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Fiction Featuring Authors as Characters

End of Story, Peter Abrahams

The Tale of Cuckoo Brow Wood: The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter,*
Susan Wittig Albert

Grace Notes, Charlotte Vale Allen

Lint, Steve Aylett

The Sea, John Banville

Dying Flames,* Robert Barnard

Death of a Bore: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery, M.C. Beaton

Shipwreck, Louis Begley

Envy, Sandra Brown

Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon

Fire Bell in the Night: A Western Story, Tim Champlin

Elizabeth Costello, J.M. Coetzee

That Summer in Paris, Abha Dawesar

Wild Orchids, Jude Deveraux

Oscar Wilde Discovers America, Louis Edwards

Meteor in the Madhouse, Leon Forrest

Death at King Arthur’s Court: A Lyon and Bea Wentworth Mystery,* Richard Forrest

The Divine Husband, Francisco Goldman

Errors and Omissions, Paul Goldstein

Artificial Light, James Greer

Foul Matter, Martha Grimes

The Other Side of the Story, Marian Keyes

Misery, Stephen King

The History of Love, Nicole Krauss

Lost Hearts in Italy, Andrea Lee

Author, Author, David Lodge

The Circle, Peter Lovesey

Men in Kilts, Katie MacAlister

Tough Guys Don’t Dance, Norman Mailer

The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril, Paul Malmont

Sleeping Beauty, Phillip Margolin

Fat Ollie’s Book: A Novel of the 87th Precinct, Ed McBain

Maggie Without a Clue,* Kasey Michaels

Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath, Kate Moses

Siegfried, Harry Mulisch

Half a Life, V.S. Naipaul

Heir to the Glimmering World, Cynthia Ozick

The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl

Gatsby’s Girl, Caroline Preston

The Story Teller, Arthur Reid

NNNNN, Carl Reiner

Mohr, Frederick Reuss

Light Before Day, Christopher Rice

The Problem of the Surly Servant: A Charles Dodgson/Arthur Conan Doyle Mystery,* Roberta Rogow

The Golems of Gotham, Thane Rosenbaum

The Devil and Daniel Silverman, Theodore Roszak

Poison, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

The Mask of Red Death: An Edgar Allen Poe Mystery,* Harold Schechter

Unless, Carol Shields

The Confession, Olen Steinhauer

In the Night Room, Peter Straub

Blinding Light, Paul Theroux

The Master, Colm Tóibín

The Book of Salt, Monique T.D. Truong

The Few Things I Know About Glafkos Thrassakis, Vasiles Vasilikos

Gotham Tragic, Kurt Wenzel

Cameo Lake, Susan Wilson

Fireworks, Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop

Nerds Who Kill, Mark Richard Zubro

*this novel is part of a series featuring an author

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