# Name that fictional book!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-book/402913
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 5, 2007, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-book/402913 "2007-05-05T18:16:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Reepicheep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reepicheep)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2007, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-book/402913/21 "2007-05-05T19:59:21Z")
The Corpse Danced at Midnight - _Murder, She Wrote_
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### Author:  [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2007, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-book/402913/22 "2007-05-05T20:06:21Z")
Squornshellous Swamptalk is from the Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, I want to say Life, the Universe, and Everything.
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2007, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-book/402913/23 "2007-05-05T20:09:54Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay]
The one without the gannet…
[/QUOTE]
Or the nuthatch.
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### Author:  [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2007, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-book/402913/24 "2007-05-05T20:30:27Z")
Hint: these are found in books:
Or I Will Sell My Soul For Guilt
The Secret Goldfish
The Case of the Poisoned Doughnut
Confession of a White Widowed Male
Heavy Game in the Western Himalayas
Mr. Bunnsy Has an Adventure
Men of Fire and Women of Air
The Mad Tryst
Peter Flowerbuck
Encyclopedia Hypnotica
Hint: these are found in cartoons:
T and Me
Curious George and the Ebola Virus
Great Machete Battles
Hint: these are found in TV shows:
Photons Be Free
Pop-up Kama Sutra
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### Author:  [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2007, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-book/402913/25 "2007-05-05T20:34:21Z")
Curious George and the Ebola Virus - The simpsons. 🙂
Photons Be Free - star trek voyager.
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### Author:  [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2007, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-book/402913/26 "2007-05-06T07:05:18Z")
Or I Will Sell My Soul For Guilt (hint: this title was supposedly written by a leper)
The Secret Goldfish (hint: supposedly written by D.B. Caulfield)
The Case of the Poisoned Doughnut
Confession of a White Widowed Male (hint: Don’t Stand so Close to Me)
Heavy Game in the Western Himalayas (hint: supposedly written by “the second most dangerous man in London”)
Mr. Bunnsy Has an Adventure
Men of Fire and Women of Air (hint: from the book series that never ends)
The Mad Tryst
Peter Flowerbuck
Encyclopedia Hypnotica
Hint: these are found in cartoons:
T and Me
Great Machete Battles
Pop-up Kama Sutra (hint: full title is “The Pop-up Kama Sutra, Zero Gravity Edition”; from a BBC TV show)
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### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2007, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-book/402913/27 "2007-05-06T08:36:51Z")
Or I Will Sell My Soul For Guilt (hint: this title was supposedly written by a leper) - Donaldson?
The Secret Goldfish (hint: supposedly written by D.B. Caulfield) - Salinger?
Confession of a White Widowed Male (hint: Don’t Stand so Close to Me) - Nabukov?
Men of Fire and Women of Air (hint: from the book series that never ends) - Jordan?
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### Author:  [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2007, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-book/402913/28 "2007-05-06T08:43:47Z")
Heavy Game in the Western Himalayas (hint: supposedly written by “the second most dangerous man in London”) – who would be Colonel Sebastian Moran from Conan Doyle’s “The Empty House”
Mr. Bunnsy Has an Adventure – is from _The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents_
> [@](#):
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> Pop-up Kama Sutra (hint: full title is “The Pop-up Kama Sutra, Zero Gravity Edition”; from a BBC TV show)
It’s a good job you qualified that, because _The Pop-Up Kama Sutra_ is a [real book.](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pop-Up-Kama-Sutra-Paper-Engineered-Variations/dp/1584793023)
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2007, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-book/402913/29 "2007-05-06T08:44:07Z")
Pop-up Kama Sutra - _Red Dwarf_
How about **Death by Double Fault**
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### Author:  [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2007, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-book/402913/30 "2007-05-06T08:46:37Z")
Mr. Bunnsy Has an Adventure - The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, Terry Pratchett
Pop-up Kama Sutra - Red Dwarf?
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### Author:  [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2007, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-book/402913/31 "2007-05-07T01:09:06Z")
[QUOTE=Fish]
Or I Will Sell My Soul For Guilt.
[/QUOTE]
Donaldson.
> [@](#):
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> _Confession of a White Widowed Male_.
Nabokov?
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2007, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-book/402913/32 "2007-05-07T03:30:54Z")
[QUOTE=Reepicheep]
The Corpse Danced at Midnight - _Murder, She Wrote_
[/QUOTE]
Nope. It’s from an episode of M_A_S\*H. BJ gets the book from home and everyone starts passing around pages. The last page is missing so everyone offers up their theories as to who did it, but each theory is impossible. Finally they call the 90+ year-old author, who gives them the answer, but that solution can’t work either.
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### Author:  [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2007, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-book/402913/33 "2007-05-07T03:57:57Z")
Encyclopedia Hypnotica - Lemony Snicket
Another couple:
The Book of Good Farming
Anatomy of a Minotaur
Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
Being Two
Charlie the Choo-Choo
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### Author:  [@melondeca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melondeca)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2007, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-book/402913/34 "2007-05-07T14:19:43Z")
[QUOTE=FilmGeek]
Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo
[/QUOTE]
Many of these books sound familiar, but I can’t place them. However, I think this one is from Aldous Huxley’s **Brave New World**.
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### Author:  [@Surok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surok)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2007, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-book/402913/35 "2007-05-07T14:25:40Z")
[QUOTE=Fish]
The Secret Goldfish (hint: supposedly written by D.B. Caulfield)
[/QUOTE]
Catcher in the Rye, of course.
Thank God for that. Now I can go back to what I was doing.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2007, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-book/402913/36 "2007-05-07T14:41:58Z")
\*Mad Tryst \*, by Sir Launcelot Canning, is from Poe’s _Fall of the House of Usher_.
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### Author:  [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2007, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-book/402913/37 "2007-05-07T15:01:11Z")
**Great Machete Battles** was being read by Leela on **Futurama**. As I recall, Zap Brannigan spotted her reading it in the background while Kif was talking to Amy by videophone.
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### Author:  [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2007, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-book/402913/38 "2007-05-20T00:56:52Z")
You got it.
The Book of Good Farming
Being Two (by Mike Noonan)
and
Charlie the Choo-Choo (by Beryl Evans)
are all in books by the same author.
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2007, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-book/402913/39 "2007-05-30T14:46:19Z")
[QUOTE=Otto]
Nope. It’s from an episode of M_A_S\*H. BJ gets the book from home and everyone starts passing around pages. The last page is missing so everyone offers up their theories as to who did it, but each theory is impossible. Finally they call the 90+ year-old author, who gives them the answer, but that solution can’t work either.
[/QUOTE]
I thought that was _The Rooster Crowed At Midnight_.
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### Author:  [@Miscue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miscue)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2007, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-book/402913/40 "2007-05-30T18:57:37Z")
[QUOTE=Fish]
Remember [Name That Street](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=384498), [Name that Machine](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=384705) and [Name That Pet](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=385072)?
It’s time for Name That Book!
Below is a list of fictional books. These titles are referenced in movies, books, comics, television shows and in other fictional media. Can you name where the fictional book comes from?
Encyclopedia Frobozzica
Handbook for Messiahs
Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie
The Murder of Gonzago
Never Whistle While You’re Pissing
Nymphs and their Ways
Or I Will Sell My Soul For Guilt
The Secret Goldfish
The Case of the Poisoned Doughnut
Confession of a White Widowed Male
Heavy Game in the Western Himalayas
Mr. Bunnsy Has an Adventure
The Six Bunny-Wunnies and Their Layover in Anderson, Indiana
Orange Catholic Liturgical Manual
Men of Fire and Women of Air
The Mad Tryst
How to Become a Fancy Waiter in Less Than 20 Minutes
Necronomicon
Speaker for the Dead: The Hivequeen and the Hegemon
Squornshellous Swamptalk
Gadding with Ghouls
The Corpse Danced at Midnight
T and Me
Book of Mazarbul
Twurp’s Peerage
Protocols of the Elders of the Trafalmadore
David Coperfield
Peter Flowerbuck
Curious George and the Ebola Virus
Photons Be Free
Great Machete Battles
Biography of a Dead Cow
Encyclopedia Galactica
Encyclopedia Hypnotica
The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism
Misery’s Quest
A Coffee Table Book About Coffee Tables
Pop-up Kama Sutra
Electronics for Dogs
A Match Made in Space
De Vermis Mysteriis
Tobin’s Spirit Guide
Attempt at a Uniform and Pragmatic Classification of the Neuroses and Psychoses, Based on an Examination of Fifteen Hundred Pre-Krapaelin and Post-Krapaelin Cases as they would be Diagnosed in the Terminology of the Different Contemporary Schools Together with a Chronology of Such Subdivisions of Opinion as Have Arisen Independently
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I think you may find [this](http://www.wikipedia.com) page helpful in your search.
(Sorry, couldn’t help it.)
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