This is a list of fictional books, that is to say, books that are mentioned or described in fictional works, but do not themselves exist in reality.

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
• List of fictional books within the Discworld series
• 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 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 from the Cthulhu Mythos

• De Vermiis Mysteriis
• Liber Ivonis
• 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 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 Bensonhaver by T.S. Garp

Works from the Sherlock Holmes series

• The Dynamics of an Asteroid 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 .
• 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"

Fictional books from literature: Miscellaneous

• The King in Yellow
• Be a Perfect Person In Just Three Days! by Dr K. Pinkerton Silverfish, in the book of the same name by Stephen Manes
• Encyclopedia Galactica in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series
• 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
• Make Four Million Dollars By Next Thursday! by Dr K. Pinkerton Silverfish, in the book of the same name by Stephen Manes
• Never Whistle While You're Pissing by Hagbard Celine, in the Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
• The Practice of Thinking in Murray Leinster's Med Ship stories
• Red Book of Westmarch in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth
• 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
• Dialect and Semantics by Dr. Elwin Ransom, in C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength

Fictional Books from TV Shows

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
• Kosher Erotic Cakes
• How to Cook for Forty Humans, cookbook
• How to Get Rich Writing Cartoons by John Swartzwelder
• How to Seduce Your Lousy, Lazy Husband
• How to Tunnel out of Prison
• Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie: The Novel by Norman Mailer
• 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

Miscellaneous

• Necrobics - Hologrammatic Exercises For The Dead - Red Dwarf
• The Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey in Doctor Who
• The Zen Military: A History of UNIT by Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart in Doctor Who

Fictional Books from Movies

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)

Miscellaneous

• If Not Now... by Caterine Vauban, I Heart Huckabees
• The Philosophy of Time Travel by Roberta Sparrow, in Donnie Darko
• Tobin's Spirit Guide - Ghostbusters
• Down With Love by Barbara Novak - Down With Love

Fictional Books: Other

• Junior Woodchucks Guidebook

Comic Books

• Under the Hood by Hollis Mason a.k.a. Hooded Justice from Watchmen by Alan Moore, autobiography

Computer Games

• Encyclopedia Frobozzica in the Zork series of interactive fiction games.
• Big Whoop: Unclaimed Bonanza or Myth? in Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
• Great Shipwrecks of Our Century in Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
• The Codex of Ultimate Wisdom in the Ultima series of computer role-playing games.
• Jacob's Shadow in Deus Ex.

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

Fictional books from the Star Trek universe

• Burning Hearts of Qo'noS from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novels
• Ferengi Rules of Acquisition - from Star Trek
• Photons Be Free by the Doctor in Star Trek: Voyager
• 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

External link

• The Invisible Library