The people who made them up
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Every volume here was invented by someone who does exist. These are the host authors — the people who put a book inside a book.
74 writers
- Terry Pratchett 12
- Jorge Luis Borges 9
- J. K. Rowling 8
- H. P. Lovecraft 4
- Frank Herbert 3
- Umberto Eco 3
- Vladimir Nabokov 3
- A. S. Byatt 2
- Amitav Ghosh 2
- J. M. Coetzee 2
- J. R. R. Tolkien 2
- José Saramago 2
- Robert E. Howard 2
- Roberto Bolaño 2
- Salman Rushdie 2
- Stanisław Lem 2
- Alan Moore 1
- André Gide 1
- Anton Chekhov 1
- Arthur Conan Doyle 1
- Arturo Pérez-Reverte 1
- Bruno Schulz 1
- Cao Xueqin 1
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón 1
- Chinua Achebe 1
- Clark Ashton Smith 1
- Cynthia Ozick 1
- Dan Simmons 1
- David Foster Wallace 1
- Doris Lessing 1
- Douglas Adams 1
- Fernando Pessoa 1
- Flann O'Brien 1
- Fyodor Dostoevsky 1
- Gabriel García Márquez 1
- Gene Wolfe 1
- George Eliot 1
- George Orwell 1
- Gustave Flaubert 1
- H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald 1
- Henry James 1
- Hermann Hesse 1
- Isaac Asimov 1
- Ismail Kadare 1
- Italo Calvino 1
- Jean-Paul Sartre 1
- Julio Cortázar 1
- Jun'ichirō Tanizaki 1
- Kurt Vonnegut 1
- Laurence Sterne 1
- Lev Grossman 1
- Lu Xun 1
- Marcel Proust 1
- Margaret Atwood 1
- Mario Vargas Llosa 1
- Mark Z. Danielewski 1
- Michael Ende 1
- Miguel de Cervantes 1
- Mikhail Bulgakov 1
- Neal Stephenson 1
- Orhan Pamuk 1
- Philip José Farmer 1
- Philip K. Dick 1
- Robert Bloch 1
- Robert W. Chambers 1
- Susanna Clarke 1
- Tayeb Salih 1
- Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman 1
- Thomas Pynchon 1
- Virginia Woolf 1
- Willa Cather 1
- William Goldman 1
- William Shakespeare 1
- Yōko Ogawa 1