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* ''Series/BirdsOfAFeather'': The {{Revival}} reveals that Dorien became a famous author by releasing "Sixty Shades of Green", an extremely steamy memoir. This ends up getting her in trouble with the legal team behind Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey.

* ''Film/BlackMirrorBandersnatch'' follows Stefan's efforts to adapt a {{Gamebook}}s called ''Bandersnatch'' into a video game.

* Creator/JorgeLuisBorges ''loved'' this trope. The biggest example is the collection of short stories called ''El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan'', where all the stories were are fictional books.

* The Sunken Scrolls in the ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' series are a set of miscellaneous documents and fragments that can be found scattered throughout the Octarian domes, most of which contain bits of information regarding [[StoryBreadcrumbs the games' backstory and lore]]. The contents of the scrolls vary widely, and include newspaper clippings, historical photographs, [[FictionalPainting paintings]], scematics of Octarian technology, sheet music, propaganda and recruitment posters, ''Hyakunin Isshu'' cards, [[SacredScripture religious texts]], and much, much more.

** Suzy in ''Film/MoonriseKingdom'' packed six YA novels when she ran way: ''Shelly and the Secret Universe'', ''The Girl from Jupiter'', ''Disappearance of the 6th Grade'', ''The Francine Odysseys'' by Gertrude Price, ''The Light of Seven Matchsticks'', and ''The Return of Auntie Lorraine''.

* ''I Believe'', the auto-biography that Brittas writes between Series 4 and 5 of ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire''.

* Pretty much all of the 11 backup features in ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'', in addition to the comic book ''Tales from the Black Freighter''. The comic contains these documents for real in the sense of containing their actual texts and illustrations. (This does mean ''Under the Hood'' is a very short book, even though it sounds credible enough when you read it.)

* Similar to the ''Watchmen'' example, there's also Alan Moore's ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier'', in which the titular Black Dossier is a Fictional Document, containing excerpts from other Fictional Documents: Oliver Haddo (of ''The Magician'')'s "On the Descent of the Gods"; British comic strip ''Trump'''s "Life of Orlando"; a lost Shakespeare play entitled ''Faerie's Fortunes Founded''; a sequel to ''Fanny Hill''; a Jeeves and Wooster story detailing an encounter with a Great Old One; and a novel, ''The Crazy Wide Forever'', by Kerouac's alter ego Sal Paradyse, as well as a pornsec booklet as produced by the Minitrue of Literature/NineteenEightyFour. Earlier volumes also included an Allan Quatermain short story, a traveler's almanac, and various fictional Victorian advertisements, posters, postcards, &c. as AllThereInTheManual-type extra features.

* ''Comicbook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'' features fictional Earth-C versions of some DC Comics characters. Captain Carrot in his alter ego works as a writer/artist for his world's DC Comics, writing stories about "Super-Squirrel", "Wonder Wabbit", "the Batmouse", and the "Just'a Lotta Animals" (though the Zoo Crew later discovered that their "fictional" comics characters were actually real, on the parallel world of Earth-C-Minus).

** Marvel Comics, which in the Marvel Universe for the most part are licensed by the heroes depicted in them. For a time, [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]] was put in charge of drawing the Captain America comicbook.

* In ''Comicbook/{{Empowered}}'' mention is made of a lot of slash fan-fiction especially involving the male Superhomeys. Some of the latter was written by Emp herself using a pseudonym.

* In ''Fanfic/AThingOfVikings'', each chapter opens with epigraphs that are presented extracts from various books that will be published in the future of the new history where trained dragons become a common part of human civilistion, ranging from historical books providing brief hints about the human characters' future histories to some details about dragon biology.

* ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'':
** The first book, ''Literature/TheWayOfKings'', is named after an in-universe book written by an ancient king teaching what it means to rule. The Knights Radiant used it as the basis of their Orders. It is considered borderline heretical in modern Alethkar, since it teaches such ridiculous things as "[[AristocratsAreEvil nobles should act responsibly]]" and "[[BloodKnight fighting isn't always the best solution]]."
** The second book, ''Literature/WordsOfRadiance'', is named after an in-universe book chronicling the history of the Knights Radiant, their abilities, and their ethics. It was written a few centuries after the Orders had already fallen, though, so it's not perfectly reliable.
** The third book, ''Literature/{{Oathbringer}}'', is named after an in-universe book [[spoiler:written by Dalinar (after Navani taught him to read) chronicling the events of his life up to that point]]. The book in turn is named after the Shardblade Oathbringer, which once belonged to the first man to unite Alethkar, and was Dalinar's Blade for most of his life.
** The fourth book, ''Literature/RhythmOfWar'', is named after the in-universe book made from the compiled notes of the Fused Raboniel and the human Navani. Specifically, it regards their notes on the various types of Investiture Light and how the Rhythms of Roshar affect them. [[spoiler:The book centers mostly on the Rhythm of War, the combination of the Rhythm of Honor (which creates Stormlight) and the Rhythm of Odium (which creates Voidlight). Together, they create Warlight]].

** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-140 SCP-140]] details the history of ancient history of the evil Daeva empire. Unfortunately, SCP-140 allows that history to become ''less'' ancient, since it's a RealityWritingBook which [[{{Retconjuration}} retroactively extends the history of the empire forwards in time]] by writing more about Daeva any time it comes in contact with fluid capable of being used for writing (which includes blood). If the book's history ever catches up with the present day, then our current reality would cease to be, replaced with one where the Daeva rule.

** The third book, ''Literature/{{Oathbringer}}'', is named after an in-universe book [[spoiler:written by Dalinar (after Navani taught him to read) chronicling the events of his life up to that point]]. The book in turn is named after the Shardblade Oathbringer, which once belonged to the first man to unite Alethkar.

* One of the many details of the final draft script of ''Film/ANewHope'' that didn't make it into the finished cut of the movie [[note]]Along with the scene where Luke's friend Biggs (who was killed in the Death Star attack) was introduced and a large amount of George Lucas's legendarily awful dialogue that was script-doctored out of existence[[/note]] but preserved in Creator/AlanDeanFoster's novelization was the ''Journal of the Whills'', which seems to have been intended as a history of the Empire and its collapse. This does get a few sly references in the movies, especially the prequels; it's amazing how awesome [[UnreliableNarrator R2-D2]] (who supposedly told the story to the Willis) gets when nobody's looking...

%%* Craig Thomas has used this in his novels, such as ''Wolfsbane'', ''Sea Leopard'' and ''Literature/{{Firefox}}''.