Reading this thread made me think; it’s been a long time since I’ve fired up the old multi-dimensional travelinator and I have some extra cash/gold/Galleons/beaver pelts, and I want to expand my library.
What books should I be on the look-out for? So far, I have on my list; The Necronomicon (The ones around here seem th be BS) Tales of Beedle the Bard (I have an apparently abridged work that was made available, but I’d like an original.) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (I hope to get this first and that it will guide me on my quest)
So, any other suggestions of books mentioned in fictional works that should be added to my shelves?
The Book of Silence from the novel of the same name. It’s called that because to speak a single word from it kills the speaker; best kept on the restricted shelves.
The Travels of Jain Farstrider - Mentioned throughout the Wheel of Time series.
The Book of Counted Sorrows - Not sure if it counts as Dean Koontz made it up as a source of quotes outside of some of his novels. I don’t know if it ever shows up in a story.
The Hive Queen and The Hegemon - from Ender’s Game
The collected works of Marshall France; Pool of Stars, Green Dog’s Sorrow, and particularly Land of Laughs as mentioned in Jonathan Carrol’s Land of Laughs.
“The Land of Laughs was lit by eyes that saw the lights that no one’s seen.”