Shaunta Grimes at The Every Day Novelist has some interesting posts about notebooking. This one was particularly appealing to me:

10 Books That Will Make You Want to Keep a Notebook

I was familiar already with a couple of the notebooking books she recommends. Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem is a classic, and contains the essay On Keeping a Notebook. I’ve also posted before about Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities. The Diary of Frida Kahlo is part of my own collection, and  The Revenge of Analog  has been on my to-read list for a while (I posted about its chapter about Moleskine but haven’t read the whole thing). 642 Things to Write About is a fun book that I gave to a teenage family member one Christmas. And of course there is The Diary of Anne Frank. But here are some other books that I hadn’t really been aware of:

Breathing In, Breathing Out: Keeping a Writers Notebook by Ralph Fletcher. Also by the same author but written for kids: A Writer’s Notebook: Unlocking the Writer Within You.

Mark Twain’s Notebooks: Journals, Letters, Observations, Wit, Wisdom, and Doodles by Carlo De Vito This book includes some facsimile pages showing his sketches. It is part of a series of books on the notebooks of Abraham Lincoln, Leonardo Di Vinci and Michelangelo.

The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 1: 1915–1919 by Virginia Woolf. There are 5 volumes in total.

Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947–1954 by Jack Kerouac

One other inspiring book she doesn’t mention is Writers and Their Notebooks, which I reviewed a few years ago. You can also check out these other posts from my own archives about writer’s notebooks.