This is a list of fictional books that appear in literature. Fictional books appearing in other print media, such as comics, are listed in List of fictional books from periodicals. Fictional books that appear in other types of media, such as television shows, are listed in List of fictional books from non-print media. Fictional books used as hoaxes or as purported support for actual research are usually referred to as false documents.
The fictional books on this list are ordered alphabetically under the name of the author who invented them.
Works invented by Lloyd Alexander
In The Book of Three, there is a distinct and fictional tome named The Book of Three
In Summerland:
How to Catch Lightning and Smoke
The Wa-He-Ta Brave's Official Tribe Handbook
In "The God of Dark Laughter":
Encyclopedia of Archaeo-Anthropological Research
Uber das Finstere Lachen, by Friedrich Von Junzt
Khndzut Dzul (The Unfathomable Ruse)
In Wonder Boys:
The Abominations of Plunkettsburg and Other Tales by Albert Vetch (writing as August Van Zorn)
The Arsonist's Girl by Grady Tripp
The Bottomlands by Grady Tripp
Fans and Fadeaways by John Jose Fahey
Eight Solid Light-years of Lead by John Jose Fahey
Kind of Blue by John Jose Fahey
The Land Downstairs by Grady Tripp
The Love Parade by James Leer
Sad Tidings by John Jose Fahey
Wonder Boys by Grady Tripp
The King in Yellow by Castaigne (Castaigne is either the author or the translator)
The King in Yellow has been adopted by authors into the Lovecraftian tradition.
The Imperial Dynasty of America by an unknown author.
Works invented by Raymond Chandler
Attributed to Aaron Klopstein (Klopstein committed suicide at the age of 33, shooting himself with an Amazonian blowgun):
Cat Hairs in the Custard (poetry)
The Hydraulic Facelift (poetry)
Once More the Cicatrice (novel)
The Seagull Has No Friends (novel)
Twenty Inches of Monkey (short stories)
Attributed to Ariadne Oliver:
The Affair of the Second Goldfish
The Body in the Library
The Cat it Was Who Died
The Clue of the Candle Wax
Death of a Debutante
Famous Crimes Passionnels (article)
The Lotus Murder
Murder for Love v. Murder for Gain (article)
The Tendency of the Criminal (article)
The White Cockatoo
The Woman in the Woods
Attributed to Salome Otterbourne:
Snow on the Desert's Face (unpublished)
Under the Fig Tree
In the manga Chobits
A City With No People (children's book series)
Vol. 1: A City With No People
Vol. 2: Someone Just For Me
Vol. 3: They Can Do Anything
Vol. 4: A Wish That Can't Be Granted
Vol. 5: Little By Little
Vol. 6: Please Find Me
Vol. 7: A Warm Heart
In What a Carve Up!:
A Pox on the Box: Memoirs of a Disillusioned Broadcaster by Alan Beamish
The Winshaw Legacy: A Family Chronicle by Alan Beamish
Dropping in on Jerry: A Light-Hearted Account of the Dresden Bombings by Wing Commander "Bullseye" Fortescue
Accidents Will Happen by Michael Owen
The Loving Touch by Michael Owen
The A-Z of Plinths by Revd. J. W. Pottage
So You Think You Know about Plinths? by Revd. J. W. Pottage
Plinths! Plinths! Plinths! by Revd. J. W. Pottage
300 Years of Halitosis (unknown author)
Great Plumbers of Albania (unknown author)
I was Celery (unknown author)
A Life in Packaging - Fragments of an Autobiography:Volume IX - The Styrofoam Years (unknown author)
A Lutheran Approach to the Films of Martin and Lewis (unknown author)
In Diary of a Bad Year:
Strong Opinions by JC
In Elizabeth Costello:
Fire and Ice by Elizabeth Costello
The House on Eccles Street by Elizabeth Costello
In And Another Thing...:
The Complete Maximegalon Statistics, Volumes 1—15,000
The Quick Guide to the Complete Maximegalon Statistics, Volumes 1—25,000
Life, Letters, and Labours of Miss Jane Ann Stamper (forty-fourth edition)
The World of Sleep
An Inquiry into some Points of Seamanship by a man Tower, Towson—some such name (In Heart of Darkness) Conrad is probably either conflating or making Marlow conflate two books: J. T. Towson's navigation tables, 1848 and 1849, and Nicholas Tinmouth's An Inquiry relative to various points of seamanship, 1845: so not really an invented book.
How to Train Your Dragon by Professor Yobbish
In A Dream of Kinship:
Codex Iniquitatis by Anonymous
Letters to Brother Matthew by Brother Francis of York (later called Saint Francis)
A Perspective of the Christian Dilemma by Brother Matthew (writing as V. O. V.)
In The Road to Corlay:
The Avian Apocrypha by anonymous
The Book of Gyre by anonymous
The Book of Morfedd by anonymous
Carlisle ms by anonymous
Old Peter's Tale by anonymous
Orgen's Dream by anonymous
Morfedd's Testament by Morfedd
In A Tapestry of Time:
Kentmere Psalter by anonymous
An unknown title by Master Surgeon Brynlas
Revelations by St. Francis
The True History of the Boy by St. Francis
History of Kinship in the United Kingdoms, Vol. 1 by Franscombe
Being and Non-Being by Hagendorf
Lexicon by Langley
Catalogue by Dean Pardoe
Leaves from an Antiquarian's Notebook by Dean Pardoe
Consolations of Philosophy by Pargeter
An unknown title (contains the word "Life") by Dom Sarega
In The Twilight of Briareus:
W. H. O. Regeneration Statistics. Vol. 3. 2004 by anonymous
L'Histoire Particulière de la Renaissance by Pierre Candel
Reminiscences by Margaret Hardy
Metromania by Robert Warner (play)
Belle of the Ball by Jordana Mixon
In Little, Big:
Upstate Houses and Their Histories (pamphlet) by anonymous
Architecture of Country Houses by John Drinkwater
Brother North-Wind's Secret and other books (resembling Thornton Burgess's books) by John Storm Drinkwater
In The Solitudes:
Mythos and Tyrannos by Frank Walker Barr
Time's Body by Frank Walker Barr
Bitten Apples by Fellowes Kraft
The Book of a Hundred Chapters by Fellowes Kraft
Bruno's Journey by Fellowes Kraft
The Court of Silk and Blood by Fellowes Kraft
Darkling Plain by Fellowes Kraft
A Passage at Arms by Fellowes Kraft
Under Saturn by Fellowes Kraft
The Way's Far Turning by Helen Niblick
Steganography by Lois Rose
Dawn of the Druids, author unknown
Phaeton's Car, author unknown
Worlds in Division, author unknown
Tales from Rreinnstadt by Muller
The Angel Returns by Heinrich Behring, translated by Celia Carter
Professor Faust by Heinrich Behring, translated by Celia Carter
Evolution Towards Perfection by Otto Hinze
The Teleology of Mental Degeneration by Otto Hinze
Epistemology and Unreason by Ian Muir
Rosier's Encyclopedia by Jean-Bernard Rosier
Il Furto by Alfredo Galli
The Optical Illusion Last Friday by Alfredo Galli
Minds and Memories by Lowell
Aphorisms by Vincenzo Spontini
Warren Peece by Chris Crutcher
In Fifth Business:
Celtic Saints of Britain and Europe by Dunstable Ramsay
Forgotten Saints of the Tyrol by Dunstable Ramsay
A Hundred Saints for Travellers by Dunstable Ramsay
In Castle Murders:
The Moswell Plan by Dorcas Bagby, a book believed to be fictional even in its own world
Eidolons of the King by Librarian Osmirik, the Castle books as they exist in the fictional world
In Castle Perilous:
Ervoldt: His Book by Lord Ervoldt
In The Man in the High Castle:
The Grasshopper Lies Heavy by Hawthorne Abendsen
In A Maze of Death:
How I Rose From the Dead in My Spare Time and So Can You by A. J. Spectowsky
In The Transmigration of Timothy Archer:
Here, Tyrant Death by Bishop Timothy Archer
In Plumage From Pegasus:
A History of Supermarket Fiction: How SF Swept the World by Roger Barnard
Corn Likker, Drag Racin' and Coon Huntin' by Andy Duncan and Michael Bishop
Great Mafia Science by Ben Bova
The Unsurrendered Fembot by Richard Calder
Faith-Based Fictions: A Conversation by Orson Scott Card, Andrew Greeley and Barry Malzberg
How to Pick Up Guys by Samuel Delany
Boy Magnate by Gordon Van Gelder
The Magazine Chums and the Case of the Disappearing Readers by C.J. Cutlyffe Heintz-Ketzep
The Magazine Chums Meet the Distributor of Doom by C.J. Cutlyffe Heintz-Ketzep
The Magazine Chums and the Great Paper Shortage by C.J. Cutlyffe Heintz-Ketzep
The Magazine Chums Apply for an Arts Council Grant by C.J. Cutlyffe Heintz-Ketzep
A History of Science Fiction and Fantasy in the New Yorker by Ursula K. Le Guin
Forever Plus! by Amber Max
Mega-Awesome SF: The True Story Behind Forever Plus! by Amber Max
Andre Norton's Smackdown by Andre Norton
Imaginary Realist: The Life of Timothy Eugene by Milton Sharp
Women Write Fantasy, Men Write Science fiction by Nancy Kress and Charles Sheffield
I was a Teenaged Pornographer! by Robert Silverberg
The Big Book of High-Tech Texas Bar-B-Q by Bruce Sterling
Works invented by Martin Donovan and David Koepp
In Death Becomes Her:
Forever Young by Helen Sharp
In the Sherlock Holmes series:
Chaldean Roots in the Ancient Cornish Language by Sherlock Holmes
Early English Charters by Sherlock Holmes
Malingering by Sherlock Holmes
Of Tattoo Marks by Sherlock Holmes
On Secret Writings by Sherlock Holmes
On the Polyphonic Motets of Lassus by Sherlock Holmes
On the Study of Tobaccos and their Ashes by Sherlock Holmes
On the Surface Anatomy of the Human Ear by Sherlock Holmes
On the Typewriter and Its Relation to Crime by Sherlock Holmes
Practical Handbook of Bee Culture, with Some Observations upon the Segregation of the Queen by Sherlock Holmes
Upon the Dating of Old Documents by Sherlock Holmes
Upon the Influence of a Trade upon the Form of the Hand by Sherlock Holmes
Upon the Tracing of Footsteps by Sherlock Holmes
Upon the Uses of Dogs in the Work of the Detective by Sherlock Holmes
Whole Art of Detection by Sherlock Holmes
Heavy Game in the Western Himalayas (1881) by Colonel Sebastian Moran
Three Months in the Jungle (1884) by Colonel Sebastian Moran
The Dynamics of an Asteroid by Professor James Moriarty
A Treatise on the Binomial Theorem by Professor James Moriarty
Giant Rat of Sumatra by Dr. John Watson
In the Professor Challenger series:
Outlines of Vertebrate Evolution by Professor George Edward Challenger
Some Observations Upon a Series of Kalmuk Skulls by Professor George Edward Challenger
In Foucault's Pendulum:
Diary of a Village Doctor
Diary of a Young Girl's Illness
The Wonderful Adventure of Metals
Chronicles of the Zodiac by Dr. De Amicis
The Carmassi Brothers by Adeodato Lampustri
The Dismissed by Adeodato Lampustri
Panther Without Eyelashes by Adeodato Lampustri
Chaste Throbs by Odolinda Mezzofanti Sassabetti
In The Name of the Rose:
On the Use of Mirrors in the Game of Chess by Milo Temesvar
Manuscript de Dom Adson de Melk, Le by Abbe Vallet
In The Belgariad:
The Mrin Codex a prophecy made by a madman
In Basic Instinct:
The First Time by Catherine Tramell
Love Hurts by Catherine Tramell
In A Week in December:
Bolivia: Land of Shadows by Antony Cazenove
Shropshire Towers by Alfred Huntley Edgerton
Alfie the Humble Engine by Sally Higgs (winner of the Pizza Palace Book of the Year)
A Winter Crossing by Alexander Sedley
The Potter's Tale by R. Tranter
In Then We Came to the End:
Hiding Places Both Underwater and Underground a McLenox Publication
The Anarchist's Philosophy a McLenox Publication
How to Make a Fake Birth Certificate on Your Home Computer a McLenox Publication
In Caprice:
Ozias Midwinter by anonymous
In Inclinations:
Three Lilies and a Moustache by anonymous
Travels by Lady Cray
Violet's Virtue (or The Virtue of the Violet) by A Literary Lady (The Scottish Sappho)
Book of Cats by Miss Neffal
Six Strange Sisters by Geraldine O'Brookomore
Those Gonzagas by Geraldine O'Brookomore
Notes on the Tedium of Places by William Wordsworth
In Vainglory:
The Home Life of Lucretia Borgia by Mrs. Asp
The Women Queens of England by Mrs. Asp
Autobiography by Mrs. Cresswell
The Red Rose of Martyrdom by Mrs. Cresswell
The Leg of Chicken by Mr. Garsaint
Love's Arrears by Claud Harvester
New Poems by Claud Harvester
Vaindreams by Claud Harvester
Scroll from the Fingers of Ta-Hor by Miss Hospice
Sacerdotalism and Satanism by Miss Missingham
Beams by Bishop Pantry
Even-Tide by Bishop Pantry
Inner Garden by Bishop Pantry
Night Thoughts by Bishop Pantry
Verlaine at Bournemouth by Lady Anne Pantry
In Kothar--Barbarian Swordsman:
The Lord Histories of Satoram Mandamor
In Kothar and the Demon Queen:
Attributed to Gronlex Storbon
Dialogue of Demons
Nights of Necromancy
In A Landing on the Sun:
Fair Do's:Studies in the Perception of Social Justice by E J Maitland
Natural Man by Dr Elizabeth Serafin
In Inkheart:
Inkheart by Fenoglio
Works invented in Good Omens, co-authored by Terry Pratchett, are listed in the "Terry Pratchett" section of this article.
Works invented in The Sandman comics are listed in the "DC Comics" section of List of fictional books from periodicals.
In Cold Comfort Farm:
Pard-spirit; A Study of Branwell Brontë by Mr. Meyerburg (Mybug)
The Higher Common Sense and The Pensées by the Abbé Fause-Maigre, translated by H. B. Mainwaring
In Play to the End:
Lodger in the Throat by Joe Orton
The Plastic Men by Derek Oswin
by C. F. Earbrass:
The meaning of the house
A moral dustbin
More chains than clank
The truffle plantation
The unstrung harp
Was it likely?
by Miss D. Awdrey-Gore:
The blancmange tragedy
The dustwrapper secret
The pincushion affair
The postcard mystery
The teacosy crime
The toastrack enigma
The toothpaste murder
by Dewda Yorger:
Dreary Rewdgo at Baffin Bay
Dreary Rewdgo on the Great Divide
Dreary Rewdgo in the Yukon
In The Fault in Our Stars:
Midnight Dawns
The Price of Dawn
Requiem for Mayhem
An Imperial Affliction by Peter Van Houten
In The End of the Affair:
The Ambitious Host by Maurice Bendrix
The Crowned Image by Maurice Bendrix
The Grave on the Water-Front by Maurice Bendrix
In The Well of Loneliness:
The Furrow by Stephen Johnson
In The Library at Mount Char:
Mental Warfare vol. III: The Concealment of Thought and Intention by anonymous
In Winter's Tale:
Pictures of Big White Horses by anonymous
Equine Anatomy by Burchfield
Catalog of Alabama Curry Combs 1760–1823 by Georgia Fatwood
Ride Like Hell, You Son of a Bitch! by Fulgura Frango
A River Moves Forward by Selena Haskins
Care and Feeding of the Horse by Robert S. Kahn
The Afro-California Jumping Style by Sierra Leon
Memoirs of a Military Groom by Moffet Southgate
Dressage by Turner
In the Dune series:
In Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder stories:
the Sigsand MS
Astral and Astarral Co-ordination and Interference by Harzam with addenda by Carnacki
Acrostics by John Dumpley
Astarral Vibrations Compared with Matero-involuted Vibrations Below the Six-Billion Limit by Professor Garder
Experiments with a Medium by Professor Garder
Induced Hauntings by Harzam
In The Outlaw King series:
"The Blade and the Bone" by Edward Brigham
"The Brine and the Bygone" by Edward Brigham
"The Cape and the Castle" by Edward Brigham
"The Feared and the Free" by Edward Brigham
"The Gunslinger and the Giant" by Edward Brigham
"The Rope and the Riddle" by Edward Brigham
"The Truth and the Trial" by Edward Brigham
In Mr. Splitfoot:
The Book of Ether by Zeke
In Brave New World:
Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo by anonymous
Practical Instructions for Beta-Store Workers by anonymous
In Crome Yellow:
Biography of Men Who Achieved Greatness by anonymous
Biography of Men Who had Greatness Thrust Upon Them by anonymous
Biography of Men Who were Born Great by anonymous
Biography of Men Who were Never Great at All by anonymous
Cosmic Cuts by anonymous
What a Young Girl Ought to Know by anonymous
Wild Goose Chase, A Novel by anonymous
Humble Heroisms by Mr. Barbecue-Smith
Pipe-Lines to the Infinite by Mr. Barbecue-Smith
unknown by Mr. Barbecue-Smith
Dictionary of the Finnish Language by Caprinulge
The Tales of Knockespotch by Knockespotch
Certaine Priuy Counsels by One of Her Maiestie's Most Honourable Priuy Counsels, F.L. Knight by Sir Ferdinando Lapith
unknown by Hercules Lapith
unknown by Denis Stone
Thom's Works and Wanderings by Tom Thom
History of Crome by Henry Wimbrush
In The Lecturer's Tale:
Das Ding an Sich: A Cultural History of Cultural Histories by Lorraine Alsace
Les Mortifications by Jean-Claude Evangeline
To Reign in Hell: The Will to Power in Paradise Lost by Anthony Pescecane
Where's Waldo? The Representation of Everyman in Emerson by J. O. Schmeaux
Daughters of the Night: Clitoral Hegemony in LeFanu's Carmilla by Victoria Victorinix
Rhythm and Metonomy in Coleridge's Christobel by Victoria Victorinix
In Publish and Perish:
The Barbecued God: Death of a Yorkshireman by Joseph Brody
The Missionary Position: The Franciscan Construction of Rapanui Gender 1862–1936 by Virginia Dunning
(Re) Visioning Resurrection: The Myth of Human Sacrifice by Gregory Eyck
A History of Early Modern Witchcraft by Victor Karswell
Cooking the Captain: The Colonialist as Yorkshire Pudding by Stanley Tulafale
In The World According to Garp:
Confessions of an Ellen Jamesian by Anonymous
A Sexual Suspect by Jenny Fields (autobiography)
My Father's Illusions by T.S. Garp
The Pension Grillparzer by T.S. Garp
Procrastination by T.S. Garp
The Second Wind of the Cuckold by T.S. Garp
The World According to Bensenhaver by T.S. Garp
A History of Everett Steering's Academy by Stewart Percy
Lunacy and Sorrow: The Life and Art of T.S. Garp by Donald Whitcomb
In A Widow for One Year:
Before the Fall of Saigon by Ruth Cole
My Last Bad Boyfriend by Ruth Cole
Not for Children by Ruth Cole
The Same Orphanage by Ruth Cole
The Door in the Floor by Ted Cole
The Mouse Crawling Between the Walls by Ted Cole
A Sound Like Someone Trying Not To Make a Sound by Ted Cole
Coffee and Donuts by Ed O'Hare
A Difficult Woman by Ed O'Hare
Leaving Long Island by Ed O'Hare
Sixty Times by Ed O'Hare
Summer Job by Ed O'Hare
Followed Home from the Flying Food Circus by Alice Somerset
McDermid Reaches a Milestone by Alice Somerset
McDermid Retired by Alice Somerset
Missing Persons McDermid by Alice Somerset
In Until I Find You:
Normal and Nice by Emma Oastler
The Slush Pile Reader by Emma Oastler
In Last Night In Twisted River:
Baby in the Road by Danny Angel
East of Bangor by Danny Angel
Family Life in Coos County by Danny Angel
In the After-Hours Restaurant by Danny Angel
The Kennedy Fathers by Danny Angel
Kissing Kin by Danny Angel
The Spinster; or, The Maiden Aunt by Danny Angel
Jiu Yin Zhen Jing (九陰真經; Nine Yin True Classic), a fictional book on martial arts techniques and inner energy cultivation methods. It appears in all three novels in the Condor Trilogy.
Jiu Yang Zhen Jing (九陽真經; Nine Yang True Classic), a fictional book similar to the Jiu Yin Zhen Jing. It appears only in the second and third novels in the Condor Trilogy.
In The Lives of Christopher Chant:
Jones invented a series of children's books that are apparently similar to Enid Blyton's Malory Towers and St. Clair's series. The Millie, below, are about a girl, Millie, who goes to a boarding school called Lowood House School. There are reportedly about ten books in the series, but only six are named: the first five, below, and another book called Head Girl Millie.
- Millie Goes to School
- Millie of Lowood House
- Millie Plays the Game
- Millie's Finest Hour
- Millie in the Upper Fourth
In The Eye of the World:
The Essays of William of Maneches
The Travels of Jain Farstrider
Voyages Among the Sea Folk
In The Great Hunt:
The Dance of the Hawk and the Hummingbird by Teven Aerwin
Mirrors of the Wheel
To Sail Beyond the Sunset
In The Dragon Reborn:
A Study of the War of the Shadow by Moilin daughter of Hamada daughter of Juendan
In The Shadow Rising:
Dealing with the Territory of Mayene, 500 - 750 of the New Era
Travels in the Aiel Waste, with Observations on the Savage Inhabitants
The Treasures of the Stone of Tear
The Killers of the Black Veil by Soran Milo
A Journey to Tarabon by Eurian Romavni
The History of the Stone of Tear by Eban Vandes
In ''The Fires of Heaven:
The Flame, the Blade and the Heart
In Lord of Chaos:
Essays on Reason by Daria Gahand
Men of Fire and Women of Air by Elora daughter of Amar daughter of Coura
A Study of Men, Women, and the One Power Among Humans by Ledar son of Shandin son of Koimal
Die Plagen, welche Grete von ihrem Manne Hans zu erleiden hatte
Die Rache des Kommandeurs [series of columns]
The Mound Builders and the Stars: An Archaeo-Astrological Investigation by Charles L. Patrick Akeley
The Travels of Odysseus by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Waking Leviathan by Jacova Angevine
The Last Loan Shark of Bodega Bay by Theo Angevine
The Man Who Laughed at Funerals by Theo Angevine
Pretoria by Theo Angevine
Seven at Sunset by Theo Angevine
What the Cat Dragged In by Theo Angevine
Memoirs of a Martian Demirep by anonymous
Pornographies of Pnakotus by anonymous
Red Book of Riyadh by anonymous
Famous Film Monsters and the Men Who Made Them by Ben Browning
The Magdalene Grimoire by Roderick Burgess (from The Girl Who Would Be Death miniseries, based on Neil Gaiman's Sandman series)
The Light Beyond Centre by Reese Callicot
The Ecstatic River by Reese Callicot
The Ark of Poseidon by Sarah Crowe
A Long Way To Morning by Sarah Crowe
The Red Tree by Sarah Crowe and Dr. Charles L. Harvey
Silent Riots by Sarah Crowe
Bloody Mary, La Llorona, and the Blue Lady: Feminine Icons in a Child's Apocalypse by Judith Louise Darger
The Children of Artemis by Fera Delacroix
Alice by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ("Lewis Carroll")
New American Monsters: More Than Myth? by Gerald Durrell
Closing the Door: Anatomy of Hysteria by Elenore Ellis-Lincoln
Hollywood Land by William Faulkner
Evening at the Gates of Dawn by Sadie Jasper
Hauntings of Old New England by Sadie Jasper
Ode to Fanny Brawne by John Keats
The Boats of Morning by Alex Marlowe
The Breathing Composition by Welleran Smith
The Far Red World by Andre Tyson
Werewolvery in Europe and Rituals of Corporeal Transformation by Arminius Vambery
Lemming Cult by William L. West
Looking for Moreau: A Posthumanist Manifesto by Maxwell White
In The Poisonwood Bible:
How to Survive 101 Calamities
In The Lacuna:
Pilgrims of Chapultepec by Harrison W. Shepherd
The Unforetold by Harrison W. Shepherd
Vassals of Majesty by Harrison W. Shepherd
In The Historian:
The untitled dragon books which different characters in the book find.
Ballads of the Carpathians
Life of Saint George
Philosophie of the Aweful
The "Chronicle" of Zacharias of Zographou by Atanas Angelov and Anton Stoichev
Sisyphus by Thomas Aquinas
The Torture Commissioned by the Emperor for the Good of the People by Anna Comnena
The Cannibals by Henricus Curtius
Tales from the Carpathians published by Robert Digby
Fortunes of an Assassin by Erasmus
History of Central Europe by Lord Gelling
The Damned by Giorgio of Padua
The King of Tashkani by William Shakespeare, as a "lost work"
In The History of Love:
The History of Love by Leo Gursky
How to Survive in the Wild by Alma Singer
Life as We Didn't Know It
The Remedy
Words for Everything
In Fourth Mansions:
The Back Door of History by Arpad Arutinov
Prose Poems by Maurice Craftmaster
Broken Cisterns and Living Waters by Endymion Ellenbogen
Second Trefoil Lectures by Michael Fountain
The Precursors by Dr. Jurgens
New Bestiary by Audifax O’Hanlon
Simplicitas by Orthcutt
Beard in Essential by Aristotle
Beard in Existential by Aristotle
The Contingent Mutation by Dr. Minden
Euntes Ergo Docete Omnes ("Going therefore Teach Ye All") by Pope Pious XV
In Entire and Perfect Chrysolite
Exaltation Philosophy by Audifax O’Hanlon
World as Perfection by Diogenes Pontifex
History of Philosophy by Cobblestone
Joint Report to the General Dubuque PTA Concerning the Primary Education of the Camiroi by Piper, Paul, et al.
Lost Skies by Audifax O’Hanlon
In Polity and Custom of the Camiroi
Report of Field Group for Examination of Off-Earth Customs and Codexes to the Council for Government Renovation and Legal Re-Thinking by Piggot, Paul, et al.
The Sexagintal and the Duodecimal in the Chaldee Mysteries by Schimmelpenninck
The Relationship of Extradigitalism to Genius by Zubarin
In Land of the Great Horses
Twenty-second Century Comprehensive Encyclopedia
In One Human Minute:
One Human Minute, by J. Johnson and S. Johnson, Moon Publishers, 1988
Weapons Systems of the Twenty-first Century: The Upside-down Evolution, 2105
The World as Cataclysm
In Imaginary Magnitude:
GOLEM XIV, by GOLEM; foreword by Irving T. Creve, M.A., PH.D.; introduction by Thomas B. Fuller II, General, U.S. Army, RET.; afterword by Richard Popp, Indiana University Press, 2047
Eruntics, by Reginald Gulliver
A History of Bitic Literature, by Juan Rambellais, et al.
Necrobes, by Cezary Strzybisz
Vestrand's Extelopedia in 44 Magnetomes
In A Perfect Vacuum:
Les Robinsonades (or The Robinsonad) by Marcel Coscat
Pericalypsis by Joachim Fersengeld
Gigamesh by Patrick Hannahan
Die Kultur als Fehler (or Civilization as Mistake) by Wilhelm Klopper
Rien du tout, ou la consequence (or Nothing, or the Consequence) by Mme Solange Marriot
Sexplosion by Simon Merrill
Odysseus of Ithaca by Kuno Mlatje
Idiota (or The Idiot) by Gian Carlo Spallanzani
Toi (or You) by Raymond Seurat
Being Inc. by Alastair Waynewright
Gruppenfuhrer Louis XVI (or Nazi Squad Leader Louis the Sixteenth) by Alfred Zellermann
U-Write-It
In Solaris:
Historia Solaris, by Hughes and Eugel
In A Ring of Endless Light:
untitled book about medical applications of lasers by Dr. Wallace Austin
In A Severed Wasp:
Curing and Healing by Cardinal Wolfgang von Stromberg (establishes notability of character within the book)
In A Swiftly Tilting Planet:
The Horn of Joy by Matthew Maddox (the book serves as a MacGuffin in the novel, being sought after by Charles Wallace and others; but ultimately is not needed) Also seen in An Acceptable Time
Once More United by Matthew Maddox. Maddox's first book is incidental to L'Engle's novel.
In Chronic City:
You Can't be Serious, Dr. Jurow ghostwritten by Oona Laszlo.
Obstinate Dust by Ralph Warden Meeker. (Very likely a reference to Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace)
In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe:
The Life and Letters of Silenus
Is Man a Myth?
Men, Monks, and Gamekeepers; a Study in Popular Legend
Nymphs and Their Ways
In Prince Caspian:
Grammatical Garden or the Arbour of Accidence pleasantlie open'd to Tender Wits by Pulverentus Siccus
In That Hideous Strength:
Dialect and Semantics by Dr. Elwin Ransom
In It Can't Happen Here:
Zero Hour - Over the Top by Berzelius Windrip - A work that is "part biography, part economic program, and part plain exhibitionistic boasting" written by the fictional United States fascist senator Berzelius Windrip, and contains "more suggestions for remodeling the world than the three volumes of Karl Marx and all of the novels of H.G. Wells put together."
The City of Ascensions by Onesimo Peña (pseudonym of Corlis Benefideo)
The City of Cod by William Smith Everett (pseudonym of Corlis Benefideo)
The City of Floating Sand by Frans Haartman (pseedonym of Corlis Benefideo)
The City of Frangipani by Jemboa Tran (pseudonym of Corlis Benefideo)
The City of Geraniums by Corlis Benefideo
This includes works by others in the Cthulhu Mythos.
Azathoth and Other Horrors by Edward Pickman Derby
Black Tome of Alsophocus
Book of Azathoth
Book of Eibon
Chronicles of Nath by James Sheffield
Chronike von Nath by Rudolf Yergler
De Vermis Mysteriis
Derby
Dhol Chants
The Eltdown Shards (tr. by Gordon Whitney)
Ghorl Nigral (also The Book of Night)
Ilarnek Papyri
Liber Ivonis
Liber-Damnatus
Livre d'Eibon
Necronomicon by Abdul al-Hazred
Pnakotic Manuscripts
Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan by Hsan the Greater (tr. Etienne-Laurent De Marigny)
Unaussprechlichen Kulten by Friedrich von Junzt
Operation Atlantis in The Ambler Warning is an action-hero novel.
In "Death in Venice":
A prose epic on Frederick the Great by Gustav von Aschenbach
Maia by Gustav von Aschenbach
Ein Elender (The Abject) by Gustav von Aschenbach
Geist und Kunst (Mind and Art) by Gustav von Aschenbach
In "A Constellation of Vital Phenomena ":
Chechen Civilization and Culture Under Russian Patronage by Khassan Ghesilov
Origins of Chechen Civilization: Prehistory to Fall of the Mongol Empire by Khassan Ghesilov
In The Baby-sitters Club series:
Alice Anderson by Henrietta Hayes
Alice Anderson's Big Break by Henrietta Hayes
Alice Anderson's Greatest Challenge by Henrietta Hayes
The Anderson Family Reunion by Henrietta Hayes
The Basics of Playwriting by an unnamed author
Bone Chilling Ghost Stories by an unnamed author
Ghosts and Spooks, Chills and Thrills: Stories NOT to be Read After Dark by an unnamed author
Ghosts: Fact and Fantasy by an unnamed author
Ghosts I Have Known by an unnamed author
Good Money by an unnamed author
Great Dog Tales by an unnamed author
A History of Stoneybrooke by Enos Cotterling
The Horse in Art by an unnamed author
Horses of the World by an unnamed author
Kids Can Cook … Naturally by an unnamed author
Live from New York by Amelia Moody
The Lost Grandmother by Amelia Moody
Mandy Mandango Takes the Bull by the Horns by Amelia Moody
Night Frights Number Thirteen! Don’t Get Out of Bed! by Theodore “Ted” Garber
Nitty Gritty Meatballs by Amelia Moody
Spirits, Spooks, and Ghostly Tales by an unnamed author
The Stoneybrook Who’s Who by an unnamed author
In The Moon and Sixpence:
A Modern Artist: Notes on the work of Charles Strickland by Edward Leggatt, ARHA, publ. Martin Secker, 1917
Karl Strickland: sein Leben und Schwingel und seine Kunst, by Hugo Weitbrecht-Rotholz, Ph.D., publ. Schwingel und Hanisch. Leipzig, 1914
Strickland: The Man and His Work, by Robers Strickland (his son). Wm. Heinemann, London. 1913
In Saturday:
No Exequies (poetry) by John Grammaticus (winner of the Newdigate Prize)
My Saucy Bark (poetry) by Daisy Perowne (granddaughter of John Grammaticus, and also Newdigate prizewinner)
In Atonement
In Fugitive Pieces:
Bearing False Witness by Athos Roussos
From Relics to Replica by Athos Roussos
Groundwork by Jakob Beer
Dilemma Poems by Jakob Beer
Hotel Rain by Jakob Beer
What Have You Done to Time by Jakob Beer
In Ghostwritten:
The Infinite Tether - You and Out of Body Experiences by Dwight Silverwind
In Cloud Atlas:
Knuckle Sandwich by Dermot 'Duster' Hoggins
The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing by Adam Ewing
Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery by Hilary V. Hush
The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish by Timothy Cavendish
In The Bone Clocks:
The Creepy Guy in the Yoga Class by Louis Baranquilla
Man in a White Car by Richard Cheeseman
Bushonomics and the New Monetarism by I.F.R. Coates
Route 605 by Nick Greek
Desiccated Embryos by Crispin Hershey
Echo Must Die by Crispin Hershey
Red Monkey by Crispin Hershey
To Be Continued by Crispin Hershey
Wanda in Oils by Crispin Hershey
The Icepick Man by Ersilia Holt
Across the Wide Ocean by Devon Kim-Ashkenazy
Horsehead Nebula by Maaza Kolofski
Soul Carnivores by Soleil Moore
Your Last Chance by Soleil Moore
In God's Country by Japheth Solomon
The Radio People by Holly Sykes
Wildflowers by Holly Sykes
How to Get Seriously Rich by Thirty by unknown
In The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear:
The Encyclopedia of Marvels, Life Forms and Other Phenomena of Zamonia and its Environs by Professor Abdullah Nightingale
In Anne of Avonlea:
Edgewood Days by Charlotte E. Morgan
Golden Keys by Charlotte E. Morgan
The Rosebud Garden by Charlotte E. Morgan
In Anne's House of Dreams:
A Mad Love by an unnamed woman (it has one hundred and three chapters)
The Life-Book of Captain Jim by Captain James Boyd and Owen Ford
In Rilla of Ingleside:
Morgan on the Care of Infants
In Emily's Quest:
The Moral of the Rose by Emily Byrd Starr
A Seller of Dreams by Emily Byrd Starr (unpublished)
A Royal Betrothal by Mark Delange Greaves
In The Blue Castle:
Thistle Harvest by John Foster
Magic of Wings by John Foster
Wild Honey by John Foster
In the Takeshi Kovacs series:
Poems and Other Prevarications by Quellcrist Falconer
Things I Should Have Learned by Now by Quellcrist Falconer
In 1Q84
Air Chrysalis by Fuka-Eri (pen name of Eriko Fukada) and ghost written by Tengo Kawana.
In Invitation to a Beheading:
Quercus
In The Real Life of Sebastian Knight:
Lost Property by Sebastian Knight
Success by Sebastian Knight
The Doubtful Asphodel by Sebastian Knight
The Funny Mountain by Sebastian Knight
The Prismatic Bezel by Sebastian Knight
In Lolita:
Histoire Abrégée de la Poésie Anglaise by Humbert Humbert
Lolita, or the Confession of a White Widowed Male by Humbert Humbert
The Proustian Theme in a Letter from Keats to Benjamin Bailey by Humbert Humbert
Who's Who in the Limelight (a theatrical yearbook of 1946), author unknown
The Little Nymph a play by Clare Quilty
Dark Age a play by Clare Quilty
The Strange Mushroom a play by Clare Quilty
Fatherly Love a play by Clare Quilty
The Enchanted Hunters a play by Clare Quilty
The Lady who Loved Lightning a play by Clare Quilty & Vivian Darkbloom
My Cue a biography of Clare Quilty by Vivian Darkbloom
In Pnin:
Suhie Gubi (Dry Lips) by Liza Bogolepov
Russia Awakes by Miss Herring
Response, A Hundred Love Lyrics by American Women
In Pale Fire:
A book on surnames (title unknown) by Charles X. Kinbote
Timon Afinsken (translation of Timon of Athens by Conmal, Duke of Aros
Voluminous correspondence by Ferz and Oswin Bretwit
Zemblan variants of the Konungs skuggsjá collected or forged by Hodinski (also known as Hodyna)
Ten volumes' worth of novels (titles unknown) by Jane de Faun
Dim Gulf by John Shade
Hebe's Cup by John Shade
Night Rote by John Shade
Poems by John Shade
Supremely Blest by John Shade
Taming a Seahorse by John Shade
A psychology textbook (title unknown) by Professor C.
Birds of Mexico by Samuel Shade, illustrated by Carolyn Shade
Historia Zemblica
The Merman (play)
In Look at the Harlequins!:
The book begins with a list of "Other Books by the Narrator". Many, if not all, of these titles appear to be doppelgangers of Nabokov’s real novels.
Tamara (1925), relates to Mary
Pawn Takes Queen (1927), relates to King, Queen, Knave and The Defense[1]
Plenilune (1929), relates to The Defense
Camera Lucida (Slaughter in the Sun), relates to Laughter in the Dark (UK title: Camera Obscura)
The Red Top Hat (1934), relates to Invitation to a Beheading
The Dare (1950), relates to The Gift (Dar, in Russian) and Glory
See under Real (1939), relates to The Real Life of Sebastian Knight and Pale Fire[1]
Esmeralda and Her Parandrus (1941)
Dr. Olga Repnin (1946), relates to Pnin
Exile from Mayda (1947), a short story collection, could relate to Spring in Fialta and Other Stories
A Kingdom by the Sea (1962), relates to Lolita
Ardis (1970), relates to Ada
In Hunters and Gatherers:
The Books of Power (18 vols.) by Thornton McCain
In Sabriel:
The Book of the Dead (anonymous)
In Lirael:
The Book of Remembrance and Forgetting [anonymous]
Creatures by Nagi by Nagi
In the Skin of a Lyon [anonymous]
In Ways to Disappear:
by Beatriz Yagoda
In Desolation Island:
New Operations for Suprapubic Cystotomy by Dr. Stephen Maturin
Suggestions for the Amelioration of Sick-Bays by Dr. Stephen Maturin
Thoughts on the Prevention of Diseases most usual among Seamen by Dr. Stephen Maturin
Tractatus de Novae Febris Ingressu by Dr. Stephen Maturin
In The Wine-Dark Sea:
Mariners: Consensus and Cohesion in Certain States of Adversity by Dr. Stephen Maturin
Some Remarks on Peruvian Cirripedes by Dr. Stephen Maturin
In Treason's Harbour:
Modest Proposals for the Preservation of Health in the Navy by Dr. Stephen Maturin
Remarks on Pezophaps Solitarious by Dr. Stephen Maturin
In At Swim-Two-Birds:
A Conspectus of the Arts and Sciences by Cowper
Flower o' the Prairie by William Tracy
Jake's Last Ride by William Tracy
Red Flannagan's Last Throw by William Tracy
In The Third Policeman:
De Selby Compendium by Bassett
Lux Mundi: A Memoir of de Selby by Bassett
Recollections by Bassett
Glauben ueber Ueberalls by Countess Schnapper
A Memoir of Garcia by de Selby
Codex by de Selby
Country Album by de Selby
Golden Hours by de Selby
Layman's Atlas by de Selby
Rural Atlas by de Selby
Histoire de Notre Temps by Du Garbandier
Great Towns by Goddard
The Man Who Sailed Away: A Memoir by H. Barge
Conspectus of the de Selby Dialetic by Hatchjaw
De Selby's Life and Times by Hatchjaw
The De Selby Water-Boxes Day by Day by Hatchjaw
Hatchjaw and Bassett by Henderson
De Selbys Leben by Kraus
Collected Works by Le Clerque
Extensions and Analyses by Le Clerque
De Selby - l'Enigme de l'Occident by Le Fournier
De Selby - Lieu ou Homme? by Le Fournier
Thoughts in a Library by Peachcroft
Bibliographie de de Selby
In Nineteen Eighty-Four:
The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein
In Keep the Aspidistra Flying:
The World Beyond, by the author of Spirit Hands Have Touched me
Father Hilaire Chestnut's "latest book of R.C. propaganda"
London Pleasures, lengthy narrative poem which Gordon Comstock is working on but never completes—"a dreadful book that never got any further, and which, as he knew in his moments of clarity, never would get any further"
Mice, small volume of poetry by Gordon Comstock
High Jinks in a Parisian Convent by Sadie Blackeyes
Jesus the First Rotarian, Some Aspects of the Italian Baroque ("a snooty-looking volume"), Secrets of Paris and The Man She Trusted, none of whose authors are stated
In The Road to Wigan Pier:
Marxism for Infants by Comrade X, member of the CPGB
In Coming Up for Air:
Astrology applied to Horse-racing, "which proved that it's all a question of influence of the planets on the colours the jockey is wearing."
Wasted Passion—"The chap in the story finds out that his girl has gone off with another chap."
In Betrayals:
The Armageddon Protocol by Drummond Gilchrist (unfinished)
The Atlantis Ultimatum by Drummond Gilchrist
The Importance of Being Jack, a play by Maturin within the fictional television show Biggert.
The Cincinnatus Papers by Jeremy Prentice
Down on Whores by Horatio Quaife
Enough Rope by Auberon Saville
The Finger Man by Cyril Pattison
For Richer, For Poorer by Jeremy Prentice
The Mystic Medicine Man: Henri Galvanauskas in Lithuania 1940-41 by Jacques Gicquiaux
The Greater Glory by Jeremy Prentice
Let Not Ambition by
The Hauptmann Ultimatum by Frederick Ludlum
The Quintain by Drummond Gilchrist
The Quintessence by Cyril Pattison
The Right Lines by Horatio Quaife
The Sensation Seeker by Cyril Pattison
Unmasking Strategies of Desire: Texts, Power, and the Phallus in the Work of Henri Galvaunauskas by Graham Speculand
The Sting in the Tail by Jeremy Prentice, unpublished
The Throat Surgeon by Lavinia Armitage
Too Clever by Half by Jeremy Prentice
The Twister by William Henry Ireland, unpublished
In The Black Book:
Obscuri Libri by Bottfolio
Kitabü’z- Zulmet by İbn Zerhanî
In Brisingr:
Domia abr Wyrda
In The Club Dumas:
Umbrarum Regni Novem Portis
Key to Captive Thoughts
A Curious Explanation of Mysteries and Hieroglyphs
The Three Books of the Art
The Secrets of Wisdom by Nicholas Tamisso
The Lost Word by Bernard Trevisan
Asclemandres
Delomelanicon, or Invocation of Darkness by Lucifer
De origine, moribus et rebus gestis Satanae
Dissertazioni sopra le apparizioni de' spiriti e diavoli
Restructor omnium rerum
Isis, the Naked Virgin by Baroness Ungern
The Devil, History and Legend by Baroness Ungern
Lupin, Raffles, Rocambole, and Holmes by Boris Balkan
Dumas: the Shadow of a Giant by Boris Balkan
Universal Bibliography by Mateu
Dictionary of Rare and Improbable Books by Julio Ollero
The Thousand Best Desserts of La Mancha by Enrique Taillefer
The Secrets of Barbecue by Enrique Taillefer
The Dead Man's Hand, or Anne of Austria's Page by Enrique Taillefer
Angeline de Gravaillac, or Unsullied Virtue by Amaury de Verona
I, Onan
In Search of Myself
Oui, C'est Moi
Treatise on the Art of Fencing by Don Jaime Astarloa
In Curse of the Pharaohs:
History of Ancient Egypt by Professor Radcliffe Emerson
In The Deeds of the Disturber:
Development of the Egyptian Coffin from Predynastic Times to the End of the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty, With Particular Reference to Its Reflection of Religious, Social, and Artistic Conventions by Professor Radcliffe Emerson
In Die For Love:
Crimson Bloom of Love by Valerie Fitzgerald
The Slave of Lust by Valerie Vanderbilt
With a Willow in Her Hand by Valerie Valentine
In Naked Once More:
Lust Among the Savages by Jacqueline Kirby
Naked in the Ice by Kathleen Darcy
Passion of the Dark by Jacqueline Kirby
Priestess of the Ice God by Brunnhilde Karlsdottir
Red Flag, Red Blood by Jack Carter
In Gamesmanship:
Bird Gamesmanship by Stephen Potter
Gamesman's Handbook (1949) by Stephen Potter
Gardens for Gamesmen, or When to be Fond of Flowers by Stephen Potter
Moth's Way and Bee's Wayfaring by O. Agnes Bartlett
Origins and Early History of Gamesmanship by Stephen Potter
The Silver Book of End-Play Squeezes by Stephen Potter
Twenty-Five Methods of Tee-Leaving by Stephen Potter
In Lifemanship:
Dictionary of Lifemanship and Gameswords by Symes
Kninghts, and How to Reasuure Them about their Social Position by unknown
MP-manship 1953 by T. Driberg
Periodship (volume 2) by J. Betjeman
Springs on the Arun by A.C.Y. Davis
In One-Upmanship:
The Birdsman in Society by B. Campbell
Bricks Without Straw by Olaf Pepacanek
The Muse in Chains by Stephen Potter
The Tea Party by T.D. Pontefract
In Supermanship: '
Airborne Heritage by Stephen Potter
Down to Sixteen or Less by Stephen Potter
Literary Guide to the Thames Valley by Stephen Potter
My Fayre Sussex by Otto Carling
Rhododendron Hunting in the Andes by Dr. Preissberger
For a list organized by author see "An Anthony Powell ABibliography."
In Books Do Furnish a Room:
Borage and Hellebore by Nick Jenkins
Sweetskin by Alaric Kydd
Bin Ends by F.X. Trapnel
Camel Ride to the Tomb by F.X. Trapnel
Dogs Have No Uncles by F.X. Trapnel
Profiles in String by F.X. Trapnel
In the A Dance to the Music of Time series:
Dust Thou Art by St. John Clarke
E'en the Longest River by St. John Clarke
Fields of Amaranth by St. John Clarke
The Heart is Highland by St. John Clarke
Match Me Such Marvel by St. John Clarke
Mimosa by St. John Clarke
Never to the Philistines by St. John Clarke
In Fisher King:
An unknown title by Valentine Beals
In Hearing Secret Harmonies:
The Gothic Symbolism of Mortality in the Texture of Jacobean Stagecraft by Emily Brightman
Cain's Jawbone by Evadne Clapham
Death's Head Swordsman, The Life and Works of X. Trapnel by Russell Gwinnett
Bedsores by Ada Leintwardine
The Bitch Pack meets on Wednesday by Ada Leintwardine
In What's Become of Waring:
Fierce Midnights by O. Guiller-Lawson
An unknown title by Shirley Handsworth
Aristogeiton: a Harmony by Minhinnick
Than Whom What Other? by Redhead
Athletes Footmen by Quentin Shuckerly
An unknown title by T.T. Waring
In the Discworld series:
100 Walks in the Ramtops, by Eric Wheelbrace
Almanack de Gothic
Cooking with Brains, by Chef Aimsbury (Chef dé Canine Cuisine, Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork)
Demonylogie Malyfycorum of Henchanse thee Unsatyfactory
Diseases of the Dragon
The Show Judges' Guide to Dragons, by Lady Sybil Ramkin
Diseases of the Sheep
Geoffrey and the Magic Pillow Case in Snuff, by Miss Felicity Beedle
Grim Fairy Tales
The Goode Childe's Booke of Faerie Tales
I Spy....Demons, by Professor Cuvee of Unseen University
Inne Juste 7 Dayes I Wille Make You a Barbearian Hero!, by Cohen the Barbarian
The Joye of Snackes, by "A Lancre Witch"
Koom Valley Codex
The Laws and Ordinances of the Cities of Ankh and Morpork
Liber Immanis Monstrorum, by Professor Cuvee of Unseen University
The Little Duckling Who Thought He Was an Elephant in Snuff, by Miss Felicity Beedle
Melvin and the Enormous Boil in Snuff, by Miss Felicity Beedle
Mr. Bunnsy Has an Adventure
Necrotelicomnicon
The Octavo
Res Centum et Una Quas Magus Facere Potest
The Summoning of Dragons, by Tubal de Malachite
True Art of Levitatione
Twurp's Peerage
Walking in the Koom Valley, by Eric Wheelbrace
What I Did On My Holidays, by Twoflower
Where's My Cow? in Thud! (A version exists in the real world which features the fictional characters reading the fictional version.)
The World of Poo in Snuff, by Miss Felicity Beedle
In The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents:
Mr Bunnsy Has an Adventure
In Good Omens (with Neil Gaiman):
The Nice And Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
The "Buggre Alle Thys" Bible (fictional edition of the Bible)
In Wintersmith:
Survival in the Snow (by T.H. Mouseholder)
Cooking in Dire Straits (by Superflua Raven)
Among the Snow Weasels (by K. Pierpoint Poundsworth)
The Habits of Wolves (by Captain W.E. Lightly)
Magnaventio Obtusis (by Perspicacia Tick)
Ancient and Classical Mythology (by Chaffinch)
Passion's Plaything (by Marjory J. Boddice)
Sundered Hearts (by Marjory J. Boddice)
Unexpurgated Dictionary
In Aberystwyth Mon Amour:
On Pools of Love by Joyce Moonweather
Governing a Sloop Captain Marcus Trelawney
Towards a New Pathology of Slovenliness Dr Heinz X. Nuesslin
Roses of Charon by Job Gorseino
Corruption of the Deep: The Captain's Guide to Last Rites and Burials at Sea
Adventures in Neuropathy by Puckpool
An Account of the Singular Peregrinations of Dr Diocletian Blobb among the Italians, Illuminated with Exemplary Tales from the True History of That Outlandish And Fantastical Race
The Book of Iceland Spar ('commonly described as "like the Ynglingasaga only different"')
The Chums of Chance and the Caged Women of Yokohama
The Chums of Chance and the Curse of the Great Kahuna
The Chums of Chance and the Evil Halfwit
The Chums of Chance and the Ice Pirates
The Chums of Chance at Krakatoa
The Chums of Chance at the Ends of the Earth
The Chums of Chance in Old Mexico
The Chums of Chance in the Bowels of the Earth ('for some reason one of the less appealing of this series, letters having come in from as far away as Tunbridge Wells, England, expressing displeasure, often quite intense, with my harmless little intraterrestrial scherzo.') (Pynchon 2006, p. 117)
The Chums of Chance Nearly Crash into the Kremlin
The Chums of Chance Search for Atlantis
The Courier's Tragedy by Richard Wharfinger (a Jacobean revenge play in five acts)
The Ghastly Fop (from Mason & Dixon)
How I Came to Love the People (anonymous)
The Italian Wedding Fake Book by Deleuze & Guattari
King Kong; 18 vls. by Mitchell Prettyplace (a 'definitive study')
Neil Nosepicker's Book of 50,000 Insults. The Nayland Smith Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts), 1933
The Pennsylvaniad, an epic poem by Timothy Tox featured throughout Mason & Dixon
On Preterition by William Slothrop ('among the first books to've been not only banned but ceremonially burned in Boston')
The Plays of Ford, Webster, Tourneur and Wharfinger by Dr. Emory Bortz
Plotting the Stealth and Intrigue of the Jacobean Revenge Plays by Dr. Emory Bortz
Tales of the Schwarzkommando collected by Steve Edelman
Things That Can Happen In European Politics by Ernest Pudding
The Wisdom of the Great Kamikaze Pilots (with illustrations by Walt Disney)
Works invented by Ayn Rand
In The Fountainhead:
Clouds and Shrouds, a memoir by Lois Cook
The Gallant Gallstone, a novel by Lois Cook
Sermons in Stone, a book about architecture by Ellsworth Toohey
In Atlas Shrugged:
The Heart is a Milkman, a novel by Balph Eubank
The Metaphysical Contradictions of the Universe, a philosophy book by Dr. Simon Pritchett?
The Vulture Is Molting, a nonfiction book by an unnamed author
Why Do You Think You Think?, a nonfiction book by Dr. Floyd Ferris
In Shelf Monkey:
By Agnes Coleman:
My Baby, My Love
Baby I was Nothing Before You
Baby Madeleine, What Happened
By Patricia Yellow:
A Dime of Two for Your Thoughts
By Douglas McDonald:
Jesus Rides Shotgun
By Ian Falk:
Shame on All of You
By Nicholas Rapley:
I'm All Out of Tea
By Laureen Hoper:
Lightbulbs and Dreams
By Gerry Ewes:
Diamonds Out of Diapers
In The Friendly Young Ladies:
By J.O. Flint:
Pillar of Cloud
Remission
By Tex O'Hara, pseudonym of Leonora Lane:
Lone Stair Trail
The Mexican Spur
Quick on the Draw
Silver Guns
Yippee-ih!
This is a list of books mentioned in the Harry Potter series. Titles specifically mentioned as textbooks are listed first, by class, followed by other books listed by general topic. Note that three of the following fictional books have since been written and published in the real world: Quidditch Through the Ages by Kennilworthy Whisp (2001), Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander (2001), and The Tales of Beedle the Bard (2007, 2008).
In The Shadow of the Wind:
By Julián Carax:
The Angel of the Mist
The Cathedral Thief
The Red House
The Shadow of the Wind
Works invented by Brandon Sanderson
In The Way of Kings,
The Way of Kings, a scriptural work by Nohadon
The Book of Endless Pages, a religious text
In Words of Radiance,
Words of Radiance, a historical treatise
Works invented by Lewis Sands
In The Librarian, by L. Sands:
In Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, by F. Hilary Stevens:
Bull's Eye, a novel
From a Hospital Bed, poems
Themes & Variation, poems
Dialogues, poems
Country Spells, poems
The Silences, poems
Most of the book is an interview of Mrs. Stevens at 70, and each book represents a section of her life.
In Drain:
The Book of Maneuvers by Fulcrum Maneuvers, plays a pivotal role
In Multifesto: The Henri d'Mescan Reader:
Summary Execution by Henri d'Mescan
Abstractions by Henri d'Mescan
Marginalia by Henri d'Mescan
The Trial and Death of Henri d’Mescan: Apoplectic by Henri d'Mescan
Spacecats of the World, Untie! by Henry Mescaline
Tupeat, Frompeet, Repeit by Henry Mescaline
Hallucigenome: The Henry Mescaline Reader by Henry Mescaline
Post-America" by Henri d'Mescan
'Touching a Careless God, or Were by Hans Dialectic
And the Pleasure Dome Decrees… by Lucien Spume
Kaballah?—Cab Allah! by Henri d’Mescan
Crocodilopolis, or, The Ribcage Sounds Like A Wooden Chest by Gact
The Breakers — Newport, RI. in 103 New World Sites: A Compendium of the Obtuse
Try and Catch God before God ACTs Up. by Tacg
In Dis:
Autobiomagicatomsexmonkey by Thelonius Bosh, edited by Ablaut the monkey.
The Six Bunny-Wunnies series by Helen Sweetstory
The Six Bunny-Wunnies and Their Pony Cart
The Six Bunny-Wunnies Go To Long Beach
The Six Bunny-Wunnies Make Cookies
The Six Bunny-Wunnies Join an Encounter Group
The Six Bunny-Wunnies and Their XK-E
The Six Bunny-Wunnies and Their Water Bed
The Six Bunny-Wunnies and Their Layover in Anderson, Indiana
The Six Bunny-Wunnies and Their Female Veterinarian
The Six Bunny-Wunnies Freak Out
The Six Bunny-Wunnies Visit Plains, Georgia
In Nifft the Lean:
The Aquademoniad
Thaumaturgicon, by Undle Nine-fingers
The Life and Personal Recollections, as well as Many pointed Observations, of Grahna-Shalla, son of Shalla-hedron of Lower Adelfi, who Fished in the Demonsea and Returned with Booty Marvelous to Tell
Thaumaturge's Pocket Pandect, by Balder Xolot
Pan-Demonion, by Parple
In The Mandibles:
Ad-Out by Enola Mandible
Better Late Than by Enola Mandible
Cradle to Grave by Enola Mandible
Gray by Enola Mandible
The Saint of Glengormley by Enola Mandible
The Stringer by Enola Mandible
Virtual Familys by Enola Mandible
In Ménage:
Fire Watch, by Zoltan Barbu
Stories, by Heather McKay
In Burning Questions:
My Life as a Rebel, by Zane Indiana
The Book of Eibon, by Eibon
Histoire d'Amour, by Bernard de Vaillantcoeur
The Testament of Carnamagos. This title was used twice, once set in current times(short story "The Treader of the Dust") and also set in the far distant future, in Zothique, earth's last continent.(short story "Xeethra".) Either Smith lost track or the book is extraordinarily long-surviving.
In The Finishing School :
The School Observed by Rowland Mahler
Who Killed Darnley? by Chris Wiley
In The Girls of Slender Means :
The Sabbath Notebooks by Nicholas Farringdon
In Loitering with Intent :
Warrender Chase by Fleur Talbot
In Memento Mori :
The Gates of Granella and The Seventh Child by Charmian Colston
In A Far Cry From Kensington :
Farewell, Leicester Square by Hector Bartlett
Jennings Has Tweaky Nipples by Anthony Buggery
Jennings Buys a New Dress by Anthony Buggery
Jennings and the Hormone Implants by Anthony Buggery
Jennings Gradually Begins to Feel More at Ease When He is With Other Women by Anthony Buggery
Jennings Spends an Intimate Evening with a Signals Officer from the Royal Navy by Anthony Buggery
Jennings Undergoes Specialist Surgery by Anthony Buggery
Mrs. Jennings Has Twins by Anthony Buggery
In Cryptonomicon and Quicksilver:
The Cryptonomicon
In Anathem :
Second New Revised Book of Discipline
In The Diamond Age :
A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
In The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman:
Grand System of Universal Monarchy by Jean-Baptiste Colbert
De Fartandi et Illustrandi Fallaciis by Didius
Military Architecture and Pyroballogy by Gobesius
Notes for a Sermon to be Preached at Court by Dr. Homenas
Treatise on the Animus and the Anima by Metheglingius
De Concubinis Retinendis by Phutatorius
Works by Prignitz
De Partu Difficili by Lithopaedus Senonesis
A (short) List of the Virtues of the Widow Wadman by Toby Shandy
Apologetical Oration by Toby Shandy
The Campaigns of Uncle Toby and Corporal Trim by Tristram Shandy
Dissertation upon the Word 'Tristram' by Walter Shandy
Life of Socrates by Walter Shandy
Philippicks by Walter Shandy
Plain Stories by Tristram Shandy
Remarks Made on a Tour of France in the Year 1765 by Tristram Shandy
Tristrapaedia by Walter Shandy
De Nasis by Hafen Slawkenbergius
Treatise on Midwifery by Dr. Slop
Works by Ludovicus Sorbonensis
The Second Council of Carthage by St. Cyprian
Code Louis by unknown
Dramatic Sermons by Parson Yorick
In The Hellfire Club: Night Journey by Hugo Driver
In Ghost Story: The Nightwatcher by Donald Wanderly
In Koko: The Divided Man by Tim Underhill
In The Domination serie: Meditations of Elvira Naldorssen by Elvira Naldorssen
Works invented by Barry Strugatz and Mark R. Burns
In She-Devil:
Love in the Rinse Cycle by Mary Fisher
Trust and Betrayal: A Docu-Novel of Love, Money and Betrayal by Mary Fisher
In The Daughter of Time:
Bells on Her Toes by Rupert Rouge
History Is the Bunk by Brent Carradine (planned non-fiction)
The Case of the Missing Tin-Opener by John James Mark
The Rose of Raby by Evelyn Payne-Ellis
The Sweat and The Furrow by Silas Weekley
Unnamed hard-boiled detective novel by Oscar Oakley
Unnamed romance novel by Lavinia Finch
In Miss Pym Disposes:
The Book by Lucy Pym
Book of Mazarbul by Balin and other Dwarves
Book of the Kings
Dorgannas Iaur by Torhir Iphant
Equessi Rúmilo by Rúmil
Grey Annals by scholars of Doriath
Lammas by Pengolodh
Noldolantë by Maglor
Of the Beginning of Time by Quennar i Onótimo
Old Words and Names in the Shire by Merry Brandybuck
Parma Culuina
Quentale Ardanomion
The Reckoning of the Years by Merry Brandybuck
The Red Book of Westmarch
The Tale of Years by Quennar i Onótimo
There and back again by Bilbo Baggins
Yénonótië by Quennar i Onótimo
In American Empire: Blood and Iron:
Over Open Sights by Jake Featherston
In American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold:
I Sank Roger Kimball by Sylvia Enos, ghost written by Ernest Hemingway
In Settling Accounts: In at the Death:
Equality by General Irving Morrell, U.S. Army
How I Blew Up Philadelphia by Brigadier General Clarence Potter, C.S. Army (retired)
In Bech: A Book:
Travel Light, a novel by Henry Bech
Brother Pig, a novel by Henry Bech
When the Saints, an essay collection by Henry Bech
In Bech is Back:
Think Big, a novel by Henry Bech
In Araminta Station:
Charter of the Cadwal Conservancy by the Members of the Naturalist Society of Earth
The Worlds of Man by the Fellows of the Fidelius Institute
In Cugel's Saga:
Intimate Anatomy of Several Overworld Personages by Haruvoit
In the Demon Princes series:
Better Understanding of the Institute by Charles Bronstein
Chronicles of Navarth by Carol Lewis
Civilized Ideas and Civilized Worlds by Michael Yeaton
A Comparison of Mathematical Processes as Employed by Six "Intelligent" Alien Races by Unspiek, Baron Bodissey
A Concise History of Oikumene by Albert B. Hall
The Criminal Mentality by Michael Diaz
Dar Sai and the Darsh by Joinville Akers
Encyclopedia of Sociology by B. A. Edgar
Everyman's Guide to the Stars
Fauna of the Vegan Worlds by Rapunzel K. Funk
Games of the Galaxy by Everett Wright
Gustations by Michael Weist
The Heham Fjoliot
Human Institutions by Prade
The Institute: A Primer by Mary Murray
Interplanetary Crime: Causes and Consequences by Karen Miller
The Moral Essence of Civilization by Calvin V. Calvert
Peccant Souls by Theodore Pederson
Peoples of the Coranne by Richard Pelto
The Sexual Habits of the Sarkoy by B. A. Edgar
Star Directory
Studies in Comparative Anthropology by Russell Cooke
The Teachings of Didram Bodo Sime by Didram Bodo Sime
Ten Explorers: A Study of Type by Oscar Anderson
Tourist Guide to the Coranne by Jane Szantho
In The Dying Earth:
Cazdal's Tract
The Cyclopedia
The Lost Book of Kells
The Tomes of Kae
In The Eyes of the Overworld:
Thrump's Almanac by Thrump
Zaraides the Wizard, His Compendium of Spells, Beware by Zaraides
Zaraides the Wizard, His Workbook, Beware by Zaraides
In the Lyonesse Trilogy
Abstracts and Excerpts, by Balberry
Book of Logotypes
Candasces
The Chronicles of Ys
Clavetz of Avallon
Dalziel of Avallon
Jirolamo
Junifer Algo
Lagronius: his Chronicles
Matreo
Memories of Nausicaa
Morning Ode, by Merosthenes
Orgon Photis
Panis the Ionian
The Pantological Index
Saint Uldine's Children
Twitten's Almanac
War of the Goths and the Huns, by Khersom
In The Palace of Love:
Introduction to Old Earth by Ferencz Szantho
Worlds I Have Known by L. G. Dusenyi
In Rhialto the Marvellous:
Characteristic Stuffs: Dusts and Microvies of the Latter Aeons
The Encyclopedia
The Great Gloss
Primer of Practical Magic, by Killiclaw
The Three Books of Phandaal
In The Star King:
The Demon Princes by Caril Carphen
The IPCC: Men and Methods by Raul Past
Life by Unspiek, Baron Bodissey
Men of the Oikumene by Jan Holberk Vaenz LXII
New Discoveries in Space by Ralph Quarry
Popular Handbook of the Planets
Scroll from the Ninth Dimension
Miscellaneous
The Book of Dreams by Howard Alan Treesong
The Killing Machine Peoples of the Concourse by Streck and Chernitz
In Infinite Jest:
Incest and the Life of Death in Capitalist Entertainment by Gilles Deleuze
Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie by Mabel Syrup
Commander Coriander Salamander and 'er Singlehander Bellylander by Mabel Syrup
In Brideshead Revisited: (all by Charles Ryder)
Ryder's Country Seats
Ryder's English Homes
Ryder's Village and Provincial Architecture
Ryder's Latin America
In Jimmy the Kid:
Child Heist by Richard Stark. (Several chapters from this fictional book are included in Jimmy the Kid. Westlake wrote many novels under he pen name of Stark, but this one was fictional, a self-joke. Stark also appears briefly as a character.)
In the Jeeves stories
All for Love by Rosie M. Banks
Autumn Leaves by Gwendolen Moon
Blackness at Night by Adela Cream
The Case of the Poisoned Doughnut by Rex West
The Courtship of Lord Strathmorlick by Rosie M. Banks
Inspector Biffen Views the Body by Rex West
Jenny, The Girl Jockey
Madcap Myrtle by Rosie M. Banks
Memories of Eighty Interesting Years by Lady Carnaby
Murder in Mauve by Rex West
The Mystery of the Pink Crayfish by Rex West
My Friends the Newts by Loretta Peabody
Only a Factory Girl by Rosie M. Banks
Pipped on the Post
Recollections of a Long Life by Sir Willoughby
A Red, Red Summer Rose by Rosie M. Banks
'Twas on an English June by Gwendolen Moon
The Woman Who Braved All by Rosie M. Banks
In Joy in the Morning
The Poisoned Pen
Spindrift by Florence Craye
Spinning Wheel
With Guns and Camera in Little Known Borneo
In "The Artistic Career of Corky"
American Birds by Alexander Worple
The Children's Book of American Birds by Muriel Singer
More American Birds by Alexander Worple
In Aunts Aren't Gentlemen (U.S. title The Cat-nappers)
By Order of the Czar
The Mystery of A Hansom Cab
In The Mating Season
Mervyn Keene, Clubman by Rosie M. Banks
Murder at Greystone Grange
Miscellaneous
In Clustering Around Young Bingo: Frank Recollections of a Long Life by Lady Bablockhythe
In Cocktail Time: Cocktail Time by Sir Raymond Bastable
In Leave it to Psmith: Songs of Squalor by Ralston McTodd
In Pigs Have Wings: On the Care of the Pig by Augustus Whiffle
In Sam in the Suburbs: Is There a Hell? by Rev. Aubrey Jerningham
In Sleepy Time: Hypnotism As A Device To Uncover the Unconscious Drives And Mechanism In An Effort To Analyse the Functions Involved Which Gives Rise To Emotional Conflicts In the Waking State by Professor Pepperidge Farmer
In Something Fresh: The Adventures of the Secret Six by Felix Clovelly
In Strychnine in the Soup: Strychnine in the Soup by Slingsby, Blood on the Banisters
In The Chrysalids
Nicholson's Repentances, a supplement to the Bible
In The Day of the Triffids
Sex Is My Adventure by Josella Playton
Abnegation as Statement: Symbol and Sacrament in the Achievement of Rex Ivory by Professor Wadding in The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
The Alfred G. Graebner Memorial High School Handbook of Rules and Regulations by an unknown author in The Alfred G. Graebner Memorial High School Handbook of Rules and Regulations by Ellen Conford
All of Them Witches by J. R. Hanslet in Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
Almost Like Suicide by Cal Cunningham in About the Author by John Colapinto
The Almshouse by Mr. Popular Sentiment (a parody of Charles Dickens) in The Warden by Anthony Trollope
Amazing Amy and the Big Day by Rand and Marybeth Elliott in Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
An American Life: Biography of a Patriot, The Life and Times of Austin Bell (unpublished) by Foster Cummings in Columbo: The Grassy Knoll by William Harrington
An Open Invitation to the Chymical Wedding, being a Modest Prologomenon to a Fuller Revelation of the Hermetic Mystery by Louisa Agnew in The Chymical Wedding by Lindsay Clarke
The Ancient Enemy by Timothy Flyte in Phantoms by Dean Koontz
Angel's Choice by Jocelyn Lewis in Away From It All by Judy Astley
Apocalypse Cow: Escape from the Cursed Isle by Lesley McBrien in Apocalypse Cow by Michael Logan
Ariadne by Emmanuel Foxx in The Players Come Again by Amanda Cross
Attempt at a Uniform and Pragmatic Classification of the Neuroses and Psychoses, Based on an Examination of Fifteen Hundred Pre-Krapaelin and Post-Krapaelin Cases as they would be Diagnosed in the Terminology of the Different Contemporary Schools Together with a Chronology of Such Subdivisions of Opinion as Have Arisen Independently. by Dick Diver in Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bad Blood by Will Bunting in American Vampire by Scott Snyder & Stephen King
The Ball-Breakers' Guide by an unknown author in A Bitter Peace by Michael Peterson (pub. Women's Center, Oakland, CA)
The Banjo Players Must Die by Josef Assad as a novel is itself a product of the story it tells
Be a Perfect Person In Just Three Days! by Dr K. Pinkerton Silverfish in the book of the same name by Stephen Manes
Beneath the Visiting Moon by Penelope Milne, a.k.a. Edith Hope, in Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
The Big Green Book by an unknown author in The Big Green Book by Robert Graves
Big Julie Criscoll Versus The Whole Wide World by Emma Morley in One Day by David Nicholls
The Biography of a Dead Cow by Mr. Rudolph Block in The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
The Biography of Celebrated Mummies by Reverend Doctor Fundgruben in The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan by James Morier
Blood and Loot by Horace Hackett in Typewriter in the Sky by L. Ron Hubbard
Blood on Their Hands: The Crime of It All, A study of some selected abuses in sixteenth century Europe (Monograph) by Ignatius J. Reilly in A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Blue Angel by Ted Swenson in Blue Angel by Francine Prose
The Book, a sort of fairy bible in the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer
Book of Bride by Sisters of the Convent of St. Bride in Fires of Bride by Ellen Galford
The Book of Counted Sorrows by an unknown author in Dark Rivers of the Heart by Dean Koontz (Epigrams from The Book of Counted Sorrows appear in most of Dean Koontz's novels)
The Book of Fred by an unknown author in The Book of Fred by Abby Bardi
The Book of Gramarye by an unknown author in The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper
The Book of Knights; A History of the Famous Lives and Deeds of Valor of Many Brave Knights by an unknown author in The Book of Knights by Yves Meynard
Book of Life and Book of the Dead in the Bible and Talmud by various
The Book of Silence by an unknown author in The Book of Silence by Lawrence Watt-Evans
Book of the City of Ember by an unknown author in The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
The Book of the Learned (a 12th-century illuminated manuscript in Latin) by an unknown author in Moving Target by Elizabeth Lowell
The Book of Ultimate Truths by Hugo Rune in The Book of Ultimate Truths by Robert Rankin
Bulk Discounting by Morton Kennedy in Karlmarx.com by Susan Coll
The Catalogue of Obsolete Entertainments by Adam Pennyman in Lucky Wander Boy by D.B. Weiss
Catechism (also titled Confessions of Faith) by Mogila in The Suppressed Edition by Richard Curle
Child Heist by Richard Stark in Jimmy the Kid by Donald Westlake (Several chapters of "Child Heist" are published in Jimmy the Kid, but the full book is not. Westlake has written real books under the name "Richard Stark".)
A Clockwork Orange by F. Alexander in A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Collected Works by Shunsuke Hinoki in Forbidden Colors by Yukio Mishima
Coming Home by Alun Weaver in The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis (unfinished)
A Compleat Atlas of the House and Immediate Environs in The Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix
Consider the Porpoise by an unknown author in Grandmother's Pigeon by Louise Erdrich
The Cupboard Under the Stairs by Frank Prime in The Beacon by Susan Hill
Death and Resurrection by Ibn Khanu in The Secret of the Vault by Wesley Rosenquest
The Deccan Traps And Other Unlikely Destinations by Rory McHoan in The Crow Road by Iain Banks
A Classical Dictionary by John Lemprière in Lemprière's Dictionary by Lawrence Norfolk
The Discourses and Edifications of Liw Osfeo by an unknown author in Fools Errant by Matt Hughes
Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood by Vivi Abbott Walker in Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
The Doubtful Debutante by an unnamed professor in Dead Poets Society, a novel by N.H. Kleinbaum, based on the motion picture written by Tom Schulman
Drummondganj Book of the Dead by Jed in The Everest Hotel by I. Allan Sealy
Ducks and Duck Breeding by an unknown author in The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
Dying Earth by Martin Silenus in Hyperion by Dan Simmons
An Early Bath for Thompson by A. D. Young in The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills
Earthseed: Books of the Living by Lauren Oya Olamina in Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Elegant Waste by Griffin Silver in Strangers in Paradise by Terry Moore
Encyclopaedia Sebestiana by various scholars unknown in Nowhere by Thomas Berger
Encyclopedia Galactica by an unknown author in Foundation series by Isaac Asimov
Ethics of Ygor by an unknown author in The Great White Space by Basil Copper
Etiquette Along The Mississippi by Gaylord Gibbon in Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor
The Failed Stone by John Dart in Starcrossed by A. A. Gill
Faith and Morals for the Catholic Fireside: A Question-box for the Layman by Revd. Aidan Raphael Croucher in Fludd by Hilary Mantel
Fear Itself by Grey Berwald in Batman: Fear Itself by Michael Reaves & Steven-Elliot Altman
The Fighting Sailor by Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy (a biography of Fleet Admiral William Halsey)
Flixton Slick - Super Sleuth by C. E. J. and Jennings Darbishire in Jennings Goes to School by Anthony Buckeridge (unpublished)
Fornication comme acte culterel, La by Henri Mensonge in Mensonge by Malcolm Bradbury
Four handwritten volumes of 100 pages each, "in a cramped hand and with Latin quotations." The last volume was a political treatise based in Humanitas. By Bras Cubas in The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
The Furnace of Sin by Lucas Holderness in Love and Mr. Lewisham by H.G. Wells
Ghosts of the New England Coast by Marshall Watkins in Captain Butcher's Body by Scott Corbett
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Hortense Francis Weckweet in Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente. Later expanded into a novel
The Grasshopper Lies Heavy by Hawthorne Abendsen in The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
The Great Good Thing by The Author in The Great Good Thing by Roderick Townley
Gulf of Darkness by Leidall in Violence by Algernon Blackwood
Handbook for Messiahs by an unknown author in Illusions by Richard Bach
The Help by Eugenia Phelan in The Help by Kathryn Stockett
History of Damar by Astytlet in The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
Hyperion Cantos by Martin Silenus in Hyperion by Dan Simmons
I Love My Willy by Austin Tichenor - Reduced Shakespeare Company
Ieximal Jelimite by an unknown author in The Poet Assassinated by Guillaume Apollinaire (play)
Inkheart in Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Jacob Wrestling by James Mortmain in I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
The Labyrinth of the World by an unknown author in Ex-Libris by Ross King (A palimpsest of Galileo's treatise on Jovian moons)
Lady Don't Fall Backwards by Darcy Sarto in The Missing Page by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson (in Hancock's Half Hour)
The Lair of the Dragon by Judith Adams in Death in Five Boxes by Carter Dickson
The Law, Complete by an unknown author in After Hamelin by Bill Richardson (Law Book of the Trolavians)
The Laws of Human History by Valentin Michael Karstev in Protect and Defend by Eric L. Harry
Le Guide by Henri (director) LeClercq in Monsieur Pamplemousse on Probation by Michael Bond
Lexicon Corsi by Anon(ymous) in Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavić
Liber inducens in Evangelium aeternum by Joachim of Flora in "The Tables of the Law" by W.B. Yeats.
Life is Stranger than Truth, Volume II: Nine More Miniature Gods by an unknown author in The Paris Stories by Laird Hunt (pamphlet)
The Lord of the Swastika by Adolf Hitler in The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad
The Lost Heir by Phoebe (publish anonymously) Marlow in Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle by Georgette Heyer
The Mad Tryst by Sir Launcelot Canning in The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
The Maxims of Marriage or The Duties of a Married Woman, Together with Her Daily Exercises by an unknown author in The School for Wives by Molière
Make Four Million Dollars By Next Thursday! by Dr K. Pinkerton Silverfish in the book of the same name by Stephen Manes
Mixed Moss by James (as Captain Flint) Turner in Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
A Modest Proposal for the Spreading of Christianity in Foreign Parts, whereby it is hoped its entertainment will become general all over the world by an unknown author in Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin (Manuscript volume found in an asylum)
Multitudes, Multitudes, an anti-war novel being written by the devious junior officer Tom Keefer in The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
The Murder of Gonzago by an unknown playwright in Hamlet by William Shakespeare (also known as ""The Mousetrap")
N. P. by Sarao Takase in N. P. by Banana Yoshimoto
Never Whistle While You're Pissing by Hagbard Celine in the Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
The Neverending Story by an unknown author in The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
The Nine Doors to the Kingdom of Shadows by 17th century author Aristide Torchia in The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Off The Road by William Henry Deveraux in The Straight Man by Richard Russo
One Woman's War by Kate (Unknown) in Lace by Shirley Conran
Or I Will Sell My Soul For Guilt by Thomas Covenant in the Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen R. Donaldson. Covenant is reported to have written at least two other novels prior to the start of the First Chronicles, but these are left unnamed by Donaldson
The Orange and the Apple in Arthur C. Clarke's A Fall of Moondust
Um Ourives das Palavras by Amadeu Inacio de Almeida Prado in Pascal Mercier's Nachtzug nach Lissabon
Pause-O-Men for the Virgin by an unknown author in The Great Pursuit by Tom Sharpe (an inexact word-palindrome of "Virgin thee for Menopause").
Penny Has a Plan by Ruthanne Hendry in The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
Peter Flowerbuck by Adrian Healey in The Liar by Stephen Fry (a forgery that Healy tries to pass off as being written by Charles Dickens)
The Practice of Thinking in Murray Leinster's Med Ship stories
Preternatural by Karen Guerreri in Preternatural by Margaret Wander Bonanno
The Princess Bride by S. Morgenstern - the purportedly abridged, just the good parts version by William Goldman is the original. Goldman asserted that Morgenstern also wrote a sequel, Buttercup's Baby, but it has never been published apart from a "teaser" chapter at the end of later editions of The Princess Bride
The Principles of Private Detection by Clovis Andersen in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith
The Ratisutra by Jayamala in Love in a Dead Language by Lee Siegel
The Real Jonathan by Betsy Clendenin in Columbo: The Hoover Files by William Harrington
Report of a Reconnaissance of the Black Hills of Dakota by William Ludlow in Legends of the Fall by Jim Harrison.
Revelations of Glaaki by an unknown author in The Inhabitant of the Lake by Ramsey Campbell (in The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants)
The Rise of the Colored Empires, by "this man Goddard," admired by Tom Buchanan in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. (Nick Carraway: "As for Tom, the fact that he 'had some woman in New York,' was really less surprising than that he had been depressed by a book. Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas...")
Rtr's Strbk by an unknown author in Rtr's Strbk by Peter Neumeyer (from "Signal 54")
Rules and Traffic Regulations, Which May Not be Bent or Broken by an unknown author in The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Secret Goldfish by D. B. Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Secret of Secrets by Duban the Sage in The Tale of King Yunan and the Sage Duban by Arabian Nights (Richard Burton translation)
The Secret Watcher by Halpin Chalmers in The Hounds of Tindalos by Frank Belknap Long
The Seven Minutes by J J Jadway in The Seven Minutes by Irving Wallace
Seven-Day Magic by an unknown author in Seven-Day Magic by Edward Eager (A magic book that writes itself. At times it also has the titles "Wishful Ways for Wizards", "Helpful Hints for Homemakers", and "Dreadful Deeds for Dragons".)
Sylvio, the Fisherman's Son by Frederic Moreau in Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
The Smugglers of Lost Souls' Rock by an unknown author in October Light by John Gardner
Songs of a Housepainter by Matthew Harrison in Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson
The Southern Way by Savannah (as Renata Halpern) Wingo in The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Speaker for the Dead: The Hive Queen and the Hegemon by Andrew "Ender" Wiggin in Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead: The Life of Human by Andrew "Ender" Wiggin in Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Stanzas, Scars and Scandals - A Dramatic History of the Life of Lord Byron by H. J. Ragworth in Cham by Jonathan Trigell
Strangers from the Sky by Dr. Garamet Jen-Saunor in Strangers from the Sky by Margaret Wander Bonanno
Tears, Idle Tears by an unknown author in The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells (one of the characters says it should have been called "Slop, Silly Slop")
Telemachus Sneezed by Atlanta Hope in the Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
A True and Faithful rendering of the Life of Dona Rosalina Alvarez della Cueva, Abbess of the Convent of Santa Barbara of Tartarus by Domenico Eucaristo Deseos in The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
The True Grimoire by Alibeck in Casting the Stones by John Pocsik
The True History of the World by Lucien de Terre in The Werewolves of London by Brian Stableford (4 volumes)
To Serve Man by an unknown author in To Serve Man by Damon Knight (from the planet Kanamit)
Too Many Cousins by Raymond Shears in Too Many Cousins by Douglas G. Browne
The Twelve Hours of the Night by William Ashbless in The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
Under a Loggia by "Joseph Emery Prank" (pseudonym of Eleanor Lavish) in A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
Universal Principles by an unknown author in Against a Dark Background by Iain M. Banks
The Unwritten Book by Jason K. Kingsland in Ex-Libris by John Shire
The Uselessness of Everything by the Hemulen in Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson
Vastarien by an unknown author in "Vastarien" by Thomas Ligotti (in Teatro Grottesco and Other Stories)
Vatican Codex by Mayan in The Philosopher's Stone by Colin Wilson
Viage to the Contree of the Cimmerians by Gervase of Langford in Codex by Lev Grossman
Warren Peece by Chris Crutcher in The Sledding Hill by Chris Crutcher
The Way Out in works by Harry Stephen Keeler
Who Put Back The Clock? by E. H. B. in The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Vault of Mr.Curwen by Alice Waite (short story)
The Wings of Death by Osric Dane in "Xingu" by Edith Wharton (short story)
Yellow Dragon by M. de Bac in The Devil's Manuscript by Sidney Kilner Levett-Yeats
You Will Never Die by Carl G. Soziere in "Divided By Infinity" by Robert Charles Wilson (Divided by Infinity is in the anthology The Perseids)
Kennedy, George A. Fictitious Authors and Imaginary Novels in French, English and American Fiction from the 18th to the Start of the 21st Century, Mellen Press, 2004. ISBN 0-7734-6251-1
