 | Northanger Abbey (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 The heroine of this book loves the gothic novels of Austen's time, leading her into wild surmises and letting Austen share her literary views.
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 | Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones
Buy used from: £19.97 Fantastic book, provides the perfect childhood reading list!
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 | The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next) by Jasper Fforde
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Clever clever book, full of literary references and even Mr Rochester!
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 | To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
Buy new: £4.81 / Used from: £1.51 Based on Three men in a boat, one of my favourite classics.
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 | The Penelopiad : the Myth of Penelope and Odysseus by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £8.01 / Used from: £1.49 Haunting short novel based on The Odessy (which to my mind classifys as a book!)
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 | Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Buy used from: £0.01 This book makes all those old french writers sound amazingly exciting and appealing.
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 | Lazy Ways to Make a Living by Abigail Bosanko
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Another one referencing Jane Eyre, in which Rose/Jane takes her Rochester's money, and no one burns to death or goes blind. Wins prizes for mentioning other books too.
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 | The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.06 This may not count, as an abridgement of a book which may not technically exist, but it goes in anyway, because it's good.
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 | The Name of the Rose (Vintage Classics) by Umberto Eco
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.19 Again this may not count, as it's about everything, not just books, but with allusions to sherlock holmes and a library setting, it qualifies.
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 | Bored Of The Rings (Gollancz S.F.) by The Harvard Lampoon
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 Possibly the funniest ever parody, and worth a full size edition, even if it is too 60s and american for me to get all the jokes.
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