BOOKS NO ONE EVER WROTE

Are you a writer of novels?  Do you sometimes run out of ideas for a new book or film concept?  (Hollywood script writers take note….)  Then you’ve stumbled on the right Blog!  Here is an unabridged,   alphabetical list of books that have been alluded to in novels by published writers, but have never actually been written.  You don’t even have to worry about copyright infringement!  Feel free to steal and plagiarize at will!

HERE ARE A SAMPLE OF TITLES CREATED BY REAL AUTHORS WHO INVENTED THEM AS A PART OF THEIR STORY:

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BAINBRIDGE, Mary: Winter Swan

—from Lisa Goldstein’s “Reader’s Guide”



BANDINI, Arturo: “The Little Dog Laughed,” “The Long Lost Hills,” untitled novel (“the story of Vera Rivkin”)

—from John Fante’s Ask the Dust



BANE, Joseph Cameron:

Cabot’s House

Lips That Could Kiss

Ruthpen Hallburton

The Wind at Morning

“others, others”

—from Lawrence Block’s “With a Smile for the Ending,” in Enough Rope

BANION, Gerry: Sageknights of Darkhorn

—from Steve Hely’s How I Became a Famous Novelist

BANKS, Rosie M.: Mervyn Keene, Clubman; Only a Factory Girl; ‘Twas Once in May

—from P. G. Wodehouse, Eggs, Beans and Crumpets

BARBECUE-SMITH, Mr.: Pipe-Lines to the Infinite

—from Aldous Huxley’s Crome Yellow

BARR, Frank Walker:

Mythos and Tyrannos

Time’s Body

—from John Crowley‘s Aegypt cycle

BARTH, Septon: Dragons, Wyrms, and Wyvern: Their Unnatural History

—from George R. R. Martin’s A Dance with Dragons





BASSETT, Clarence: The Bassett Family

—from Ross Macdonald’s The Barbarous Coast

BEAMISH, Alan: A Pox on the Box: Memoirs of a Disillusioned Broadcaster (Cape, 1993)

—from Jonathan Coe’s The Winshaw Legacy

BELDECAR: History of the Rhoynish Wars

—from George R. R. Martin’s A Storm of Swords

BELZNER, Zalman: Beyond the Pale, Yeshiva Bokher

—from Joseph Epstein’s “Beyond the Pale”

BENDRIX, Maurice:

The Ambitious Host

The Crowned Image

The Grave on the Water-Front

—from Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair

BIEDELMAN, Roz: Trampled Ivy

—from Heidi Julavits’s The Uses of Enchantment

BLAIR, Alan: I Pity I

—from Jonathan Ames’s Wake Up, Sir!


BLAKE, Royden: “The Necklace of Malvio d’Alfi,” “The Wreck of the S.S. Lorelei,” “The King of the Trojans,” “The Lost Girdle of Venus”

—from John Cheever’s “A Miscellany of Characters That Will Not Appear”

Originally posted 2012-03-17 23:06:35. Republished by Blog Post Promoter