List of fictional books

A fictional book is a non-existent book created specifically for (i.e. within) a work of fiction. This is not a list of works of fiction (i.e., actual novels, mysteries, etc.), but rather imaginary books that do not actually exist.

Inclusion criteria

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.

This is not a list of works of fiction (i.e., actual novels, mysteries, etc.), but rather imaginary books that do not actually exist. The fictional books on this list are ordered alphabetically under the name of the actual author who invented them.

A

Works invented by Edwin A. Abbott

In Flatland:

Works invented by Gilbert Adair

In The Act of Roger Murgatroyd:

In A Mysterious Affair of Style:

In A Closed Book:

Works invented by Douglas Adams

In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series:

The fictional electronic book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, depicted on the cover of a 1991 electronic edition of the actual trilogy

In Doctor Who :

Works invented by Lloyd Alexander

Works invented by Martin Amis

In The Information:

In London Fields:

In Money:

Works invented by Poul Anderson

In The Earth Book of Stormgate:

Works invented by Wes Anderson

In The Royal Tenenbaums:[1]

In Moonrise Kingdom:[2]

Works invented by Piers Anthony

In The Source of Magic:

Works invented by Isaac Asimov

In The Foundation Trilogy:

In "Blind Alley":

Works invented by Kate Atkinson

In Emotionally Weird:

In Life After Life:

Works invented by Margaret Atwood

In The Blind Assassin:

In Lady Oracle:

In The Robber Bride:

B

Works invented by John Barnes

In One For the Morning Glory:

Works invented by L. Frank Baum

In The Road to Oz:

In the Oz books, by Baum and his successors:

Works invented by Max Beerbohm

In Seven Men:

In A Christmas Garland:

Works invented by John Bellairs

In The Face in the Frost:

In Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull:

In The Dark Secret of Weatherend:

In The Figure in the Shadows:

In The House with a Clock in Its Walls:

In The Letter, The Witch, and the Ring:

In The Mummy, The Will, and the Crypt:

In The Doom of the Haunted Opera (with Brad Strickland):

In Vengeance of the Witch-Finder (with Brad Strickland):

Works invented by Hilaire Belloc

In "Done into Verse: A Suggestion for a Rhymed 'Who's Who': Keanes, Herbert O'Hone":

(all by Herbert Keanes)

Works invented by Jedediah Berry

In The Manual of Detection:

Works invented by Robert Bloch

In The Man Who Collected Poe:

In The Mannikin:

In The Shambler from the Stars:

In The Suicide in the Study:

Works invented by Roberto Bolaño

In 2666: (all by Benno von Archimboldi)

Works invented by Jorge Luis Borges

In Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius:

In "The Library of Babel":

In stories named after the fictional books:

Miscellaneous:

Works invented by William Boyd

In Any Human Heart:

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In Brazzaville Beach:

In Restless:

Works invented by T. C. Boyle

In "Achates McNeil"

In "Going Down"

Works invented by Richard Brautigan

In The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966:

Works invented by Marie Brennan

In A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent:

Works invented by Elinor Brent-Dyer

In the Chalet School series:

Works invented by John Brunner

In Stand on Zanzibar:

Works invented by Steven Brust

In Athyra:

In Five Hundred Years After:

In Jhegaala:

Works invented by Lois McMaster Bujold

In The Curse of Chalion:

Works invented by A. S. Byatt

In The Biographer's Tale:

  • Bajazeth by Sir Elmer Bole
  • The Golden Cage of Princes by Sir Elmer Bole
  • How Beautiful Are Thy Feet by Sir Elmer Bole
  • A Humble Maid of Acre by Sir Elmer Bole
  • A Journey Through Seven Climates, alleged translation of Evliya Çelebi by Sir Elmer Bole, likely to have been written by Boles himself
  • The Orchard Walls by Sir Elmer Bole
  • A Princess Among Slaves by Sir Elmer Bole
  • Rose of Sharon by Sir Elmer Bole
  • The Scimitar by Sir Elmer Bole
  • Shulamith by Sir Elmer Bole
  • A Spring Shut Up by Sir Elmer Bole
  • 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 The Children's Book:

  • Bel and the Dragon by Herbert Methley
  • Daughters of Men by Herbert Methley
  • The Giant on the Hill by Herbert Methley
  • Marsh Lights by Herbert Methley
  • Mr. Wodehouse and the Wild Girl by Herbert Methley
  • The Fairy Castle by Olive Wellwood
  • The Girl Who Walked a Long Way by Olive Wellwood
  • The Runaway by Olive Wellwood
  • The Shrubbery by Olive Wellwood
  • Tom Underground a play by Olive Wellwood

Miscellaneous

  • Astraea play by Alexander Wedderburn, in The Virgin in the Garden
  • The Yellow Chair play by Alexander Wedderburn, in Still Life
  • 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

In Possession: A Romance:

  • Ask to Embla poem-cycle by Randolph Henry Ash
  • Cassandra verse drama by Randolph Henry Ash
  • Chidiock Tichbourne by Randolph Henry Ash
  • Cromwell verse drama by Randolph Henry Ash
  • The Garden of Proserpina by Randolph Henry Ash
  • Gods, Men, and Heroes by Randolph Henry Ash
  • The Great Collector by Randolph Henry Ash
  • The Grecian Way of Love by Randolph Henry Ash
  • The Incarcerated Sorceress by Randolph Henry Ash
  • Mummy Possest poem by Randolph Henry Ash
  • Pranks of Priapus by Randolph Henry Ash
  • Ragnarök by Randolph Henry Ash
  • Jan Swammerdam poem by Randolph Henry Ash
  • St. Bartholomew's Eve verse drama 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
  • The Great Ventriloquist, a biography of by Randolph Henry Ash by Mortimer Cropper
  • The City of Is by Christabel LaMotte
  • The Fairy Melusina epic poem by Christabel LaMotte
  • Last Tales by Christabel LaMotte
  • Last Things by Christabel LaMotte
  • Tales for innocents by Christabel LaMotte
  • Tales Told in November by Christabel LaMotte
  • The Shadowy Portal by Mrs. Lees
  • Debatable Land Between This World and the Next by Robert Dale Owen
  • Christabel LaMotte: A Selection of Narrative and Lyric Poems, Leonora Stern, editor
  • LaMotte's Strategies of Evasion: A collection of essays Leonora Stern, compiler
  • No Place Like home by Leonora Stern
  • Tallahassee Women Poets, Leonora Stern, editor
  • Anemones of the British Coast by Francis Tugwell
  • Ghosts and Other Weird Creatures by Unknown
  • Unknown Sex Life of Eminent Victorians by Unknown
  • White Linen by Unknown

C

Works invented by James Branch Cabell

In the Biography of the Life of Manuel:

Anonymous Works
  • Les Gestes de Manuel
  • The Terrible and Marvellous History of Manuel Pig-Tender That Afterwards Was Named Manuel the Redeemer (an anonymous 16th-century English chapbook redaction of Les Gestes de Manuel)
  • La Haulte Histoire de Jurgen (The High History of Jurgen)
  • The Chart of Postures
  • The Dionysiac Formulæ
  • Dirghâghama
  • Litany of the Centre of Delight
  • The Spintrian Treatises
  • System of Worshipping a Girl
  • Thirty-two Gratifications
Works by Horace Calverly, Lord Ufford
  • Journal
  • Sixpenny Satires
  • The Vassal of Spalatro
Works by John Charteris
  • Ashtaroth's Lackey
  • The Foolish Prince
  • In Old Lichfield
  • Letters
Works by Nicolas de Caen
  • Le Cocu Rouge (The Red Cuckold; disputed attributed)
  • Le Dizain des Reines (Chivalry)
  • Madoc et Ettarre (The Music from Beyond the Moon)
  • Les Aventures d'Adhelmar de Nointel
  • Le Roman de Lusignan (Domnei)
  • Le Roy Amaury
  • The Silver Stallion (disputed attribution)
Works by Felix Bulmer Kennaston
  • Chimes at Midnight
  • Defence of Ignorance
  • Epistles of Ananias, by Marian Winwood (consisting of Felix Kennaston's love letters to her)
  • How Many Angels
  • The King's Quest
  • Men Who Loved Alison (The Audit at Storisende)
  • The Tinctured Veil
Works by Gerald Musgrave
  • The Evolution of Marriage
  • Fertility Rites of the Sabbat
  • Lingham Worship
  • Myth of Anistar and Calmoora
  • Seed of Minos
  • Study of Priapos
  • Tentative Restoration of the Lost Books of Elephantis
Works by Colonel Rudolph Vartrey Musgrave
  • Chart of the Descendants of Zenophon Perkins
  • Colonial Lichfield
  • Lichfield Legislative Papers prior to 1800
  • The Musgraves of Matocton
  • Notes on the Vartreys of Westphalia
  • Recollections of a Gracious Era
  • Right on the Scaffold
  • Secession and the South
Works by Robert Etheridge Townshend
  • Afield
  • The Apostates
  • The Cords of Vanity
  • From the Hidden Way
Works by Other Authors
  • Volksagen, by Ackermann
  • Roman de Lusignan, unfinished English translation by Wir William Allonby
  • Ancetres de la Révolution, by d'Avranches
  • Pathologica Dæmonica, by Borsdale
  • Poictesme en Chanson et Légende, by Gottfried Johannes Bülg
  • Storia del Granducato di Toscana sotto il governo d'Allesandro de Medici, by Checino
  • Handbook of Literary Pioneers, by E. Noel Codman
  • Synopsis of Aryan Mythology, by Angelo de Ruiz
  • Urgeschichte der Philistäter, by Douwer
  • Hommes Illustres, by Du Maillot
  • Histoire de la littérature provençal (History of Provençal Poetry), by Charles Claude Fauriel
  • For Love of a Lady, by Marmaduke Fennel
  • Biography of Felix Kennaston, by J.V.A. Froser
  • Recherches sur le Culte de Sesphra, by Garnier
  • The Cream of the Jest, by Richard Fentnor Harrowby
  • In Scarlet Sidon, by Elspeth Lancaster
  • Key to the Popular Tales of Poictesme (Popular Tales of Poictesme: Supernatural, Romantic and Legendary), (Collected and illustrated) by John Frederick Lewistam
  • Life (of John Bulmer, Duke of Ormskirk), by Löwe
  • Life of Mrs. Norton, by Perkins
  • Origins of Fable, by Prote
  • Choix des Poésies originales des Troubadours, by Raynouard
  • Landed Gentry, by Sparks
  • Roscius Anglicanus, by Thorsby
  • Life of John Charteris, by Robert Etheridge Townsend
  • Tudor Tales, by Dr. Paul Vanderhoffen
  • Notice sur la vie de Nicolas de Caen, by Paul Verville
  • Visitations of Norfolk, by Villiers
Works in the library of John Charteris
Works by the "gifted writers of Bookland. You will observe it is extensive; for the wonderful literary genius is by long odds the most common character in fiction."
  • Novels and Tales of Mark Ambient
  • Billiad, by Lord Bendish
  • The Wanderer, by Lord Bendish
  • Ashtaroth's Lackey, by John Charteris
  • In Old Lichfield, by John Charteris
  • Complete Writings of Eustace Cleever (This might well have been taken from the phrase "Eustace Cleever, novelist" in the short story "Slaves of the Lamp: Part II" (1897) in Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling.)
  • The Complete Works of David Copperfield
  • The Works of Colney Durance
  • Works of Bartholomew Josselin
  • Poems of Gervase Poore
  • The Works of Arthur Pendennis
  • Collected Essays, by Ernest Pontifex
  • Oeuvres de Lucien de Rubempré
  • Novels of Titus Scrope
  • The Amber Statuette, by Lucien Taylor
  • The Nungapunga Book, by G.B. Torpenhow
  • A Man of Words, by Felix Wildmay
  • An Essay upon Castrametation, with some particular Remarks upon the Vestiges of Ancient Fortifications lately discovered by the Author at the Kaim of Kinprunes
Works "planned but never carried through by real authors.
  • The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer
  • The complete Christabel, by S.T. Coleridge
  • The Children of the Fathers, by Charles Dickens
  • The Young Person, by Charles Dickens
  • An epic by John Keats
  • The Unwritten Plays of Christopher Marlowe
  • King Arthur, by John Milton
  • Affectation, by John Sheridan
  • The Faery Queen [sic], by Edmund Spenser
  • Cannonmills, by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The Rising Sun, by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The Shovels of Newton French, by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Sophia Scarlet, by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • A mediæval romance of Agincourt by Thackeray
Familiar works "as the authors meant them to be".
  • The Intended Edition of the works of James Branch Cabell, issued through Knappe & Dreme
  • The 1599 version of Troilus and Cressida, by William Shakespeare

In The Nightmare Has Triplets:

  • Smire Mythos (seven volumes), by Professor Afanyakof
  • Mythische Geographie, by Volcher

Works invented by Italo Calvino

In If on a Winter's Night a Traveler:

Works invented by Cao Xueqin

In Hong Lou Meng:

Works invented by Peter Carey

In Oscar and Lucinda:

Works invented by Thomas Carlyle

In Sartor Resartus:

Works invented by Jonathan Carroll

In A Child Across the Sky:

In The Land of Laughs:

In Sleeping in Flame:

Works invented by Michael Chabon

In Summerland:

In "The God of Dark Laughter":

In Wonder Boys:

Works invented by Robert W. Chambers

From The King in Yellow

From "The Repairer of Reputations"

Works invented by Raymond Chandler

Attributed to Aaron Klopstein (Klopstein committed suicide at the age of 33, shooting himself with an Amazonian blowgun):[3]

Works invented by Agatha Christie

Attributed to Ariadne Oliver:

Attributed to Salome Otterbourne:

Works invented by Clamp

In the manga Chobits

Works invented by Susanna Clarke

Works invented by Jonathan Coe

In What a Carve Up!:

Works invented by J.M. Coetzee

In Diary of a Bad Year:

In Elizabeth Costello:

Works invented by Eoin Colfer

In And Another Thing...:

Works invented by Wilkie Collins

In The Moonstone

In Who Killed Zebedee

Works invented by Joseph Conrad

Works invented by Cressida Cowell

In How to Train Your Dragon

Works invented by Richard Cowper

In A Dream of Kinship:

In The Road to Corlay:

In A Tapestry of Time:

In The Twilight of Briareus:

Works invented by Edmund Crispin

In The Case of the Gilded Fly:

Works invented by Justin Cronin

In The Passage

Works invented by John Crowley

In Little, Big:

In The Solitudes:

Works invented by Andrew Crumey

In D'Alembert's Principle

In Mobius Dick

In Mr Mee

In Music, in a Foreign Language

In Pfitz

Works invented by Chris Crutcher

In The Sledding Hill

D

Works invented by Mark Z. Danielewski

In House of Leaves:

  • Absent Identification by Melissa Schemell
  • All in All by Bernard Porch
  • All Accurate by Nam Eurtton
  • All In the Name of Feminism: A Collection of Essays by Nadine (ed.) Muestopher
  • American Psychology: The Ownership of Self by Helen Hodge
  • Ancient Devotions by Tab Fulrest
  • The Anti-Present Trunk by Philippa (ed.) Frake
  • The Architecture of Art by Cassandra Rissman LaRue
  • Artistic Peril by Deacon Lookner
  • The Bad Bodhi Wall by Bazine Naodook
  • Beyond the Grasp of Commercial Media by Gabriel Reller
  • Black Heart, Blue Heart by Rita Mistopolis
  • Cinematic Projections by Naguib Paredes
  • Collected Essays on Self-Portraiture by Haldor (ed.) Nervene
  • Collected Essays on "Exploration #5 by Hans Staker
  • The Complete Feng Shui Guide for the Navidson Record by Luther Shepard
  • Concatenating Corbusier by Aristides Quine
  • The Constancy of Carl Jung by Oona Fanihdjarte
  • The Courage to Withstand by Daphne Kaplan
  • Creationist Myths by Hanson Edwin Rose
  • Delial by Dennis Stake
  • Delial, Beatrice, and Dulcinea by Jennifer Caps
  • Dialects of Divorce In American Film In the Twentieth Century by Anita Massine
  • Esau by Freed Kashon
  • The Faraday Conclusion by Devon Lettau
  • Fear Mantras by Alicia Hoyle
  • Flawed performances: A Consideration of the Actors in the Navidson Opus by Isaiah Rosen
  • The Fraying of the American Family by Florencia Calzatti
  • Gathered God by Darren Meen
  • Glorious Garrulous Graphomania by T. N. Joseph (ed.) Truslow
  • Gotta Go by Mary Widmunt
  • Greek Mythology Again by Ivan Largo Stilets
  • Grief's Explorations by Hank Leblarnard
  • Heaven's Door by Alan P. Winnett
  • The Holloway Question by Newt Kuellster
  • The House by Daniel Bowler
  • House Cleaning by David N. Braer
  • House of Leaves by Zampano
  • How Have You Who Have Loved Ever Love A Next Time? by Rosemary Enderheart
  • In These Things I Find by Mace Roger-Court
  • Incarnation of Spirit Things by Lantern C. Pitch
  • The Incident by Iben Van Pollit
  • Inside Out by Rosemary Park
  • Killing Badly, Dying Wise by Nupart Jhunisdakazcriddle
  • The Language of Torture by Rafael Geethtar Servagio
  • A Lexicon of Improbable Theories by Blair Keepling
  • The Many Wall Fugue by Eugenio and Scholfield Rosch
  • Maternal Intrusions by Eric Keplard
  • Mortality and Morality in Photographs by M. G. Cafiso
  • The Navidson Record by Johanne Scefing
  • The Navidson Record: Action and Chronologies by Thorton J. Cannon
  • The Navidson Record: The Novelization
  • Not True, Man: Mi Ata Beni? by Eta Ruccalla
  • Notes From Tomorrow by Lisbeth (ed.) Bailey
  • Objects of a Thousand Facets by Edwin Minamide
  • Operation #4: The Art of Internal Medicine by Leon Robbins
  • Origins of Faith by Candida Hayashi
  • Our Father by Tad Exler
  • Pale Micturitions by Justin Krape
  • Palladian Grammar and Metaphysical Appropriations: Navidson's Villa Malcontenta by Sebastiano Perouse de Montclos
  • Passion For Pity and Other Recipes For Disaster by Helmut Muir
  • Perversity In Dullness... and Vice-Versa by Celine Arlesey
  • The Phenomenology of Coincidence in the Navidson Recort by Marla Hulbert
  • Pieces by Will Navidson
  • The Places I've Seen by Teppet C. Brookes
  • Privacy and Intrusion in the Twenty-First Century by Clarence Sweeney
  • Recovery: Methods and Manner by Cora Minehart
  • Red Cross Faith by Janice Whitman
  • Riddles Within by Amon Whitten
  • Semiotic Rivalry by Yuriy Pleak
  • Shots in the Dark by Gavin Young
  • Simple Themes by Brendon Beinhorn
  • Sketches: The Process of Entry by Denise Lowery
  • Smile by Lester T. Ochs
  • The Study: Tom's Place by Neekisha Dedic
  • Tamper With This by Patricia B. Nesselroade
  • Terrible Thoughts: The Psychology and Biology of Navidson's Nightmares by Ernest Y. Hartmann
  • Theater In Film by Cassady Roulet
  • The Third Beside you: An Analysis of the Epistemological Echo by David Eric Katz
  • Thru Lines by Esther Hartline
  • Tick-Tock-Fade: The Representation of Time in Film Narrative by Frizell Clary
  • Twentieth Century Dub, Dub by Tony (ed.) Ross
  • Twenty Years in the Program by Cynthia Huxley
  • Ultrapure Water, the Super-Kamiokande Detector and Cherenkov Light by Gordon Kearns, L. Kajita and M. K. Totsuka
  • Understanding the Self: The Maze of You by Daniel Hortz
  • Violent Seeds: The Holloway Roberts Myst by Jeremy Flint
  • Violent Verses: Cinema's Treatment of Death by Danton Blake
  • War's Children by Melanie Proft Knightley
  • "What Are You Gonna Do Now, Little Man?" and Other Tales of Grass Roots Distribution by Kevin Stanley
  • When a Woman's Fear Makes Her Run from Commitment and What a Smart Man Can Do About It by Steve and Carter Sokal
  • Wilder Ways by Ryan Murray
  • Wishing Well by Virginia Posah

Works invented by Robertson Davies

In Fifth Business:

Works invented by John DeChancie

In Castle Murders:

In Castle Perilous:

Works invented by Philip K. Dick

In The Man in the High Castle:

In A Maze of Death:

In The Transmigration of Timothy Archer:

Works invented by Paul Di Filippo

In Plumage From Pegasus:

Works invented by Martin Donovan and David Koepp

In Death Becomes Her:

Works invented by Arthur Conan Doyle

In the Sherlock Holmes series:

In the Professor Challenger series:

E

Works invented by Umberto Eco

In Foucault's Pendulum:

In The Name of the Rose:

Works invented by David Eddings

In The Belgariad:

Works invented by Joe Eszterhas

In Basic Instinct:

F

Works invented by Sebastian Faulks

In A Week in December:

Works invented by Joshua Ferris

In Then We Came to the End:

Works invented by Ronald Firbank

In Caprice:

In Inclinations:

In Vainglory:

Works invented by Jasper Fforde

In the Thursday Next novels:

  • Adventures in the Book Trade by O. Nakajima
  • At Long Last Lust by Daphne Farquitt
  • Bad Sofa by Landen Parke-Laine
  • The Books of H. Paige by Millon de Floss
  • Bradshaw's Guide to the Bookworld by Commander Trafford Bradshaw, CBE
  • The Brontës by W.H.H.F. Renouf
  • Bunyan's Bootscraper by John McSquurd (unpublished)
  • Cardenio - Easy Come, Easy Go by Millon de Floss
  • Caversham Heights (later retitled Nursery Crime, see also The Big Over Easy)
  • The Commander Bradshaw novels
  • Crimean Reminisces by Thursday Next
  • Death at Double-X Ranch
  • Degeneracy for Pleasure and Profit by Acheron Hades
  • Don't Desert Your Desserts by Cilla Bubb
  • The Earthcrossers by Mr S.A. Orbiter
  • Enid Blyton by Millon de Floss
  • The Extraordinary Career of George Formby by John Williams
  • The Emperor Zhark novels by Handley Paige
  • The Gravitube - Tenth Wonder of the World by Vincentt Dott
  • The Global Standard Deity by Professor M. Blessington, PR (ret.)
  • Great Expectations, A Study by Millon de Floss
  • The Great Samuel Pepys Fiasco
  • Hades: Family From Hell by Thursday Next
  • The Hardest Job in Fiction by the Bellman
  • A History of Gibbons by Ronan Empyre
  • How I Think Life Began on Earth by Dr Luciano Spagog
  • Journal of a LitreTec by Bowden Cable
  • The Jurisfiction Chronicles by Thursday Next
  • The Jurisfiction Guide to Book-Jumping by the Unitary Authority of Warrington Cat
  • The Jurisfiction Guide to the Great Library by the Unitary Authority of Warrington Cat
  • Jurisfiction Journals by the Unitary Authority of Warrington Cat
  • The Land Speed Record by the Very Reverend Toredlyne
  • Library Sub-Basement Gazetteer
  • Life After Death for Felix Tabularasa by Millon de Floss
  • A Life in SpecOps by Thursday Next
    • Also called Thursday Next: A Life in SpecOps and My Life in SpecOps
  • Memoirs of A Crimean Veteran by Landen Parke-Laine
  • The Middle of Next Week
  • Neanderthals: Back After A Short Absence by Gerhard von Squid
  • The New Whigs: From Humble Beginnings to Fourth Reich by A.J.P. Milliner
  • Once Were Scoundrels by Landen Parke-Laine
  • The Perkins and Snell novels
  • Remember Them? A Study of Mnemomorphs by Blake Lamme (Ex-SO-5)
  • Revealments of St Zvlkx
  • Revenge of the Thraals by Handley Paige
  • A Short History of the Special Operations Network by Millon de Floss
  • Spacestation Z-5 by Handley Paige
  • The Squire of High Potternews by Daphne Farquitt
  • Story Operating Systems - The Early Years by WordMaster Xavier Libris
  • Sword of the Zenobians
  • Timestream Navigation for ChronoGuard cadets module 6A by Bendix Scintilla
  • Thursday Next: A Biography by Millon de Floss
  • Thursday Next Casebook by Millon de Floss
  • UltraWord - The Aftermath by Millon de Floss
  • UltraWord - The Ultimate Reading Experience by WordMaster Xavier Libris
  • The Ups and Downs of Act Breaks by Jeremy Fnorp
  • Upstream/Downstream by Colonel Next, QT, CG (non-exst.)
  • Wales - Birth of a Republic by Zephania Jones
  • Who Put the Poe in Poem? by Millon de Floss
  • Wuthering Heights: Masterpiece or Turgid Rubbish? by Millon de Floss

In the Nursery Crimes novels:

  • The Berkshire Book of Records
  • Chymes - Friend or Foe?
  • The Foot Lectures by Professor Tarsus
  • A History of Reading
  • Inside the Guild of Detectives
  • Motoring Into Oblivion by A. Morris
  • A Short History of the NCD
  • Valleyhills Movie Guide
  • Watching the Detectives by Masie Gray
  • Who's What?

Works invented by Gardner F. Fox

In Kothar--Barbarian Swordsman:

In Kothar and the Demon Queen:

Works invented by Michael Frayn

In A Landing on the Sun:

Works invented by Cornelia Funke

In Inkheart:

G

Works invented by Neil Gaiman

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.

Works invented by Stella Gibbons

In Cold Comfort Farm:

Works invented by Robert Goddard

In Play to the End:

Works invented by Edward Gorey

by C. F. Earbrass:

by Miss D. Awdrey-Gore:

by Dewda Yorger:

Works invented by John Green

In The Fault in Our Stars:

Works invented by Graham Greene

In The End of the Affair:

H

Works invented by Radclyffe Hall

In The Well of Loneliness:

Works invented by Carolyn Hart

In The Christie Caper:

  • The Ashen Prince by John Border Stone
  • Chimera by Bryan Shaw
  • The Clue at the Hacienda Dolores by Bryan Shaw
  • The Clue of the Chattering Parrot by Bryan Shaw
  • Death My Sister by Fleur Calloway
  • Death of a Nabob by Lady Gwenolyn Tompkins
  • Down These Steps by Natelie Marlow
  • Farewell, My Love, Forever by Pamela (as Pamela Gerrard) Bledsoe
  • The Grinning Skull by Emma Clyde
  • I Won't Let You Die by Fleur Calloway
  • Sing a Song of Sorrow by Emma Clyde

In Death on Demand:

  • The Agony Chain by Fritz Hemhill
  • Blood Tales by Elliot Morgan
  • Danny's Delight by Janis and Farley Farley
  • Deadly Diamonds by Harriet Edelman
  • Death in an Alley by Fritz Hemhill
  • Gentleman's Smile by Harriet Edelman
  • Kerrigan's Heart by Fritz Hemhill
  • Kiss a Stranger by Elliot Morgan
  • Murder in Casablanca by Emma Clyde
  • Ride a Wave by Harriet Edelman
  • Sad Song by Kelly Rizzoli
  • San Bernadino Heist by Hal Douglas
  • The Secret of the Red Dragon by Janis and Farley Farley
  • The Shuttered Mind by Kelly Rizzoli

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In The Library at Mount Char:

Works invented by Mark Helprin

In Winter's Tale:

Works invented by Frank Herbert

In the Dune series:

  • Arrakis, The Transformation by Harq al-Ada
  • Lectures of Prescience by Harq al-Ada
  • Leto Atreides II, a Biography by Harq al-Ada
  • Riddles of Arrakis by Harq al-Ada
  • Testament of Arrakis by Harq al-Ada
  • The Book of Leto by Harq al-Ada
  • The Butlerian Jihad by Harq al-Ada
  • The Dune Catastrophe by Harq al-Ada
  • The Holy Metamorphosis by Harq al-Ada
  • The Mahdinate, an Analysis by Harq al-Ada
  • The Preacher of Arrakeen by Harq al-Ada
  • The Prescient Vision by Harq al-Ada
  • The Story of Liet-Kynes by Harq al-Ada
  • The Arrakis Workbook by Liet-Kynes
  • Bene Gesserit Training Manual
  • Dictionary Royal
  • Handbook of the Hajj
  • Kalima: The Words of Muad' Dib, the Shuloch Commentary
  • Orange Catholic Bible, Revised
  • Palimbasha: Lectures at Sietch Tabr
  • Stilgar, The Commentaries
  • Tagir Mohandis: Conversations with a Friend
  • The Apocrypha of Muad' Dib
  • The Book of Ghanima
  • The Book of Kreos
  • The Instruction Manual: Missionaria Protectiva
  • The Mentat Handbook
  • The Panoplia Prophetica
  • The Pedant Heresy
  • The Spacing Guild Handbook
  • The Spacing Guild Manual
  • Words of My Father: An Account of Muad' Dib
  • Works of the Mentat
  • Strangler Vines of Ecaz by Holjance Vohnbrook (an anagram of John Holbrook Vance)
  • The Pillars of the Universe by Muad' Dib (Paul Atreides)
  • St. Alia, Huntress of a Billion Worlds by Pander Oulson
  • A Child's History of Muad' Dib by Princess Irulan
  • Analysis: The Arrakeen Crisis by Princess Irulan
  • Arrakis Awakening by Princess Irulan
  • Collected Legends of Arrakis by Princess Irulan
  • Collected Sayings of Muad' Dib by Princess Irulan
  • Conversations with Muad' Dib by Princess Irulan
  • Count Fenring: A Profile by Princess Irulan
  • Dictionary of Muad' Dib by Princess Irulan
  • In My Father's House by Princess Irulan
  • Manual of Muad' Dib by Princess Irulan
  • Muad' Dib, Family Commentaries by Princess Irulan
  • Muad' Dib, the Man by Princess Irulan
  • Muad' Dib: The Ninety Nine Wonders of the Universe by Princess Irulan
  • Muad' Dib: The Religious Issues by Princess Irulan
  • Private Reflections on Muad' Dib by Princess Irulan
  • Songs of Muad' Dib by Princess Irulan
  • The Humanity of Muad' Dib by Princess Irulan
  • The Wisdom of Muad' Dib by Princess Irulan
  • Words of Muad'dib by Princess Irulan
  • The Last Jihad by Sumer and Kautman
  • Orange Catholic Liturgical Manual by the Commission of Ecumenical Translators
  • The Liturgical Manual and the Commentaries by the Commission of Ecumenical Translators
  • The Orange Catholic Bible by the Commission of Ecumenical Translators
  • Pirate History of Corrino by unknown
  • Assassin's Handbook
  • History of Muad'dib
  • Imperial Dictionary
  • Kitab Al-Ibar
  • Muad'dib Concordance
  • The Almanak en-Ashnof
  • The Azhar Book
  • Analysis of History by Bronso of Ix
  • Proverbs of Muad' Dib
  • The Dune Gospels
  • The Dunebook
  • The Dunebuk of Irulan
  • The Ghola Speaks
  • The Hayt Chronicle
  • The Irulan Report
  • The Qizarate Creed
  • The Steersman Guide
  • The Stilgar Chronicle
  • The Tleilaxu Godbuk
  • The Yiam-el-Din (Book of Judgement)
  • The Journal of Leto II
  • The Oral History
  • The Stolen Journal
  • Conversations with Leto II
  • Lessons of Arrakis
  • Leto II: Dar-es-Balat Records
  • Muad' Dib Speaks
  • Songs of the Scattering
  • Teachings of the Golden Path
  • The Apocrypha of Arrakis
  • The Bene Gesserit Coda
  • The Oral History of Rakis

Works invented by William Hope Hodgson

In Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder stories:

Works invented by S. A. Hunt

In The Outlaw King series:

Works invented by Samantha Hunt

In Mr. Splitfoot:

Works invented by Aldous Huxley

In Brave New World:

In Crome Yellow:

Works invented by James Hynes

In The Lecturer's Tale:

In Publish and Perish:

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Works invented by John Irving

In The World According to Garp:

In A Widow for One Year:

In Until I Find You:

In Last Night In Twisted River:

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Works invented by Jin Yong

Works invented by Diana Wynne Jones

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.

  1. Millie Goes to School
  2. Millie of Lowood House
  3. Millie Plays the Game
  4. Millie's Finest Hour
  5. Millie in the Upper Fourth

Works invented by Robert Jordan

In The Eye of the World:

In The Great Hunt:

In The Dragon Reborn:

In The Shadow Rising:

In ''The Fires of Heaven:

In Lord of Chaos:

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Works invented by Franz Kafka

In Der Prozeß/The Trial

In Tagebücher/Diaries

Works invented by Caitlín R. Kiernan

Works invented by Stephen King

Works invented by Barbara Kingsolver

In The Poisonwood Bible:

In The Lacuna:

Works invented by Elizabeth Kostova

In The Historian:

Works invented by Nicole Krauss

In The History of Love:

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Works invented by R. A. Lafferty

In Fourth Mansions:

In Through Other Eyes

In Ginny Wrapped in the Sun

In Name of the Snake

In Entire and Perfect Chrysolite

In Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne

In Primary Education of the Camiroi

In Incased in Ancient Rind

In Polity and Custom of the Camiroi

In The Six Fingers of Time

In Land of the Great Horses

Works invented by Stanisław Lem

In One Human Minute:

In Imaginary Magnitude:

In A Perfect Vacuum:

In Solaris:

Works invented by Madeleine L'Engle

In A Ring of Endless Light:

In A Severed Wasp:

In A Swiftly Tilting Planet:

fictional books in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Illustration by Pauline Baynes.

Works invented by Jonathan Lethem

In Chronic City:

Works invented by C. S. Lewis

In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe:

In Prince Caspian:

In That Hideous Strength:

Works invented by Barry Lopez

In "The Mappist"

Works invented by H. P. Lovecraft

This includes works by others in the Cthulhu Mythos.

Works invented by Robert Ludlum

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Works invented by Thomas Mann

In "Death in Venice":

Works invented by Anthony Marra

In "A Constellation of Vital Phenomena ":

Works invented by Ann M. Martin

In The Baby-sitters Club series:

Works invented by W. Somerset Maugham

In The Moon and Sixpence:

Works invented by Ian McEwan

In Saturday:

In Atonement

Works invented by Anne Michaels

In Fugitive Pieces:

Works invented by David Mitchell

In Ghostwritten:

In Cloud Atlas:

In The Bone Clocks:

Works invented by Walter Moers

In The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear:

Works invented by Lucy Maud Montgomery

In Anne of Avonlea:

In Anne's House of Dreams:

In Rilla of Ingleside:

In Emily's Quest:

In The Blue Castle:

Works invented by Richard Morgan

In the Takeshi Kovacs series:

Works invented by Haruki Murakami

In 1Q84

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Works invented by Vladimir Nabokov

In Invitation to a Beheading:

In The Real Life of Sebastian Knight:

In Lolita:

In Pnin:

In Pale Fire:

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.

Works invented by Geoff Nicholson

In Hunters and Gatherers:

Works Invented by Garth Nix

In Sabriel:

In Lirael:

Works invented by Idra Novey

In Ways to Disappear:

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Works invented by Patrick O'Brian

In Desolation Island:

In The Wine-Dark Sea:

In Treason's Harbour:

Works invented by Flann O'Brien

In At Swim-Two-Birds:

In The Third Policeman:

Works invented by George Orwell

In Nineteen Eighty-Four:

In Keep the Aspidistra Flying:

In The Road to Wigan Pier:

In Coming Up for Air:

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Works invented by Charles Palliser

In Betrayals:

Works invented by Orhan Pamuk

In The Black Book:

Works invented by Christopher Paolini

In Brisingr:

Works invented by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

In The Club Dumas:

Works invented by Elizabeth Peters

In Curse of the Pharaohs:

In The Deeds of the Disturber:

In Die For Love:

In Naked Once More:

Works invented by Stephen Potter

In Gamesmanship:

In Lifemanship:

In One-Upmanship:

In Supermanship: '

Works invented by Anthony Powell

For a list organized by author see "An Anthony Powell ABibliography." [7]

In Books Do Furnish a Room:

In the A Dance to the Music of Time series:

In Fisher King:

In Hearing Secret Harmonies:

In What's Become of Waring:

Works invented by Terry Pratchett

In the Discworld series:

In The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents:

In Good Omens (with Neil Gaiman):

In Wintersmith:

Works invented by Malcolm Pryce

In Aberystwyth Mon Amour:

Works invented by Thomas Pynchon

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Works invented by François Rabelais

Works invented by Ayn Rand

In The Fountainhead:

In Atlas Shrugged:

Works invented by Corey Redekop

In Shelf Monkey:

Works invented by Mary Renault

In The Friendly Young Ladies:

Works invented by J. K. Rowling

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).

Hogwarts textbooks

Arithmancy
  • Book of Numerology
  • New Theory of Numerology, a book Harry gives Hermione for Christmas in fifth year (1995).
  • Numerology and Grammatica, a textbook that, in the movies, is divided into two separate textbooks:
    • Numerology by L. Wakefield
    • Grammatica by M. Carneiro
Care of Magical Creatures
Charms
  • Standard Book of Spells (Grades One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six and presumably Seven) by Miranda Goshawk
  • Quintessence: A Quest
Defence Against the Dark Arts
  • Confronting the Faceless
  • Break with a Banshee by Gilderoy Lockhart
  • Gadding with Ghouls by Gilderoy Lockhart
  • Holidays with Hags by Gilderoy Lockhart
  • Magical Me by Gilderoy Lockhart
  • Travels with Trolls by Gilderoy Lockhart
  • Voyages with Vampires by Gilderoy Lockhart
  • Wandering with Werewolves by Gilderoy Lockhart
  • Year with the Yeti by Gilderoy Lockhart
  • The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection by Quentin Trimble
  • Defensive Magical Theory by Wilbert Slinkhard
Divination
  • 'The Dream Oracle by Inigo Imago
  • Unfogging the Future by Cassandra Vablatsky
  • Death Omens: What to Do When You Know the Worst is Coming
  • Broken Balls: When Fortune Turns Foul
  • Predicting the Unpredictable: Insulate Yourself against Shocks"
Herbology
  • One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi by Phyllida Spore
  • Encyclopædia of Toadstools
  • Magical Mediterranean Water Plants and their Properties
  • Flesh-eating Trees of the World
History of Magic
Muggle Studies
  • Home Life and Social Habits of British Muggles by Wilhelm Wigworthy (Little Red Books, 1987)
Potions
  • Advanced Potion Making by Libatius Borage
  • Magical Drafts and Potions by Arsenius Jigger
  • Asiatic Anti-Venoms
  • Moste Potente Potions
Study of Ancient Runes
  • Ancient Runes Made Easy
Transfiguration
  • A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration by Emeric Switch
  • Intermediate Transfiguration
  • Guide to Advanced Transfiguration

Non-textbooks

History
  • An Anthology of Eighteenth Century Charms
  • A Guide to Medieval Sorcery
  • Olde and Forgotten Bewitchments and Charmes
  • Great Wizards of the Twentieth Century
  • Nature's Nobility: A Wizarding Genealogy
  • Notable Magical Names of Our Time
  • The Rise and Fall of the Dark Arts
  • The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore by Rita Skeeter
  • Armando Dippet: Master or Moron? by Rita Skeeter
  • Prefects Who Gained Power
  • Great Wizarding Events of the Twentieth Century
  • Hogwarts, A History, by Chroniclus Punnet
  • Modern Magical History
  • Important Modern Magical Discoveries
  • A Study of Recent Developments in Wizardry
  • An Appraisal of Magical Education in Europe
Magical creatures
  • Dragon Breeding for Pleasure and Profit
  • Dragon Species of Great Britain and Ireland
  • Dreadful Denizens of the Deep
  • From Egg to Inferno: a Dragon-Keeper's Guide
  • Men Who Love Dragons Too Much
  • Handbook of Hippogriff Psychology
  • Fowl or Foul? A Study of Hippogriff Brutality
  • Why I Didn't Die When the Augerey Cried by Gulliver Pokeby (Little Red Books, 1824)
  • Hairy Snout, Human Heart by an anonymous author (Whizz Hard Books, 1975)
Dark Arts
  • Magick Moste Evile
  • Secrets of the Darkest Art
  • A Compendium of Common Curses and Their Counter-Actions
  • Curses and Counter-Curses by Professor Vindictus Viridian
  • The Dark Arts Outsmarted
  • Self-Defensive Spellwork
  • Jinxes for the Jinxed
  • Practical Defensive Magic Its Use Against the Dark Arts
Magical cooking and housecare
  • Charm Your Own Cheese
  • Enchantment in Baking
  • Gilderoy Lockhart's Guide to Household Pests by Gilderoy Lockhart
  • One-Minute Feasts—It's Magic!
Magical healthcare
  • Common Magical Ailments and Afflictions
  • The Healer's Helpmate
  • A Study into the Possibility of Reversing the Actual and Metaphysical Effects of Natural Death, with Particular Regard to the Reintegration of Essence and Matter
Magical how-to
  • Weird Wizarding Dilemmas and Their Solutions
  • Where There's a Wand, There's a Way
  • The Invisible Book of Invisibility
Magical theory
  • Magical Theory by Adalbert Waffling
  • New Theory of Numerology
  • Numerology and Grammatica
  • Magical Hieroglyphs and Logograms
Spellbooks
  • Achievements in Charming
  • Basic Hexes for the Busy and Vexed
  • Spellman's Syllabary
  • Madcap Magic for Wacky Warlocks
  • Saucy Tricks for Tricky Sorts
  • Powers You Never Knew You Had and What to Do With Them Now You've Wised Up
  • Twelve Fail-Safe Ways to Charm Witches by Franklin Filibuster
Sports and games
Transportation
  • Handbook of Do-It-Yourself-Broomcare
  • Which Broomstick?
Muggles
  • Home Life and Social Habits of British Muggles by Wilhelm Wigworthy (Little Red Books, 1987)
  • Muggles Who Notice by Blenheim Stalk (1972)
  • The Philosophy of the Mundane: Why the Muggles Prefer Not to Know by Professor Mordicus Egg (Dust & Mildewe, 1963)
Miscellaneous
  • Sonnets of a Sorcerer (cursed, anyone who reads it speaks in limericks for the rest of their lives)
  • The Adventures of Martin Miggs, the Mad Muggle - a comic Harry sees in Ron's room
  • The Tales of Beedle the Bard is a book of children's stories which is mentioned in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.One, about the hairy heart, is too strong for a child to read or listen to, and so was omitted by Beatrix Bloxam from her anthology.
  • The Hairy Heart: A Guide to Wizards who Won't Commit
  • The Toadstool Tales by Beatrix Bloxam. This includes highly watered down versions of Beedle's stories.
  • Tom Riddle's diary, later revealed to be a horcrux, or part of Voldemort's soul.

Works invented by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

In The Shadow of the Wind:

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Works invented by Brandon Sanderson

In The Way of Kings, by Nohadon:

Works invented by Lewis Sands

In The Librarian, by L. Sands:

Works invented by May Sarton

In Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, by F. Hilary Stevens:

Works invented by Dorothy L. Sayers

In The Documents in the Case:

  • Neglected Edible Treasures by George Harrison
  • I to Hercules by Jack Munting

In Gaudy Night :

  • A Study of Sheridan Le Fanu by Harriet Vane
  • Death Twixt Wind and Water by Harriet Vane
  • The Sands of Crime by Harriet Vane
  • Gas-Filled Bulbs by Jacqueline Squills
  • The Position of Women in the Modern State by Miss Barton
  • History of Prosody by Miss Lydgate
  • Passion-Flower Pie by Mrs. Snell-Wilmington
  • Mock-Turtle by Tasker Hepplewater
  • Ariadne Adams
  • Dusk and Shiver
  • Jocund Day
  • Primrose Dalliance
  • Serpent's Fang
  • The Squeezed Lemon

In Have His Carcase:

  • Murder By Degrees by Harriet Vane
  • The Fountain Pen Mystery by Harriet Vane
  • A Bid for a Throne
  • The Girl who gave All
  • The Trial of the Purple Python

In Strong Poison:

  • Death in the Pot by Harriet Vane
  • Can the Dead Speak?

In Thrones, Dominations:

  • The Suspect by Claude Amery
  • This Forked Plague by Claude Amery
  • Gee-up Edward by Mr. Clandon
  • Distinguished Gathering
  • Modern Aircraft, A Manual for Trainee Pilots
  • The Brazen Serpent

In Unnatural Death:

  • The Murderer's Vade Mecum by Lord Peter Wimsey
  • Notes on the Collecting of Incunabula by Lord Peter Wimsey

In Whose Body?:

  • An Answer to Professor Freud, With a Description of Some Experiments Carried Out at the Base Hospital in Amiens by Sir Julian Freke
  • An Examination into the Treatment of Pauper Lunacy in the United Kingdom by Sir Julian Freke
  • Cerebro-Spinal Diseases by Sir Julian Freke
  • Criminal Lunacy by Sir Julian Freke
  • Functional Disturbances of the Nervous System by Sir Julian Freke
  • Modern Developments in Psycho-Therapy: A Criticism by Sir Julian Freke
  • Some Notes on the Pathological Aspects of Genius by Sir Julian Freke
  • Statistical Contributions to the Study of Infantile Paralysis in England and Wales by Sir Julian Freke
  • Structural Modifications Accompanying the More Important Neuroses by Sir Julian Freke
  • The Application of Psycho-Therapy to the Treatment of Shell-Shock by Sir Julian Freke
  • The Borderland of Insanity by Sir Julian Freke
  • The Physiological Bases of the Conscience by Sir Julian Freke

Works invented by Davis Schneiderman

In Drain:

In Multifesto: The Henri d'Mescan Reader:

In Dis:

Works invented by Charles M. Schulz

The Six Bunny-Wunnies series by Helen Sweetstory

Works invented by Michael Shea

In Nifft the Lean:

Works invented by Alix Kates Shulman

In Ménage:

In Burning Questions:

Works invented by Clark Ashton Smith

Works invented by Lemony Snicket

In The Bad Beginning:

  • Inheritance Law and Its Implications

In The Miserable Mill:

  • Advanced Ocular Science by Dr. Georgina Orwell
  • Encyclopedia Hypnotica
  • The History of Lucky Smells Lumbermill
  • The Paltryville Constitution

In The Reptile Room:

  • The Big Peruvian Book of Small Peruvian Snakes
  • The Care and Feeding of the Androgynous Cobra
  • An Introduction to Large Lizards
  • The Mamba du Mal: A Snake That Will Never Kill Me by Tony "Mommy" Eggmonteror, quoted in Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography.

In The Wide Window:

  • A Lachrymose Atlas
  • Basic Rules of Grammar and Punctuation
  • Handbook for Advanced Apostrophe Use
  • How Water Is Made
  • Ivan Lachrymose - Lake Explorer
  • Lachrymose Trout
  • The Bottom of Lake Lachrymose
  • The Correct Spelling of Every English Word That Ever, Ever Existed
  • The History of the Damocles Dock Region
  • The Tides of Lake Lachrymose

In The Penultimate Peril:

  • Odious Lusting After Finance

In The End:

  • A Series of Unfortunate Events

In Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography:

  • The Pony Party! (book 1 in the series The Luckiest Kids in the World), by Loney M. Setnick

On Lemonysnicket.com:

  • How I Snatched The Baudelaire Fortune by Count Olaf (unfinished).
  • The Complete History Of Absolutely Everything, Volume 127 - Cauldron to Caution
  • From Molars To Incisors: A Pictorial History Of The Tooth
  • Banking

Works invented by Muriel Spark

In The Finishing School :

In The Girls of Slender Means :

In Loitering with Intent :

In Memento Mori :

In A Far Cry From Kensington :

Works invented in The Spitting Image Book

Works invented by Neal Stephenson

In Cryptonomicon and Quicksilver:

In Anathem :

In The Diamond Age :

Works invented by Laurence Sterne

In The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman:

Works invented by Peter Straub

Works invented by S. M. Stirling

Works invented by Barry Strugatz and Mark R. Burns

In She-Devil:

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Works invented by Josephine Tey

In The Daughter of Time:

In Miss Pym Disposes:

Works invented by J. R. R. Tolkien

Works invented by Harry Turtledove

In American Empire: Blood and Iron:

In American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold:

In Settling Accounts: In at the Death:

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Works invented by John Updike

In Bech: A Book:

In Bech is Back:

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Works invented by Jack Vance

In Araminta Station:

In Cugel's Saga:

In the Demon Princes series:

In The Dying Earth:

In The Eyes of the Overworld:

In the Lyonesse Trilogy

In The Palace of Love:

In Rhialto the Marvellous:

In The Star King:

Miscellaneous

Works invented by Kurt Vonnegut

Attributed to Kilgore Trout:

  • 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

Attributed to Beatrice Rumfoord:

  • The Beatrice Rumfoord Galactic Cookbook by Beatrice Rumfoord
  • Between Timid and Timbuktu, anonymously published by Beatrice Rumfood
  • The True Purpose of Life in the Solar System by Beatrice Rumfoord

Attributed to other authors:

  • The American Philosopher Kings by Waltham Kittredge
  • Are Adults Harmoniums? by Dr. Frank Minot
  • 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 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 da Vinci by Howard W. Sams
  • The Underground by Polly Madison
  • The Only Way to Have a Successful Revolution in Any Field of Human Activity by Paul Slazinger
  • Private Art Treasures of Tuscony by Kim Bum Suk

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Works invented by David Foster Wallace

In Infinite Jest:

Works invented by Bill Watterson

Works invented by Evelyn Waugh

In Brideshead Revisited: (all by Charles Ryder)

Works invented by Donald Westlake

In Jimmy the Kid:

Works invented by P. G. Wodehouse

In the Jeeves stories
In Joy in the Morning
In "The Artistic Career of Corky"
In Aunts Aren't Gentlemen (U.S. title The Cat-nappers)
In The Mating Season
Miscellaneous

Works invented by Gene Wolfe

In Bibliomen :

  • In "Adam Poor":
    • A Salted Mine by Adam Poor
    • Voices Vocable by Adam Poor
  • In "Bernard A. French":
    • Great Lost Art of Western Europe by Bernard A. French, editor
    • Perfection Unto Death by Bernard A. French
  • In "Captain Roy C. Mirk, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.":
    • A Post-Modernist Critic Views the Antebellum Middle West by Roy C. Mirk
    • Poultry as Symbolism in Nineteenth Century American Literature by Roy C. Mirk
    • Tea-Time Talk in the Novels of Louise May Alcott by Roy C. Mirk
    • Washing as a Euphemism in the Works of Jack London by Roy C. Mirk
  • In "Gertrude S. 'Spinning Jenny' Deplatta":
    • an unknown title by Robert T. Brooks
  • In "John Glaskin  :'
    • Brideshead by John Glaskin
    • You Can't Go Home at All by John Glaskin
  • In "John J. Jons, Jr." :
    • Guide to the Public Toilets of America (aka Jon's Guide) by John J. Jons, Jr.
    • Meditation on the Utilitarian Theory of Literary Merit by John J. Jons, Jr.
  • In "Kirk Patterson Arthurs, Ph.D.":
    • Fiction in Fancy Dress: John Glaskin et al. Exposed by Kirk Patterson Arthurs
    • Mask and Coin: Grub Street in the 30's by Kirk Patterson Arthurs
    • Maze of Clay: John Glaskin Revisited by Kirk Patterson Arthurs
    • Sweet Sword, High Heart: Love and War in the Fiction of John Glaskin by Kirk Patterson Arthurs
  • In "Paul Rico":
    • Training the Mind by Paul Rico

In The Book of the Long Sun :

  • An unknown title by Scleroderma
  • The Chrasmological Writings by unknown author

In The Book of the New Sun :

  • Lives of the Seventeen Megatherians by Blaithmaic
  • The Book of the New Sun by Canog
  • The Book of Gold by unknown author
  • The Book of the Wonders of Urth and Sky, Being a Collection from Printed Sources of Universal Secrets of Such Age That Their Meaning has Become Obscured with Time by unknown author

In The Book of the Short Sun :

  • An unknown title by Man from Urbasecundus

In The Doctor of Death Island :

  • The Death of Love by Kinglake

In The Fifth Head of Cerberus :

  • Introduction to Cultural Anthropology by Miller
  • A Field Guide to the Animals of Sainte Anne by unknown author

In From the Desk of Gilmer C. Merton (from the short story collection Storeys from the Old Hotel)

  • Star Shuttle by Gilray Gunn
  • Come, Dark Lust! by Wolf Moon
  • The Shrieking in the Nursery by Wolf Moon

In Peace :

In Seven American Nights (from the short story collection The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories)

  • Mystery Beyond the Sun's Setting by Osman Aga

In Useful Phrases (from the short story collection Strange Travelers) :

  • Tohish Ablar Sens-Orriyya Ert by unknown author

In Xavier McRidy  :

  • Allegiance to La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco by Juan Gabriel Sabastian de Dolo y Varios
  • The Paper Nautilus by Xavier McRidy
  • Mr. Milton in Medoc by S. Peety

Works invented by John Wyndham

In The Chrysalids

In The Day of the Triffids

Miscellaneous from literature

Additional reading

See also

References

  1. ↑ The Royal Tenenbaums
  2. ↑ Moonrise Kingdom
  3. ↑ Chandler, Raymond; MacShane, Frank; Gorey, Edward (8 February 2007). The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler: And English Summer a Gothic Romance. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-122744-8. Retrieved 2 November 2011.
  4. ↑ J.A.Arnold, Conradiana 7.2 (1976) 121-6
  5. ↑ Wanton Deconstruction, Tobin Harshaw, New York Times, January 21, 2001
  6. ↑ "Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem". Hungry Like the Woolf. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
  7. ↑ "An Anthony Powell ABibliography" The New Psalmanazar
  8. ↑ Sidney Kilner Levett-Yeats was a minor Victorian novelist, known to Rudyard Kiping from Lahore's Punjab Club. Born to a once-important British colonial family, Levett-Yeats was a low-level English bureaucrat in India turned romantic novelist.

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