Five top diary novels

At The Barnes & Noble Book Blog Allegra Frazier tagged five top diary novels, including:
Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson

This novel is also a personal record intended for an audience of one. The 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner is the journal of elderly and dying Reverend John Ames of Gilead, kept to be read later by his 7-year-old son. Ames details how he met his much younger wife and the effect she