Phoebe's Diary

Name: Phoebe's Diary
Brand: Hachette Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Phoebe Wahl
ISBN: 9781668638125

Author: Phoebe Wahl

Narrator: Phoebe Wahl

Unabridged: 6 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers

Published: 09/05/2023

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Coming Of Age, Romance, Contemporary Romance, Social Themes

Synopsis

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER!

An Amazon Best Book of 2023 • A Kirkus Best YA and Teen Book of 2023 • A Powell's Best Book of 2023

★ “In her emotionally vulnerable YA debut, Wahl...revisits her high school diaries to deliver a fictional adaptation of her adolescence…skillfully presenting a raw, unfiltered story about growing up and taking risks that will surely resonate.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

Take a peek inside Phoebe’s Diary into a bracingly honest illustrated account of the explosive turmoil and joy of adolescence, based on the author’s actual teenage journals.

Meet Phoebe. She’s cool and insecure, talented and vulnerable, sexy and awkward, driven and confused, ecstatic and tragic.

Like you.

And here is her diary, packed full of invaluable friends and heartbreaking crushes, spectacular playlists and vintage outfits, drama nerds and art kids, old wounds and new love. Based on her own teenage diary, Phoebe Wahl has melded truth with fiction and art with text, casting a spell that brings readers deep into the experience of growing up.

Reviews

Goodreads review by twentyventi on January 02, 2024

This was such an honest, messy, funny, vulnerable, cringy, and heartwarming memoir-of-sorts. There were so many pieces of this almost-true teenage journal that younger me related to, that I could have copied and pasted right from my millennial teenage journals — from music and movies, to being homes......more

Goodreads review by Taylor on January 30, 2024

As someone who actively was 15/16 years old in the time that this book takes place- UGH. it brought me right back to the days when I thought everything was the biggest deal and every feeling was the biggest feeling. There were moments when I absolutely said out loud “Oh My God Phoebe what are you do......more

Goodreads review by Jasmine on January 21, 2024

I laughed, I threw the book across the room, I screamed in second-hand embarrassment. This book is for anyone who was ever "pretending to smoke a cigarette that was actually just a rolled-up piece of paper and listening to Sigur Rós..." Thank you Phoebe <3......more

Goodreads review by emma charlton on June 20, 2024

3.5 / very sweet & nostalgic in both content and form. Phoebe’s diary is an illustrated, fictionalized portrayal of her real-life diary as a sexually-curious plus-sized teen. It’s so real & vulnerable & silly, the format just grew kind of tedious for me!......more

Goodreads review by Hilary on September 29, 2023

It’s me. This is me.......more

Quotes

Praise for Phoebe's Diary:

"Phoebe's Diary honestly captures teenage angst, confusion, and the yearning for love and identity. In parts funny and philosophical, it speaks to every person on earth."—Maira Kalman, award-winning and bestselling author, artist, and designer

"I couldn’t stop smiling as I read this relentlessly relatable book. Phoebe Wahl has created a glittering treasure map of teenage life. She illuminates a year of adolescent longing, discovery, pleasure, and heartbreak. It is deeply sweet, sexy, and true. I wanted it to last forever."—Sophia Glock, creator of the graphic memoir Passport

* "Wahl’s distinctive, instantly recognizable art adds humor and heart to each page. . . . An earnest, relatable, and affecting celebration of teenage yearning."—Kirkus, starred review