List of fictional books from non-print media

False documents are a frequent device in literature. This is a list of fictional books that appear in television, movies, music, video games, and other non-print media. Fictional books appearing in books are listed in List of fictional books. Fictional books appearing in comics, newspapers, and the like are listed in List of fictional books from periodicals.

Fictional books from TV series

As Time Goes By

• My Life in Kenya by Lionel Hardcastle

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

• The Black Chronicles
• Blood Rites and Sacrifices
• The Book of Aurelius
• Bristow's Demon Index
• Exploring Demon Dimensions
• Guttenberg Demonography
• Hebron’s Almanac
• Hell's Offspring
• Hume’s Paranormal Encyclopedia
• Merenshtadt Text
• The Pagan Rites
• The Pergamum Codex by Aurelius
• Sir Robert Kane’s Twilight Compendium
• The Tiberius Manifesto
• Vampyr
• Witches: Historic Roots to Modern Practice

Doctor Who

• It's a Mystery! by T. Wilcox (a reference to Toyah Willcox)
• Origins of the Universe by Oolon Colluphid, from the Doctor Who serial Destiny of the Daleks — inserted by script-editor Douglas Adams as a cross-reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• The Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey from the non-broadcast Doctor Who serial Shada
• The Zen Military: A History of UNIT by Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart
• Everest in Easy Stages, author unknown

Family Guy

• Caddyshack, the novelization
• Faster Than the Speed of Love by Brian Griffin
• Horton Hears Domestic Violence in the Next Apartment and Doesn't Call 911!
• T and Me by George Peppard
• For the Last Time, I'm Not Mr. T by Ving Rhames
• Nobody Poops But You, unsuccessful toilet training book, parody of Everyone Poops
• Wish It Want It Do It by Brian Griffin
• You're a Naughty Child, and That's Concentrated Evil Coming Out the Back of You, Catholic toilet training book
• "Much Ado About Humping", erotic novel
• Peter Griffin wrote a series of erotic novels dubbed "Peterotica":
  • Angela's Asses
  • Catcher in the Eye
  • Shaved New World
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Black Chick
  • What I Would Do Sexually to Hillary Clinton
  • The Hot Chick Who Was Italian or Maybe Some Kind of Spanish

Futurama

• Great Machete Battles
• Harry Potter and the Balance of Earth by Al Gore
• True Stories of Courageous Animals
• What the Hell is Kwanzaa?
• Zapp Brannigan's Big Book of War by Zapp Brannigan
• Dances of the Ancient Bronx

Gantz

• Labyrinth by Miranda Foster

MADtv

• After Elizabeth Was Brought Home by Ed and Lois Smart
• Break in the Ice
• Elizabeth’s Favorite Taco Recipes by Ed and Lois Smart
• Gone With the Wind My Ass by Nautica Brown
• Judging For Dummies
• Sex Horse by Dan Oster
• Shakespeare for Complete Idiots
• The Ultimate Guide to the Female Orgasm
• Unbridled Passion by Dan Oster
• Wild Mustang by Dan Oster

Monty Python

• My God, by theologian Monsignor Edward Gay
• Hello Sailor, by humanist lecturer Dr. Tom Jack
• The Problems of Kierkegaard, by Dr. Tom Jack
• The Boy's Book of Boys ("will not suit all tastes")
• The Hackenthorpe Book of Lies, by Ron Hackenthorpe, Derek Hackenthorpe, Jeff "The Nozz" Hackenthorpe and Luigi V. Hackenthorpe (in four handsomely bound volumes)
• The Oxfod [sic] Simplified Dictionary

From the Bookshop Skit

• The Amazing Adventures of Captain Gladys Stoat-Pamphlet and her Intrepid Spaniel Stig amongst the Giant Pygmies of Beccles, Volume Eight presumably by Capt. Gladys Stoat-Pamphlet
• Biggles Combs his Hair, author unknown
• David Coperfield [sic] by Edmund Wells
• Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity-Surveying, author unknown
• The Gospel According to Charlie Drake, presumably by Charlie Drake
• Grate Expectations by Edmund Wells
• A Sale of Two Titties by Edmund Wells
• A Hundred and One Ways to Start a Fight by "an Irish gentleman whose name eludes me for the moment"
• Knickerless Nickleby by Edmund Wells
• Khristmas Karol by Edmund Wells
• Olsen's Standard Book of British Birds
• Rarnaby Budge by Charles Dikkens, the well-known Dutch author
• Thirty Days In the Samarkand Desert with the Duchess of Kent by A.E.J. Elliott, O.B.E.

Murder, She Wrote

by J.B. Fletcher

• The Corpse Danced at Midnight
• Dirge for a Dead Dachshund
• A Faded Rose Beside Her
• Murder on the Amazon
• Lover's Revenge
• The Umbrella Murders
• Murder at the Inn
• Murder at the Digs
• Murder in a Minor Key
• The Stain on the Stairs
• The Mystery of the Mutilated Minion
• The Belgrade Murders
• Sanitarium of Death
• Calvin Canterbury's Revenge
• Murder at the Asylum
• Murder Comes to Maine
• Good-bye, Charlie
• The Corpse That Wasn't There
• Ashes, Ashes, Fall Down Dead
• The Messengers of Midnight
• The Poison in My Heart
• All the Murderers
• Murder at the Ridge Top
• The Corpse at Vespers
• The Triple Crown Murders
• The Crypt of Death
• A Killing at Hastings Rock
• The Uncaught
• Murder in White
• The Dead Must Sing
• The Killer Called Collect
• Stone Cold Dead
• Endangered
• The Launch Pad Murders
• Runway to Murder
• The Venomous Valentine
• A Case of a Half of Murder
• Yours Truly, Damian Sinclair
• The Dead Man Sang
• The Corpse Swam by Moonlight

Newhart

• The Complete History of the Universe by Donald Boom
• Up the Amazon by Colonel Lloyd Menninger

by Dick Loudon

• Anything Can Be a Lamp Base
• How to Make Your Dream Bathroom
• Let's Build a Barbecue
• Murder at the Stratley
• Pillow Talk (with Joanna Loudon)
• Shelf Help

Seinfeld

• Astonishing Tales of the Sea
• The Big Game by Donald O'Brien
• A Coffee Table Book About Coffee Tables by Cosmo Kramer
• Fair Game by Alton Benes
• Venetian Blinds by Art Vandalay

The Simpsons

• Angelica Button and the Chalice of Consequence
• Angelica Button and The Deadly Denouement
• Angelica Button and The Dragon King's Trundle Bed
• Angelica Button and the Half-blood Pudding
• Angelica Button and the Infinite Armoire
• Angelica Button and the Marmalade of Destiny
• Angelica Button and the Mystery of Secrets
• Angelica Button and the Teacup of Terror
• Angelica Button and the Scone of Destiny
• Astonishing Prices Comic Book Price Guide
• Baby's First Pop-Up Book
• Backdoors to Citizenship, nonfiction
• The Big Book of British Smiles, photo book
• Bordello Repair Vol. I
• Bork on Sex
• Chicken Soup for the Loser
• A Child's Garden of Cons by Grampa Simpson, under the pseudonym Grifty McGrift
• The Clue in the Clock, controversial Nancy Drew book
• Curious George and the Ebola Virus, a children's book
• Forgotten Lore
• Happiness Is a Naked Steve Allen
• The Harpooned Heart by Marge Simpson
• The Harpooned Heart 2: Thunder Down Under by Marge Simpson
• Homer, I Hardly Knew Me by Homer Simpson (autobiography)
• How to Cook for Forty Humans, cookbook
• How to Get Rich Writing Cartoons by John Swartzwelder
• How to Loot Brazil
• How to Make Love to Steve Allen
• How to Seduce Your Lousy, Lazy Husband
• How to Talk to a Drunk Father
• How to Tunnel out of Prison
• I Am Also Scotty by Leonard Nimoy (a fictitious follow-up to his two real books I Am Not Spock and I Am Spock)
• Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie: The Novel by Norman Mailer
• Journey to the Center of Steve Allen
• The Joy of Cooking Steve Allen
• The Joy of Cooking Milhouse
• Kosher Erotic Cakes
• Lets Not Go London
• Love in the Time of Scurvy
• Mapplethorpe, photo book
• Married Life: A Wife-Saving Guide
• Mr. and Mrs. Erotic American, audio book, read by Paul Harvey
• The Murderer Did It by Lenny Leonard
• Only Turkeys Have Left Wings by Birch Barlow
• Owning Your Okayness, self-help, by Brad Goodman
• Rational Thinking, Reasonable Future by Al Gore
• Sane Planning, Sensible Tomorrow by Al Gore
• Smiles of Ireland
• Someone's In The Kitchen With Jesus by Rev. Timothy Lovejoy
• Tanks of the Third Reich
• The 10 Dos and 500 Don'ts of Knife Safety
• The Bible for Wise-Asses
• The Truth About Whacking Day by Bob Woodward
• Tome by Gore Vidal
• Ueberroth, a biography
• Unidentified Flying Outrage!
• Weight Loss Through Laborious Sex
• Who Wants to Be a Brazillionaire?
• Will There Ever Be A Rainbow by Montgomery Burns, autobiography
• Your Gimmicky Restaurant by Bennigan and Fuddrucker

Spitting Image

• A Pile of Crap (Jeffrey Archer)
• Worst Among Sequels (Jeffrey Archer)
• How I Became Prime Minister (Michael Heseltine)
• How I Won the World Cup (Bobby Robson)
• 2 World Cups in a Row, Can We Make It...3? (Bobby Robson)
• Peter Goes Destabilizing the Wilson Government (Peter Wright)

SpongeBob SquarePants

• How to Torture, as seen in "Krab Borg"

Star Trek universe

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

The X-Files and Millennium

• A Lapful of Severed Tongues by Jose Chung
• Dance on the Blood-Dimmed Tide by Onan Goopta
• Doomsday Defense by Jose Chung
• From Outer Space by Jose Chung
• The Caligarian Candidate by Jose Chung
• The Hacked-Up Hack by Onan Goopta
• The Lonely Buddah by Jose Chung
• To Serve Man by Jose Chung

Miscellaneous from television

• A Dinner of Onions, by Nora Harmony Wallace from King of the Hill
• Acting Without Acting, by Jason Alexander from Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Angels of the Odd, by Dr Lin Pascoe from Ghostwatch (BBC, 1992)
• Ants in My Picnic Basket by Susan Mayer, from Desperate Housewives
• Arkamada Book of Spells, from Ben 10
• The Adventures of PJ Pamowack Roseanne Conner from Roseanne
• Astrophysics for Morons, from The Fairly OddParents
• The Attraction Equation by Charles Eppes, from Numb3rs
• Bad Twin by Gary Troup, from Lost
• Bandit Country: A Guide to Sucking off Men in the South West, a book on cottaging, from Monkey Dust
• The Baron's Demise, from Power Rangers Operation Overdrive
• Baseball for Blondes, from Married... with Children
• Biggles Goes Bent by W. E. Johns, from The Morecambe and Wise Show
• Birds of the Northwest Hemisphere, from Prison Break
• Blood Magnolias (Lord Fantomas series, book 2) by Carlotta Francis, from the Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode "Collective"
• Blood on the Badge, a Joseph Wambaugh-style crime novel that Detective Harris has been working on for years, from the sitcom Barney Miller
• Blue Sands by Tom Culligan, from Black Books
• Boo! by Donald Dane, from The Kids in the Hall
• Book of Origin, the most important Ori holy book, from Stargate SG-1
• The Book of Shadows, from Charmed
• Bouncing Back, Alan Partridge's autobiography from I'm Alan Partridge
• Capricorn Crude, Val's first book, obviously based on her husband's family, from Knots Landing
• Celebrity PI by S. E. Eckhart, from NCIS episode "Blackwater"
• Charlotte Light and Dark, about Brenda Chenowith's childhood, from Six Feet Under
• Childrens do Learn by George W. Bush, from The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• Christmas for Village Idiots (Now With Bigger Etchings), from Shrek the Halls
• Classification of Demons, 1589, by Binsfield, from Supernatural episode "The Magnificent Seven"
• The Code of Masked Wrestling, from Mucha Lucha
• Cold Reading: The Secret of the Psychics, from South Park episode "The Biggest Douche in the Universe"
• The Daily Mirror book of facts (Did you know?), from The Young Ones
• Darkness Takes A Daughter (Lord Fantomas series, book 1) by Carlotta Francis, from the Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode "Collective"
• Dealbreaker by Liz Lemon, from 30 Rock
• Deep Six by Timothy McGee, from NCIS
• Empty Planet, a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by David Hansberry, from the Criminal Minds episode "Empty Planet"
• Enigmas of the Mystical from How I Met Your Mother episode Tailgate. The book is a parody of the Time-Life Books Mysteries of the Unknown series.
• The Erotic Reagan, from American Dad!
• Eternal Darkness: Avoiding the Light by Professor Melvin Caylo, from Blade: The Series
• Fearsome Gods by Malcolm Bryce (on living with a South American tribe), from Law and Order: Criminal Intent episode "Graansha".
• Football for Blondes, from Married... with Children
• Ghost Envy for Dimwits, from Danny Phantom
• Ghost Hunting by Emil Laslo from The Bionic Woman (original series)
• Girls Like it on Top by Sofia Reyes, from Ugly Betty
• The Great Big Book of Everything, from Stanley
• Hey, There's a Spider on Your Back! by Donald Dane, from The Kids in the Hall
• History of the Hotel Matadora, from Blade: The Series episode "The Evil Within"
• The Hong Kong Book Of Kung Fu, from Hong Kong Phooey
• How to Convince Women That You Are Psychic! (And Then Have Sex With Them), from South Park episode "The Biggest Douche in the Universe"
• How to be a Psychic, from South Park episode "The Biggest Douche in the Universe"
• How to Become a Fancy Waiter in Less than 20 Minutes, from SpongeBob SquarePants
• How to Furrow Your Brow, from American Dad
• How to Make Your Own Pop-up Book: Step by Step Instructions Anyone Can Follow! by Chas Spielman, from Pushing Daisies episode "Smell of Success"
• How to Host Last Call with Carson Daly, Last Call with Carson Daly
• How to Torture, from SpongeBob SquarePants
• I Wanna Be A Ho by Velvet Jones, from Saturday Night Live
• I Wanna Drive a Pink Cadillac, Wear Diamond Rings and Kick Women In The Butt by Velvet Jones, from Saturday Night Live
• In the Valley of Penises by Herbert Garrison, from South Park
• Jimmy James: Macho Business Donkey Wrestler from NewsRadio (translation of original Jimmy James: Capitalist Lion-tamer)
• JKL YellowPages from Jimmy Kimmel Live!
• The Junior Woodchuck Guide Book from DuckTales
• Kids - You're Bigger Than They Are, from Married with Children
• Life Among the Gorillas, by Dr. Birnholz-Vazquez, from How I Met Your Mother
• The Life and Death of Sam Crow: How the Sons of Anarchy Lost Their Way, by John Teller, from Sons of Anarchy
• Li'l Gumshoe, (unpublished) a pop-up book by Emerson Cod, from Pushing Daisies
• Local Legends of New England, by Professor William Fagin Higginson, from A Scooby-Doo Christmas
• The Long Journey Home, a book Beans had overdue from the library, from Even Stevens
• Love Muscle by Dave Foley, from The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
• The Loveliness of Woman, from King of the Hill
• The Magic Book of Magic by The Great Herrman, from Pushing Daisies
• The Male Sex Organ, from King of the Hill
• The Man Inside Me, by Dr. Tobias Funke, from Arrested Development
• The Method Actor, from The Munsters
• A Million Little Fibers by Stephen McTowelie, from South Park episode A Million Little Fibers (parody of A Million Little Pieces)
• Mind Your Memory by Joe Hysen, from Keen Eddie
• Mugumbi Dream Time by Jason Hamilton, from Black Books
• My Big Thick Novel by Jack Handey, from Saturday Night Live
• My Life in Kenya by Lionel Hardcastle, from As Time Goes By
• Nashville Junction, Val's second book, based on her mother's life, from Knots Landing
• Necrobics - Hologrammatic Exercises For The Dead, from Red Dwarf
• The New Patriots Pop-up Book: A Three-Dimensional Instructional Telling You Everything You Need to Know about Building Bombs of all Shapes and Sizes by Chas Spielman, from Pushing Daisies episode "Smell of Success"
• The Now Marriage by Dr. Todd Garner from The Love Boat
• The Pitcher in the Oat by J.D. Stephenger from The Colbert Report
• The Pop-up Book of Sports Related Deaths by Chas Spielman, from Pushing Daisies episode "Smell of Success"
• Pop-up Kama-Sutra: Zero-Gravity Edition, from Red Dwarf
• Pop-up Pin-up by Chas Spielman, from Pushing Daisies episode "Smell of Success"
• The Psychophysiological Indices of Ammorous Connections Among Termites of the Southwest, Home Improvement
• The Rat in Spats, a parody of The Cat in the Hat, from The Fairly OddParents
• The Real West by Marcus Carter, from The Bionic Woman (original series)
• Re-Cooper-Ating by Christine Rapp, from Monk
• The Ripper's Mask (Lord Fantomas series, book 3) by Carlotta Francis, from the Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode "Collective"
• Roger the Alien by Steve Smith, from American Dad!
• The Rooster Crowed at Midnight by Abigail Porterfield, from M*A*S*H
• The Smell of Success by Napoleon LeNez, from Pushing Daisies episode "Smell of Success"
• Spontaneous Combustion: Myth and Fact by Professor Melvin Caylo, from Blade: The Series
• Sports With Balls, from Married... with Children
• Sports Without Balls, from Married... with Children
• Stu the Cockatoo is New at the Zoo by Sarah Carpenter, used by Sheldon Cooper as a guide to create a flowchart for the purpose of making friends on The Big Bang Theory
• Stephen Colbert's Alpha Squad 7: Lady Nocturne: A Tek Jansen Adventure, from The Colbert Report
• The Tall Man From Cornwall by E.M. Snickering, mentioned and quoted from by Sheldon Cooper on The Big Bang Theory
• Tap That by Phil Roth, from Ugly Betty
• Tempocalypse, from Black Books
• Theory of Advanced Physics, from Power Rangers Operation Overdrive
• There's a Spider on Your Shoulder, from The Kids in the Hall
• Thick as Thieves by Danny Spude, from Black Books
• To Serve Man, an alien cookbook from The Twilight Zone
• Uncle Frank's New Dictionary, from Jimmy Kimmel Live!
• Women Good, Men Bad, a 1980s pop-psychology book, from a Saturday Night Live sketch
• Vixen: Story of A Woman by Charmaine Hollingsworth, from The Golden Girls
• The Case of the Missing Man by Jimmie Herron, given to Daryl Dixon by Andrea as an apology for shooting him in the head on The Walking Dead

Fictional books from films

Bedtime Stories

• The Organic Squirrel Gets a Bike Helmet
• Rainbow Alligator Saves the Wetlands

Bloodbath at the House of Death

• The Secret Door by Cameron Cryer
• The Silent Fart by an unknown author
• The Sudden Spear by an unknown author

C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America

• A Northern Wind by unknown author
• The Grey and the Blue by Sherman Hoyle
• Indians in Exile by David Broadfoot
• My Union Soldier by unknown author
• Of Belles in Blue by unknown author
• The Yankee by Thomas Dixon, Jr.

Land of the Lost

• My Other Car is a Time Machine by Dr. Rick Marshall
• Matt Lauer Can Suck It by Dr. Rick Marshall

The Royal Tenenbaums

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

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Most are parodies of a work, pointed to by the link.

• East of Edam
• Fromage to Eternity
• Waiting for Gouda
• The Hunt For Red Leicester
• How Green Was My Cheese
• Brighton Roquefort
• "Cheddar is Better"
• Grated Expectations
• Swiss Cheese Family Robinson
• Brie Encounter
• The Observer's Book of Monsters, by Claude Savagely. Parody of a popular Observer's Books series.

In the Mouth of Madness

• The Breathing Tunnel by Sutter Cane
• The Feeding by Sutter Cane
• Haunter Out of Time by Sutter Cane
• Hobb's End Horror by Sutter Cane (parody of The Dunwich Horror by H.P.Lovecraft and The West End Horror by Nicholas Meyer)
• In the Mouth of Madness by Sutter Cane (parody of At the Mountains of Madness by H.P.Lovecraft)
• The Thing In The Basement by Sutter Cane (parody of The Thing on the Doorstep by H.P.Lovecraft)
• The Whisperer of the Dark by Sutter Cane (parody of The Whisperer in Darkness and The Haunter of the Dark, both by H.P.Lovecraft)

Synecdoche, New York

• Getting Better: The Sacred Energy in All Life Forms by Dr. Madeline Gravis
• Getting Blissed Out: Happiness Through Medication by Dr. Madeline Gravis
• I Don't Feel Well Today by Dr. Madeline Gravis
• If I Were You by Dr. Madeline Gravis
• It's Raining Too Loud: Surviving an Emotional Downpour by Dr. Madeline Gravis
• Little Winky by Horace Azpiazu

Miscellaneous from film

• 1000 Ways to Cook a Duck from Rabbit Fire
• 1000 Ways to Cook a Rabbit from Rabbit Fire
• 17,011 Things a Princess Must Know from MirrorMask by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean.
• Anyone Can Cook by Auguste Gusteau in Ratatouille.
• The Book of Crossroads in Pan's Labyrinth
• The Arsonist's Daughter by Grady Tripp in Wonder Boys
• The Love Parade by James Leer in Wonder Boys
• Avalon Landing by William Forrester from Finding Forrester.
• Baby Steps by Leo Marvin from What About Bob?
• Big Julie Criscoll Versus The Whole Wide World by Emma Morley in One Day
• The Boat Rocker by Terence Mann from Field of Dreams.
• Blood and Swash by Mrs. Lucy Muir (Ghostwritten - as it were - for Captain Daniel Gregg), The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
• The Book by Bickford Shmeckler, from Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas
• The Book of Secrets from National Treasure: Book of Secrets
• A Brief History of Slime in Flushed Away.
• Burn Book from Mean Girls
• The Complete Idiots Guide to Terrific Sex, The 40-Year-Old Virgin
• Chef Man in Ratatouille.
• Codename Hero: How Seymour Simmons and the Aliens Saved the World by Seymour Simmons from Transformers: Dark of the Moon
• Crime and Punishment by Fido Dogstoyevsky in The Wrong Trousers
• Dawson is a Killer by Hagitha Utslay in Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth
• Death Therapy by Bob Wiley from What About Bob?
• Delomelanicon by Lucifer from The Ninth Gate.
• Down With Love by Barbara Novak from Down With Love.
• The Dreamer by George Rockham from Penelope
• Driven: Compulsion and Obsession in Everyday Life by Margaret Ford from House of Games.
• Duplex by Alex Rose in Duplex
• Electronics for Dogs in A Grand Day Out
• Elf by Buddy in Elf
• Everything You've Always Wanted to Know About Roadrunners But Were Afriad to Ask in Freeze Frame
• Express Your Creativity in Son of the Mask
• Farewell Atlantis by Jackson Curtis in 2012
• Fatty Foods and You by Jacqueline Turreau (Jennifer Coolidge) in Trial and Error
• The Fountain by Izzi Creo (final chapter by Thomas Creo) in The Fountain
• Grays Sports Almanac from Back to the Future Part II
• A Guide for the Lonely Guy by Larry Hubbard, The Lonely Guy.
• Handbook for the Recently Deceased in Beetlejuice
• The First Time by Catherine Tramell (under the pseudonym Catherine Woolf), Basic Instinct
• Higgins' Universal Language by Henry Higgins, My Fair Lady
• How I Did It by Victor Frankenstein, Young Frankenstein
• If Not Now... by Caterine Vauban, I ♥ Huckabees.
• Kamikaze Kama Sutra: Encyclopedia of Dangerous Sexual Positions, Fatal Instinct
• The Legend of Dracula the Vampire by Lawrence Van Helsing, Dracula AD 1972
• Leon Zundinger's Magicians, Martyrs, and Madmen in Ghostbusters II.
• The Love Dare non-fiction - in Fireproof - It was originally a fictional, non-fiction book, however this book was remarkably actually written after much demand by movie goers.
• Love Hurts by Catherine Tramell (under the pseudonym Catherine Woolf), Basic Instinct.
• Love Means Always Having to Say You're Sorry by Alex Sheldon, in Alex and Emma
• The Masks We Wear by Dr. Arthur Neuman, in The Mask.
• A Match Made in Space by George McFly from Back to the Future.
• Miracle Cures by Robin Kirkley from MADtv
• Murder at 11:17 in Duplex
• The Na'vi by Dr. Grace Augustine in Avatar
• The Nine Doors to the Kingdom of Shadows by Aristide Torchia, in The Ninth Gate
• The Number 23 by Topsy Kretts in The Number 23
• One Hundred Girls I'd Like to Fuck in Throw Momma From the Train
• Owen, Momma and Owen's friend Larry pop-up book by Owen Lift in Throw Momma From the Train
• Pesticide and You by Jacqueline Turreau in Trial and Error
• Ready Set Let Go by Richard Clayton from Relative Strangers
• Refined Sugar and You by Jacqueline Turreau in Trial and Error
• The Republic by Pluto in The Wrong Trousers
• Spoken Sanskrit by Colonel Hugh Pickering, My Fair Lady
• Straight Jacket by Marcus Skinner from Orange County
• Templar Treasure by Riley Poole, in National Treasure: Book of Secrets
• The Philosophy of Time Travel by Roberta Sparrow, in Donnie Darko
• Throw Momma From the Train by Larry Donner in Throw Momma From the Train
• Tides of Reason in Made in Romania
• Tobin's Spirit Guide in Ghostbusters.
• Tropic Thunder by John "Four Leaf" Tayback in Tropic Thunder
• Voodoo For Dummies in Bride of Chucky
• Waverly Prep series by Mavis Gary in Young Adult
• What to Expect the First Fifth-Thousand Miles in Robots.
• Who Am I? by Gilderoy Lockheart in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Fictional books from video games

Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars

• Creative Shelving for Beginners
• The Crooked Crusader Caper by Molly Peagram (also known as Nigel Peagram), a medieval detective story
• The Crusader Families of Ireland by Molly Peagram (under the name of Professor Peagram)
• Hypnosis for Fun and Profit

Monkey Island series

• Big Whoop: Unclaimed Bonanza or Myth? and Great Shipwrecks of Our Century in Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge.
  • See also the complete catalogue of Monkey Island fictional books.

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

• Nonlinear Genetics by Academician Prokhor Zakharov
• For I Have Tasted The Fruit by Academician Prokhor Zakharov
• Address to the Faculty by Academician Prokhor Zakharov
• The Feedback Principle by Academician Prokhor Zakharov
• Now We Are Alone by Academician Prokhor Zakharov
• See How They Run by Academician Prokhor Zakharov
• We Must Dissent by Sister Miriam Godwinson
• But For The Grace Of God by Sister Miriam Godwinson
• Looking God In The Eye by Chairman Sheng-ji Yang
• Planet: A Survivalist Guide by Colonel Corazón Santiago
• The Centauri Monopoly by CEO Nibuwake Morgan
• Conversations with Planet by Lady Deirdre

Miscellaneous from games

• The Book of Bú in the Little Big Adventure series of role-playing video games.
• The Book of Mudora, an ancient text used to translate the dead language of Hylian in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.
• The Codex of Ultimate Wisdom in the Ultima series of role-playing video games.
• Encyclopedia Frobozzica in the Zork series of interactive fiction games.
• The Gran Grimore from Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
• Magical Book or Book of Magic, a book that upgrades Link's Magic Wand in The Legend of Zelda.
• Jacob's Shadow in Deus Ex. [1]
• Return to Shadow Moses Island in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
• The Dark Prognosticus and its Light counterpart in Super Paper Mario.
• Loveless, an unfinished epic poem adapted into a stage play mentioned in Final Fantasy VII and its related games and movies.
• The Tome of Eternal Darkness, an ancient text bound in human bone and flesh, from the game Eternal Darkness.
• Several small books are in the MMORPG RuneScape, often relating to quests or other parts of the game.

Fictional books from music

• Origins of a World War by Rossignol, from the inner sleeve notes to Secret Treaties by Blue Öyster Cult, probably written by producer Sandy Pearlman

• A Lesson In Tightropes, Surfing Your High Hopes, and Adios, Kansas are titles suggested in the song Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk written and performed by Rufus Wainwright.

Fictional books from radio programmes

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - An electronic book developed by MegaDodo Publications as a travel-book for hitchhiker's travelling about the Milky Way.

• Encyclopaedia Galactica - An encyclopaedia that has been supplanted by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in some parts of the galaxy as the HHG2G is slightly cheaper than the Encyclopaedia Galactica and has the words Don't Panic on its cover. The Encyclopedia Galactica was borrowed from Isaac Asimov's Foundation series.

• 53 More Things to Do in Zero-Gravity - A bestselling book that was ousted from the bestselling lists by the HHG2G.

• Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes, Who Is This God Person, Anyway? and Well, That About Wraps It Up for God are four controversial philosophical works by Oolon Colluphid that are proven to be less controversial than the HHG2G, despite their overtly atheistic attitudes about God.

Miscellaneous from radio programmes

• I Knew Terence Neuk by Eileen Beardsmore-Lewisham is a book referenced in one episode of The Goon Show.

See also

• List of fictional books
• List of fictional television shows
• List of fictional musical works
• List of fictional comics
• List of fictional magazines
• List of fictional newspapers

External links

• The Fictional World of Archives, Art Galleries and Museums

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