List of Fictional Books - Miscellaneous From Literature

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
• 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 inThe 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
• 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
• 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
• 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)