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.

Uses

Such a book may (1) provide the basis of the novel's plot, (2) add verisimilitude by supplying plausible background, or (3) act as a common thread in a series of books or the works of a particular writer or canon of work. A fictional book may also (4) be used as a conceit to illustrate a story within a story, or (5) be essentially a joke title, thus helping to establish the humorous or satirical tone of the work. (Fictional books used as hoaxes or as purported support for actual research are usually referred to as false documents.)

Examples

Several stories in Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges' short story collection entitled Ficciones are reviews of fictional books; in this case, the fictional book is the basis of the story. As an example of the second use of fictional books, Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell includes scholarly footnotes to invented biographies, magical texts and journals to add to the texture and depth of the story. H. P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon might be considered an example of the third usage, since it appears as a recurring motif in several of the Cthulhu Mythos stories. Many (but not all) of the fictional books mentioned in the work of Douglas Adams are of the joke title variety. H. G. Wells' "The Shape of Things to Come", which purports to be a history textbook published in 2106, includes - just like actual history books - numerous footnotes, some of them referring to actual historical sources but most to fictional ones.

Some books started out as fictional and were then written. Examples include Fly Fishing by the fictitious J.R. Hartley, from an advertisement; I, Libertine, a hoax by Jean Shepherd; and Venus on the Half-Shell by the fictitious Kilgore Trout, originally invented by Kurt Vonnegut, then written and published (attributed to Trout) by Philip José Farmer.

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:

• Through Flatland to Thoughtland by Prof. A. Square

Works invented by Gilbert Adair

In The Act of Roger Murgatroyd:

• The Case of the Family Jewels by Evadne Mount
• Death Be My Deadline by Evadne Mount
• The Mystery of the Green Penguin by Evadne Mount
• No Murder in the Title by Evadne Mount
• Oedipus vs. Rex by Evadne Mount
• The Proof of the Pudding by Evadne Mount
• The Stroke of 12 by Evadne Mount
• The Timing of the Stew by Evadne Mount
• The Urinal of Futility by Evadne Mount
• The Wrong Voice by Evadne Mount (play)

In A Mysterious Affair of Style:

• Death: A User's Manual by Evadne Mount
• Eeny-Meeny-Murder-Mo by Evadne Mount (play)
• Murder Without Ease by Evadne Mount
• The Tourist Trap by Evadne Mount (play)

In A Closed Book:

• Sitting at the Feet of Ghosts by Sir Paul
• The First Fruits by Sir Paul
• The Lion of Beltraffico by Sir Paul
• The Spirit of the Place by Sir Paul

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.

• The Big Bang Theory: A Personal View by Eccentrica Gallumbits
• Celestial Homecare Omnibus
• Encyclopedia Galactica
• Fifty-Three More Things to do in Zero Gravity
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Mark II
• How I Scaled the North Face of the Megapurna with a Perfectly Healthy Finger But Everything Else Sprained, Broken or Bitten Off By a Pack of Mad Yaks
• How I Survived an Hour with a Sprained Finger
• Life Begins at Five Hundred and Fifty
• Practical Parenting in a Fractally Demented Universe
• Sidereal Daily Mentioner's Book of Popular Galactic History
• Songs of the Long Land by Lallafa
• Sqornshellous Swamptalk
• Time Traveller's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations by Dr. Dan Streetmentioner
• The Ultra-Complete Maximegalon Dictionary of Every Language Ever
• Where God Went Wrong by Oolon Colluphid
• Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes by Oolon Colluphid
• Who Is This God Person Anyway? by Oolon Colluphid
• Well That About Wraps It Up for God by Oolon Colluphid
• Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Guilt But Were Too Ashamed To Find Out by Oolon Colluphid
• Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Sex But Have Been Forced To Find Out by Oolon Colluphid

• You and Your Planets by Gail Andrews

Works invented by Lloyd Alexander

• In The Book of Three, there is a distinct and fictional tome named The Book of Three

Works invented by Martin Amis

In The Information:

• Aforethought by Richard Tull
• Amelior by Gwyn Barry
• Dreams Don't Mean Anything by Richard Tull
• Invisible Worms (unpublished) by Richard Tull
• Summertown by Gwyn Barry
• Untitled by Richard Tull

Works invented by Poul Anderson

In The Earth Book of Stormgate:

• Far Adventure, an autobiography by Maeve Downey
• The Sky Book of Stormgate by Rennhi
• Tales of the Great Frontier by A. A. Craig. (Poul Anderson had used the pseudonym ""A. A. Craig"" for two earlier stories.)
• A "running set of reminiscences" by James Ching
• Private journals of Hirharouk

Works invented by Piers Anthony

In The Source of Magic:

• The Anatomy of Purple Dragons, author unknown
• Hailstones: Magic vs. Mundane, author unknown
• The Status of Spirits in Royal Abodes, author unknown
• Tales for Ghosts, author unknown

Works invented by Kate Atkinson

In Emotionally Weird:

• by Effie Andrews, the 'Madame Astarti' novels:
  • Hand of Fate
  • The Wheel of Fortune
  • Mermaids Ahoy!
  • The Finger of Fate
  • Pick a Card, Any Card
• by Martha Sewell (poetry)
  • Chicken Spirits
  • Cherry Picking in Vermont
• by Andrea Garnet
  • The Adventures of Anthea
  • Anthea's Anguish (Booker prizewinner 2001)
• Wards of Love by Philippa McCue
• The Expanding Prism of J by Archie McCue
• The Balniddrian Conspiracy (in the Chronicles of Edrakonia series) by Kevin Riley
• The Invasion of the Tara-Zanthians by Colin Hardy

Works invented by Margaret Atwood

In The Blind Assassin:

• The Blind Assassin by Laura Chase
• The Chase Industries: A History

In Lady Oracle:

• Lady Oracle by Joan Foster
• by Louise K. Delacroix (pen-name of Joan Foster)
  • The Lord of Chesney Chase
  • The Secret of Morgrave Manor
  • Turrets of Tantripp
  • Escape from Love
  • Love Defied
  • Stalked by Love
• by Mavis Quilp
  • Janet Holmes, Student Nurse
  • Helen Curtis, Senior Nurse
  • Anne Armstrong, Junior Nurse
  • Romance in Paradise
  • Lucy Gallant, Army Nurse
  • Judith Morris, Arctic Expedition Nurse
  • Nurse of the High Arctic

In The Robber Bride:

• Five Ambushes by Antonia Fremont
• Four Lost Causes by Antonia Fremont
• Deadly Vestments: A History of Inept Military Couture by Antonia Fremont (in progress)

B

Works invented by John Barnes

In One For the Morning Glory:

• Highly Unpleasant Things It Is Sometimes Good To Know, compilation
• Things That Are Not Good To Know At All, compilation
• Chronicles, by Cedric
• The Codwalloper's Daughter, traditional story ballad
• Penna Pike, traditional story ballad, extended by Prince Amatus
• The Masque of Murder, by Roderick
• The Tragical Death of Boniface the Good, by Roderick
• The Third Part of Prince Amatus, by Roderick
• King Boniface, by Roderick
• Robber Baron: The Rise of the Thunder Family from Terror of the North to the Kingdom's Most Respected Barony, by Deacon (Prime Minister) Dick Thunder (authorship disputed)
• Memoirs, by King Amatus

Works invented by L. Frank Baum

In The Road to Oz:

• Encyclopedia Donkaniara, by an unknown author

In the Oz books, by Baum and his successors:

• Glinda's Great Book of Records

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 Inquiry 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 Barnavelt Family and the Rebellion Against King Charles I by James Barnavelt
• Persecution, for Witch-Craft, of Martin Christian Barnavelt by Martin Christian Barnavelt

Works invented by Hillaire Belloc

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

(all by Herbert Keanes)

• Problems of the Poor
• The Future of Japan
• Musings by Killarney's Shore
• What, indeed, is man?
• Flowers and Fruit
• The Ethics of Jean-Paul
• Is There a Clifford?
• Nero

Works invented by Jedediah Berry

In The Manual of Detection:

• The Manual of Detection

Works invented 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 Mannikin:

• Cabala of Saboth
• Commentaries on Witchcraft by Mycroft

In The Shambler from the Stars:

• De Vermis Mysteriis (Mysteries of the Worm)

In The Suicide in the Study:

• Cultes des Goules by Comte d'Erlette
• Black Rites by Luveh-Keraphf

Works invented by Roberto Bolaño

In 2666: (all by Benno von Archimboldi)

• Lüdicke
• The Endless Rose
• The Leather Mask
• Rivers of Europe
• Bifurcaria Bifurcata
• Inheritance
• Saint Thomas
• The Blind Woman
• The Black Sea
• Lethaea
• The Lottery Man
• The Father
• The Return
• D'Arsonval
• The Garden
• Mitzi's Treasure
• Railroad Perfection
• The Berlin Underworld
• Bitzius
• The King of the Forest
• The Head

Works invented by Jorge Luis Borges

In Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius:

• Anglo-American Cyclopedia 1917 edition
• A First Encyclopaedia of Tlön
• History of a Land called Uqbar by Silas Haslam (1874)

In "The Library of Babel":

• The Combed Thunderclap
• The Plaster Cramp
• Axaxaxas mlö (the words "axaxaxas mlö" also occur in Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius in an example of the language of Tlön)

In stories named after the fictional books:

• The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim by Mir Bahadur Ali (1932)
• The Book of Sand
• The Garden of Forking Paths by Ts'ui Pen

Miscellaneous:

• April March by Herbert Quain
• Biography of the Baal Shem by Dr. Marcel Yarmolinsky (1940)
• The Conversation with the Man Called Al-Mu'tasim: A Game of Shifting Mirrors by Mir Bahadur Ali (1934) -- Illustrated version
• Don Quixote and other works by Pierre Menard
• An Examination of the Philosophy of Robert Fludd by Dr. Marcel Yarmolinsky (1921)
• A General History of Labyrinths by Silas Haslam (1888)
• The God of the Labyrinth by Herbert Quain
• Dem hemlige Fralsaren by Nils Runeberg (1909)
• History of the Sect of the Hasidim by Dr. Marcel Yarmolinsky (1931)
• Kristus och Judas by Nils Runeberg (1904)
• Lesbare und lesenswerthe Bemerkungen über das Land Ukkbar in Klein-Asien by Johann Valentin Andreä
• Les Problemes d'un probleme by Pierre Menard (1917)
• The Secret Mirror by Herbert Quain
• Statements by Herbert Quain
• Tetragrammaton by Dr. Marcel Yarmolinsky
• Urkunden zur Geschichte der Zahirsage (Documents and Tales: the History of the Zahir) by Julius Barlach (1899)
• A Vindication of the Cabala by Dr. Marcel Yarmolinsky (1938)
• Vindication of Eternity by Jaromir Hladík (1927)

Works invented by William Boyd

In Any Human Heart:

by Logan Montstuart

• The Mind's Imaginings
• The Girl Factory
• The Cosmopolitans
• The Villa by the Lake

by Peter Scabius

• Beware of the Dog
• Night Train to Paris
• Three Days in Marrakesh
• Guilt
• Iniquity
• The Slaughter of the Innocents
• The Red and the Blue and the Red
• Already Too Late

by Butler Hughes

• North by Night

In Brazzaville Beach:

by Eugene Mallabar

• The Peaceful Primate
• Primate's Progress

In Restless (novel):

by Eva Delectorskaya

• The Story of Eva Delectorskaya

by Sam M Goodforth

• The Hollow Mountain

by Robert York

• Germany: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Works invented by Richard Brautigan

In The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966:

• Bacon Death, by Marsha Patterson
• Breakfast First, by Samuel Humber
• The Culinary Dostoevski, by James Fallon
• The Egg Laid 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 Reverend Lincoln Lincoln
• UFO vs. CBS, by Susan De Witt
• Vietnam Victory, by Edward Fox
• Your Clothes are Dead, by Les Steinman

Works invented by Marie Brennan

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

• A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir, by Isabella Camherst, Lady Trent
• A Journey to the Mountains of Vystrana, by Isabella Camherst, Lady Trent
• Concerning the Rock-Wyrms of Vystrana: Their Anatomy, Biology, and Activity, with Particular Attention to Their Relation with Humans, and the Revelation of Mourning Behavior, by Jacob Camherst and others
• A Natural History of Dragons, by Sir Richard Edgeworth
• Avian Anatomy, by Gotherham
• Reliques of Vystrani Wisdom, by David Parnell
• Methods of Cavern Formation in a Variety of Environments, by Pegshaw

Works invented by Elinor Brent-Dyer

In the Chalet School series:

• In A Future Chalet School Girl: Mystery at Heron Lake by Josephine M. Bettany
• In Althea Joins the Chalet School: The Secret of Castle Dancing by Josephine M. Bettany
• In Carola Storms the Chalet School: The Rose Patrol in the Alps by Josephine M. Bettany
• In The Chalet School Goes To It: Gipsy Jocelyn by Josephine M. Bettany
• In Gay from China at the Chalet School: Indian Holiday and Nancy Meets a Nazi by Josephine M. Bettany
• In Jo Returns to the Chalet School: Cecily Holds the Fort and Malvina Wins Through by Josephine M. Bettany
• In Joey Goes to Oberland: Audrey Wins the Trick and Dora of the Lower Fifth by Josephine M. Bettany
• In Lavender Laughs at the Chalet School: Lavender Laughs in Brazil: Lavender Laughs in Cyprus: Lavender Laughs in Libya: Lavender Laughs in Scotland: Lavender Laughs in the West Indies: Lavender Laughs in Turkey and Lavender laughs in New Guinea by Sylvia Leigh; and The Lost Staircase, Luella was a Land Girl, and The Robin Makes Good by Josephine M. Bettany
• In The Chalet School and the Island: The Sea Parrot by Kester Bellever
• In The Chalet School in Exile: Tessa in Tyrol by Josephine M. Bettany
• In The Mystery at the Chalet School: The Leader of the Lost Cause by Josephine M. Bettany
• In The New Mistress at the Chalet School: King's Soldier Maid and Swords Crossed by Josephine M. Bettany
• In A Problem for the Chalet School: A Royalist Soldier-Maid and Werner of the Alps by Josephine M. Bettany
• In Three Go to the Chalet School: Lavender Laughs in Kashmir by Sylvia Leigh
• In Tom Tackles the Chalet School: The Fugitive of the Salt Cave and The Secret House by Josephine M. Bettany
• In Two Sams at the Chalet School: Swords for the King! by Josephine M. Bettany
• In Maids of La Rochelle: Guernsey Folk Tales by Elizabeth Temple

Works invented by John Brunner

In Stand on Zanzibar:

• The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
• You're an Ignorant Idiot a series by Chad C. Mulligan
• Better ? than ? by Chad C. Mulligan
• You : Beast by Chad C. Mulligan

Works invented by Steven Brust

In Athyra:

• The Book of the Seven Wizards
• Knitting of Bones
• On the Number of the Parts of the Body
• The Remembered Tales of Calduh
• The Sorcerer's Art and the Healing of the Self

In Five Hundred Years After:

• Bedra of Ynn and Lotro: An Historical and Poetical Comparison, author unknown
• A Brief Consideration of Adverb Placement in Colloquial Tongue by Vaari
• The Clothes Unmake the Emperor by Baron Vile
• Court Dress Before the Interregnum by Traanier
• History of Doors and Windows by Kairu
• Imperial Wing of the Old Palace by Dentrub
• Mountain Ballads, author unknown
• Overview of the Architecture of the Old Imperial Palace by Burrin
• Redwreath and Goldstar Have Traveled to Deathgate (play), author unknown
• Short Life of Lotro, author unknown
• Tales of Beed'n, author unknown
• Three Broken Strings by Paarfi of Roundwood
• Wise Sayings of Five Bards, author unknown

In Jhegaala:

• Fauna of the Middle South: A Brief Survey by Oscaania
• Six Parts Water (play) by Miersen

Works invented by Lois McMaster Bujold

In The Curse of Chalion:

• The Fivefold Pathway of the Soul: On the True Methods of Quintarian Theology by Ordol
• The Legend of the Green Tree by Behar

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 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
• 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

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:

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

Works invented by Italo Calvino

In If on a Winter's Night a Traveler:

• If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, by Italo Calvino
• Outside the Town of Malbork, by Tazio Bazakbal
• Leaning from the Steep Slope, by Ukko Ahti
• Without Fear of Wind or Vertigo, by Vorts Viljandi
• Looks Down in the Gathering Shadow, by Bertrand Vandervelde
• In a Network of Lines that Enlace, by Silas Flannery
• In a Network of Lines that Intersect, by Ermes Marana
• On the Carpet of Leaves Illuminated by the Moon, by Takakumi Ikoka
• Around an Empty Grave, by Calixto Bandera
• What Story Down There Awaits its End?, by Anatoly Anatolin

Works invented by Cao Xueqin

In Hong Lou Meng:

• Ji Zhi (姬子)]

Works invented by Peter Carey

In Oscar and Lucinda:

• Corallines of the Devon Coast and Hennacombe Rambles by Theophilus Hopkins

Works invented by Thomas Carlyle

In Sartor Resartus:

by _von Diog. Teufelsdrockh

• Die Kleider, ihr Werden und Wirken_ (Clothes, their Origin and Influence): J. U. D. etc. Stillschweigen und Cognie. Weissnichtwo_, 1831.

Works invented by Jonathan Carroll

In A Child Across the Sky:

• Bones of the Moon by Cullen James (not the same book as Bones of the Moon by Jonathan Carroll)

In The Land of Laughs:

• The Green Dogs of Sorrow by Marshall France
• The Land of Laughs by Marshall France
• Night Races Into Anna by Marshall France
• Peach Shadows by Marshall France
• An untitled biography of Edward Abbey by Stephen Abbey
• An untitled biography of Marshall France by Stephen and Gardner Abbey

In Sleeping in Flame:

• Flash and Blood by Stephen King

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":

• 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

Works invented by Robert W. Chambers

• The King in Yellow by Castaigne in The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers (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. (From The Repairer of Reputations, a short story in The King in Yellow.

Works invented by Raymond Chandler

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

• Once More the Cicatrice (novel)
• The Seagull Has No Friends (novel)
• The Hydraulic Facelift (poetry)
• Cat Hairs in the Custard (poetry)
• Twenty Inches of Monkey (short stories)

Works invented by Agatha Christie

Attributed to Ariadne Oliver:

• The Affair of the Second Goldfish
• The Body in the Library
• The Cat it Was Who Died
• Death of a Debutante
• Murder on the Orient Express
• The Mysterious Mr. Quinn
• The Lotus Murder
• The Clue of the Candle Wax
• The Woman in the Woods
• The White Cockatoo
• The Tendency of the Criminal (article)
• Famous Crimes Passionnels (article)
• Murder for Love v. Murder for Gain (article)

Attributed to Salome Otterbourne:

• Under the Fig Tree
• Snow on the Desert's Face (unpublished)

Works invented by Clamp

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

Works invented by Susanna Clarke

Main article: Fictional books in the works of Susanna Clarke

Works invented by Jonathan Coe

In What a Carve Up!:

• Accidents Will Happen by Michael Owen
• Great Plumbers of Albania (unknown author)
• 300 Years of Halitosis (unknown author)
• The Winshaw Legacy: A Family Chronicle by Alan Beamish
• So You Think You Know about Plinths? by Revd. J. W. Pottage
• A Life in Packaging - Fragments of an Autobiography:Volume IX - The Styrofoam Years (unknown author)
• A Pox on the Box: Memoirs of a Disillusioned Broadcaster by Alan Beamish
• Dropping in on Jerry: A Light-Hearted Account of the Dresden Bombings by Wing Commander "Bullseye" Fortescue
• A Lutheran Approach to the Films of Martin and Lewis (unknown author)
• The A-Z of Plinths by Revd. J. W. Pottage
• The Loving Touch by Michael Owen
• Plinths! Plinths! Plinths!" by Revd. J. W. Pottage
• I was Celery (unknown author)

Works invented by Eoin Colfer

In And Another Thing...:

• The Complete Maximegalon Statistics, Volumes 1—15,000
• The Quick Guide to the Complete Maximegalon Statistics, Volumes 1—25,000

Works invented by Joseph Conrad

• 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.

Works invented by Cressida Cowell

• How to Train Your Dragon by Professor Yobbish (In How to Train Your Dragon)

Works invented by Richard Cowper

In A Dream of Kinship:

• Codex Iniquitatis, author unknown
• 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:

• Morfedd's Testament by Morfedd
• The Avian Apocrypha, anonymous
• The Book of Gyre, anonymous
• The Book of Morfedd, anonymous
• Carlisle ms, anonymous
• Old Peter's Tale, anonymous
• Orgen's Dream, anonymous

In A Tapestry of Time:

• Being and Non-Being by Hagendorf
• Catalogue by Dean Pardoe
• Consolations of Philosophy by Pargeter
• History of Kinship in the United Kingdoms, Vol. 1 by Franscombe
• Kentmere Psalter, author unknown
• Leaves from an Antiquarian's Notebook by Dean Pardoe
• Lexicon by Langley
• Revelations by St. Francis
• The True History of the Boy by St. Francis
• An unknown title by Master Surgeon Brynlas
• An unknown title (contains the word "Life") by Dom Sarega

In The Twilight of Briareus:

• L'Histoire Particulière de la Renaissance by Pierre Candel
• Reminiscences by Margaret Hardy
• W. H. O. Regeneration Statistics. Vol. 3. 2004, author unknown

Works invented by Edmund Crispin

• Metromania by Robert Warner (play) (in The Case of the Gilded Fly)

Works invented by Andrew Crumey

• Il Furto by Alfredo Galli (in Music, in a Foreign Language)
• The Optical Illusion Last Friday by Alfredo Galli (in Music, in a Foreign Language)
• Minds and Memories by Lowell (in Music, in a Foreign Language)
• Aphorisms by Vincenzo Spontini (in Pfitz)
• Tales from Rreinnstadt by Muller (in D'Alembert's Principle)
• Epistemology and Unreason by Ian Muir (in Mr Mee)
• Rosier's Encyclopedia by Jean-Bernard Rosier (in Mr Mee)
• The Angel Returns by Heinrich Behring, translated by Celia Carter (in Mobius Dick)
• Professor Faust by Heinrich Behring, translated by Celia Carter (in Mobius Dick)
• Evolution Towards Perfection by Otto Hinze (in Mobius Dick)
• The Teleology of Mental Degeneration by Otto Hinze (in Mobius Dick)
• Synchronicism and Coincidence by Otto Hinze (in Mobius Dick)

Works invented by Chris Crutcher

• Warren Peece by Chris Crutcher (in The Sledding Hill)

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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:

• 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

Works invented by John DeChancie

In Castle Murders:

• Eidolons of the King by Librarian Osmirik, the Castle books as they exist in the fictional world
• The Moswell Plan by Dorcas Bagby, a book believed to be fictional even in its own world

In Castle Perilous:

• Ervoldt: His Book by Lord Ervoldt

Works invented by Philip K. Dick

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

Works invented by Paul Di Filippo

In Plumage From Pegasus:

• Mega-Awesome SF: The True Story Behind Forever Plus! by Amber Max
• Forever Plus! by Amber Max
• A History of Supermarket Fiction: How SF Swept the World by Roger Barnard
• Imaginary Realist: The Life of Timothy Eugene by Milton Sharp
• The Magazine Chums Meet the Distributor of Doom by C.J. Cutlyffe Heintz-Ketzep
• The Magazine Chums and the Case of the Disappearing Readers 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
• The Unsurrendered Fembot by Richard Calder
• The Big Book of High-Tech Texas Bar-B-Q by Bruce Sterling
• A History of Science Fiction and Fantasy in the New Yorker by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Faith-Based Fictions: A Conversation by Orson Scott Card, Andrew Greeley and Barry Malzberg
• Women Write Fantasy, Men Write Science fiction by Nancy Kress and Charles Sheffield
• I was a Teenaged Pornographer! by Robert Silverberg
• Boy Magnate by Gordon Van Gelder
• Great Mafia Science by Ben Bova
• How to Pick Up Guys by Samuel Delany
• Corn Likker, Drag Racin' and Coon Huntin' by Andy Duncan and Michael Bishop
• Andre Norton's Smackdown by Andre Norton

Works invented by Arthur Conan Doyle

In the Sherlock Holmes series:

• Chaldean Roots in the Ancient Cornish Language by Sherlock Holmes
• The Dynamics of an Asteroid by Professor James Moriarty
• Early English Charters by Sherlock Holmes
• Giant Rat of Sumatra by Dr. John Watson
• Heavy Game in the Western Himalayas (1881) by Colonel Sebastian Moran
• 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
• Three Months in the Jungle (1884) by Colonel Sebastian Moran
• A Treatise on the Binomial Theorem by Professor James Moriarty
• 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

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

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Works invented by Umberto Eco

In Foucault's Pendulum:

• The Carmassi Brothers by Adeodato Lampustri
• Chaste Throbs by Odolinda Mezzofanti Sassabetti
• Chronicles of the Zodiac by Dr. De Amicis
• The Dismissed by Adeodato Lampustri
• Diary of a Village Doctor
• Diary of a Young Girl's Illness
• Panther Without Eyelashes by Adeodato Lampustri
• The Wonderful Adventure of Metals

In The Name of the Rose:

• Manuscript de Dom Adson de Melk, Le by Abbe Vallet
• On the Use of Mirrors in the Game of Chess by Milo Temesvar

Works invented by David Eddings

In The Belgariad:

• The Mrin Codex a prophecy made by a madman

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Works invented by Sebastian Faulks

In A Week in December:

• Alfie the Humble Engine by Sally Higgs (winner of the Pizza Palace Book of the Year)
• Bolivia: Land of Shadows by Antony Cazenove
• The Potter's Tale by R. Tranter
• Shropshire Towers by Alfred Huntley Edgerton
• A Winter Crossing by Alexander Sedley

Works invented by Joshua Ferris

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

Works invented by Ronald Firbank

In Caprice:

• Ozias Midwinter by unknown

In Inclinations:

• Book of Cats by Miss Neffal
• Notes on the Tedium of Places by William Wordsworth
• Six Strange Sisters by Geraldine O'Brookomore
• Those Gonzagas by Geraldine O'Brookomore
• Three Lilies and a Moustache by unknown
• Travels by Lady Cray
• Violet's Virture (or The Virtue of the Violet) by A Literary Lady (The Scottish Sappho)

In Vainglory:

• Autobiography by Mrs. Cresswell
• Beams by Bishop Pantry
• Even-Tide by Bishop Pantry
• The Home Life of Lucretia Borgia by Mrs. Asp
• Inner Garden by Bishop Pantry
• The Leg of Chicken by Mr. Garsaint
• Love's Arrears by Claud Harvester
• New Poems by Claud Harvester
• Night Thoughts by Bishop Pantry
• The Red Rose of Martyrdom by Mrs. Cresswell
• Sacerdotalism and Satanism by Miss Missingham
• Scroll from the Fingers of Ta-Hor by Miss Hospice
• Vaindreams by Claud Harvester
• Verlaine at Bournemouth by Lady Anne Pantry
• The Women Queens of England by Mrs. Asp

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 Gazeteer
• 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:

• The Lord Histories of Satoram Mandamor

In Kothar and the Demon Queen:

Attributed to Gronlex Storbon

• Dialogue of Demons
• Nights of Necromancy

Works invented by Michael Frayn

In A Landing on the Sun:

• Natural Man by Dr Elizabeth Serafin
• Fair Do's:Studies in the Perception of Social Justice by E J Maitland

Works invented by Cornelia Funke

In Inkheart:

• Inkheart by Fenoglio

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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:

• The Higher Common Sense and The Pensées by the Abbé Fause-Maigre, translated by H. B. Mainwaring
• Pard-spirit; A Study of Branwell Brontë by Mr. Meyerburg (Mybug)

Works invented by Robert Goddard

In Play to the End:

• Lodger in the Throat by Joe Orton
• The Plastic Men by Derek Oswin

Works invented by Edward Gorey

(by C. F. Earbrass):

• The truffle plantation
• The meaning of the house
• A moral dustbin
• More chains than clank
• Was it likely?
• The unstrung harp

(by Miss D. Awdrey-Gore):

• The toastrack enigma
• The blancmange tragedy
• The postcard mystery
• The pincushion affair
• The toothpaste murder
• The dustwrapper secret
• The teacosy crime

(by Dewda Yorger):

• Dreary Rewdgo on the Great Divide
• Dreary Rewdgo in the Yukon
• Dreary Rewdgo at Baffin Bay

Works invented by John Green

In The Fault in Our Stars:

• An Imperial Affliction by Peter Van Houten
• The Price of Dawn
• Midnight Dawns
• Requiem for Mayhem

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Works invented by Radclyffe Hall

In The Well of Loneliness:

• The Furrow by Stephen Johnson

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

Works invented by Mark Helprin

In Winter's Tale:

• The Afro-California Jumping Style by Sierra Leon
• Care and Feeding of the Horse by Robert S. Kahn
• Catalog of Alabama Curry Combs 1760–1823 by Georgia Fatwood
• Dressage by Turner
• Equine Anatomy by Burchfield
• Memoirs of a Military Groom by Moffet Southgate
• Pictures of Big White Horses by unknown
• Ride Like Hell, You Son of a Bitch! by Fulgura Frango
• A River Moves Forward by Selena Haskins

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 Ghamina
• 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:

• Experiments with a Medium by Professor Garder
• the Sigsand MS
• Astral and Astarral Co-ordination and Interference by Harzam with addenda by Carnacki
• Astarral Vibrations Compared with Matero-involuted Vibrations Below the Six-Billion Limit by Professor Garder
• Induced Hauntings by Harzam
• Acrostics by John Dumpley

Works invented by Aldous Huxley

In Brave New World:

• Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo; author unknown
• Practical Instructions for Beta-Store Workers; author unknown

In Crome Yellow:

• Biography of Men Who Achieved Greatness, author unknown
• Biography of Men Who had Greatness Thrust Upon Them, author unknown
• Biography of Men Who were Born Great, author unknown
• Biography of Men Who were Never Great at All, author unknown
• Certaine Priuy Counsels by One of Her Maiestie's Most Honourable Priuy Counsels, F.L. Knight by Sir Ferdinando Lapith
• Cosmic Cuts, author unknown
• Dictionary of the Finnish Language by Caprinulge
• History of Crome by Henry Wimbrush
• Humble Heroisms by Mr. Barbecue-Smith
• Pipe-Lines to the Infinite by Mr. Barbecue-Smith
• The Tales of Knockespotch by Knockespotch
• Thom's Works and Wanderings by Tom Thom
• unknown by Denis Stone
• unknown by Mr. Barbecue-Smith
• unknown by Hercules Lapith
• What a Young Girl Ought to Know, author unknown
• Wild Goose Chase, A Novel, author unknown

Works invented by James Hynes

In The Lecturer's Tale:

• Les Mortifications by Jean-Claude Evangeline
• Das Ding an Sich: A Cultural History of Cultural Histories by Lorraine Alsace
• 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

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Works invented by John Irving

In The World According to Garp:

• A Sexual Suspect by Jenny Fields (autobiography)
• A History of Everett Steering's Academy by Stewart Percy
• 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
• Confessions of an Ellen Jamesian by Anonymous
• Lunacy and Sorrow: The Life and Art of T.S. Garp by Donald Whitcomb
• My Father's Illusions by T.S. Garp

In Last Night In Twisted River:

• The Kennedy Fathers by Danny Angel
• Kissing Kin by Danny Angel
• The Spinster; or, The Maiden Aunt by Danny Angel
• East of Bangor by Danny Angel

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Works invented by Jin Yong

• 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.

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:

• 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:

• The History of the Stone of Tear by Eban Vandes
• A Journey to Tarabon by Eurian Romavni
• The Killers of the Black Veil by Soran Milo
• Dealing with the Territory of Mayene, 500 - 750 of the New Era
• The Treasures of the Stone of Tear
• Travels in the Aiel Waste, with Observations on the Savage Inhabitants

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

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Works invented by Franz Kafka

• Die Plagen, welche Grete von ihrem Manne Hans zu erleiden hatte (in Der Prozeß/The Trial)
• Die Rache des Kommandeurs [series of columns] (in Tagebücher/Diaries)

Works invented by Caitlín R. Kiernan

• Alice by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ("Lewis Carroll")
• The Ark of Poseidon by Sarah Crowe
• Bloody Mary, La Llorona, and the Blue Lady: Feminine Icons in a Child's Apocalypse by Judith Louise Darger
• The Boats of Morning by Alex Marlowe
• The Breathing Composition by Welleran Smith
• The Children of Artemis by Fera Delacroix
• Closing the Door: Anatomy of Hysteria by Elenore Ellis-Lincoln
• The Ecstatic River by Reese Callicot
• Evening at the Gates of Dawn by Sadie Jasper
• Famous Film Monsters and the Men Who Made Them by Ben Browning
• The Far Red World by Andre Tyson
• Hauntings of Old New England by Sadie Jasper
• Hollywood Land by William Faulkner
• The Last Loan Shark of Bodega Bay by Theo Angevine
• Lemming Cult by William L. West
• The Light Beyond Centre by Reese Callicot
• A Long Way To Morning by Sarah Crowe
• Looking for Moreau: A Posthumanist Manifesto by Maxwell White
• The Man Who Laughed at Funerals by Theo Angevine
• Memoirs of a Martian Demirep (author unknown)
• The Mound Builders and the Stars: An Archaeo-Astrological Investigation by Charles L. Patrick Akeley
• New American Monsters: More Than Myth? by Gerald Durrell
• Ode to Fanny Brawne by John Keats
• Pornographies of Pnakotus (author unknown)
• Pretoria by Theo Angevine
• Red Book of Riyadh (author unknown)
• The Red Tree by Sarah Crowe and Dr. Charles L. Harvey
• Seven at Sunset by Theo Angevine
• Silent Riots by Sarah Crowe
• The Travels of Odysseus by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Waking Leviathan by Jacova Angevine
• Werewolvery in Europe and Rituals of Corporeal Transformation by Arminius Vambery
• What the Cat Dragged In by Theo Angevine
• The Magdalene Grimoire by Roderick Burgess (from The Girl Who Would Be Death miniseries, based on Neil Gaiman's Sandman series)

Works invented by Stephen King

Main article: List of fictional books in the works of Stephen King

Works invented by Barbara Kingsolver

In The Poisonwood Bible:

• How to Survive 101 Calamities

In The Lacuna:

• Vassals of Majesty by Harrison W. Shepherd
• Pilgrims of Chapultepec by Harrison W. Shepherd
• The Unforetold by Harrison W. Shepherd

Works invented by Elizabeth Kostova

In The Historian:

• The untitled dragon books which different characters in the book find.
• Ballads of the Carpathians
• The Cannibals by Henricus Curtius
• The "Chronicle" of Zacharias of Zographou by Atanas Angelov and Anton Stoichev
• The Damned by Giorgio of Padua
• Sisyphus by Thomas Aquinas
• Fortunes of an Assassin by Erasmus
• History of Central Europe by Lord Gelling
• The King of Tashkani by William Shakespeare, as a "lost work"
• Life of Saint George
• Philosophie of the Aweful
• Tales from the Carpathians published by Robert Digby
• The Torture Commissioned by the Emperor for the Good of the People by Anna Comnena

Works invented by Nicole Krauss

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

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Works invented by R. A. Lafferty

In Fourth Mansions:

• The Back Door of History by Arpad Arutinov
• Broken Cisterns and Living Waters by Endymion Ellenbogen
• New Bestiary by Audifax O’Hanlon
• The Precursors by Dr. Jurgens
• Prose Poems by Maurice Craftmaster
• Second Trefoil Lectures by Michael Fountain
• Simplicitas by Orthcutt

Miscellaneous Lafferty:

• Beard in Essential by Aristotle in Through Other Eyes
• Beard in Existential by Aristotle in Through Other Eyes
• The Contingent Mutation by Dr. Minden in Ginny Wrapped in the Sun
• Euntes Ergo Docete Omnes ("Going therefore Teach Ye All") by Pope Pious XV in Name of the Snake
• Exaltation Philosophy by Audifax O’Hanlon in Entire and Perfect Chrysolite
• History of Philosophy by Cobblestone in Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne
• Joint Report to the General Dubuque PTA Concerning the Primary Education of the Camiroi by Piper, Paul, et al. in Primary Education of the Camiroi
• Lost Skies by Audifax O’Hanlon in Incased in Ancient Rind
• 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. in Polity and Custom of the Camiroi
• The Relationship of Extradigitalism to Genius by Zubarin in The Six Fingers of Time
• The Sexagintal and the Duodecimal in the Chaldee Mysteries by Schimmelpenninck in The Six Fingers of Time
• Twenty-second Century Comprehensive Encyclopedia in Land of the Great Horses
• World as Perfection by Diogenes Pontifex in Entire and Perfect Chrysolite

Works invented by Stanisław Lem

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:

• Eruntics, by Reginald Gulliver
• 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
• A History of Bitic Literature, by Juan Rambellais, et al.
• Necrobes, by Cezary Strzybisz
• Vestrand's Extelopedia in 44 Magnetomes

In A Perfect Vacuum:

• Being Inc., by Alastair Waynewright
• Gigamesh, by Patrick Hannahan
• Gruppenfuhrer Louis XVI (or Nazi Squad Leader Louis the Sixteenth), by Alfred Zellermann
• Idiota (or The Idiot), by Gian Carlo Spallanzani
• Die Kultur als Fehler (or Civilization as Mistake), by Wilhelm Klopper
• Odysseus of Ithaca, by Kuno Mlatje
• Pericalypsis, by Joachim Fersengeld
• Rien du tout, ou la consequence (or Nothing, or the Consequence), by Mme Solange Marriot
• Les Robinsonades (or The Robinsonad), by Marcel Coscat
• Sexplosion, by Simon Merrill
• Toi (or You), by Raymond Seurat
• U-Write-It

In Solaris:

• Historia Solaris, by Hughes and Eugel

Works invented by Madeleine L'Engle

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.

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

Works invented by Jonathan Lethem

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)

Works invented by C. S. Lewis

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

Works invented by H. P. Lovecraft

This includes works by others in the Cthulhu Mythos.

• Azathoth and Other Horrors by Edward Pickman Derby
• Black Tome of Alsophocus
• Book of Azathoth
• Chronicles of Nath by James Sheffield
• Chronike von Nath by Rudolf Yergler
• Book of Eibon
• 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

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Works invented by Ann M. Martin

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

Works invented by W. Somerset Maugham

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

Works invented by Ian McEwan

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)

Works invented by Anne Michaels

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

Works invented by David Mitchell

In Ghostwritten:

• The Infinite Tether - You and Out of Body Experiences by Dwight Silverwind

In Cloud Atlas:

• Knuckle Sandwich by Dermot 'Duster' Hoggins

Works invented by Lucy Maud Montgomery

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

Works invented by Richard Morgan

In the Takeshi Kovacs series:

• Poems and Other Prevarications by Quellcrist Falconer
• Things I Should Have Learned by Now by Quellcrist Falconer

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Works invented by Vladimir Nabokov

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 1946
• 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

Works invented by Geoff Nicholson

In Hunters and Gatherers:

• The Books of Power (18 vols.) by Thornton McCain

Works Invented by Garth Nix

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]

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Works invented by Patrick O'Brian

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

Works invented by Flann O'Brien

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

Works invented by George Orwell

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."

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Works invented by Charles Palliser

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

Works invented by Orhan Pamuk

In The Black Book:

• Obscuri Libri by Bottfolio
• Kitabü’z- Zulmet by İbn Zerhanî

Works invented by Christopher Paolini

In Eragon:

• Domia abr Wyrda

Works invented by Elizabeth Peters

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

Works invented by Stephen Potter

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

Works invented by Anthony Powell

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

Works invented by Terry Pratchett

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
• 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
• Mr Bunnsy Has an Adventure
• Necrotelicomnicon
• The Octavo
• The Summoning of Dragons, by Tubal de Malachite
• Res Centum et Una Quas Magus Facere Potest
• True Art of Levitatione
• Twurp's Peerage
• Walking in the Koom Valley, by Eric Wheelbrace
• What I Did On My Holidays, by Twoflower

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

Works invented by Malcolm Pryce

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

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)
• 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
• 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)
• The Chums of Chance and the Evil Halfwit
• The Chums of Chance at Krakatoa
• The Chums of Chance Search for Atlantis
• The Chums of Chance in Old Mexico
• The Chums of Chance and the Curse of the Great Kahuna
• 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 and the Ice Pirates
• The Chums of Chance Nearly Crash into the Kremlin
• The Book of Iceland Spar ('commonly described as "like the Ynglingasaga only different"')
• The Chums of Chance at the Ends of the Earth
• Adventures in Neuropathy by Puckpool
• The Chums of Chance and the Caged Women of Yokohama

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Works invented by François Rabelais

Main article: List of fictional works in Gargantua and Pantagruel

Works invented by Corey Redekop

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

Works invented by Mary Renault

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!

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

• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander
• The Monster Book of Monsters

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

• A History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot

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

• Beating the Bludgers—A Study of Defensive Strategies in Quidditch by Kennilworthy Whisp
• Flying with the Cannons
• Quidditch Through the Ages by Kennilworthy Whisp (Whizz Hard Books, 1952)
• Quidditch Teams of Britain and Ireland

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.
• The Hairy Heart: A Guide to Wizards who Won't Commit
• The Toadstool Tales by Beatrix Bloxam
• Tom Riddle's diary

Works invented by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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

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Works invented by May Sarton

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.

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 Mrs. 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:

• 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.

Works invented by Charles M. Schulz

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

Works invented by Michael Shea

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

Works invented by Clark Ashton Smith

• The Book of Eibon, by Eibon
• Histoire d'Amour, by Bernard de Vaillantcoeur
• The Testament of Carnamagos

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 :

• 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

Works invented in The Spitting Image Book

• 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

Works invented by Neal Stephenson

In Cryptonomicon:

• The Cryptonomicon

In Anathem :

• Second New Revised Book of Discipline

In The Diamond Age :

• A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

Works invented by Laurence Sterne

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

Works invented by Peter Straub

• In The Hellfire Club: Night Journey by Hugo Driver
• in Ghost Story: The Nightwatcher by Donald Wanderly

Works invented by S. M. Stirling

• In The Domination serie: Meditations of Elvira Naldorssen by Elvira Naldorssen

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Works invented by J. R. R. Tolkien

• 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

Works invented by Harry Turtledove

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)

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Works invented by Jack Vance

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

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 DaVinci 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

W

Works invented by Bill Watterson

• Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie by Mabel Syrup
• Commander Coriander Salamander and 'er Singlehander Bellylander by Mabel Syrup

Works invented by Evelyn Waugh

In Brideshead Revisited: (all by Chares Ryder)

• Ryder's Country Seats
• Ryder's English Homes
• Ryder's Village and Provincial Architecture
• Ryder's Latin America

Works invented by P. G. Wodehouse

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 the Handsom 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?
• 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

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 :

• The Book that Binds the Dead by Louis Gold (writing as Abdul Alhazred)
• The Lusty Lawyer by Louis Gold (writing as Amanda Ros)

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

• Nicholson's Repentances, a supplement to the Bible

In The Day of the Triffids

• Sex Is My Adventure by Josella Playton

Miscellaneous from literature

• 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
• Apocalypse Cow: Escape from the Cursed Isle by Lesley McBrien in Apocalypse Cow by Michael Logan
• 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 Myystery 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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 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 Heart Is a Milkman by Balph Eubank in Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
• 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
• Life is Stranger than Thruth, 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
• 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)
• 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".)
• Silvio, the Fishermam'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)

Additional reading

• 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

See also

• List of fictional guidebooks
• Lists of books
• List of fictional comics
• List of fictional books from non-print media
• List of fictional books from periodicals
• List of fictional brands
• List of fictional diaries
• List of fictional films
• List of fictional works in mass media
• List of fictional television shows
• List of unpublished books by notable authors
• Musaeum Clausum

External links

• The Invisible Library, curated by Brian Quinette (site dead as of October 2006 - see the Archive.org site copy, from November 2004)
• The Invisible Library, Malibu Lake Branch, curated by Fayaway & Hermester Barrington
• The Fictional World of Archives, Art Galleries and Museums
• Underneath the Bunker A frequently updated journal, offering reviews of fictional books

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