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- Novels, novellas and short stories Pre-20th century works Modern and contemporary works Children's books and young adult fiction
- Animated short films
- Stage plays Pre-20th century works Modern works Musicals
- Films
- Television shows
- Comic strips, comic books and graphic novels
- Interactive media and video games
- Web videos Multiple authors
- Artists' books
- References
This is a partial list of works that use metafictional ideas. Metafiction is intentional allusion or reference to a work's fictional nature. It is commonly used for humourous or parodic effect, and has appeared in a wide range of mediums, including writing, film, theatre, and video gaming. Novels, novellas and short stories{{see also|Category:Metafictional works}}Pre-20th century works- Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso
- Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
- Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
- Denis Diderot, Jacques the Fatalist
- Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
- Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
- William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
Modern and contemporary works- Peter Ackroyd, English Music
- Richard Adams, The Plague Dogs
- Rabih Alameddine, I, the Divine
- Felipe Alfau, Locos: A Comedy of Gestures
- Martin Amis, Money, London Fields, Time's Arrow, The Information
- Isaac Asimov, Murder at the ABA
- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
- Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy: City of Glass (1985), Ghosts (1986) and The Locked Room (1986)
- Nicholson Baker, The Mezzanine
- John Barnes, One for the Morning Glory
- Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
- John Barth, Chimera, Coming Soon!!!, The Floating Opera, The Sot-Weed Factor, Lost in the Funhouse among others
- Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
- Samuel Beckett, Watt
- Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein's Nephew
- Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives, 2666
- Jorge Luis Borges, "The Garden of Forking Paths", "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" among others
- Steven Brust and collaborators, the Paarfi books, especially Five Hundred Years After
- William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
- Michel Butor, Second Thoughts
- A. S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance
- James Branch Cabell, The Cream of the Jest
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Tres tristes tigres
- Italo Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveler
- Peter Carey, Illywhacker
- Jonathan Carroll, The Land of Laughs
- J. M. Coetzee, Slow Man
- Douglas Cooper, Amnesia, Delirium
- Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
- Douglas Coupland, jPod
- John Crowley, Little, Big, "Novelty", The Evening Land, The Solitudes (first book of the Ægypt cycle)
- Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
- Peter David, Young Justice, Sir Apropos of Nothing
- Samuel R. Delany, The Einstein Intersection, Dhalgren, Return to Nevèrÿon (series)
- Philip K. Dick, VALIS, The Man in the High Castle
- Joan Didion, Democracy
- Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of the Day Before, The Name of the Rose
- Jennifer Egan, The Keep
- Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
- Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park
- Harlan Ellison, "The Deathbird"
- Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
- Steve Erickson, Arc d'X, The Sea Came in at Midnight
- Steven Erikson, Dust of Dreams, Crack'd Pot Trail
- Raymond Federman, Twofold Vibration, Smiles on Washington Square, Take It Or Leave It
- Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots, Something Rotten, The Big Over Easy, The Fourth Bear
- Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
- Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier
- John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman
- Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World
- Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
- John Gardner, October Light, Grendel
- William H. Gass, The Tunnel
- André Gide, The Counterfeiters
- William Goldman, The Princess Bride
- Alasdair Gray, Lanark
- Robert Grudin, Book: A Novel
- Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
- Steven Hall, The Raw Shark Texts
- Larry Heinemann, Paco's Story
- Robert A. Heinlein, The Number of the Beast and Glory Road, at least.
- Douglas Hofstadter, dialogues in Gödel, Escher, Bach
- Marek Huberath, Nest of Worlds (Gniazdo światów)
- Rhys Hughes, Nowhere Near Milk Wood, The Postmodern Mariner, The Less Lonely Planet
- B. S. Johnson, Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry
- James Joyce, Ulysses, Finnegans Wake
- Stephen King, The Dark Tower, Misery, The Dark Half, Bag of Bones
- Michael Muhammad Knight, Osama Van Halen
- Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Stanisław Lem, A Perfect Vacuum, Imaginary Magnitude, Provocation, One Human Minute
- Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
- Joan Lindsay, Through Darkest Pondelayo
- Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
- David Lodge, Therapy, Nice Work
- Ki Longfellow, Houdini Heart
- Dimitris Lyacos, With the People from the Bridge
- Steve Lyons, Doctor Who Virgin New Adventures:Conundrum
- Barry N. Malzberg, Galaxies, Herovit's World
- Yann Martel, Life of Pi
- Ian McEwan, Atonement
- Shaun Micallef, Smithereens (book), Preincarnate (book), The President's Desk
- David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
- Spike Milligan, Puckoon
- Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear, Ensel und Kretel, The City of Dreaming Books
- Michael Moorcock, The Second Ether sequence (Blood, Fabulous Harbours & The War Amongst The Angels)
- Ethan Mordden, The Buddies Cycle
- Toni Morrison, Jazz
- John Muckle, London Brakes
- Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
- Vladimir Nabokov, The Gift, Pale Fire, Look at the Harlequins!
- Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds
- Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
- Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family
- Juan Carlos Onetti, El Pozo
- Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Diary, Haunted
- Grace Paley, A Conversation with my Father
- Kenneth Patchen, The Journal of Albion Moonlight
- Milorad Pavić's novels.
- John Pearson, The Authorized Biography of 007
- Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Club Dumas
- Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper
- Terry Pratchett, several of the Discworld, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
- Robert Rankin's novels
- Alain Robbe-Grillet, La Jalousie, La maison de rendez-vous
- Philip Roth, Operation Shylock
- Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Midnight's Children, Shalimar the Clown
- Douglas Rushkoff, Exit Strategy
- José Saramago, Blindness, The Cave, The Double
- Idries Shah, The Book of the Book
- Robert Sheckley, Options
- Dan Sleigh, Islands
- José Carlos Somoza, The Athenian Murders
- Gilbert Sorrentino, Mulligan Stew
- Muriel Spark, The Comforters
- Peter Straub, In the Night Room
- Jonathan Stroud, The Bartimaeus Trilogy
- Janet Tashjian, The Gospel According to Larry and Vote for Larry
- J. R. R. Tolkien, Leaf by Niggle
- Roderick Townley, The Great Good Thing
- Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla
- Aritha Van Herk, Restlessness
- Jeff VanderMeer, City of Saints and Madmen
- Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge
- Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions, Slaughterhouse-Five, Timequake
- David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
- H. G. Wells, Tono-Bungay
- Colin Wilson, The Personality Surgeon
- Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea, the Illuminatus! trilogy
- Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry, The Powerbook, Gut Symmetries
- Gene Wolfe, The Fifth Head of Cerberus, The Book of the New Sun "The Last Thrilling Wonder Story" among others
- Virginia Woolf, A Biography
- Ronald Wright, A Scientific Romance
Children's books and young adult fiction- Crockett Johnson, Harold and the Purple Crayon
- John Dougherty, the Stinkbomb & Ketchup-Face series
- Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
- Cornelia Funke, Inkheart trilogy
- Mordicai Gerstein, A Book
- Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson - Kobåj-Kurt (within the Bert Diaries)[1]
- Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock
- Arthur Ransome, Peter Duck, Missee Lee
- Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler), A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 book series)
- Mo Willems, We Are in a Book! (Elephant and Piggie series)
Animated short films- Chuck Jones, Duck Amuck (1953) and Rabbit Rampage (1955).
Stage playsPre-20th century works- Francis Beaumont, The Knight of the Burning Pestle
- Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Pericles, Prince of Tyre
- Manuel Tamayo y Baus, Un drama nuevo
Modern works- Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot, Endgame, etc.
- Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt, The Mighty Boosh (1998 stage show)
- Federico García Lorca, Play Without a Title / Untitled Play (1935)
- Joseph Heller, We Bombed in New Haven
- Arthur L. Kopit, End of the World With Symposium to Follow
- Ira Levin, Deathtrap
- Daniel MacIvor, Never Swim Alone and This Is A Play
- Steve Martin, Picasso at the Lapin Agile
- Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author
- Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
- Peter Weiss, Marat/Sade (The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of The Marquis de Sade)
- Thornton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth
- Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
MusicalsFilms- Keith Allen and Peter Richardson's Comic Strip film Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown
- Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo and Midnight in Paris
- Robert Altman's The Player
- Troy Duffy's Boondock Saints
- Michael Bacall and Jonah Hill's 22 Jump Street
- Steve Bendelack's The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
- Ingmar Bergman's Persona, The Magician, Prison and The Passion of Anna
- Colin Trevorrow's Jurassic World
- Mel Brooks's Blazing Saddles and Spaceballs
- John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness
- Wes Craven's Scream and Wes Craven's New Nightmare
- Wyllis Cooper's Quiet, Please scripts
- Francis Ford Coppola's Twixt
- Ricardo Costa's Drifts
- David Cronenberg's Videodrome, Naked Lunch and eXistenZ
- Tom DiCillo's Living In Oblivion
- Federico Fellini's 8½
- David Fincher's Fight Club
- Marc Forster's Stranger Than Fiction
- Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer's Epic Movie
- Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, and many of his other films of the 1960s
- Peter Greenaway's The Baby of Mâcon
- Kirt Gunn's Lovely By Surprise
- Michael Haneke's Funny Games
- Jim Henson's Muppets franchise (The Muppet Movie, The Great Muppet Caper, The Muppets Take Manhattan, The Muppet Christmas Carol, Muppet Treasure Island, Muppets from Space, The Muppets, & Muppets Most Wanted)
- Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York and Adaptation
- Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr.
- David Lynch's Inland Empire
- John McTiernan's Last Action Hero
- Coleman Miller’s Uso Justo
- Mike Myers and Michael McCullers's Austin Powers
- Andrew Niccol's The Truman Show
- Fabian Nicieza and Rob Liefeld's Deadpool and Deadpool 2
- Christopher Nolan's Inception
- Trey Parker's Bigger, Longer & Uncut
- Roman Polanski's What?
- Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman's American Splendor
- Tom Tykwer's Run Lola Run
- David Wain and Michael Showalter's They Came Together
- Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Buddy Johnson, Phil Beauman and Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer and Wes Craven's Scary Movie
- Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard's The Cabin in the Woods
- James Franco's Interior. Leather Bar.
- Michael Winterbottom's A Cock and Bull Story, a film adaptation of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy
- Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's Hot Fuzz
- Jaco Van Dormael's Mr. Nobody
- Saw Teong Hin's You Mean the World to Me (film)
Television shows- 30 Rock
- The Amazing World of Gumball
- American Dad!
- Arrested Development
- The Basil Brush Show
- The Brave and the Bold
- The Big O
- Black Mirror
- Boston Legal
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Chowder
- The Cleveland Show
- Community
- Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
- Doctor Who, in the episodes "The Mind Robber", "Blink", "Remembrance of the Daleks". "The Day of the Doctor", "Listen" and "Last Christmas"
- Drawn Together
- Ed, Edd n Eddy
- Entourage
- Family Guy
- The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'
- Girl Meets World
- The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
- Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi
- How I Met Your Mother
- It's Garry Shandling's Show
- Lady Dynamite
- The Mighty Boosh
- Moonlighting
- Monty Python's Flying Circus
- The Muppet Show
- The Muppets
- Murder, She Wrote
- Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy
- The Office (U.S. TV series)
- OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes
- Phineas and Ferb
- The Powerpuff Girls
- Princess Tutu
- Creators
- Back to Earth
- Rick and Morty
- Robot Chicken
- Scrubs
- Sean's Show
- The Simpsons
- South Park
- Supernatural, in the episodes "Hollywood Babylon", "The Monster at the End of this Book", "Lucifer Rising", "The Real Ghostbusters", "Swan Song", "The French Mistake" and "Fan Fiction"
- Ultimate Spider-Man
Comic strips, comic books and graphic novels- Berke Breathed, Bloom County
- Rich Burlew, The Order of the Stick
- John Byrne's run on The Sensational She-Hulk and Dan Slott's run on She-Hulk
- Mike Carey, The Unwritten, featuring characters coming from, and journeying into, fictional worlds
- Paul Cornell, IDW 2013 Doctor Who Special:The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who
- Jim Davis, Garfield
- Andrew Hussie, Homestuck
- Tatsuya Ishida, Sinfest
- Alan Moore, Promethea, Supreme and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Watchmen
- Grant Morrison, Animal Man, Doom Patrol, Flex Mentallo, The Filth, Batman R.I.P., Final Crisis and The Invisibles
- Stephan Pastis, Pearls Before Swine (comics)
- Claudio Sanchez, Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Vol. 1, first half of the fourth chapter of The Amory Wars presents a metafictional aspect to the story
- Dave Sim, chapters "Minds" and "Guys" from his graphic novel Cerebus
- Dan Slott, Spider-Verse
- Kristofer Straub, Checkerboard Nightmare
- Adam Warren, Empowered
- Mason Williams, 1/0
Interactive media and video games- Against Gravity, Rec Room
- Calendula
- Toby Fox, Undertale[2]
- Shigesato Itoi, Earthbound
- Daniel Mullins, Pony Island[2]
- Hideo Kojima, Metal Gear Solid
- Silicon Knights, Eternal Darkness
- Little Cat Feet, OneShot
- Josh Millard, Ennuigi
- Question, The Magic Circle[2]
- Ryukishi07, Umineko When They Cry
- Team Salvato, Doki Doki Literature Club!
- THQ, Saints Row: The Third, Saints Row 4
- Keiichiro Toyama, Silent Hill
- Davey Wreden, The Stanley Parable, The Beginner's Guide[2]
- Ivan "Mad" Zanotti, Imscared
- Kazutaka Kodaka, Killing Harmony
Web videos- To Boldly Flee
- How It Should Have Ended
- Harry Potter and the 10 Years Later
- Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
- CollegeHumor
- Cracked.com
- I'm a Marvel and I'm a DC
Multiple authors- The Marvel Comics characters Deadpool, Uatu the Watcher, Spider-Ham, Howard the Duck and Purple Man are all aware they are in a comic book.
- The DC Comics characters Ambush Bug and The Joker are aware that they are in a comic book.
- Penny Arcade frequently features metafiction, particularly their fantasy setting Epic Legends of the Hierarchs: The Elemenstor Saga, which has a detailed wiki devoted to it.
- The Ongoing Adventures of Rocket Llama is fiction with a metafictional history.
- Triangle and Robert is heavily metafictional.
Artists' books- Space Opera: The Artist's Book by Michael J. Weller
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