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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., novels, mysteries, etc.), but rather imaginary books that do not exist.
This is a list of fictional books that appear in literature. Fictional books appearing in other print media, such as comics, are listed in List of fictional books from periodicals. Fictional books that appear in other types of media, such as television shows, are listed in List of fictional books from non-print media. Fictional books used as hoaxes or as purported support for actual research are usually referred to as false documents.
The fictional books on this list are ordered alphabetically under the name of the author who invented them.
In Don Quixote
Attributed to Aaron Klopstein (Klopstein committed suicide at the age of 33, shooting himself with an Amazonian blowgun): [3]
In What a Carve Up! :
In Diary of a Bad Year :
In Elizabeth Costello :
In And Another Thing... :
In A Dream of Kinship :
In The Road to Corlay :
In A Tapestry of Time :
In Little, Big :
In The Solitudes :
In House of Leaves :
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In Fifth Business :
In Castle Murders :
In Castle Perilous :
In The Fallible Fiend:
In The Tritonian Ring:
In The Man in the High Castle :
In A Maze of Death :
In The Transmigration of Timothy Archer :
In Plumage From Pegasus:
In Death Becomes Her :
In the Sherlock Holmes series:
In the Professor Challenger series:
In Foucault's Pendulum :
In The Name of the Rose :
In The Belgariad :
In The Book of Esther, Ch. VI
In Basic Instinct :
In The Lovers and The Day of the Timestop:
In Caprice :
In Inclinations :
In Vainglory :
In the Thursday Next novels:
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In the Nursery Crimes novels:
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In Kothar--Barbarian Swordsman :
In Kothar and the Demon Queen :
In A Landing on the Sun :
In Inkheart :
Works invented in Good Omens , co-authored by Terry Pratchett, are listed in the "Terry Pratchett" section of this article.
Works invented in The Sandman comics are listed in the "DC Comics" section of List of fictional books from periodicals.
In Legend of the Jade Dragon:
In Cold Comfort Farm :
In New Grub Street :
In Play to the End :
by C. F. Earbrass:
by Miss D. Awdrey-Gore:
by Dewda Yorger:
In Calico Joe :
In Camino Island :
In The Magicians
In Homegoing :
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In The Christie Caper :
| In Death on Demand :
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In The Library at Mount Char :
In Winter's Tale :
In the Dune series:
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In Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder stories:
In Mr. Splitfoot :
In Brave New World :
In Crome Yellow :
In Point Counter Point :
In The Lecturer's Tale :
In Publish and Perish :
In The World According to Garp :
In A Widow for One Year :
In Until I Find You :
In Last Night In Twisted River :
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.
In The Eye of the World :
In The Great Hunt :
In The Dragon Reborn :
In The Shadow Rising :
In '' The Fires of Heaven :
In Lord of Chaos :
In The Poisonwood Bible :
In The Lacuna :
In Icebound
In The Historian :
In The History of Love :
In Chronic City :
In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe :
In Prince Caspian :
In The Mappist
This includes works by others in the Cthulhu Mythos.
In The Constantine Codex:
In "Death in Venice":
In "A Constellation of Vital Phenomena ":
In The Baby-sitters Club series:
In Saturday :
In Atonement
In Fugitive Pieces :
In Ghostwritten :
In Cloud Atlas :
In The Bone Clocks :
In The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear :
In Anne of Avonlea :
In Rilla of Ingleside :
In Emily's Quest :
In The Blue Castle :
In the Takeshi Kovacs series:
In 1Q84
In Invitation to a Beheading :
In The Real Life of Sebastian Knight :
In Lolita :
In Pnin :
In Pale Fire :
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.
In Crown and Mitre
In The Golden Days:
In Sabriel:
In Lirael:
In Ways to Disappear:
In Desolation Island :
In The Wine-Dark Sea :
In Treason's Harbour :
In At Swim-Two-Birds :
In The Third Policeman :
In Nineteen Eighty-Four :
In Keep the Aspidistra Flying :
In Coming Up for Air :
In What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours :
In Betrayals:
In The Black Book :
In Brisingr :
In Looking for Rachel Wallace :
In Commonwealth:
In The Gift of Asher Lev:
In Gamesmanship:
In Lifemanship:
In One-Upmanship :
In Supermanship : '
For a list organized by author see "An Anthony Powell ABibliography." [7]
In the A Dance to the Music of Time series:
In Fisher King :
In The Overstory:
In the Discworld series:
In The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents :
In Good Omens (with Neil Gaiman):
In Wintersmith :
In The Fountainhead :
In Atlas Shrugged :
InNo (a fragment published posthumously in The Early Ayn Rand )
In Kira's Viking (a fragment published posthumously in The Early Ayn Rand )
In The Friendly Young Ladies:
In Year One:
In Dark in Death:
In other books of the In Death series:
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
Non-textbooks;
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In The Shadow of the Wind:
In The Way of Kings,
In Words of Radiance,
In Oathbringer,
In Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, by F. Hilary Stevens:
In The Documents in the Case :
In Gaudy Night :
In Have His Carcase :
In Strong Poison :
| In Thrones, Dominations :
In Unnatural Death :
In Whose Body? :
In the Montague Egg stories:
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In Drain:
In Multifesto: The Henri d'Mescan Reader:
In Dis:
The Six Bunny-Wunnies series by Helen Sweetstory
In The Magician: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
In Nifft the Lean :
In The Mandibles :
In Ménage :
In Burning Questions :
In Roma Eterna :
In Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons :
In The Bad Beginning :
In The Miserable Mill :
In The Reptile Room :
| In The Wide Window :
In The End:
In Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography:
On Lemonysnicket.com:
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In The Finishing School :
In The Girls of Slender Means :
In Memento Mori :
In A Far Cry From Kensington :
In The Iron Dream :
In Cryptonomicon and Quicksilver:
In Anathem :
In The Diamond Age :
In The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman :
In She-Devil :
In The Daughter of Time :
In Miss Pym Disposes :
In American Empire: Blood and Iron :
In American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold :
In In High Places :
In Settling Accounts: In at the Death :
In Bech: A Book :
In Bech is Back:
Attributed to Kilgore Trout:
| Attributed to Beatrice Rumfoord:
Attributed to other authors:
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In Infinite Jest :
In The Book of Silence
In With a Single Spell
In The Misenchanted Sword
In The Spell of The Black Dagger, The Unwilling Warlord and Ithanalin's Restoration
In The Vondish Ambassador
In Brideshead Revisited : (all by Charles Ryder)
In the Honorverse series:
In Jimmy the Kid :
In Star Bridge
In Bibliomen :
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In The Book of the Short Sun :
In The Doctor of Death Island :
In The Fifth Head of Cerberus :
In From the Desk of Gilmer C. Merton (from the short story collection Storeys from the Old Hotel )
In Peace :
In Seven American Nights (from the short story collection The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories )
In The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories (from the short story collection The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories )
In Useful Phrases (from the short story collection Strange Travelers) :
In Xavier McRidy :
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In The Winds of War and War and Remembrance
In Exiles on Asperus
In The Book Thief :
An epistolary novel is a novel written as a series of documents. The usual form is letters, although diary entries, newspaper clippings and other documents are sometimes used. Recently, electronic "documents" such as recordings and radio, blogs, and e-mails have also come into use. The word epistolary is derived from Latin from the Greek word ἐπιστολή epistolē, meaning a letter.
The Saint is the name of a collection of serialized dramas featuring the fictional character Simon Templar, known as the Saint. He is featured in a series of books by Leslie Charteris published between 1928 and 1963. After that date, other authors collaborated with Charteris on books until 1983; two additional works produced without Charteris's participation were published in 1997. The character has also been portrayed in motion pictures, radio dramas, comic strips, comic books and three television series.
Leslie Charteris, was a British-Chinese author of adventure fiction, as well as a screenwriter. He was best known for his many books chronicling the adventures of the charming antihero Simon Templar, alias "The Saint."
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch was a Cornish writer who published using the pseudonym Q. Although a prolific novelist, he is remembered mainly for the monumental publication The Oxford Book Of English Verse 1250–1900 and for his literary criticism. He influenced many who never met him, including American writer Helene Hanff, author of 84, Charing Cross Road and its sequel, Q's Legacy. His Oxford Book of English Verse was a favourite of John Mortimer's fictional character Horace Rumpole.
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1856.
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1823.
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1800.
The Chalet School is a series of 64 school story novels by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer, initially published between 1925 and 1970. The school was initially located in the Austrian Tyrol, before it was moved to Guernsey in 1939 following the rise to power of the Nazi Party, and again to Herefordshire following the Nazi invasion of the Channel Islands. It further moved to a fictional island off the coast of Wales, and finally to Switzerland.
Narrative poetry is a form of poetry that tells a story, often making the voices of a narrator and characters as well; the entire story is usually written in metered verse. Narrative poems do not need rhyme. The poems that make up this genre may be short or long, and the story it relates to may be complex. It is normally dramatic, with objectives, diverse and meter. Narrative poems include epics, ballads, idylls, and lays.
A fictional book is a book that sometimes provides the basis of the plot of a story, a common thread in a series of books, or the works of a particular writer or canon of work. A fictional book may also be used as a mode of conceit to illustrate a story within a story.
Eliza Haywood, born Elizabeth Fowler, was an English writer, actress and publisher. An increase in interest and recognition of Haywood's literary works began in the 1980s. Described as "prolific even by the standards of a prolific age", Haywood wrote and published over seventy works during her lifetime including fiction, drama, translations, poetry, conduct literature and periodicals. Haywood is a significant figure of the 18th century as one of the important founders of the novel in English. Today she is studied primarily as a novelist.
Randolph Carter is a recurring fictional character in H. P. Lovecraft's fiction and is, presumably, an alter ego of Lovecraft himself. The character first appears in "The Statement of Randolph Carter", a short story Lovecraft wrote in 1919 based on one of his dreams. An American magazine called The Vagrant published the story in May 1920.
Mike Nelson's Death Rat! is the first full-length novel by American author Michael J. Nelson. It was first published on April 1, 2003.
Ægypt is a series of four novels written by American author John Crowley. The work describes the work and life of Pierce Moffett, who prepares a manuscript for publication even as it prepares him for some as-yet unknown destiny, all set amidst strange and subtle Hermetic manipulations among the Faraway Hills at the border of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Evadne Price, probably born Eva Grace Price, was an Australian-British writer, actress, astrologer and media personality. She also wrote under the pseudonym Helen Zenna Smith.
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Life of Sethos, Taken from Private Memoirs of the Ancient Egyptians is an influential fantasy novel originally published in six volumes at Paris in 1731 by the French abbé Jean Terrasson. An English translation by Thomas Lediard published at London by J. Walthoe appeared in 1732.
Throughout its modern history, the University of Cambridge has featured in cultural works. Here below are some notable examples.