I’d like to add Stolas’s Grimoire from Helluva Boss.
Though, note that Stolas is already mentioned by name in real grimoires like the De praestigiis daemonum, the Lemegeton, etc.
The Harpooned Heart by Marge Simpson
Love in the Time of Scurvy (Marge reading material)
Lord Werewolf’s Boudoir (same)
They Promised Me Ponies (An unfinished novel by Bart Simpson)
Thin by Third Grade (Read by Lisa)
Catch’em if you Can (Read by Lisa)
If you go to Simpsons.fandom.com and search “Books” you will get the entire 305 fictional books read on The Simpsons.
Images, a collection of poetry by Tyrone Green (including the famous “Kill My Landlord”)
The romance novels of Velvet Jones, including classics such as Kicked in the Butt by Love.
(Tyrone Green and Velvet Jones were two of Eddie Murphy’s characters on Saturday Night Live.)
Are we including movies, because I’d kind of like to see “The Scarlet Circle”.
Just finished Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford, an alternative-history detective story in which the Cahokia culture endured into the 1920s and was strong enough to resist the westward tide of Manifest Destiny for many years before becoming part of the United States. I caught two references to nonexistent books: Jesuit Relations, Vol. XXVII, North American Missions III (Cahokia), author unknown but quoting an entry by Sebastian Villanova, S.J. (a Jesuit priest) from 1608, and Decision Book of the Huma Anopoli Tanaha, Vol. XVIII, author also unknown, a summary of Cahokia government action at the time of the American Civil War.
I seem to have misplaced my copy of George McFly’s first sf novel, A Match Made in Space (at 2:10 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om0txa8vQTQ)
In Barney Miller, Detective Harris writes a book called Blood on the Badge, about his experiences as a cop. It gets published, he enjoys some success, and stuff happens.
Has anyone mentioned Frodo’s book?
Did Frodo write a book? Bilbo famously did.
That wasn’t Frodo at the end of the third film?
Did someone mention Gray’s Sports Almanac yet?
Obscure to the max: Seven Who Beat the Headsman, by Ian A. Morley — a character played by Donald Pleasence in a Mrs. Colombo episode.
Not as such, but see post 13.
Got my hobbits mixed up.
Then, how about There and Back Again by Bilbo Baggins?
For Ted Lasso fans: Trent Crimm’s book, The Richmond Way: The Unbelievable Season of a Premier League Underdog, “with a very brief foreword by Roy Kent.”
Just finished Yangsze Choo’s pretty good supernatural mystery/romance The Fox Wife, set in Manchuria in 1908. One of the characters, Kuro, is said to have published a “forlorn and wistful collection” of ghost stories not long before. We’re never told its title.
It just occured to me that there’s several books from the Five Gods Universe that haven’t been mention in this thread. First there’s two books by Ordol:
The Fivefold Pathway of the Soul: On the True Methods of Quintarian Theology
Letters to the Young Royse dy Brajar
Then there’s a couple books by Ruchia:
Essentials of Sorcery and the Management of Demons volumes 1 and 2.