The Daria Diaries

The first official Daria paperback, by Anne D. Bernstein, published by MTV Books and Pocket Books.

Valuable background material provided by this book include such goodies a map of Lawndale (the MTV website map adds a few details to this one), information on the move from Highland, part of a short story written by Daria, childhood "photos," Jake and Helen's "Vows of Commitment" and postcards from the wandering Lanes.

This book is followed by The Daria Database.

Bernstein wrote this soon after the first season, and has stated "I had to make up a ton of stuff that did not yet exist for The Daria Diaries. And then it all became part of "the Daria Universe" so people had to follow what I established!".



The book is similar in lay out to the 1993 Beavis and Butt-Head book "This book sucks" it even has the same town overviews, childhood pictures section and the character introduction pages are also similar.

Also the "Daria Database" is similar to the Beavis and Butt-Head Ensucklopedia most notably in the fact that everything is in alphabetical order and with little notes at the top half commenting on the articles.