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This is a list of fictional books that appear in literature, television, movies, music, video games, and other places.

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Fictional books

Fictional books from literature

Works invented by Douglas Adams from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
  • ''The Big Bang Theory, A Personal View" by Eccentrica Gallumbits
  • Celestial Homecare Omnibus
  • Encyclopedia Galactica
  • Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Sex But Have Been Forced To Find Out by Oolon Colluphid
  • Fifty-Three More Things to do in Zero Gravity
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  • Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Mk. II
  • ''Life Begins at Five Hundred and Fifty"
  • Practical Parenting in a Fractally Demented Universe
  • ''Sidereal Daily Mentioner's Book of Popular Galactic History"
  • Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes by Oolon Colluphid
  • ''Songs of the Long Land" by Lallaffa
  • Squornshellous Swamptalk
  • Time Traveller's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations by Dr. Dan Streetmentioner
  • The Ultra-Complete Maximegalon Dictionary of Every Language Ever
  • Well That About Wraps It Up for God by Oolon Colluphid
  • Where God Went Wrong by Oolon Colluphid
  • Who Is This God Person Anyway? by Oolon Colluphid
  • You and Your Planets by Gail Andrews

Works invented by John Bellairs
= In The Face in the Frost
=
  • An Answer for Night-Hags
  • Krankenhammer by Stefan (the mad cobbler of Mainz) Schimpf
  • Nameless Horrors and What to Do About Them
  • Six Centuries of English Spells
  • Table of Rust Rates by Captain Monkhouse
= In Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull
=
  • Clavicule de Saloman, La by Warren Windrow
  • Weird Tales of the Maine Seacoast
= In The Dark Secret of Weatherend
=
  • A History of Hoosac County
  • Eminent Minnesotans
  • Peculiarities of American Cities
  • The Book of the Dead by Simon of Salisbury
  • The Testament of J. K. Borkman by Jorgen Knut Borkman
= In The Figure in the Shadows
=
  • Free Inquiy into the Properties of Magic Amulets by Florence Helene Zimmermann
= In The House with a Clock in its Walls
=
  • Cloud Formations and Other Phenomena by Isaac Izard
  • Hardesty's Universal Omnium Gatherum
= In The Letter, The Witch, and the Ring
=
  • A Cyclopedia of Jewish Antiquities by Reverend Merriwether Burchard

= In The Mummy, The Will, and the Crypt
=
  • Stately Homes of New England
= In The Doom of the Haunted Opera (with Brad Strickland)
=
  • Transactions of the Capharnaum County Magicians Society (6 volumes)

= In Vengeance of the Witch-Finder (with Brad Strickland)
=
  • History of the Baravelt Family and the Rebellion Against King Charles I by James Barnavelt
  • Persecution, for Witch-Craft, of Martin Christian Barnavelt by Martin Christian Barnavelt

Works by Robert Bloch
= In The Man Who Collected Poe
=
  • The Crypt by Edgar Allan Poe
  • The Further Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan Poe
  • The Worm of Midnight by Edgar Allan Poe
= In The Suicide in the Study
=
  • Cultes des Goules by Comte d'Erlette
  • Black Rites by Luveh-Keraphf
= Miscellaneous
=
  • In The Mannikin, Cabala of Saboth
  • In The Secret of Sebek, De Vermis Mysteriis

Works invented by Jorge Luis Borges
  • Anglo-American Cyclopedia 1917 edition
  • April March by Herbert Quain
  • Axaxaxax Mlo
  • The Book of Sand
  • Combed Clap of Thunder
  • Don Quixote and other works by Pierre Menard
  • A First Encyclopaedia of Tlön
  • The Garden of Forking Paths by Ts'ui Pen
  • A General History of Labyrinths by Silas Haslam (1888)
  • History of a Land called Uqbar by Silas Haslam
  • Lesbare und lesenswerthe Bemerkungen über das Land Ukkbar in Klein-Asien by Johann Valentin Andreä
  • Orbis Tertius
  • Plaster Cramp
  • Les Problemes d'un probleme
  • Statements by Herbert Quain
  • The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim by Mir Bahadur Ali (1932)
  • The Conversation with the Man Called Al-Mu'tasim Mir Bahadur Ali
  • The God of the Labyrinth by Herbert Quain
  • The Secret Mirror by Herbert Quain

Works invented by Richard Brautigan in The Abortion
  • Bacon Death, by Marsha Patterson
  • Breakfast First, by Samuel Humber
  • The Culinary Dostoevski, by James Fallon
  • The Egg Layed Twice, by Beatrice Quinn
  • Growing Flowers by Candlelight in Hotel Rooms, by Ms. Charles Fine Adams
  • He Kissed All Night, by Susan Magar
  • A History of Nebraska, by Clinton York*
  • Hombre, by Canton Lee
  • It's the Queen of Darkness, Pal, by Rod Keen
  • Jack, The Story of a Cat, by Hilda Simpson
  • Leather Clothes and the History of Man, by S. M. Justice
  • Love Always Beautiful, by Charles Green
  • Moose, by Richard Brautigan
  • My Dog, by Bill Lewis
  • My Trike, by Chuck
  • The Need for Legalized Abortion, by Doctor O.
  • The Other Side of My Hand, by Harlow Blade
  • Pancake Pretty, by Barbara Jones
  • Printer's Ink, by Fred Sinkus
  • The Quick Forest, by Thomas Funnel
  • Sam Sam Sam, by Patricia Evens Summers
  • The Stereo and God, by Reverand Lincoln Lincoln
  • UFO vs. CBS, by Susan De Witt
  • Vietnam Victory, by Edward Fox
  • Your Clothes are Dead, by Les Steinman

Works invented by A.S. Byatt
= In The Biographer's Tale
=
  • A Humble Maid of Acre by Sir Elmer Bole
  • Rose of Sharon by Sir Elmer Bole
  • The Scimitar by Sir Elmer Bole
  • The Golden Cage of Princes by Sir Elmer Bole
  • A Princess Among Slaves by Sir Elmer Bole
  • Bajazeth by Sir Elmer Bole
  • Shulamith by Sir Elmer Bole
  • How Beautiful Are Thy Feet by Sir Elmer Bole
  • The Orchard Walls by Sir Elmer Bole
  • A Spring Shut Up by Sir Elmer Bole
  • A Journey Through Seven Climates, Alleged translation of Evliya Chelebi by Sir Elmer Boles, likely to have been written by Boles himself
  • Life of Sir Elmer Bole, Volume 1: A Singular Youth by Scholes Destry-Scholes
  • Life of Sir Elmer Bole, Volume 2: The Voyager by Scholes Destry-Scholes
  • Life of Sir Elmer Bole, Volume 3: Vicarage and Harem by Scholes Destry-Scholes
= In Possession
=
  • The Garden of Proserpina by Randolph Henry Ash
  • Pranks of Priapus by Randolph Henry Ash
  • The Grecian Way of Love by Randolph Henry Ash
  • Gods, Men, and Heroes by Randolph Henry Ash
  • Ragnarok by Randolph Henry Ash
  • Ask to Embla poem-cycle by Randolph Henry Ash
  • Complete Poems and Plays of by Randolph Henry Ash, compiled by James Blackadder
  • Complete Correspondence of by Randolph Henry Ash, compiled by Mortimer Cropper
  • Chidiock Tichbourne by Randolph Henry Ash
  • The Incarcerated Sorceress by Randolph Henry Ash
  • The Great Collector by Randolph Henry Ash
  • Mummy Possest poem by Randolph Henry Ash
  • Swammerdam peom by Randolph Henry Ash
  • Cromwell verse drama by Randolph Henry Ash
  • St. Bartholomew's Eve verse drama by Randolph Henry Ash
  • Cassandra verse drama by Randolph Henry Ash
  • The Great Ventriloquist, a biography of by Randolph Henry Ash by Mortimer Cropper
  • Last Things by Christabel LaMotte
  • Tales for innocents by Christabel LaMotte
  • Tales Told in November by Christabel LaMotte
  • The Fairy Melusina epic poem by Christabel LaMotte
  • Last Tales by Christabel LaMotte
  • The City of Is by Christabel LaMotte
  • The Shadowy Portal by Mrs. Lees
  • La Mer by Michelet
  • La Montagne by Michelet
  • L'Oiseau by Michelet
  • L'Insecte by Michelet
  • Debateable Land Between This World and the Next by Robert Dale Owen
  • No Place Like home by Leonora Stern
  • LaMotte's Strategies of Evasion: A collection of essays Leonora Stern, compiler
  • Tallahassee Women Poets, Leonora Stern, editor
  • Christabel LaMotte: A Selection of Narrative and Lyric Poems, Leonora Stern, editor
  • Anemones of the British Coast by Francis Tugwell
  • White Linen by Unknown
  • Ghosts and Other Weird Creatures by Unknown
  • Unknown Sex Life of Eminent Victorians by Unknown
=Miscellaneous
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  • Babbletower: A Tale for the Children of Our Time by Jude Mason, in Babel Tower
  • A Sense of Glory by Julia Corbett, in The Game
  • The Silver Swan by Julia Corbett, in The Game
  • The Trivial Round by Julia Corbett, in The Game

Works invented by Michael Chabon
=In Summerland
=
  • How to Catch Lightning and Smoke
  • The Wa-He-Ta Brave's Official Tribe Handbook
=In The God of Dark Laughter
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  • Encyclopdeia of Archaeo-Anthropological Research
  • The Unfathomable Ruse by Khndzut Dzul
  • The Unfathomable Ruse, translated by Khndzut Dzul
  • Uber das Finstere Lachen, by Friedrich Von Junzt
=In Wonderboys
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  • Kind of Blue by John Jose Fahey
  • Fans and Fadeaways by John Jose Fahey
  • Eight Solid Lightyears of Lead by John Jose Fahey
  • Sad Tidings by John Jose Fahey
  • The Love Parade by James Leer
  • The Land Downstairs by Grady Tripp
  • The Bottomlands by Grady Tripp
  • Wonderboys by Grady Tripp
  • The Abominations of Plunkettsburg and Other Tales by Albert Vetch (writing as August Van Zorn)

Works invented by Agatha Christie

Works from the Sherlock Holmes series and other works by Arthur Conan Doyle

Works invented by John Irving in The World According to Garp
  • Ellen by T.S. Garp
  • The Second Wind of the Cuckold by T.S. Garp
  • Sexual Suspect by Jenny Garp
  • The Pension Grillparzer by T.S. Garp
  • Procrastination by T.S. Garp
  • The World According to Bensenhaver by T.S. Garp

Works invented by Stephen King
  • Treating the Burn Victim: A Diagnostic Approach, sixteenth edition
  • Charlie the Choo-Choo by Claudia y Inez Bachman
  • The Black Rapids by Bill Denbrough
  • Underworld Figures by Reg Thorpe
=Works by Thaddeus Beaumont (also writing as George Stark)
=
  • The Sudden Dancers by Thaddeus Beaumont
  • Purple Haze by Thaddeus Beaumont
  • The Golden Dog by Thaddeus Beaumont
  • Machine's Way by George Stark
  • Steel Machine by George Stark
  • Oxford Blues by George Stark
  • Sharkmeat Pie by George Stark
  • Riding to Babylon by George Stark
=Mike Enslin's Ten Nights books
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  • Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Castles
  • Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Graveyards
  • Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Houses
  • Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Hotel Rooms (unfinished)
=Works by Richard Kinnell
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  • The Departing
  • Nightmare City
=Works by Mike Noonan
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  • Being Two
  • All the Way from the Top
  • The Red-Shirt Man
  • Threatening Behavior
  • Darcy's Admirer
  • Helen's Promise
=Works by Morton Rainey
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  • The Delacourt Family
  • Everybody Drops the Dime (short stories)
  • The Organ-Grinder's Boy
=Paul Sheldon's Misery novels and other work
=
  • Misery's Quest
  • Misery's Hobby (limited)
  • Misery's Love
  • Misery's Child
  • Misery's Return (destroyed)
  • Fast Cars by Paul Sheldon (destroyed)
=Works by Gray Seville
=
  • These Were Our Brothers (1911) by Gray Seville
  • Breakers (1935) by Gray Seville

Works invented by C.S. Lewis

  • Dialect and Semantics by Dr. Elwin Ransom, in That Hideous Strength
  • Grammatical Garden or he Arbour of Accidence pleasantlie open'd to Tender Wits by Pulverentus Siccus in Prince Caspian
  • The Life and Letters of Silenus in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
  • Is Man a Myth? in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
  • Men, Monks, and Gamekeepers; a Study in Popular Legend in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
  • Nymphs and Their Ways in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Works invented by H. P. Lovecraft and others from the Cthulhu Mythos

The King in Yellow has been adopted by authors in the Lovecraftian tradition.

Works invented by Thomas Pynchon
  • 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 Courier's Tragedy by Richard Wharfinger (a Jacobean revenge play in five acts)
  • 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 (Mass.), 1933
  • 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 from Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz
=Books by Miss Helen Sweetstory
=
  • The Six Bunny-Wunnies and the Female Veterinarian
  • The Six Bunny-Wunnies and Their Layover in Anderson, Indiana
  • The Six Bunny-Wunnies and Their Pony Cart
  • The Six Bunny-Wunnies and Their Water Bed
  • The Six Bunny-Wunnies and Their XK-E
  • The Six Bunny-Wunnies Freak Out
  • 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 Visit Plains, Georgia

Works invented by Tolkien from the Middle-earth legendarium
Note that many of the following works actually 'exist' since they were written by Tolkien himself, although he presented them as 'translations' of the fictional originals, which were in turn written by his characters. Some do not exist at all since he never wrote them, but are referenced by other texts.

Works attributed to Kilgore Trout in the books of Kurt Vonnegut
  • Asleep at the Switch
  • Barring-gaffner of Bagnialto or This Year's Masterpiece
  • The Big Board
  • The Dancing Fool
  • The Era of Hopeful Monsters
  • First District Court of Thankyou
  • Gilgongo!
  • The Gospel from Outer Space
  • The Gutless Wonder
  • Hail to the Chief
  • How You Doin'?
  • Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension
  • The Money Tree
  • Now It Can Be Told
  • Oh Say Can You Smell?
  • The Pan-Galactic Memory Bank
  • The Pan-Galactic Straw Boss
  • The Pan-Galactic Three-Day Pass
  • Plague on Wheels
  • The Planet Gobblers
  • The Protocols of the Elders of Tralfamadore
  • The Smart Bunny
  • The Son of Jimmy Valentine
  • This Means You
  • 2BR02B
  • Venus on the Half-Shell

=Other works invented by Kurt Vonnegut
=
  • The American Philosopher Kings by Waltham Kitteredge
  • Are Adults Harmoniums? by Dr. Frank Minot
  • The Beatrice Rumfoord Galactic Cookbook by Beatrice Rumfoord
  • Between Timid and Timbuktu, anonymously published by Beatrice Rumfood
  • Book of Bokonon by Bokonon
  • A Child's Cyclopedia of Wonders and Things to Do
  • Get With Child a Mandrake Root by Arthur Garvey Ulm
  • History of the Rosewaters of Rhode Island by Merrihue Rosewater
  • Pan-Galactic Humbug or Three Billion Dupes by Dr. Maurice Rosenau
  • Primordial Scales by Crowther Gomburg
  • Ramba of Macedon by Eunice Rosewater
  • The True Purpose of Life in the Solar System by Beatrice Rumfood
  • The Winston Niles Rumfoord Authorized Revised Bible by Winston Niles Rumfoord
  • The Winston Niles Rumfoord Pocket History of Mars by Winston Niles Rumfoord
  • Too Wild a Dream? by Lavinia Waters
  • Unk and Boaz in the Caves of Mercury by Sarah Horne Canby
  • Winston Niles Rumfood, Benjamin Franklin, and Leonardo DaVinci by Howard W. Sams

Works from Calvin and Hobbes
  • Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie by Mabel Syrup (since actually written by Mabel S. Barr)
  • Commander Coriander Salamander and 'Er Singlehander Bellylander, also by Mabel Syrup
  • Captain Napalm, an uncredited comic book

Fictional books from literature: miscellaneous

Fictional books from TV series

From Murder, She Wrote

From Family Guy
  • Caddyshack, the novelization
  • T and Me by George Peppard
  • For the Last Time, I'm Not Mr. T by Ving Rhames
  • Nobody Poops But You, unsuccessful toilet training book, parody of Everybody Poops
  • You're a Naughty Child, and That's Concentrated Evil Coming Out the Back of You, Catholic toilet training book

From The Simpsons
  • Baby's First Pop-Up Book
  • Backdoors to Citizenship, nonfiction
  • The Big Book of British Smiles, photo book
  • Bordello Repair Vol. I
  • Bork on Sex
  • A Child's Garden of Cons by Grifty McGrift, aka Grampa Simpson
  • Curious George and the Ebola Virus, a children's book
  • Happiness Is a Naked Steve Allen
  • The Harpooned Heart by Marge Simpson
  • How to Cook for Forty Humans, cookbook
  • How to Get Rich Writing Cartoons by John Swartzwelder
  • ''How to Make Love to Steve Allen
  • How to Seduce Your Lousy, Lazy Husband
  • How to Tunnel out of Prison
  • Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie: The Novel by Norman Mailer
  • ''Journey to the Center of Steve Allen
  • The Joy of Cooking Steve Allen
  • Kosher Erotic Cakes
  • Mapplethorpe, photo book
  • Mr. and Mrs. Erotic American, audio book, read by Paul Harvey
  • Only Turkeys Have Left Wings by Birch Barlow
  • Owning Your Okayness, self-help, by Brad Goodman
  • Rational Thinking, Reasonable Future by Al Gore
  • Sane Planning, Sensible Tomorrow by Al Gore
  • Tanks of the Third Reich
  • The 10 Dos and 500 Don'ts of Knife Safety
  • The Truth About Whacking Day by Bob Woodward
  • Ueberroth, a biography
  • Unidentified Flying Outrage!
  • Weight Loss Through Laborious Sex
  • Will There Ever Be A Rainbow by Montgomery Burns, autobiography
  • Your Gimmicky Restaurant by Bennigan and Fuddrucker

From the Star Trek universe
  • Anslem (by Jake Sisko)
  • Beyond the Galactic Edge, Humanity's Quest for Infinity (by Hesterman)
  • Book of the Kosst Amojan (Bajoran)
  • Book of the People, The (Fabrini)
  • Burning Hearts of Qo'noS from Deep Space Nine novels
  • Call of the Prophets, The (Bajoran)
  • Cave Beyond Logic, A: Vulcan Perspectives on Platonic Thought (Vulcan)
  • Chicago Mobs of the Twenties
  • Collected Works of Jirex, The (Talaxian)
  • Clash on the Fire Plains (Vulcan)
  • Dictates of Poetics, The (by Vulcan writer T'Hain)
  • Down the River Light (17-volume book by Caster)
  • Dream of the Fire, The (Klingon)
  • Eldaxon's Collected Folklore (Talaxian)
  • Fall of Kang, The (by Klingon poet G'Trok)
  • Falor's Journey (Vulcan)
  • Ferengi Rules of Acquisition
  • Finding and Winning your Perfect Mate (by Jennings Rain)
  • Hotel Royale, The (by Todd Matthews)
  • How to Advance Your Career Through Marriage
  • Gaudaal's Lament (by Bajoran poet Akorem Laan)
  • Kir'shara, The (by Surak of Vulcan)
  • Kitara's Song (by Bajoran poet Akorem Laan)
  • Leonard McCoy's Comparative Alien Physiology (by Leonard McCoy)
  • Linear Models of Viral Propagation (by Katherine Pulaski)
  • Meditations on a Crimson Shadow (Cardassian novel by Preloc)
  • Never Ending Sacrifice, The (Cardassian)
  • Nightingale Woman (by Phineas Tarbolde)
  • Oo-mox for Fun and Profit
  • Paq'batlh, The (Klingon religious text)
  • Past Prologue (by Jake Sisko)
  • Photons Be Free by the Doctor in Voyager
  • Teachings of Surak, The (Vulcan, English translation by Skon)
  • Vulcan Love Slave (or The Ardous Journey of T'Lana on the Road to Enlightenment) in Deep Space Nine
  • Women Warriors at the River of Blood from Voyager

Miscellaneous

Fictional books from films

Fictional books from The Royal Tenenbaums
  • Accounting for Everything: A Guide to Personal Finance by Henry Sherman (nonfiction)
  • Dudley's World by Raleigh St. Clair (nonfiction)
  • Erotic Transference by Margot Tenenbaum (play)
  • Family of Geniuses by Etheline Tenenbaum
  • Nakedness Tonight by Margot Tenenbaum (play)
  • Old Custer by Eli Cash (novel)
  • The Peculiar Neurodegenerative Inhabitants of the Kazawa Atoll by Raleigh St. Clair (nonfiction)
  • Static Electricity by Margot Tenenbaum (play)
  • Three Plays by Margot Tenenbaum
  • Wildcat by Eli Cash (novel)

Fictional books from The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Most are parodies of a work, pointed to by the link.

Miscellaneous

Fictional books from comic books

DC Comics

Marvel Comics
  • Born Normal, a memoir by Jean-Paul Beaubier on his life as Northstar
  • Marvels, book of superhero photographs by Phil Sheldon
  • Shadows, The Dark Side of the Marvels, a book on supervillains by Dr. Dennis Schoolcroft
  • Webs, book of Spider-Man photographs by Peter Parker

Other comics

Fictional books from computer games

Fictional books from music

See also

External links

Lists of fictional things | Fictional books | Lists of books

 

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