* ''Literature/AlmostNight'' series is an affectionate parody of ''Buffy'' and ''Twilight''.
* ''The Antarctic Express'', a parodic mashup of ''Literature/ThePolarExpress'' and [[Creator/HPLovecraft Lovecraft's]] ''Literature/AtTheMountainsOfMadness''.
* ''Backstage Lensman'' was Randal Garrett's Affectionate Parody of E.E. "Doc" Smith's Literature/{{Lensman}} series. How affectionate? According to Garrett, Smith spent a whole convention laughing over an early draft and then suggested changes that made it even better.
* ''Literature/BenTo'' is one for the average shounen FightingSeries, taking SeriousBusiness to extreme levels (half-priced lunch boxes), parodying the nom-du-guerres of each character, etc.
* ''Literature/BoredOfTheRings'' is, naturally, an affectionate parody of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. The affection is frequently difficult to spot, but the brilliant extended spoof of Tolkien's foreword and prologue is testament to how the book is genuinely funny only when it takes the original wording ''nearly'' word-for-word.
* ''Literature/{{Bunnicula}}'' crosses into this territory most of the time, arguably providing some sorts of horror at times, and even provides some mystery and comedy.
* ''{{Literature/Casabianca}}'': innumerable parodies, especially ''Casabazonka'' by Creator/SpikeMilligan, are collectively vastly better known than the original.
* Creator/SandyMitchell's ''Literature/CiaphasCain'' novels are a weird case. While their main purpose is to point out and spoof the more ridiculous aspects of the ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' universe, they actually take place in it, and are apparently considered canon. So, it's a strange blend of this trope and SelfDeprecation.
* ''Literature/CityOfDevils'' and its sequels ''Literature/FiftyFeetOfTrouble'' and ''Literature/WolfmanConfidential'' are affectionate parodies of both FilmNoir and monster movies, with a lot of the comedy coming from how these two genres interact.
* ''Dan the Barbarian'' by Hondo Jinx is set in the kind of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' setting you'd expect from a fairly incompetent and immature GameMaster - [[WorldOfBuxom filled with well-endowed women]] who [[AllWomenAreLustful are all dying to have sex with player characters]], brimming with [[AnachronismStew anachronisms]] and [[FantasyKitchenSink mismatched elements]] that the GM crammed into the supposed MedievalEuropeanFantasy setting just because he thought it was cool, with wizards who are all either [[IneptMage bumbling comic relief]] or ''[[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity extremely powerful and insane]]'' comic relief. And of course, every problem can be solved by hitting it with a sword. The fact that it's all deeply stupid is thoroughly lampshaded, but in a light-hearted way that makes it clear that the author is a fan of the genre.
* ''The Defense of Hill 781'' is an affectionate parody of the US Army where the souls of dead soldiers [the Nevada National Training Center for [[HellIsWar purgatory]]. With the implication of course that there is [[TheSpartanWay no more purgatorial a place]] on Earth to base it on.
* Very early ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novels were an affectionate parody of fantasy {{cliche}}s (and some specific settings). As the series continued, elements of this still popped up, but the focus shifted to parodying just about everything, with Pratchett's humanism and humor keeping things fairly affectionate.
* ''Documents in the Case of Elizabeth Akeley'' by Richard Lupoff is a sequel and parody of Creator/HPLovecraft's CosmicHorrorStory short story ''Literature/TheWhispererInDarkness''.
* ''[[Literature/NationalLampoonsDoon Doon]]'' was put out by National Lampoon (a spin-off of ''The Harvard Lampoon,'' who put out ''Bored of the Rings''). It's a clever parody of ''Dune,'' covering everything from the complex ecosystem of Dune to Herbert's writing style (e.g., "it is a France-like thing"; "Girl-Children Just Want to Have Pleasure-Fun").
* ''Literature/EarthCentAmbassador'' is a GovernmentProcedural {{comedy}} InSpace, with nary a sci-fi trope left un-parodied and a lot of humor coming from CultureClash between aliens and humans.
* The ''Literature/EnchantedForestChronicles'' are affectionate parodies of fairy tales in general. This includes but is not limited to "Literature/SleepingBeauty" (Cimorene's "Great Aunt Rose, who was asleep for a hundred years") and "Literature/{{Rumpelstiltskin}}" (a dwarf who ends up raising over a dozen children because he always asked the girls to guess his name, but they never could, even after he changed it, so he had to take their babies).
* The first part of the essay ''Ernest Hemingway'' by Dwight [=MacDonald=] parodies Hemingway's style of narrative.
* Creator/GeorgeRRMartin, the author of ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', once wrote a short story where his character Jaime Lannister fights in an UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny against Rand al'Thor, the hero of Robert Jordan's ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime''. When writing about his late friend's characters, Martin did an exaggerated, yet fond, pastiche that mocks without being mean.
* ''Literature/GoodOmens'' spoofs ''Film/TheOmen'' and other fictional tales of the [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt end times]].
* ''Literature/GoodnightGoon'': Of Literature/GoodnightMoon.
* ''Literature/GonnaBeTheTwinTail'' is basically what you get when you run ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' through as many {{Light Novel|s}} tropes as possible, all the while gleefully poking fun at the general goofiness of ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' (the anime adaptation's screenwriter has experience with ''Akibaranger'', after all).
* ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' is this for every previous anime set in a high school, and [[FollowTheLeader probably a lot of the ones that came after it, too]].
* ''Literature/{{Hieroglyphics}}'': Preferred to a DeconstructiveParody because "art, you may feel quite assured, proceeds always from love and rapture, never from hatred and disdain". A deconstructive satire, therefore, will lack the ecstasy that would (potentially) be present in an affectionate one.
* ''Literature/HowToBeASuperhero'' is a sharp but affectionate parody of {{Super Hero}}es and their related tropes.
* The original ''Literature/HowlsMovingCastle'' is an affectionate send-up of many, many fairy tale tropes, as it's set in a world where the laws of fairy tales are as highly regarded as the laws of physics, and the protagonist is a young woman who, by those rights, ought to be the least successful person in the world (the [[YoungestChildWins oldest sister]] who also happens to be a half-sibling). Interestingly, [[Anime/HowlsMovingCastle the movie]] played the fairy tale elements straight, but [[AdaptationExplanationExtrication kept some of the details without their parodic element]] -- so while heroine Sophie still laments being the eldest and still thinks she's horribly plain compared to her younger sister, she doesn't mention how the YoungestChildWins or how she thinks she's an ugly stepsister.
* ''Literature/IfHerFlagBreaks'' is a gentle parody of the HaremGenre, by infusing it with RapidFireComedy and packing in pretty much every CharacterArchetype LoveInterest ever invented for it, then exaggerating said characters.
* Literature/JamesBond in the original Creator/IanFleming novels was actually a parody of spy thrillers of the time. [[ParodyDisplacement That didn't last in the public's eye as long as him]].
** Note that this makes ''Film/AustinPowers'', ''Film/OurManFlint'', and ''Series/GetSmart'' parodies of a parody.
** And the animated ''Inspector Gadget'' is a parody of a parody of a parody...
* Creator/EdwardEager's ''Knight's Castle'' parodies Literature/{{Ivanhoe}} and E. Nesbit's ''The Magic City''.
* ''Literature/TheLastUnicorn'' (Creator/PeterSBeagle) , ''Literature/ThePrincessBride'' (Creator/WilliamGoldman) and ''Literature/{{Stardust}}'' (Creator/NeilGaiman) are all affectionate parodies of fairy tale conventions, although the foremost is occasionally taken more seriously.
* The ''Literature/MissMarple'' story ''Literature/TheBodyInTheLibrary'' is actually a parody of a then-popular SubGenre of mystery stories involving bodies being found in the library of a BigFancyHouse. Generally, the library which would turn out to have all sorts of secrets, mysterious passageways, and generally unusual and uncommon features which would then explain how the murder was committed. Christie parodied the form by inverting it; in her story, the library was completely and utterly normal in every way, but the body found within it was very unusual.
* ''Literature/NorthangerAbbey'', Jane Austen's first novel, was an affectionate parody of gothic romances.
%%* Likewise Bret Harte's Selina Sedilia. - Zero Context Example; needs expansion.
* ''Literature/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'' is probably the [[QuirkyWork weirdest]] infatuated parody of the Franchise/CthulhuMythos ever made. It also makes fun of many trappings of the {{otaku}} lifestyle, as well as the HaremGenre.
* The novel ''Other People's Heroes'' is this of superhero comics. Set in a world where superhero fights are staged like professional wrestling matches, the story explains away many of the goofier conventions of the genre as products of this system -- superhero team-ups happen when the main hero's back-up has to help him with a performance, characters "die" when the person playing that role decides to retire, and frequent superhero resurrections happen because a retired actor has blown through his savings in a few months and needs to come out of retirement. And of course, it's all driven by marketing.
* In ''Literature/PaperTowns'', Omnictionary is an online encyclopedia which attempts to be a go-to source for everything but tends to suffer from narrow interest pools and vandalism, which should put one in mind of a [[{{Website/Wikipedia}} certain website that we are not]]. Similarly, Radar is an obvious Affectionate Parody of the sort of people who ''use'' said site.
* Creator/CTPhipps is fond of doing these for multiple genres:
** ''Literature/TheCyberDragonsTrilogy'': The series is a ''lot'' less serious than ''Literature/AgentG'' and involves copious amount of snark, lampshade hangings, and ridiculous situations that our heroes have to fight their way out of. Multiple references are made to other cyberpunk series and how weird it is the world ended up identical to them.
** ''Literature/MoonCopsOnTheMoon'': Moon Cops is one to the {{Cyberpunk}} genre and HardBoiledDetective stories in general, being set on a dystopian corporate-run WretchedHive where robots as well as humans interact but its protagonists are all By-the-Book Cop types trying to do good.
** ''Literature/SpaceAcademy'' is one long extended parody of military science fiction and ''Star Trek'' in particular with a focus on all the various things necessary to have the setting work. This included TransplantedHumans, StarfishAliens, and the struggles between idealism vs. pragmatism with just a...wacky wacky crew that includes a sexbot, bounty hunter, lizardman, and psychic spy.
** ''Literature/TheSupervillainySaga'' is much of the same with the series being a parody of virtually every single era of superhero comics ranging from the Golden Age to Iron Age to Modern Marvel Cinematic Universe as all having taken place in one world. It also handles everything from impractical superhero outfits to the revolving door of death.
** The ''Literature/WraithKnight'' is an AffectionateParody of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' but with a subtler take than most. It's a DownplayedTrope example, as the story is entirely serious and really you need to know J.R.R Tolkien intimately to get all the references, but the entire book includes innumerable digs at the typical Tolkien pastiche as well as assumptions of the original work. These include AlwaysChaoticEvil races, the omnibenevolence of supernatural beings, the "Return of the King" being anything other than a usurpation, CantArgueWithElves, and that smaller weaker races wouldn't get swept up in events.
* ''Literature/PleaseDontTellMyParentsImASupervillain'' pokes a lot of fun at superhero comics. However, at the same time, there are darker elements; apparently one of the reasons that hero/villain fights remain nonlethal is because whenever a villain starts getting too violent, the other villains provide their name to the hero Mourning Dove, and the offender "[[TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch accidentally]]" gets killed in a fight with her.
* Creator/JamesThurber's story "The Scotty Who Knew Too Much" is an affectionate, but unflinching, parody of the Hard-boiled detective genre.
* ''Literature/TheScumVillainsSelfSavingSystemRenZhaFanpaiZijiuXitong'' pokes fun at the [[MediaTransmigration transmigration]] and [[HaremGenre harem]] genres in a light-hearted fashion.
* ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'': Handler started off trying to write the sort of gothic, bloodthirsty children's stories he wanted to read when he was a child, and most of the books take off one genre or another, occasionally straying into {{Deconstruction}} territory)
--> '''Handler (At a Book Reading at Washington College):''' "Is it so wrong that I wanted to read books where terrible things happened to small children over and over?"
* ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'' is a good-natured send-up of HeroicFantasy novels, games, and anime.
* ''Snooze: The Best of Our Magazine'' (1986) is supposed to be a collection of writing from ''Magazine/TheNewYorker''. (It even includes parodies of the kind of cartoon found in the magazine, and also things like filler paragraphs and drawings.) It qualifies as an Affectionate Parody because only people who read the ''New Yorker'' would relate to ''Snooze'', and at least two ''New Yorker'' writers contributed to it.
* ''Literature/SnowCrash'' takes just everything associated with CyberPunk and makes it so [[RefugeInAudacity insanely absurd]] that it can't be taken seriously. Only it can. The novel with the protagonist whose name is Hiro Protagonist best hacker, pizza delivery mafia hit man, world's greatest katana master, and freaking ''gatling railgun'' wielder nonetheless is the star of one of the most exemplary cyberpunk books ever written.
* ''[[Literature/SpaceForce2018 Space Force]]'' by Jeremy Robinson: Of high big-budget action scifi action movies like ''Film/IndependenceDay'' and ''Film/{{Battleship}}'' where AmericaSavesTheDay and a RagtagBandOfMisfits comes together to save the world. Our protagonists are the absolute last people in the world who would be chosen to defend the Earth and bumble through the situation mostly through luck. They also get a substantial amount of help from other nations that are better qualified and more capable. Also, who would have been able to have helped greatly if our heroes hadn't killed most of them.
* ''Literature/TheToughGuideToFantasyland'' is a fictional "tour guide" to a fantastic kingdom known as Fantasyland, implied to be the setting for every fantasy novel ''ever.'' It reads a bit like Website/TVTropes itself in potentia, and is full of snide, snarky, and sideways humor at the expense of some of the more exhausting tropes. According to some reports, Diana Wynne Jones wrote some of the book after judging an amateur fantasy contest, which would explain a few things; however, it's more likely that someone was confused and, as the AboutTheAuthor section mentions, the book was actually a result of working on the ''Literature/TheEncyclopediaOfFantasy''.
** Her novel ''Literature/DarkLordOfDerkholm'', although never explicitly stated as such, seems to be set largely within the "Fantasyland" universe, and spends a lot of time skewering perceptions of what a fantasy kingdom must be like. However, it also becomes a {{Deconstruction}} of the concept, because Fantasyland is being ''forced'' into complying with many of these rules. Having a MedievalStasis and a land constantly ravaged by a BigBad is not particularly natural, or healthy for the economy or culture of the world.
** Topping off the "trilogy" is ''Literature/YearOfTheGriffin,'' which turns the skewers on the WizardingSchool genre. In addition to having a stable of students with comically over-the-top backstories and insane amounts of talent, the majority of the staff are also quite literally incompetent (not precisely by their own fault; they were trained in bad circumstances) and the main character is, of course, [[LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy a talking griffin in a school full of humans.]] One of the characters is also a short, squat, bone-wearing, immensely hairy, [[ChildProdigy squeaky-voiced and pubescent]] [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame dwarf]].
* Literature/TheTumbleweedDossier is an affectionate parody of ''Series/TheXFiles''.
* Lisa Papademetriou's ''Literature/TheWizardTheWitchAndTwoGirlsFromJersey'' is an affectionate parody of children's/YA fantasy tropes. Two girls from the real world end up in Galma, a land that bears more than a passing similarity to Narnia, Middle Earth, Oz, and other beloved fictional settings. Even as fun is poked at each element, they are also taken seriously on their own terms.