From P. G. Wodehouse’s Leave It To Psmith, pretentious but surly Canadian poet Ralston MacTodd’s magnum opus “Songs Of Squalor”: of which, sadly, only the line “Across the pale parabola of joy…” survives.
St. John Lord Merridew of course. It’s one of my all time fave films and I was tickled to see that jump out at me.
Well, there’s The Rooster Crowed at Midnight, the mystery novel with the missing last page from an episode of MASH*. As I recall, they call the author to find out whodunit, but she’s an absentminded elderly lady who doesn’t remember the answer herself.
And we mustn’t forget the Red Book of Westmarch, the ancient tome which formed the basis for Prof. Tolkien’s research that resulted in The Lord of the Rings.
Toad Sexing For Fun & Profit.
Irving Wallace’s book “Seven Minutes” talks about the most banned book in the world, which covers seven minutes of thought by a woman having sex. The banned book’s title? SEVEN MINUTES
Stanislas Lem wrote two books of reviews on nonexistent books. I tried reading one, but couldn’t get into it.
Among others, Candida Confesses and Tintoretto’s Daughter, by Isadora White Wing.
Two pages and no mention of Paul Sheldon’s “Misery” series?
Robert Rankin often features a film noir-ish detective called Lazlo Woodbine (“Some call him Laz”) who talks about pasts books including:
And The Crowd Ran Screaming
Blonde In A Bodybag
Bodies On The Backlot
Of course, in Rankin’s world there is also Hugo Rune and his Book Of Ultimate Truths .
And curse you Larry Mudd for beating me to De Selby’s Golden Hours 
.
"It was for De Selby that I committed my first sin. It was for him that I committed my greatest sin".
How about…
Blood on the Badge, the book Harris was always working on in the TV sitcom “Barney Miller.”
Or Multitudes, Multitudes, the anti-war novel villainous Tom Keefer was working on in Herman Wouk’s “The Caine Mutiny.”
Harris’s working title was “Precient Diary.” The publisher changed it to “Blood on the Badge.”
Henry from “Bosom Buddies” was working on a book about a guy in drag liviing in a women’s hotel.
That’s “Precinct Diary,” not "Precient Diary, " which, I think, sounds a lot more interesting.
Well, all the ones I could think of mentioning are already in here, so here’s my contribution:
Available at your nearest bookstore
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=66-9780747554714-1
There were all those pretentious Latin-y sounding reference books that Rupert Giles and Wesley Wyndam-Pryce used but my favorite is The Slayer’s Handbook.
The Fairy Godfather’s Handy Pocket Guide. Cushlamochree!
The Collected Poems of Millicent Willoughby. From Jack Sharkey’s The Addams Family TV tie-in book. Wednesday and Pugsley are forced to read from it in school, because it’s the teacher’s favorite poet, and get revenge by showing what the poems really mean.
Correct. (Or close enough, at least. I don’t remember the film well enough to know if the St. John Lord Merridew books were published under his name or Andrew Wyke’s.) The answer took more than a day; around here that damn near qualifies as a stumper.
And this may be of some interest to you.
Another Pratchett volume is Humptemper’s 2000-page manual How To Kille Insectes.
it was reveiled in the last episode that the sitcom “Roseanne” was a fictionalized book that Roseanne wrote about her family.
Lord Emsworth is a fan of the soothing nature of The Care Of The Pig by Augustus Whiffle. Mentioned in many of PG Wodehouse’s Blandings novels.