Can you name the book (or the series of books) from the name a fictional book or story referenced within it?

Fictional Book/Author	Real Book	Real Author
'The Secret Goldfish' by D. B. Caulfield		J.D. Salinger
'The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism' by Emmanuel Goldstein		George Orwell
'The Dynamics of an Asteroid' by Professor James Moriarty		Arthur Conan-Doyle
'There and Back Again' by Bilbo Baggins		J.R.R. Tolkien
'All of Them Witches' by J. R. Hanslet		Ira Levin
'The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore' by Rita Skeeter		J.K. Rowling
'The Correct Spelling of Every English Word That Ever, Ever Existed'		Lemony Snicket
'The Octavo' by The Creator		Terry Pratchett
'The Proustian Theme in a Letter from Keats to Benjamin Bailey' by Humbert Humbert		Vladimir Nabokov
'Men, Monks, and Gamekeepers; a Study in Popular Legend'		C.S. Lewis
'Practical Instructions for Beta Empryo-Store Workers'		Aldous Huxley
'Conway's Daughter' by Ben Mears		Stephen King
'The Fighting Sailor' by Jack Ryan		Tom Clancy
'The Duke's Daughter' by Jo March		Louisa May Alcott
'Speculations on the Source of the Hampstead Ponds, With Some Observations on the Theory of Tittlebats' by Samuel Pickwick		Charles Dickens
'The Cathedral Thief' by Julián Carax		Carlos Ruiz Zafón
'Ryder's English Homes' by Charles Ryder		Evelyn Waugh

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Fictional Fiction Quiz

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	Skol_Vikes:	Oct 22nd, 2010 at 20:14 GMT		6 points
	Jack Ryan is featured in many more Tom Clancy novels, and the fact that he wrote a book is mentioned in a lot of them. More of Clancy's books should be accepted.

	Kicking222:	Oct 22nd, 2010 at 20:15 GMT		2 points
	Didn't even read the clues, just hit start and typed "Harry Potter" and "Lord of the Rings". Bam- 2 out of 17, right off the bat!

	tulliuscicero:	Oct 22nd, 2010 at 20:25 GMT		4 points
	Amazing quiz. Really had to think for some of them.

	Stillwater100:	Oct 22nd, 2010 at 20:49 GMT		3 points
	I knew the name "Ben Mears," but I couldn't figure out where he was from. Turns out it's my favorite Stephen King book. D'oh!

	LinuxLinus:	Oct 22nd, 2010 at 21:19 GMT		2 points
	You should add some from Chabon's "Wonderboys" -- "Eight Solid Light-Years of Lead", by John Jose Fahey, or "The Love Parade" by James Leer. I always suspected that that book was a dumping ground for all the titles Chabon came up with but could never use.

	Todd1952SF:	Oct 22nd, 2010 at 22:01 GMT		10 points
	Possible typo in one of the clues: "Practical Instructions for Beta Empryo-Store Workers" -- Empryo with a "p"? Shouldn't that be Embryo with a "b"? It has been something 40 years since I read _Brave New World_ and I'm old now, so I suppose I could be wrong and Aldous Huxley might have used a strange spelling . . . .

	kristifree:	Oct 22nd, 2010 at 22:02 GMT		0 points
	My favorite book (well, the book within that book) is the least guessed!!! I'm depressed. It's such a fantastic read.

	KBHoleN1:	Oct 22nd, 2010 at 22:05 GMT		3 points
	@Todd, I saw that too and am 99% sure (Google confirmed) that it's just a typo. Should change it to embryo.

	westing1992:	Oct 22nd, 2010 at 22:26 GMT		2 points
	I don't think I'd want to read most of these; half sound technical, and the other half sound bad.

	randomhandle:	Oct 22nd, 2010 at 23:46 GMT		6 points
	Nothing from Slaughterhouse Five?

	TinyIrishPirate:	Oct 23rd, 2010 at 00:32 GMT		2 points
	I just finished a 4000 word paper based on the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and I'm still not sure what the clue means! It was sheer fluke I got it.

	millandas:	Oct 23rd, 2010 at 00:45 GMT		4 points
	HOW on earth did I miss the author Humbert Humbert!

	Yousername:	Oct 23rd, 2010 at 00:59 GMT		1 point
	I performed horribly, and kicked myself for not knowing the names of any Clancy books, or picking up 1984, but HUGE props for putting discworld and brave new world on there. You, sir, are awesome.

	toriver:	Oct 23rd, 2010 at 01:59 GMT		2 points
	If I had missed Carax it would have killed me! I read that book in the original Spanish, and recognized the name, but not the book title. It was nagging me all throughout the quiz until I remembered it just before the end!

	barnztormre:	Oct 23rd, 2010 at 03:20 GMT		1 point
	Nothing by Edmund Wells???????

	king21:	Oct 23rd, 2010 at 03:54 GMT		5 points
	No Breakfast of Champions? Kilgore Trout was made for this quiz.

	ScottLA:	Oct 23rd, 2010 at 03:58 GMT		3 points
	No middle ground on this quiz for me. The ones I knew, I knew instantly; the ones I didn't, I didn't even have an intelligent guess for.

	jajakes:	Oct 23rd, 2010 at 15:53 GMT		1 point
	"embryo"

	steel03:	Oct 23rd, 2010 at 16:01 GMT		2 points
	I didn't get many, but I at least got the ones I care about. I don't know how I could have lived with myself if I hadn't gotten 1984.

	PhiloKGB:	Oct 24th, 2010 at 04:40 GMT		4 points
	Mildly disappointed that the Hitchhiker's Guide series didn't make it. Anything by Oolon Colluphid, please.

	Endasil:	Oct 24th, 2010 at 06:38 GMT		3 points
	What I found a bit amusing, not really frustrating in any way, is that many of these titles aren't "fictional" books or stories as they would be viewed within the fictional universe. "The Fighting Sailor," for example, was a biography written for the C.I.A. In fact it seems the majority of titles here would be considered non-fiction.

	captjojo:	Oct 24th, 2010 at 12:53 GMT		4 points
	Wanted the Pratchett option to be "Where's my cow?"

	nrkikbut123:	Oct 24th, 2010 at 18:27 GMT		0 points
	Looked at the quiz, didn't see "Protocols of the elders of Tralfamadore," decided not to take it

	daHOOK:	Oct 24th, 2010 at 21:34 GMT		0 points
	No Hamlet?

	EmTeeZ:	Nov 1st, 2010 at 12:43 GMT		-1 points
	Sort of a lot of typos and weird errors... doesn't accept any form of "Arthur Conan Doyle", for instance, even the incorrect "Conan-Doyle". Also, it's "embryo".

	NotBurt:	Nov 12th, 2010 at 06:19 GMT		1 point
	Jorge Luis Borges dropped the names of a lot of made-up books in his short stories. I think The Princess Bride might qualify--the book described in the book is not the book itslef.

	o_line:	Dec 14th, 2010 at 14:29 GMT		2 points
	Actually, the embryo word shouldn't even be in the title of that one. The correct title is "Practical Instructions for Beta-Store Workers". There is another book called "Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo" in that same work.

	Mosheva:	Jan 12th, 2011 at 04:10 GMT		2 points
	Major oversight with not including any novel written by T.S Garp from Irving's "The World According to Garp"

	nd18:	Feb 21st, 2011 at 14:12 GMT		1 point
	Why does no one get Series of Unfortunate Events? That was the first one I got! GAH!

	catcherj:	Apr 12th, 2011 at 21:38 GMT		1 point
	I read "Catcher in the Rye" recently and I don't remember the book, but since I recognized the name Caulfield, I spent about 2 minutes trying more obscure Salinger works like "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" before just putting in "Catcher."

	fuzzbotN:	Jun 4th, 2011 at 23:39 GMT		1 point
	Nice quiz. I really should have gotten Rosemary's Baby, though. I've never read the book, but have seen the film a few times, and I knew All of Them Witches sounded very familiar.

	Constant_Reader:	Sep 13th, 2011 at 00:01 GMT		1 point
	What about "The Grasshopper Lies Heavy" from Philip K. Dick's "Man in the High Castle"?

	purple_frosting:	Jan 31st, 2012 at 14:30 GMT		1 point
	An Imperial Affliction?

	twain249:	Feb 9th, 2012 at 13:57 GMT		3 points
	I'm pretty sure "There and back again" from LOTR is supposed to be "The Hobbit" so it's kinda a real book

	Traditore:	Mar 5th, 2012 at 19:55 GMT		2 points
	"There and Back Again" isn't fictional at all, I agree with twain249, its just an alternate name for The Hobbit.

	pablo5116s:	Dec 5th, 2012 at 19:39 GMT		1 point
	Should add an entry for "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".... there are several other books referenced.

	Hannahmarie2806:	Jan 28th, 2013 at 22:06 GMT		1 point
	Feel a bit silly for forgetting to look at the authors- I might have got clues from that!!

	tom18:	Mar 16th, 2013 at 01:30 GMT		1 point
	figured the Necronomicon would be on here. that was made for this quiz.