List of fictional books from non-book 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 from TV series

From 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
The Zen Military: A History of UNIT by Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart
Everest in Easy Stages, author unknown

From 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

From the Bookshop Skit

The Amazing Adventures of Captain Gladys Stoat-Pamphlet and her Intrepid Spaniel Stig among the Giant Pygmies of Beckles, Volume Eight presumably by Capt. Gladys Stoat-Pamphlet
Biggles Combs his Hair, author unknown
David Coperfield 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, expurgated version (the one without the gannet)
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.

From [...], She Wrote

by J.B. Fletcher

The Corpse Danced at Midnight
Dirge for a Dead Dachshund
A Faded Rose Beside Her
[...] on the Amazon
Lover's Revenge
The Umbrella Murders
[...] at the Inn
[...] at the Digs
[...] 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
[...] at the Asylum
[...] 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
[...] at the Ridge Top
The Corpse at Vespers
The Triple Crown Murders
The Crypt of Death
A [...] at Hastings Rock
The Uncaught
[...] in White
The Dead Must Sing
The Killer Called Collect
Stone Cold Dead
Endangered
The Launch Pad Murders
Runway to [...]
The Venomous Valentine
A Case of a Half of [...]
Yours Truly, Damian Sinclair
The Dead Man Sang
The Corpse Swam by Moonlight

From Family Guy

Caddyshack, the novelization
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
You're a Naughty Child, and That's Concentrated Evil Coming Out the Back of You, Catholic toilet training book
Peter Griffin wrote a series of [...] 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

From The Simpsons

Angelica Button and The Dragon King’s Trundle Bed
Baby's First Pop-Up Book
Backdoors to Citizenship, nonfiction
The Big Book of British Smiles, photo book
Bordello Repair Vol. I
Bork on [...]
A Child's Garden of Cons by Grifty McGrift, aka Grampa Simpson
Curious George and the Ebola Virus, a children's book
Forgotten Lore
Happiness Is a [...] Steve Allen
The Harpooned Heart by Marge Simpson
The Harpooned Heart 2: Trouble Down Under by Marge Simpson
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 Drunken Father
How to Tunnel out of Prison
A trilogy of autobiographic books by Leonard Nimoy (the first two of which are real)
- I Am Not Spock
- I Am Spock
- I Am Also Scotty
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 [...] Cakes
Love in the Time of Scurvy
Mapplethorpe, photo book
Married Life: A Wife-Saving Guide
Mr. and Mrs. [...] 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
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 Truth About Whacking Day by Bob Woodward
Ueberroth, a biography
Unidentified Flying Outrage!
Weight Loss Through Laborious [...]
Who Wants to Be a Brazillionaire?
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)
The Tragedy of Khamlet, Son of the Emperor of Qo'nos (Star Trek VI - short title: The Klingon Hamlet)
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

From 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

After Elizabeth Was Brought Home by Ed and Lois Smart, from MADtv
Ants in My Picnic Basket by Susan Mayer, from Desperate Housewivesda
Arkamada Book of Spells from Ben Ten
The Attraction Equation by Charles Eppes from Numb3rs
Astrophysics for Morons, from The Fairly OddParents
Bandit Country: A Guide to Sucking off Men in the South West, a book on cottaging in Monkey Dust
The Baron's Demise in Power Rangers Operation Overdrive
Baseball for Blondes in Married with Children
The Big Game by Donald O'Brien, Seinfeld
Blood on the Badge, a Joseph Wambaugh-style crime novel that Detective Harris has been working on for years, on the sitcom ''Barney Miller
Blue Sands, a book featured in an episode of Black Books
Book of Origin, the most important Ori holy book in Stargate SG-1
The Book of Shadows in Charmed
Capricorn Crude, Val's first book, obviously based on her husband's family in Knots Landing
Childrens do Learn - by George W. Bush, from The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
''Christmas for Villiage Idiots" (Now With Bigger Etchings) on 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 the South Park episode The Biggest Douche in the Universe
A Coffee Table Book About Coffee Tables by Cosmo Kramer - Seinfeld
The Daily Mirror book of facts (Did you know?) from The Young Ones
Elizabeth’s Favorite Taco Recipes by Ed and Lois Smart, from MADtv
Empty Planet, a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by David Hansbury, from the Criminal Minds episode "Empty Planet"
The [...] Reagan, American Dad!
Eternal Darkness: Avoiding the Light by Professor Melvin Caylo from Blade: The Series
Fair Game by Alton Benes, Seinfeld
Fearsome Gods by Malcolm Bryce (on living with a South American tribe), from Law and Order: Criminal Intent episode "Graansha".
Football for Blondes in Married with Children
Girls Like it on Top by Sofia Reyes in Ugly Betty
The Great Big Book of Everything, Stanley
Great Machete Battles, Futurama
Ghost Envy for Dimwits, Danny Phantom
Harry Potter and the Balance of Earth by Al Gore, from Futurama
History of the Hotel Matadora, from Blade: The Series episode "The Evil Within"
How to Convince Women That You Are Psychic! (And Then Have [...] With Them), from the South Park episode The Biggest Douche in the Universe
How to be a Psychic, from the 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 Torture, SpongeBob SquarePants
In the Valley of Penises by Herbert Garrison, South Park
The Long Journey Home, a book Beans had overdue from the library, from Even Stevens
The Method Actor, from The Munsters
A Million Little Fibers by Stephen McTowelie, A Million Little Fibers episode of South Park (parody of A Million Little Pieces)
Mind Your Memory, by Joe Hysen, from Keen Eddie
Mugumbi Dream Time by Jason Hamilton, featured in an episode of Black Books
Nashville Junction, Val's second book, based on her mother's life in 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 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 Rat in Spats, a parody of The Cat in the Hat from The Fairly OddParents
Roger the Alien by Steve Smith in American Dad!
The Rooster Crowed at Midnight by Abigail Porterfield, 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 in Married with Children
Sports Without Balls in Married with Children
Stephen Colbert's Alpha Squad 7: Lady Nocturne: A Tek Jansen Adventure from The Colbert Report
Tempocalypse, a book featured in Black Books
Thick as Thieves by Danny Spude, a book featured in Black Books
Uncle Frank's New Dictionary in Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Venetian Blinds by Art Vandalay, from Seinfeld
Women Good, Men Bad, a 1980s pop-psychology book from a sketch on Saturday Night Live
Zapp Brannigan's Big Book of War, by Zapp Brannigan in Futurama

Fictional books from films

From The Royal Tenenbaums

Accounting for Everything: A Guide to Personal Finance by Henry Sherman (nonfiction)
Dudley's World by Raleigh St. Clair (nonfiction)
[...] 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)

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 Observer's Books series.

From In the Mouth of Madness

Breathing Tunnel by Sutter Cane
The Feeding by Sutter Cane
Hobb's End Horror by Sutter Cane
In the Mouth of Madness by Sutter Cane
Something in the Cellar by Sutter Cane
The Whisperer in the Dark by Sutter Cane

Miscellaneous from film

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
Avalon Landing by William Forrester from Finding Forrester.
Baby Steps by Leo Marvin from What About Bob?
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
A Brief History of Slime in Flushed Away.
The Complete Idiots Guide to Terrific [...]",The 40-Year-Old Virgin''
Chef Man in Ratatouille.
Delomelanicon by Lucifer from The Ninth Gate.
Down With Love by Barbara Novak from Down With Love.
Driven: Compulsion and Obsession in Everyday Life by Margaret Ford from House of Games.
Duplex by Alex Rose in Duplex
Electricity 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 (cartoon)
Express Your Creativity - Son of the Mask
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.
Leon Zundinger's Magicians, Martyrs, and Madmen in Ghostbusters II.
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
A Match Made in Space by George McFly from Back to the Future.
[...] at 11:17 in Duplex
The Nine Doors to the Kingdom of Shadows by Aristide Torchia, in The Ninth Gate
One Hundred Girls I'd Like to [...] 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
Ready Set Let Go by Richard Clayton from Relative Strangers
Spoken Sanskrit by Colonel Hugh Pickering, My Fair Lady
Templar Treasure by Riley Poole, from, 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
Tobin's Spirit Guide in Ghostbusters.
What to Expect the First Fifth-Thousand Miles in Robots.

Fictional books from computer games

From 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

From the 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.

From 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

Miscellaneous from games

''the Gran Grimore from final fantasy tactics advance
The Book of Bú in the Little Big Adventure series of computer role-playing 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 computer role-playing games.
Encyclopedia Frobozzica in the Zork series of interactive fiction games.
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.

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

External links

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