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From: Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Easiest Summer Reading List Ever!
Date: Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:07 +0100
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On 24/05/2025 16:01, Michael F. Stemper wrote:
> I would have sworn that, some years back, somebody linked here to an 
> image of a
> bookshelf filled with fictitious titles. My search skills aren't up to 
> recovering
> it, though.
Do you mean, a bookshelf that appears to contain
books which are only titles mentioned in reasonably
well-known fiction?  Like Terry Pratchett's
"Necrotelicomnicon" / "Liber Paginarum Fulvarum"
(Book of Yellow Pages).

Its wiki entry digresses that "Ye Tantric Booke of
Sexe Magicke" is kept in a refrigerated cell at the
bottom of a vat of crushed ice.  So, shouldn't be
on the shelf, unless seen smouldering.

On the other hand, characters in Phil and Kaja
Foglio's _Girl Genius_ webcomic are ardent
bibliophiles.  If not in the story, then
some out-of-sequence illustrations, I think,
had interesting book titles, either their own,
or borrowed from Asimov etc.  But the comic is in
thousands of pages.

Here's the start of an out-of-sequence story
involving dragons and librarians - dragons also
are bibliophiles, it seems.  Anything you can
?horse, I suppose.  But light on book titles near
the start.
<https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20220826>