This is a list of fictional books that appear in literature, television, movies, music, video games, and other places.

False documents are a frequent device in literature.

Lists of fictional books elsewhere in Wikipedia

• Fictional guidebooks
• List of fictional books within the Harry Potter series (the works of J. K. Rowling)
• List of fictional books within the Discworld series (the works of Terry Pratchett)
• List of fictional diaries

Fictional books

Fictional books from literature

Works invented by Jorge Luis Borges

• The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim by Mir Bahadur Ali (1932)
• April March by Herbert Quain
• The Book of Sand
• The Conversation with the Man Called Al-Mu'tasim Mir Bahadur Ali
• Don Quixote and other works by Pierre Menard
• A First Encyclopaedia of Tlön
• The Garden of Forking Paths by Ts'ui Pen
• A General History of Labyrinths by Silas Haslam (1888)
• The God of the Labyrinth by Herbert Quain
• History of a Land called Uqbar by Silas Haslam
• Lesbare und lesenswerthe Bemerkungen über das Land Ukkbar in Klein-Asien by Johann Valentin Andreä
• The Secret Mirror by Herbert Quain
• Statements by Herbert Quain

Works invented by H. P. Lovecraft and others from the Cthulhu Mythos

• De Vermis Mysteriis
• Book of Eibon
• Necronomicon
• Pnakotic Manuscripts
• Revelations of Glaaki
• Unaussprechlichen Kulten

The King in Yellow has been adopted by authors in the Lovecraftian tradition.

Works invented by Douglas Adams from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series

• Celestial Homecare Omnibus
• Fifty-Three More Things to do in Zero Gravity
• Encyclopedia Galactica
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Mk. II
• 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 Never Wanted To Know About Sex But Have Been Forced To Find Out by Oolon Colluphid
• Practical Parenting in a Fractally Demented Universe
• Squornshellous Swamptalk
• The Ultra-Complete Maximegalon Dictionary of Every Language Ever
• Time Traveller's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations by Dr. Dan Streetmentioner
• You and Your Planets by Gail Andrews

Works invented by Tolkien from the Middle-earth legendarium

Note that many of the following works actually 'exist' since they were written by Tolkien himself, although he presented them as 'translations' of the fictional originals, which were in turn written by his characters. Some do not exist at all since he never wrote them, but are referenced by other texts.

• Of the Beginning of Time by Quennar i Onótimo
• Yénonótië by Quennar i Onótimo
• The Tale of Years by Quennar i Onótimo
• Parma Culuina
• Annals of Aman by Rúmil
• Equessi Rúmilo by Rúmil
• Ambarkanta by Rúmil
• Ainulindale by Rúmil
• Grey Annals by scholars of Doriath
• Quenta Silmarillion by Pengolodh
• Lammas by Pengolodh
• Narn i Chîn Húrin by Dirhavel
• Quentale Ardanomion
• Dorgannas Iaur by Torhir Iphant
• Akallabêth by Elendil
• Book of Mazarbul by Balin and other Dwarves
• Red Book of Westmarch by Bilbo Baggins and Frodo Baggins
• The Thain's Book by Findegil

Works attributed to Kilgore Trout in the books of Kurt Vonnegut

• 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

Other works invented by Kurt Vonnegut

• Get With Child a Mandrake Root by Arthur Garvey Ulm
• History of the Rosewaters of Rhode Island by Merrihue Rosewater
• Ramba of Macedon by Eunice Rosewater
• Book of Bokonon by Bokonon
• The Winston Niles Rumfoord Authorized Revised Bible by Winston Niles Rumfoord
• The Winston Niles Rumfoord Pocket History of Mars by Winston Niles Rumfoord
• The Beatrice Rumfoord Galactic Cookbook by Beatrice Rumfoord
• Unk and Boaz in the Caves of Mercury by Sarah Horne Canby
• Are Adults Harmoniums? by Dr. Frank Minot

Works invented by Thomas Pynchon

• Things That Can Happen In European Politics by Ernest Pudding
• Neil Nosepicker's Book of 50,000 Insults. The Nayland Smith Press, Cambridge (Mass.), 1933
• King Kong; 18 vls. by Mitchell Prettyplace (a 'definitive study')
• On Preterition by William Slothrop ('among the first books to've been not only banned but ceremonially burned in Boston')
• The Wisdom of the Great Kamikaze Pilots (with illustrations by Walt Disney)
• Tales of the Schwarzkommando collected by Steve Edelman
• How I Came to Love the People (anonymous)
• The Courier's Tragedy by Richard Wharfinger (a Jacobean revenge play in five acts)
• 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 Italian Wedding Fake Book by Deleuze & Guattari

Works invented by John Irving in The World According to Garp

• Ellen by T.S. Garp
• The Second Wind of the Cuckold by T.S. Garp
• Sexual Suspect by Jenny Garp
• The World According to Bensenhaver by T.S. Garp
• Grillparzer Pension by T.S. Garp

Works from the Sherlock Holmes series

• A Treatise on the Binomial Theorem by Professor James Moriarty.
• The Dynamics of an Asteroid, also by Professor James Moriarty.
• Heavy Game in the Western Himalayas (1881) by Colonel Sebastian Moran.
• Three Months in the Jungle (1884) by Colonel Sebastian Moran.
• On the Study of Tobaccos and their Ashes, by Sherlock Holmes.
• Practical Handbook of Bee Culture, with Some Observations upon the Segregation of the Queen by Sherlock Holmes. This book, the magnum opus of Holmes' later years, appears in "His Last Bow"

Works from Calvin and Hobbes

• Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie by Mabel Syrup (since actually written by Mabel S. Barr)
• Commander Coriander Salamander and 'Er Singlehander Bellylander, also by Mabel Syrup
• Captain Napalm, an uncredited comic book

Fictional books from literature: miscellaneous

• A Compleat Atlas of the House and Immediate Environs from The Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix
• A Jew's Journey by Dr. Aaron Jastrow, from The Winds of War and War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk
• Be a Perfect Person In Just Three Days! by Dr K. Pinkerton Silverfish, in the book of the same name by Stephen Manes
• The Biography of a Dead Cow by Mr. Rudolph Block, from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
• The Blind Assassin by Laura Chase, in The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood.
• Book of Gold in Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
• The Catalogue of Obsolete Entertainments by Adam Pennyman, in Lucky Wander Boy by D.B. Weiss
• The Chase Industries: A History in The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood.
• Dialect and Semantics by Dr. Elwin Ransom, in C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength
• Eidolons of the King by Librarian Osmirik, the Castle books as they exist in the fictional world, Castle Murders by John DeChancie
• Encyclopedia Galactica in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series
• Ervoldt: His Book by Lord Ervoldt, in Castle Perilous by John DeChancie
• Fields of Amaranth, one of several books by E. St. John Clarke in A Dance to the Music of Time
• The Grasshopper Lies Heavy by Hawthorne Abendsen, in The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
• I Love My Willy by Austin Tichenor - Reduced Shakespeare Company
• The Lord of the Swastika by Adolf Hitler, in The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad
• Mad Tryst in Edgar Allan Poe's, "Fall of the House of Usher"
• Make Four Million Dollars By Next Thursday! by Dr K. Pinkerton Silverfish, in the book of the same name by Stephen Manes
• The Moswell Plan by Dorcas Bagby, a book believed to be fictional even in its own world, in Castle Murders by John DeChancie
• Never Whistle While You're Pissing by Hagbard Celine, in the Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
• The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows by 17th century author Aristide Torchia from The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte.
• 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.
• 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.
• Speaker for the Dead: The Hive Queen and the Hegemon by Andrew "Ender" Wiggins, from Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
• Telemachus Sneezed by Atlanta Hope, in the Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
• The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism or Goldstein's book by Emmanuel Goldstein, in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
• The Uselessness of Everything by the Hemulen, in Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson.
• The Wonders of Urth and Sky Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
• World Holocaust, by Colonel General Arnim von Roon, translated by Rear Admiral (ret). Victor Henry, excepted from Land, Sea, and Air Operations of World War II, from War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk

Fictional books from TV series

From Murder, She Wrote

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

From Family Guy

• Caddyshack, the novelization
• Mr. T by Mr. T
• 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 Everybody Poops
• You're a Naughty Child, and That's Concentrated Evil Coming Out the Back of You, Catholic toilet training book

From The Simpsons

• 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
• A Child's Garden of Cons by Grifty McGrift, aka Grampa Simpson
• Curious George and the Ebola Virus, a children's book
• Happiness Is a Naked Steve Allen
• The Harpooned Heart by Marge Simpson
• How to Cook for Forty Humans, cookbook
• How to Get Rich Writing Cartoons by John Swartzwelder
• How to Make Love to Steve Allen
• How to Seduce Your Lousy, Lazy Husband
• How to Tunnel out of Prison
• Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie: The Novel by Norman Mailer
• Journey to the Center of Steve Allen
• The Joy of Cooking Steve Allen
• Kosher Erotic Cakes
• Mapplethorpe, photo book
• Mr. and Mrs. Erotic American, audio book, read by Paul Harvey
• 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
• Tanks of the Third Reich
• The 10 Dos and 500 Don'ts of Knife Safety
• The Truth About Whacking Day by Bob Woodward
• Ueberroth, a biography
• Unidentified Flying Outrage!
• Weight Loss Through Laborious Sex
• Will There Ever Be A Rainbow by Montgomery Burns, autobiography
• Your Gimmicky Restaurant by Bennigan and Fuddrucker

From the 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)
• Vulcan Love Slave (or The Ardous 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

Miscellaneous

• Capricorn Crude - Val's first book, obviously based on her husband's family, Knots Landing
• Chicken Soap for the Bored Housewife's Soul, The Man Show
• The Code of Masked Wrestling, from Mucha Lucha
• Great Machette Battles, Futurama
• How to Become a Fancy Waiter in Less than 20 Minutes - SpongeBob SquarePants
• It's a Mystery! by T. Wilcox (a reference to Toyah Willcox) in Doctor Who
• A Million Little Fibers by Stephen McTowelie, "A Million Little Fibers" episode of South Park (parody of A Million Little Pieces)
• Nashville Junction - Val's second book, based on her mother's life, Knots Landing
• Necrobics - Hologrammatic Exercises For The Dead - Red Dwarf
• 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
• Pop-up Kama-Sutra: Zero-Gravity Edition - Red Dwarf
• The Rooster Crowed at Midnight by Abigail Porterfield, M*A*S*H
• The Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey in Doctor Who
• The Zen Military: A History of UNIT by Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart in Doctor Who
• A Coffee Table Book About Coffee Tables by Cosmo Kramer - Seinfeld
• Venetian Blinds by Art Vandalay - Seinfeld
• Women Good, Men Bad - a 1980s pop-psychology book from a sketch on Saturday Night Live

Fictional books from films

Fictional books from 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)

Fictional books from 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
• Grated Expectations
• Swiss Cheese Family Robinson
• Brie Encounter
• The Observer's Book of Monsters, by Claude Savagely. Parody of a popular series of books.

Miscellaneous

• The First Time by Catherine Tramell (under the pseudonym Catherine Woolf), Basic Instinct
• A Guide for the Lonely Guy by Larry Hubbard, The Lonely Guy
• Higgins' Universal Language by Henry Higgins, My Fair Lady
• If Not Now... by Caterine Vauban, I ♥ Huckabees
• Love Hurts by Catherine Tramell (under the pseudonym Catherine Woolf), Basic Instinct
• The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows by Aristide Torchia, Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate.
• The Philosophy of Time Travel by Roberta Sparrow, in Donnie Darko
• Tobin's Spirit Guide in Ghostbusters
• Leon Zundinger's Magicians, Martyrs, and Madmen in Ghostbusters II
• Down With Love by Barbara Novak - Down With Love
• 17,011 Things a Princess Must Know from MirrorMask by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean.
• Avalon Landing by William Forrester from Finding Forrester.
• A Match Made in Space by George McFly from Back to the Future.
• The Boat Rocker by Terence Mann from Field of Dreams.

Fictional books from comic books

DC Comics

• Altered Egos by John Law
• Hex Appeal: The Modern Girl's Guide to Magic by Zatanna Zatara
• The Janus Contract, a novel by Clark Kent
• The Heterodyne Boys Big Book of Fun by The Heterodyne Boys, featured in Phil Foglio's Stanley and His Monster.
• Lex Luthor: The Unauthorized Biography
• Mystic Abominations by Jaçek
• Reflections: A Collection of Essays and Speeches by Princess Diana of Themiscyra
• Under a Yellow Sun, a novel by Clark Kent
• Under the Hood by Hollis Mason (a.k.a. Nite Owl) from Watchmen by Alan Moore, autobiography
• Zatara: Man of Magic
• Seen in The Library of Dream in The Sandman by Neil Gaiman
  • Alice's Journey Behind the Moon by Lewis Carroll
  • The Lost Road by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • The Man Who Was October by G. K. Chesterton
  • Poictesme Babylon by James Branch Cabell
  • The Conscience of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Return of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
  • The Hand of Glory by Erasimus Fry
  • The Dark God's Darlings by Lord Dunsany
  • Love Can Be Murder by Raymond Chandler
  • Psmith and Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
  • The Death of Kai Lung by Ernest Braman
  • The Last Voyage of Lemuel Gulliver by Jonathan Swift
  • The Emperor Over the Sea by C.S. Lewis
  • Ian and Ann's Book of Days

Marvel Comics

• Born Normal, a memoir by Jean-Paul Beaubier on his life as Northstar
• Marvels, book of superhero photographs by Phil Sheldon
• Shadows, The Dark Side of the Marvels, a book on supervillains by Dr. Dennis Schoolcroft
• Webs, book of Spider-Man photographs by Peter Parker

Other comics

• Junior Woodchucks Guidebook from Disney's Scrooge McDuck comics

Fictional books from computer games

• Encyclopedia Frobozzica in the Zork series of interactive fiction games.
• 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.
• 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.
• Magical Book or Book of Magic, a book that upgrades Link's Magic Wand in The Legend of Zelda.
• The Codex of Ultimate Wisdom in the Ultima series of computer role-playing games.
• The Book of Bú in the Little Big Adventure series of computer role-playing games.
• Jacob's Shadow in Deus Ex. [1]
• Return to Shadow Moses Island in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
• 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

Fictional books from music

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

See also

• List of fictional films
• List of fictional television shows
• List of fictional media
• Musaeum Clausum

External links

• The Invisible Library, curated by Brian Quinette
• The Invisible Library, Malibu Lake Branch, curated by Fayaway & Hermester Barrington