Hmm… I seem to remember a tome called something like The *Necrotelicomnicon *(also known as Liber Paginarum Fulvarum) might have some useful contact details
The Word of Kemmler. Should prove amusing here at Halloween.
“World Empire Lost”, the military treatise by Armin von Roon
This “translation” appears in Herman Wouk’s “The Winds Of War” and War And Remembrance."
The Janus Contract and Under a Yellow Sun, both by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Clark Kent.
In Stephen King’s novella “The Breathing Method,” collected in Different Seasons, he tells of an odd New York gentlemen’s club which includes a fine library. Many of the books in the library do not exist outside of the club, and are apparently from a parallel universe. Among those mentioned are two law books, Twenty Cases of Dismemberment and Their Outcome Under British Law and Pet Cases. There is also a set of eleven particularly good novels by an Edward Gray Seville; the titles mentioned are These Were Our Brothers (1911) and Breakers (1935). There is a (unnamed by King) collection of cinema-related poetry including submissions by such actual poets as Robert Frost, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Louis Zukofsky, Erica Jong and Algernon Williams. There is also an unnamed book by “an absolutely stunning poet” named Norbert Rosen. Don’t look for any of these on your own or anyone else’s shelves.
The same club is featured in King’s “The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands,” but with no mention of any nonexistent books.
While we’ve been able to read several volumes of Harry Flashman’s private accounts, his official autobiographies, Dawns and Departures of a Soldier’s Life and Twixt Cossack and Cannon, remain out of print.
good suggestions 
In his 1944 robot short story “Catch That Rabbit,” later collected in I, Robot, Isaac Asimov included this passage:
“Powell [a robotics engineer] reached for the Handbook of Robotics that weighed down one side of his desk to a near-founder and opened it reverently. He had once jumped out of the window of a burning house dressed only in shorts and the Handbook. In a pinch, he would have skipped the shorts…”
Beat you to it. See post 8.
*The Annotated Adventures of Alice in Wonderland *
Never get tired of reading it.
The book itself exists, though, doesn’t it…?
Yup, it is available. I like the annotated version because it explains Lewis Carroll’s
mathematical interjections into the novel as well as some hysterical events of the era.
You read the OP for this thread, right…?
Being a huge John Irving fan, I’d like Jenny Field’s Sexual Suspect, all of her son Garp’s books and Ellen James’s books of poetry, including Speeches Delivered to Children and Plants.
The Sealed Book, from the radio series of the same name.
Tom Riddle’s diary, from the Harry Potter series.
And the Dragon Scroll, from Kung Fu Panda.
Hhhmmm, I agree. In fact, There could probably be an entire section of the multidimensional Dewey Decimal System devoted to the Potterverse.
Please keep them coming - DESK
I just read Gideon Defoe’s The Pirates! In an Adventure with Ahab and The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, a deliriously silly two-books-in-one publication, and it includes a listing of several dozen other such books, most of which have not yet and probably never will be written. Some of my favorites are:
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Rasputin
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Ice Cream
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Rabbis
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Rabbits
The Pirates! In an Adventure with the Stock Market
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Heavy Petting
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Prussians
The Pirates! In an Adventure with the Pope
The Pirates! In an Adventure with the Political Supremacy of the Bourgeoisie
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Risk Management
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Public Sanitation
The Pirates! In an Adventure with the Special Olympics
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Jennifer Garner
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Lazy Post-Modernism
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Brockwell Infant School
The Pirates! In an Adventure with the Dignity of Labour (Parts 1-4)
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Mormons
The Pirates! Did Not Mean to Say That Out Loud
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Richard Nixon
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Shaft
The Pirates! In an Adventure with a Damp Smell
The Pirates! Commit a Series of Horrific Atrocities
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Lingerie
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Your Mother
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates
The Pirates! Are Overdoing It a Bit
And on and on…
The Holy Book of Universal Truth and Other Humorous Anecdotes, scripture of the United Church of Alan Dean Foster’s Humanx Commonwealth.
The Heterodyne Boys and the Race to the West Pole!
And, of course, Trelawney Thorpe, Spark of the Realm!
Hell’s Bible, from the film Constantine.