This is a list of works of fiction set within a single period of 24 hours.
A "Day in the life" is a recurring device used in various media, such as books films, plays and television series, showing the events that happen to the character over a day. Some celebrated examples in literature are James Joyce's Ulysses, Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf.