Since no one will tell me if my previous answer was correct, I’ll pose a question of my own.
Who wrote Death by Double Fault?
The Book of Shadows in Dread Brass Shadows. A magical book filled with 100 brass pages, each of which is a spell allowing the owner of the book to take on a new persona, with all the powers and abilities involved. Want to be a werewolf ? An assassin ? A master swordsman ? Just turn to that page. And if you’re killed, only the persona you are using is destroyed; you still have 99 other lives.
Donnermusik, Boke of Liedwahr, The Naturale Philsophie, Proverbes of Neserea; all books from The Soprano Sorceress
Keloqq’s Musings on Excarnation Theory, Groundline Interaction with the Tallysin Aura in Controlled Environments, Traditional Dances and Heightened-State Mental Acuity, all from Doc Sidhe.
The Book of Knightly Vigour by the Count of Hyfel, a book of “special” recipes that supposedly rendered the writer vigorous enough in bed to satisfy his 27 wives. From Traveller in Black.
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So did I. This thread has been a great disappointment. :mad:
Such as the billions and billions of books of random gibberish that line the shelves of the Library of Babel? Not sure if they have titles, but one phrase (which also crops up in the Encyclopedia of Tlon) is “axaxaxas mlo”.
The Mystery of the Pink Crayfish, one of the many works by Rex West. Bertie Wooster likes Rex West’s work. So do his aunts, at times.
Spindrift, a book by one of the many women Bertie manages not to marry.
Nimsowich on Chess–which either Vardebedian or Gossage (I’ve forgotten which) smuggled out of the library.
Encyclopedia Galactica (I don’t think anyone’s mentioned it so far.)
Thomas Pynchon has the Chums of Chance series, along with a lot of other works.
Nabakov has a lot of them, including a book titled Lolita, within his novel of the same name. The made-up Lolita has a long subtitle I can’t remember exactly right now.
Tristram Shandy has a bunch of made-up books, too.
Under the Hood, by one of the characters in The Watchmen
Borges had plenty of made-up books with titles, IIRC. The only title that comes to mind right now is The Garden of Forking Paths.
Well, if it’s FAKE BOOBS you’re looking for…
Hollis Mason, formerly Nite Owl (the first).
Life, by Unspiek, Baron Boddissey. The Avatar’s Apprentice, from ‘Scroll from the Ninth Dimension’. Both are quoted in all five of Jack Vance’s Demon Princes series. There are many other cites from fictitious works throughout the series, too.
You forgot the main one- LORD OF THE SWASTIKA.
“LOLITA: Memoirs of a White Widowed Male” IIRC
Now for mine- Atlanta Hope’s TELEMACHUS SNEEZED and the Dickensian MILES COWPERTHWAITE.
Over Open Sights by Jake Featherston. President of the Confederate States of America.
It’s an alternate history version of Mien Kampf.
I just remembered another, more obscure one: **The Back Door of History ** by Arpad Arutinov, quoted in many of R.A. Lafferty’s short stories. For a long time I wasn’t even sure if it was a real book or not. Like Borges, Lafferty liked to mix both real and fictional references into his stories. If I recall correctly, he occasionally even made up fake quotes from real authors; at least one of his stories had a poem by Chesterton that I’m pretty sure doesn’t exist, at least in our universe.
Same here. I was all set to list my guesses but then I saw that the thread required that there book-larnin’.
That one actually exists. It just was written using a pseudonym and has a different name for US publication.
Several from John Irving’s “The World According to Garp”
Jenny Fields’s “Sexual Suspect,” with the famous first line: In this dirty minded world, you are either somebody’s whore or somebody’s mother–or fast on your way to becoming one or the other.:
Her son T.S. Garp wrote “Procrastination,” “The Second Wind of the Cuckold”
The Pension Grillpanzer" and “The World According to Breinshemier.”
Poet Ellen James’s first book “Speeches Delivered to Children and Animals.”
Also Snoopy’s favorite author Miss Helen Sweetstory has The Six Bunny Wunnys" series.
The Adventures of Flotter, a beloved kids’ book from Star Trek: Voyager.
Chicago Gangs of the 1920s, a book which changes an entire alien culture in the original Star Trek series episode “A Piece of the Action.”
The Shadow of the Wind, a Gothic adventure referred to at length in the actual novel of the same name by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (trust me, when you read the book, it all makes sense).
Just a Shop Girl, a very bad romance novel mentioned in P.G. Wodehouse’s deliriously funny Jeeves and Wooster writings.
The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, of course. The real thing, with the friendly words “Don’t Panic!” printed on the cover.
A virtual truckload of fake books can be found here.
**There and Back Again, A Hobbits Holiday ** by Bilbo Baggins.
The Travels of Jain Farstrider author unknown, from the Wheel of Time series.
Yeah, John Irving had a bunch.
Learning to Grow by Lily can’t think of the family’s last name in The Hotel New Hampshire
Stephen Colbert’s Alpha Squad 7: Lady Nocturne, a Tek Jansen Adventure
Cosmo Kramer’s coffee table book about coffee tables.