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Oh yes, I forgot that Are You There, God, It's Me Margaret has diary excerpts... but it isn't written ENTIRELY in diary entries like, say, The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz. FYI, when I googled Are You There God..., I found it it's been turned into a movie -- the film is coming out in Spring of 2023! Exciting!

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Nov 22, 2022·edited Nov 22, 2022

Two novels that did diary-entries well both come from my childhood: "Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl" and "Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret." I can't remember if either of them had non-diary chapters, except for Anne's sad epilogue. The only adult novel I can recall is "Gone Girl," one of the examples you mentioned. It does seem like a challenging way to write an adult novel.

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