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This is a list of Dork Diaries books. As of 2020 16 books have been published, including the 3 1/2 and 6 1/2 book.

List of books[]

Tales From a Not-So-Fabulous Life[]

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Fourteen-year-old Nikki Maxwell is not happy when her father arranges a scholarship for her to attend a private middle school called Westchester Country Day as part of the contract for his bug extermination services. Nikki does not fit in with the wealthy, designer clad students and spends most of her time alone writing in her diary. To make matters worse, she has a locker right next to the school's most popular girl, MacKenzie Hollister. MacKenzie labels Nikki as a "Dork" and goes out of her way to make Nikki’s life miserable.

It appears the new school may work out when Nikki befriends two other dorky girls, Chloe and Zoey. But, things take a turn for the worse when Nikki enters the school art show and discovers her main competition is her enemy, MacKenzie, who will stop at nothing to win.

But, in the end Nikki wins thankfully to her BFFs and her crush, Brandon.

Tales From a Not-So-Popular Party Girl[]

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Nikki Maxwell is hoping her crush, Brandon Roberts, will ask her to the Halloween dance. But she is heartbroken when she overhears her nemesis, MacKenzie Hollister, bragging that she and Brandon are going to the dance together. Having nothing better to do on the night of the dance, Nikki reluctantly agrees to serve on the dance clean-up committee with her best friends, Chloe and Zoey, as well as help out at a ballet class Halloween party for her little sister, Brianna.

Nikki is shocked when Brandon asks her to the dance and realizes that MacKenzie was lying. However, in spite of her prior commitments, Nikki agrees to go with him and ends up spending the evening juggling three events at the same time.

Tales From a Not-So-Talented Pop Star[]

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  1. Nikki Maxwell knows her reputation will be destroyed if anyone at school finds out her Dad works as the school’s exterminator in exchange for her academic scholarship. So when it looks like her secret might be leaked, Nikki is willing to go to any lengths to protect the truth. When she took her sister to a pizza joint, she performed on stage with her sister, she has been caught on film by Mackenzie who is BTW the only one who knows about Nikki's dad. MacKenzie said if she says something bad to her she would show everyone the video.The timing seems perfect when a major talent competition is announced with a school scholarship offered as the top prize.Nikki didn't even notice it until she got a tution bill so she decides to make a band. She is so excited when Violet, Theo, Marcus, and Nikki's crush Brandon wants to be her band mates. She was crushed when her BFFs went to MacKenzie's side for the talent show. She is determined to win the prize to pay her bill and althout she lost her chance in the end to win the prize , she will find out that her tuition bill is a fake and she will appear in ,,15 Minutes of Fame''

How to Dork Your Diary[]

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Nikki Maxwell has been writing in a diary since the start of the school year, and she usually takes it everywhere she goes – so she can't believe it when one morning she can't find her diary! The hunt is on, and while she looks, pursuing various theories about where it could be, Nikki can't help putting together a list of important diary-keeping lessons to remember in case of missing diary emergencies like this one. How to Dork Your Diary is full of tips from Nikki on fun things to write about in your diary, with space for readers to write and draw their own entries. Meanwhile Nikki's friends Chloe and Zoey, her little sister Brianna, her crush Brandon, and mean girl MacKenzie are all a part of the story as Nikki searches everywhere for that diary.

Tales From a Not-So-Graceful Ice Princess[]

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Nikki Maxwell finds out that her crush, Brandon, volunteers at a local animal shelter that is in danger of closing. Nikki wants to try to save the animal shelter, especially after discovering a shocking secret about Brandon. Nikki, along with friends Chloe and Zoey, enter an ice skating competition to raise money for the shelter. Of course, Mackenzie tries to interfere so that she can be the one to save the day instead. If Nikki doesn’t want MacKenzie to get the best of her, she’ll have to come up with a creative plan.

Tales From a Not-So-Smart Miss Know-It-All[]

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Nikki Maxwell’s rival, MacKenzie, starts writing a gossip column, so Nikki takes a sudden interest in journalism and joins the school newspaper staff. Nikki just wants to keep tabs on Mackenzie and keep her from spreading some juicy gossip involving Nikki’s crush, Brandon. Soon, however, Nikki’s new role as an advice columnist makes her inbox overflow with pleas for advice. Luckily, Miss Know-It-All gets guidance of her own from her best friends, Chloe and Zoey.

Tales From a Not-So-Happy Heartbreaker[]

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Nikki is afraid to ask Brandon to the Sweetheart Dance. She is also afraid that before she gets a chance of asking him, he will ask MacKenzie, Nikki's snobby, lip gloss addicted arch-enemy instead of herself. Nikki receives weird messages from her crush, and has read a checklist to see if Brandon didn’t like her! Most of the list has been checked and Nikki gets worried thinking Brandon didn’t like her. Near the end, Mackenzie was the one behind the weird messages Nikki has been getting. She stole Brandon’s phone! Nikki and Brandon get revenge on Mackenzie and dance happily.

OMG! All About Me Diary![]

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Narrate your very own Dork Diary with this write-in journal, filled with questions for every day and complete with art and quotes from Nikki Maxwell herself!

As Nikki Maxwell knows, keeping a journal is a great way to get to know the most important person in your life: YOU! This special Dork Diaries guided journal features questions for every day of the year. There’s also space for year 2 to see how you changed throughout the year!

Tales From a Not-So-Glam TV Star[]

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Nikki is in the spotlight, but unexpectedly runs into Mackenzie. Who STEALS their backstage passes. Nikki, Chloe, and Zoey are forced to pretend to be in Mackenzie’s band. A bit later they almost get arrested but they were luckily saved by Trevor Chase. Trevor Chase agrees to have Nikki's band song recorded, and announces Nikki that she would have her own reality show. As a result a reality TV crew will follow her and her friends for the whole month of March as they record their hit song together. But will the excitement also cause unexpected problems, especially with her crush Brandon. Also in the seventh book of the series, Nikki will have her first kiss which will be in the center of some nasty rumors.

Tales From a Not-So-Happily Ever After[]

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Nikki gets annoyed by her sister Brianna, and her school day isn't the best. But the worst happens in PE, when Nikki plays dodgeball. At a moment Mackenzie throws a ball on her head and Nikki fells unconscious. She sees then a weird dream, that she is stuck in a fairy-tale land, where many fairy-tale characters resemble real-life people from Nikki's environment. She will try to get out of that world, but will have to deal with many problems with those not-so-imaginary characters.

Tales From a Not-So-Dorky Drama Queen[]

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One day after Nikki's accident in dodgeball, Mackenzie is still mad at her. Furthermore she has spread nasty and untruthful rumors about the motivation of Brandon kissing Nikki (In 7th book). Later in the book Mackenzie steals Nikki’s diary, claiming she “didn’t” steal it as she was trying to “protect” Nikki’s diary from being stolen and read by the entire school. Mackenzie uses Nikki’s her diary to write about her life. Twisting all the things that happened in the previous books. The next day, Mackenzie gets laughed at by her classmates because of the bug video. Especially by Jessica, her own friend. She tries to beg her parents to let her transfer to North Hampton Hills, but they refused due to the video not being posted on the internet. As a reaction, Mackenzie yelled at her parents.. “I HATE YOU!’ And decided to cyberbully herself as a way for her parents to let her transfer to North Hampton hills. Near the end, Nikki gets her diary back but she has a lot of problems to fix because of Mackenzie, but mostly her Miss-know-it-all column.

Tales From a Not-So-Perfect Pet Sitter[]

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Since Mackenzie left WCD Nikki feels happier, believing she is gone forever. Nikki and Brandon go out at the CupCakery, but... Mackenzie shows up and interrupts them. Mackenzie’s and Nikki’s little mean word show is then interrupted by Mackenzie’s North Hampton Hills friends. Mackenzie switches her mean self to a nicer version of herself. Her friends talk about Nikki’s Mackenzie’s life as the leader of the band Actually, I’m not really sure yet. After experiencing such weirdness, Brandon and Nikki both leave afterwards from CupCakery and go to Fuzzy Friends, where they see a dog, called Holly, and a big box in front of the door. In that box there are 7 puppies. Both of them are fascinated by them. However they can't be hosted to Fuzzy Friends, because there is no free space, and they can't be hosted illegally, as Brandon explained to Nikki. During their conversation, Mackenzie was overhearing them and called the news channel to try and shut Fuzzy Friends down, but she hanged up afterwards after being on hold for too long. Though, Brandon and Nikki had still to think how to care the dogs. Nikki finally suggested to take them in each other's homes every day, starting with Brandon, then Nikki, Chloe and Zoey. Nikki believes that her mother would accept, but she rejects. She tries to notify Brandon, but she can't find the time, so she must take care of them without her parents knowing. She has to come up with a lot of ways to do so, and her friends Chloe and Zoey, as well her sister Brianna, will be involved.

Tales From a Not-So-Friendly Frenemy[]

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Nikki has to participate in a student exchange program her school participates in. Unfortunately she is chosen to go for one week to North Hampton Hills school, the school Mackenzie is attending in! She refuses at first until her French teacher suggests that she tries to get a free trip to Paris that was sponsored by North Hampton Hills! Nikki agrees to go to North Hampton Hills after being recommended by her teacher for the trip to Paris. When she goes to that school she is welcomed by Tiffany, one of the most famous students of that school. However she finds out that she is a narcissistic person and a bully. She will meet new friends there and, however, have to deal with Mackenzie, from who she has learnt that she got teased at her new school. Both realise that they are victims of Tiffany, and it seems that they could have some sort of "friendship".

Tales from a Not-So-Secret Crush Catastrophe[]

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After Nikki has gone through North Hampton Hills, now it is the time of WCD to get exchange students. A new handsome boy from North Hampton Hills comes, André. Nikki is responsible to welcome him to WCD. But André becomes very popular within girls and spends a lot of time with Nikki, and creates a strong relationship with her. Despite the fact that André is kind, Nikki worries about her friendship with Brandon. Combined with something worse: Many photos are spread on internet that show Nikki and André together, and have as description that Nikki and André go out, something untruthful. This action got organised in order to ruin Nikki's relationship with Brandon, and Nikki has to solve the problem. Also Nikki learns that her band will participate to a concert of Bad Boyz in July, but at the same time she should participate in a trip to Paris she has won, and falls to a big dilemma.

Tales from a Not-So-Happy Birthday[]

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Nikki's school is over and her birthday is approaching. Her BFFs want her to have a great birthday party and they decide to have a pool party. Despite Nikki's doubts, she carries on with that plan and invites 100 people. However that party costs 500 dollars and it is very expensive for her family. So her mother decides to host a birthday party costing 100 dollars, but Nikki hates that idea. So she decides to cancel her party, even if that means notifying the people she had invited, something humiliating. Things go worse when Chloe sends accidentaly the party invitations, which party was cancelled! Nikki falls into a big dilemma, whether she tells to people she invited that those invitations are false, or she finds somehow a huge money budget for the pool party. At the same time Brianna struggles to cook by herself, in order to earn money. Will she help Nikki, even if Nikki doesn't trust her? Furthermore will Nikki's decision to go to Paris affect her friends' plans?

Tales from a Not-So-Best Friend Forever[]

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Nikki finally manages to follow her band on their tour with Bad Boyz, opening their concerts. However she fails to contact with Trevor Chase when he calls her, and as a result she feels afraid that she won't go to the tour. But some days later she meets Trevor Chase with her family and arranges to participate in the tour. Her BFFs are very exciting about the tour and all of them learn together more about the members of the Bad Boyz. They also agree to buy new clothes, in order to have a good looking for the tour. But Nikki comes across Mackenzie and Tiffany, which are shopping and gossiping at the same time. She heard Mackenzie telling Tiffany that she planned to tell her father to buy the property of Fuzzy Friends, in order to make it a parking plot, without caring about the pets. However Mackenzie finds out Nikki and she threatened Nikki, that if she allowed Mackenzie to join the Bad Boyz tour her father would not demolish Fuzzy Friends. After everyone was ready for the tour Nikki found out that Mackenzie was assigned to be the head of social media campaign of the tour, and the worst, that she would be Nikki's roomate for the rest of the tour. Meanwhile Nikki and her friends meet the Bad Boys, named Aidan, Viktor, Nicholas and Joshua. They feel excited for them and started having company with them. Although Nikki thinks everything was going perfect in the tour, Mackenzie does everything in her hand to become famous from the tour and has an unexpected plan, which is really evil, and affects both Nikki and Brandon.

Tales from a Not-So-Posh Paris Adventure[]

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Will Nikki Maxwell and her friends make it to Paris?

WRONG!! Hey, everyone knows her life can turn into a giant bucket of PUKE in less than sixty seconds!!

So, maybe she'll make it to Paris!!

Or, maybe she won’t!

Will our friendship survive this humiliating disaster?!

(This is just pure fiction, don't be angry about what happens in the books and also pls don't use the chat box as a complain hotline/mailbox where u can keep all your complaints. We are not the people who write the books, we are just summarizing them.)

Back cover comic strips[]

In every book, except of the ninth, there is a comic strip in the back cover with three pictures, which notify readers about the book topic. In those comic strips the most common characters are Nikki Maxwell and MacKenzie Hollister.

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