Before we get started I want to wish my awesome husband a Happy Happy Birthday! Yeah, he’s pretty cool!

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish so that us book bloggers can talk even more about what we love best, books and all things bookish!

This week’s Top Ten theme is Books for People Who Like X Author. I chose to focus on the middle grade side of things this week and am providing you with a list of books you might like if you enjoy Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. The Wimpy Kid books are wildly successful all over (I know the copies in my Media Center are never on the shelf!) and some of those readers might be looking for read-alike books to dig into.

Well, fear not because today I have a list of Books for People Who Like Jeff Kinney! These are all books that are written in a journal-like style and often include little drawings and doodles that add to the story. I will include an asterisk (*) next to the titles I have read. If it doesn’t have an asterisk, I still recommend the title because I’ve heard great things about it!

1. The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger *

2. The Dork Diaries by Rachel Renee Russell *

3. Dear Dumb Diary by

4. The Loser List by H.N. Kowitt

5. Charlie Joe Jackson’s Guide to Not Reading by Tommy Greenwald *

6. Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce *

7. Middle School is Worse than Meatloaf by Jennifer L. Holm

8. Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life by James Patterson

9. The Boy Project by Kami Kinard *

10. Journal of a Schoolyard Bully: Notes on Noogies, Wet Willies and Wedgies by Farley Katz

Hopefully this will help guide your own future reading or help you pick books out for the middle grade reader in your life!