
  
• I AM A MAN: Journal by Glenn Ligon
  
• Daybook: the Journal of an Artist by Anne Truitt (first of her trilogy of reflective journals)
• Bitter Music: Collected Journals, Essays, Introductions, and Librettos by Harry Partch 
  
• David Gascoyne Collected Journals 1936-42
• Tolstoy’s Diaries
  
• A year in the dark: Journal of a film critic, 1968-69 by Reneta Adler (i love this woman read speedboat)
  
• The Powers of the Word: Selected Essays and Notes 1927-1943 by Rene Daumal
  
• The Diary of Frida Kahlo
• Journal of Delacroix
  
• Diary of a Genius by Dali
  
• Margaret Mee In Search of Flowers of the Amazon Forests: Diaries of an English Artist Reveal the Beauty of the Vanishing Rainforest
  
• In the Shadow of the American Dream: The Diaries of David Wojnarowicz
  
• Diaries of Theodor Herzl

letters:

• Selected Letters of Stéphane Mallarmé
  
• The Letters of Paul Cézanne
  
• Letters on Cézanne by Rainer Maria Rilke
  
• Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky: Friends in Exile: A Decade of Correspondence, 1929-1940
  
• Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters 1940-1977 ///  Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940-1971
  
• The Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith
  
• Your Isadora: The Love Story of Isadora Duncan and Gordon Graig told through letters and diaries
  
• The Collected Letters of Dylan Thomas
  
• Eugene Delacroix: Selected Letters, 1813-1863
  
• The Animals: Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy
  
• The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats: Volume 1: 1865-1895
  
• The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield
  
• The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
  
• The Humane Particulars: The Collected Letters of William Carlos Williams and Kenneth Burke
  
• Selected Letters of Anna Heyward Taylor: South Carolina Artist and World Traveler
  
• Enlightening: Letters 1946-1960 by Isaiah Berlin

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