Books About (Non Visual) Journaling

For the past twenty years, I have been collecting books about journaling. The majority of these books were picked up in my travels at various used bookstores across the U.S. The titles that you see posted here are specifically non visual journal keeping. I've tried as much as possible to leave artist's journals and books about art journaling off of this list. I have also kept published letters off of the list. There are a few exceptions.

The first photo you see above are my favorite books about keeping a journal. They are:

Christina Baldwin's Life Companion

Christina Baldwin's One to One

Sheila Bender's A Year in the Life

Tristine Rainer's The New Diary

Sheila Bender's Keeping a Journal You Love

Jacquelyn B. Carr's Communicating With Myself: A Journal

Lucia Capacchione's The Creative Journal

Marianne Hieb's Inner Journeying Through Art Journaling

Deena Metzger's Writing For Your Life

Henriette Anne Klauser's Put Your Heart on Paper

Ramsay and Sweet's A Creative Guide to Exploring Your Life

Messer's Pencil Dancing

Johnson's Leaving a Trace

Next up (the second photo above) are additional books on journal keeping:

40 Days and 40 Nights

Writing from the Heart

And Now We Dance

A Life in Hand 

Writing from the Inner Self

Writing from the Heart

The Creative Journal 

Writing Down Your Soul

The Common Ground Book

Heal Yourself with Writing

Writing to Heal the Soul

Writing from the Senses

Journalution

Finding Your True Voice

The Journal Wheel Guidebook

Art and Healing

Internal Affairs

Writing from Life

Journaling from the Heart

Simple Days

A Question of Balance

Marry Your Muse

Soul Mapping

The Healing Journey

Write the Story of Your LIfe

Your Mythic Journey

To Do List

The Autobiography Box

Poemcrazy

The Oral History Workshop

Writing Your Life

Write Away A Journal Writing Tool Kit

Next up, are published journals:

Marion Milner's (aka Joanna Field) Eternity's Sunrise

Joanna Field's (aka Marion Milner) A Life of One's Own and On Not Being Able to Paint

John Steiner's Notebooks of the Mind

The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 1-7 (I also have her earlier books but they are hard to get to at the moment. Yes, I am looking for volumes II, III and IV in hardcover. I just realized I left volume II out of the photo. Apologies.)

Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook

The Paris and New York Diaries of Ned Rorem

Peter Nadas' A Book of Memories

Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet

The Diary of Soren Kierkegaard

Franz Kafka's Diaries1914-1923 as well as Diaries

Susan Sontag's As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh and Reborn

Additional published journals:

The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow-Opal Whiteley
Tina LeMarque's Coyote Woman and Warrior Woman
Theophano's Eat My Words
The Pleasure of Diaries
Wanda Gag's Growing Pains
Writing a Woman's Life
Private Pages
The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady
Alan Watt's Cloud-Hidden

Above are a few of my favorite published journals:

Marlene Schiwy's A Voice of Her Own

Thomas Mallon's A Book of One's Own People and Their Diaries

Sei Shonagon's The Pillow Book

Rita McNamara's Walking in Circles

Burghild Nina Holzer's A Walk Between Heaven and Earth

Katherine Metcalf Nelson's Night Fishing: A Woman's Dream Journal

Moffat and Painter's Revelations: Diaries of Women

Alexandra Johnson's The Hidden Writer: Diaries and the Creative Life

Not Shown:

Sartre's Nausea

The Journals of Andre Gide I-IV

Virginia Woolf’s A Writer’s Diary

Joan Didion's On Keeping a Notebook

Tristine Rainer's Your Life as Story

May Sarton's Recovering, Plant Dreaming Deep, Journal of a Solitude, The House by the Sea, Endgame, Encore, After the Stroke and At Seventy.

Ira Progoff's At a Journal Workshop: The Basic Text and Guide for Using the Intensive Journal Process

Diary of Anne Frank

Ariadne's Thread: A Collection of Contemporary Women's Journals

Legacy : A Step-By-Step Guide to Writing Personal History 

Ongoingness: The End of a Diary

The Folded Clock: A Diary

Jenny Read, in Pursuit of Art and Life: The Journals and Letters of a Young Sculptor

Victor Klemperer I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years

Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast: Diary of a Film

Tarkovsky: Time Within Time: The Diaries

Unabridged Sylvia Plath

The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists

Camus' Notebooks

If you find the above list interesting, you may also be interested in these:

My Favorite Art Books (including several visual art journals)
Books on Surrealism
Vincent Van Gogh
Frida Kahlo
On My Shelf

**What books on (non visual) journal keeping am I missing?**

I will add to this list when I can.