Diary

Greg

's diary is his biggest job in the series. Without it, there would be no way to to know what happens in his life.So far there have been 8 of them. The first one is red, second is dark blue, 3rd is dark green, 4th is yellow, 5th is purple, and 6th is icy blue, 7 is brown, and 8 is lime green. All of them say DIARY on the cover,Greg exclaims how he told Susan to get one that doesn't say diary,but his mother still got one that said diary probably because it was cheaper.All of them have little drawings between the texts based on what Greg's talking about.Each Diary has 217 pages and some of them also have 17 activity pages and  the activities are extracted from the Do-It Yourself Book.What happened in the summer after the end of Diary of a Wimpy Kid was mentioned in Rodrick Rules.

Trivia

• ​Each diary has its own months. So far in all Diaries, there are a total of 32 months which is the same as  2 years and 8-months.
  • Ist owns September, October, November, December, January, February, March, April, May, and June
  • 2nd owns September, October, November, and December
  • 3rd owns January, February, March, April, May, and June
  • 4th owns June, July, and August
  • 5th owns September, October, and November
  • The 6th,7th ad 8th book have the least month then the others. 6th owns November and December and 7th  owns January and Febuary and 8th owns March and April.
• In Rodrick Rules, it was later revealed that Rodrick snatched Greg's diary and ran but tripped over,then Greg quickly got the diary and without noticing went to the Leisure Tower's Women's bathroom and destroyed it and flushed in the toilet and then when the security came and got him out,Rodrick saw the whole thing and blew his secret 4-6 months later.
• Greg rips out certain pages of his diary, which can be seen in movies and games sometimes. In the first and
  

  A page ripped out of Greg's journal
   second Diary of a Wimpy Kid movies, you see pages which were never in the book, meaning Greg probably ripped them out.
• Considering Greg to be 11 in Diary of a Wimpy Kid (since he was in 6th grade), if the series is not timeless,Greg would be about 12.5 (awaiting his 13 birthday in June) by Hard Luck but since Jeff Kinney said its timeless it is very unlikely.If considered 12 then he would be 13.5.

Chronological order

Year 1

• Diary of a Wimpy Kid (September-December)

Year 2

• Diary of a Wimpy Kid (January-June)
  • Missing months (July-August)
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (September- December)

Year 3

• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw (January- June)
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (June-August)
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth (September-November)
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever (November-December)

Year 4

• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel (January-February)
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck (March-April)