List of fictional books from non-book media

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False documents are a frequent device in literature. This is a list of fictional books that appear in television, movies, music, video games, and other non-print media.

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[edit] Fictional books from TV series

[edit] From Doctor Who

[edit] From Monty Python

  • My God, by theologian Monsignor Edward Gay
  • Hello Sailor, by humanist lecturer Dr. Tom Jack
  • The Problems of Kierkegaard, by Dr. Tom Jack

From the Bookshop Skit

  • The Amazing Adventures of Captain Gladys Stoat-Pamphlet and her Intrepid Spaniel Stig among the Giant Pygmies of Beckles, Volume Eight presumably by Capt. Gladys Stoat-Pamphlet
  • Biggles Combs his Hair, author unknown
  • David Coperfield by Edmund Wells
  • Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity-Surveying, author unknown
  • The Gospel According to Charlie Drake, presumably by Charlie Drake
  • Grate Expectations by Edmund Wells
  • A Sale of Two Titties by Edmund Wells
  • A Hundred and One Ways to Start a Fight by "an Irish gentleman whose name eludes me for the moment"[1]
  • Knickerless Nickleby by Edmund Wells
  • Khristmas Karol by Edmund Wells
  • Olsen's Standard Book of British Birds, expurgated version (the one without the gannet)
  • Rarnaby Budge by Charles Dikkens, the well-known Dutch author
  • Thirty Days In the Samarkand Desert with the Duchess of Kent by A.E.J. Elliott, O.B.E.
  1. ^ These are the title and author in the recorded version; there are also versions of the script which refer to A Hundred and One Ways to Start a Monsoon by "an Indian gentleman whose name eludes me for the moment".

[edit] From Murder, She Wrote

by J.B. Fletcher

  • The Corpse Danced at Midnight
  • Dirge for a Dead Dachshund
  • A Faded Rose Beside Her
  • Murder on the Amazon
  • Lover's Revenge
  • The Umbrella Murders
  • Murder at the Inn
  • Murder at the Digs
  • Murder in a Minor Key
  • The Stain on the Stairs
  • The Mystery of the Mutilated Minion
  • The Belgrade Murders
  • Sanitarium of Death
  • Calvin Canterbury's Revenge
  • Murder at the Asylum
  • Murder Comes to Maine
  • Good-bye, Charlie
  • The Corpse That Wasn't There
  • Ashes, Ashes, Fall Down Dead
  • The Messengers of Midnight
  • The Poison in My Heart
  • All the Murderers
  • Murder at the Ridge Top
  • The Corpse at Vespers
  • The Triple Crown Murders
  • The Crypt of Death
  • A Killing at Hastings Rock
  • The Uncaught
  • Murder in White
  • The Dead Must Sing
  • The Killer Called Collect
  • Stone Cold Dead
  • Endangered
  • The Launch Pad Murders
  • Runway to Murder
  • The Venomous Valentine
  • A Case of a Half of Murder
  • Yours Truly, Damian Sinclair
  • The Dead Man Sang
  • The Corpse Swam by Moonlight

[edit] From Family Guy

  • Caddyshack, the novelization
  • T and Me by George Peppard
  • For the Last Time, I'm Not Mr. T by Ving Rhames
  • Nobody Poops But You, unsuccessful toilet training book, parody of Everyone Poops
  • You're a Naughty Child, and That's Concentrated Evil Coming Out the Back of You, Catholic toilet training book
  • Peter Griffin wrote a series of erotic novels dubbed "Peterotica":
    • Angela's Asses
    • Catcher in the Eye
    • Shaved New Word
    • Harry Potter and the Half-Black Chick
    • What I Would Do Sexually to Hillary Clinton
    • The Hot Chick Who Was Italian or Maybe Some Kind of Spanish

[edit] From The Simpsons

  • Angelica Button and The Dragon King’s Trundle Bed
  • Baby's First Pop-Up Book
  • Backdoors to Citizenship, nonfiction
  • The Big Book of British Smiles, photo book
  • Bordello Repair Vol. I
  • Bork on Sex
  • A Child's Garden of Cons by Grifty McGrift, aka Grampa Simpson
  • Curious George and the Ebola Virus, a children's book
  • Forgotten Lore
  • Happiness Is a Naked Steve Allen
  • The Harpooned Heart by Marge Simpson
  • The Harpooned Heart 2: Trouble Down Under by Marge Simpson
  • How to Cook for Forty Humans, cookbook
  • How to Get Rich Writing Cartoons by John Swartzwelder
  • How to Loot Brazil
  • How to Make Love to Steve Allen
  • How to Seduce Your Lousy, Lazy Husband
  • How to Tunnel out of Prison
  • A trilogy of autobiographic books by Leonard Nimoy
  • Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie: The Novel by Norman Mailer
  • Journey to the Center of Steve Allen
  • The Joy of Cooking Steve Allen
  • The Joy of Cooking Milhouse
  • Kosher Erotic Cakes
  • Love in the Time of Scurvy
  • Mapplethorpe, photo book
  • Mr. and Mrs. Erotic American, audio book, read by Paul Harvey
  • Only Turkeys Have Left Wings by Birch Barlow
  • Owning Your Okayness, self-help, by Brad Goodman
  • Rational Thinking, Reasonable Future by Al Gore
  • Sane Planning, Sensible Tomorrow by Al Gore
  • Someone's In The Kitchen With Jesus by Rev. Timothy Lovejoy
  • Tanks of the Third Reich
  • The 10 Dos and 500 Don'ts of Knife Safety
  • The Truth About Whacking Day by Bob Woodward
  • Ueberroth, a biography
  • Unidentified Flying Outrage!
  • Weight Loss Through Laborious Sex
  • Will There Ever Be A Rainbow by Montgomery Burns, autobiography
  • Your Gimmicky Restaurant by Bennigan and Fuddrucker

[edit] From the Star Trek universe

  • Anslem (by Jake Sisko)
  • Beyond the Galactic Edge, Humanity's Quest for Infinity (by Hesterman)
  • Book of the Kosst Amojan (Bajoran)
  • Book of the People, The (Fabrini)
  • Burning Hearts of Qo'noS from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novels
  • Call of the Prophets, The (Bajoran)
  • Cave Beyond Logic, A: Vulcan Perspectives on Platonic Thought (Vulcan)
  • Chicago Mobs of the Twenties
  • Collected Works of Jirex, The (Talaxian)
  • Clash on the Fire Plains (Vulcan)
  • Dictates of Poetics, The (by Vulcan writer T'Hain)
  • Down the River Light (17-volume book by Caster)
  • Dream of the Fire, The (Klingon)
  • Eldaxon's Collected Folklore (Talaxian)
  • Fall of Kang, The (by Klingon poet G'Trok)
  • Falor's Journey (Vulcan)
  • Ferengi Rules of Acquisition
  • Finding and Winning your Perfect Mate (by Jennings Rain)
  • Hotel Royale, The (by Todd Matthews)
  • How to Advance Your Career Through Marriage
  • Gaudaal's Lament (by Bajoran poet Akorem Laan)
  • Kir'shara, The (by Surak of Vulcan)
  • Kitara's Song (by Bajoran poet Akorem Laan)
  • Leonard McCoy's Comparative Alien Physiology (by Leonard McCoy)
  • Linear Models of Viral Propagation (by Katherine Pulaski)
  • Meditations on a Crimson Shadow (Cardassian novel by Preloc)
  • Never Ending Sacrifice, The (Cardassian)
  • Nightingale Woman (by Phineas Tarbolde)
  • Oo-mox for Fun and Profit
  • Paq'batlh, The (Klingon religious text)
  • Past Prologue (by Jake Sisko)
  • Photons Be Free by the Doctor in Star Trek: Voyager
  • Teachings of Surak, The (Vulcan, English translation by Skon)
  • The Tragedy of Khamlet, Son of the Emperor of Qo'nos (Star Trek VI - short title: The Klingon Hamlet)
  • Vulcan Love Slave (or The Ardous Journey of T'Lana on the Road to Enlightenment) in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  • Women Warriors at the River of Blood from Star Trek: Voyager

[edit] From the X-Files

  • From Outer Space by Jose Chung
  • The Caligarian Candidate by Jose Chung
  • The Lonely Buddah by Jose Chung

[edit] Miscellaneous from television

[edit] Fictional books from films

[edit] From The Royal Tenenbaums

  • Accounting for Everything: A Guide to Personal Finance by Henry Sherman (nonfiction)
  • Dudley's World by Raleigh St. Clair (nonfiction)
  • Erotic Transference by Margot Tenenbaum (play)
  • Family of Geniuses by Etheline Tenenbaum
  • Nakedness Tonight by Margot Tenenbaum (play)
  • Old Custer by Eli Cash (novel)
  • The Peculiar Neurodegenerative Inhabitants of the Kazawa Atoll by Raleigh St. Clair (nonfiction)
  • Static Electricity by Margot Tenenbaum (play)
  • Three Plays by Margot Tenenbaum
  • Wildcat by Eli Cash (novel)

[edit] From Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Most are parodies of a work, pointed to by the link.

[edit] Miscellaneous from film

[edit] Fictional books from computer games

[edit] From Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars

  • Creative Shelving for Beginners
  • The Crooked Crusader Caper by Molly Peagram (also known as Nigel Peagram), a medieval detective story
  • The Crusader Families of Ireland by Molly Peagram (under the name of Professor Peagram)
  • Hypnosis for Fun and Profit

[edit] From the Monkey Island series

[edit] From Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

  • Nonlinear Genetics by Academician Prokhor Zakharov
  • For I Have Tasted The Fruit by Academician Prokhor Zakharov
  • Address to the Faculty by Academician Prokhor Zakharov
  • The Feedback Principle by Academician Prokhor Zakharov
  • Now We Are Alone by Academician Prokhor Zakharov
  • See How They Run by Academician Prokhor Zakharov
  • We Must Dissent by Sister Miriam Godwinson
  • But For The Grace Of God by Sister Miriam Godwinson
  • Looking God In The Eye by Chairman Sheng-ji Yang

[edit] Miscellaneous from games

[edit] Fictional books from music

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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