This is the master list for all books quoted or alluded to in the Inkworld series. Click on the title to go to the book's group page. Books are also listed in the group's bookshelf (which is currently more complete).


Richard Adams, Waterhips Down
David Almond, Skellig
Hans Christian Andersen, Andersen's Fairy Tales
Anonymous, Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights
Anonymous, Beowulf
Alan Armstrong, Whittington
Margaret Atwood, Morning in the Burned House
Margaret Atwood, Eating Fire: Selected Poetry 1965-1995
Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
Ingeborg Bachmann, Darkness Spoken: Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann
Clive Barker, Abarat
J.M. Barrie, Peter and Wendy
Nicholas A. Basbanes, A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books
L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King
Wendell Berry, The Collected Poems of Wendell Berry, 1957-1982
William Blades, The Enemies of Books
William Blake, The Complete Poems
L.M. Boston, The Children of Green Knowe
Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
Tor Age Bringsvaerd, Die wilden Götter. Sagenhaftes aus dem hohen Norden
Sterling A. Brown, The Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown
Robert Browning, The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Joseph Bruchac, Songs From This Earth on Turtle's Back: Contemporary American Indian Poetry
Jean De Brunhoff, The Story of Babar
Richard de Bury, THE LOVE OF BOOKS: The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
Italo Calvino, Italian Folktales

|
|
|
[bc:If On a Winter's Night a Traveler|374233|If On a Winter's Night a Traveler|Italo Calvino|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175386803s/374233.jpg|1116802] [a:Italo Calvino|155517|Italo Calvino|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1181521461p2/155517.jpg], If On a Winter's Night a Traveler
[bc:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass|24213|Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass|Lewis Carroll|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167520662s/24213.jpg|2375385] [a:Lewis Carroll|8164|Lewis Carroll|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1192735053p2/8164.jpg], Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
[bc:Collected Poems 1951-2000|3408881|Collected Poems 1951-2000|Charles Causley|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg|3449103] [a:Charles Causley|148404|Charles Causley|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg], Collected Poems 1951-2000
[bc:The Art Of Drowning|137109|The Art Of Drowning (Pitt Poetry Series)|Billy Collins|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172087927s/137109.jpg|25263] [a:Billy Collins|438|Billy Collins|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1227111592p2/438.jpg], The Art Of Drowning
[bc:Pinocchio|180617|Pinocchio|Carlo Collodi|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172492477s/180617.jpg|2685281] [a:Carlo Collodi|15123|Carlo Collodi|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg], Pinocchio
[bc:The Last of the Mohicans|38296|The Last of the Mohicans (Bantam Classics)|James Fenimore Cooper|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169097493s/38296.jpg|2064030] [a:James Fenimore Cooper|9121|James Fenimore Cooper|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1210528548p2/9121.jpg], The Last of the Mohicans
[bc:Letters to My Son on the Love of Books|363103|Letters to My Son on the Love of Books|Roberto Cotroneo|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174108803s/363103.jpg|353187] [a:Roberto Cotroneo|207804|Roberto Cotroneo|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg], Letters to My Son on the Love of Books
[bc:The Seeing Stone|1128670|The Seeing Stone (Arthur)|Kevin Crossley-Holland|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181225959s/1128670.jpg|1178766] [a:Kevin Crossley-Holland|13878|Kevin Crossley-Holland|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1237493211p2/13878.jpg], The Seeing Stone
[bc:The Witches|386244|The Witches|Roald Dahl|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174355773s/386244.jpg|105046] [a:Roald Dahl|4273|Roald Dahl|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1217358820p2/4273.jpg], The Witches
[bc:The BFG|1974277|The BFG|Roald Dahl|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41K12EMETVL._SL75_.jpg|1249788] [a:Roald Dahl|4273|Roald Dahl|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1217358820p2/4273.jpg], The BFG
[bc:The Tale of Despereaux Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread|37190|The Tale of Despereaux Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread|Kate DiCamillo|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168855193s/37190.jpg|1508178] [a:Kate DiCamillo|13663|Kate DiCamillo|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1200334639p2/13663.jpg], The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread
[bc:The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson|112204|The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson|Emily Dickinson|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175373989s/112204.jpg|1443553] [a:Emily Dickinson|7440|Emily Dickinson|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1198536260p2/7440.jpg], The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
[bc:The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes|3590|The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Oxford World's Classics)|Arthur Conan Doyle|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1164045516s/3590.jpg|1222101] [a:Arthur Conan Doyle|2448|Arthur Conan Doyle|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1192744262p2/2448.jpg], The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
[bc:Collected Poems 1909-1962|142080|Collected Poems 1909-1962 (Centenary Edition)|T.S. Eliot|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41iSBbayGjL._SL75_.jpg|756454] [a:T.S. Eliot|18540|T.S. Eliot|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1203003844p2/18540.jpg], Collected Poems 1909-1962
[bc:The Neverending Story|27712|The Neverending Story|Michael Ende|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51M6H03SZ9L._SL75_.jpg|1122661] [a:Michael Ende|15619|Michael Ende|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1221862196p2/15619.jpg], The Neverending Story
[bc:Jim Knopf und die Wilde 13. ( Ab 8 J.).|468837|Jim Knopf und die Wilde 13. ( Ab 8 J.).|Michael Ende|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175022657s/468837.jpg|457176] [a:Michael Ende|15619|Michael Ende|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1221862196p2/15619.jpg], Jim Knopf und die Wilde 13
[bc:Parzival|560089|Parzival (Penguin Classics)|Wolfram von Eschenbach|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175799442s/560089.jpg|547250] [a:Wolfram von Eschenbach|69171|Wolfram von Eschenbach|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg], Parzival
[bc:The Mabinogion|455219|The Mabinogion |Jeffrey Gantz|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1195732996s/455219.jpg|162739] [a:Jeffrey Gantz|59562|Jeffrey Gantz|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg] trans., The Mabinion
[bc:The Prophet|4286190|The Prophet|Khalil Gibran|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51rdz%2BQRzLL._SL75_.jpg|2938937] [a:Khalil Gibran|49952|Khalil Gibran|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1178792635p2/49952.jpg], The Prophet
[bc:Ararat|76542|Ararat (American Poetry Series)|Louise Glück|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170894150s/76542.jpg|74053] [a:Louise Glück|388727|Louise Glück|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1245256361p2/388727.jpg], Ararat
[bc:Vita Nova|76545|Vita Nova|Louise Glück|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170894151s/76545.jpg|74056] [a:Louise Glück|388727|Louise Glück|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1245256361p2/388727.jpg], Vita Nova
[bc:The Princess Bride|21787|The Princess Bride |William Goldman|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51244A5RWML._SL75_.jpg|992628] [a:William Goldman|12521|William Goldman|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1198704782p2/12521.jpg], The Princess Bride
[bc:Telling Tales|96333|Telling Tales|Nadine Gordimer|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171311089s/96333.jpg|1821934] [a:Nadine Gordimer|55397|Nadine Gordimer|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1249130238p2/55397.jpg] ed., Telling Tales
[bc:The White Bone A Novel|80966|The White Bone A Novel|Barbara Gowdy|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170992874s/80966.jpg|1245432] [a:Barbara Gowdy|46105|Barbara Gowdy|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-F-50x66.jpg], The White Bone: A Novel
[bc:The Wind in the Willows|5659|The Wind in the Willows |Kenneth Grahame|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165541231s/5659.jpg|1061285] [a:Kenneth Grahame|3843|Kenneth Grahame|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1201018750p2/3843.jpg], The Wind in the Willows
[bc:The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales|22917|The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales|Jacob Grimm|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167372021s/22917.jpg|1855987] [a:Jacob Grimm|2938140|Jacob Grimm|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1242997930p2/2938140.jpg] & [a:Wilhelm Grimm|2938141|Wilhelm Grimm|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1244460166p2/2938141.jpg], Grimm's Fairy Tales
[bc:Runoja matkalta salmen ylitse|3055462|Runoja matkalta salmen ylitse|Paavo Haavikko|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg|3086361] [a:Paavo Haavikko|446699|Paavo Haavikko|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg], Runoja matkalta salmen ylitse
[bc:The Odyssey|1381|The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)|Homer|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158208330s/1381.jpg|3356006] [a:Homer|903|Homer|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1192834024p2/903.jpg], The Odyssey
[bc:The Dreamfighter And Other Creation Tales|1892255|The Dreamfighter And Other Creation Tales|Ted Hughes|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189886882s/1892255.jpg|1893685] [a:Ted Hughes|996|Ted Hughes|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1215068226p2/996.jpg], The Dreamfighter: And Other Creation Tales

Additional reading:
(These books are not directly alluded to in the series, but chosen based on subject matter of specific passages.)

Hussain M. Al-Amily, The Book of Arabic Wisdom: Proverbs and Anecdotes
Paul J. Angerhofer, In Aedibus Aldi: The Legacy of Aldus Manutius and His Press
Primrose Arnander, The Son of a Duck Is a Floater: An Illustrated Book of Arab Proverbs
Cicely Mary Barker, A Flower Fairies Treasury
Steve Brennan, The Gigantic Book of Pirate Stories
Katharine Briggs, Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, & Other Supernatural Creatures
Thomas Bulfinch, Bulfinch's Mythology
Michael Hague, The Book of Fairies
Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder Book: Heroes and Monsters of Greek Mythology
Heinrich Heine, Songs of Love and Grief

more to come...