Adapted from a metafiction media/reading list found on Wikipedia. Especially useful is the categorization by genre.

1 Novels, novellas and short stories
2 Films
3 Animated short films
4 Stage plays
5 Television shows
6 Comic strips, comic books and graphic novels

Novels, novellas and short stories
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• Ara 13, Drawers & Booths
• Peter Ackroyd, English Music
• Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
• 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
• 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
• John Barnes, Gaudeamus
• Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot
• John Barth, Chimera, Coming Soon!!!, The Floating Opera, Lost in the Funhouse
• Samuel Beckett, Watt
• Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein’s Neffe
• Jorge Luis Borges, “The Garden of Forking Paths”, “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”
• William S. Burroughs, Junkie, Naked Lunch, Queer
• Michel Butor, La Modification
• Richard Brautigan, Sombrero Fallout
• Steven Brust and collaborators, the Paarfi books, Five Hundred Years After
• A. S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance
• Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Tres tristes tigres
• Italo Calvino, If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler
• Peter Carey, Illywhacker
• Jonathon Carroll, The Land of Laughs
• Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
• J. M. Coetzee, Slow Man
• Brendan Connell, Dr. Black and the Guerrillia
• Douglas Cooper, Amnesia, Delirium
• Julio Cortazar, Rayuela, Hopscotch
• Douglas Coupland, jPod
• John Crowley, Little, Big, “Novelty”, Lord Byron’s Novel
• Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
• Peter David, Young Justice, Sir Apropos of Nothing
• Samuel R. Delany, The Einstein Intersection, Dhalgren, Return to Nevèrÿon
• 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
• Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
• Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park
• Gilad Elbom, Scream Queens of the Dead Sea
• Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
• Steve Erickson, “Arc d’X”, “The Sea Came in at Midnight”
• Raymond Federman, Twofold Vibration, Smiles on Washington Square, Take It Or Leave It
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
• Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots, Something Rotten, The Big Over Easy, The Fourth Bear
• Henry Fielding, The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and of his Friend Mr Abraham Adams
• Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice
• John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman
• Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
• Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World
• John Gardner, October Light
• William H. Gass, The Tunnel
• Andre Gide, The Counterfeiters
• William Goldman, The Princess Bride
• Alasdair Gray, Lanark
• Robert Grudin, Book
• Larry Heinemann, Paco’s Story
• Robert A. Heinlein, The Number of the Beast, Glory Road
• Douglas Hofstadter, dialogues in Gödel, Escher, Bach
• Rhys Hughes, Nowhere Near Milk Wood, The Postmodern Mariner, The Less Lonely Planet
• John Irving, The World According to Garp
• Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock
• Stephen King, The Dark Tower, Misery, The Dark Half, Bag of Bones
• Milan Kundera, “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting”
• Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
• Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
• David Lodge, Therapy
• Dimitris Lyacos, Nyctivoe
• Steve Lyons, Doctor Who Virgin New Adventures:Conundrum
• Barry N. Malzberg, Galaxies, Herovit’s World
• Yann Martell, Life of Pi
• Ian McEwan, Atonement
• Walter Moers, Die 13½ Leben des Käpt’n Blaubär, Ensel und Kretel, Die Stadt der Träumenden Bücher
• Michael Moorcock, The Second Ether sequence (Blood, Fabulous Harbours & The War Amongst The Angels)
• Scott O. Moore, Lullabye for Thunderstorms
• Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
• Vladimir Nabokov, The Gift, Lolita, Pale Fire, Look at the Harlequins!, Speak, Memory
• 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”
• Kenneth Patchen, The Journal of Albion Moonlight
• Milorad Pavić’s novels.
• Daniel Pellizzari, Dedo Negro Com Unha
• Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Club Dumas
• Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper
• Robert Rankin’s novels
• Alain Robbe-Grillet, La Jalousie, La maison de rendez-vous
• Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories
• Douglas Rushkoff, Exit Strategy
• José Carlos Somoza, The Athenian Murders
• José Saramago, Ensaio sobre a Cegueira, A Caverna, O Homem Duplicado
• Robert Sheckley, Options
• Iain Sinclair, Landor’s Tower
• Dan Sleigh, Islands
• Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler), A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 book series)
• Gilbert Sorrentino, Mulligan Stew
• Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy
• Jonathan Stroud, The Bartimaeus Trilogy
• J. R. R. Tolkien, Leaf by Niggle
• Roderick Townley, The Great Good Thing
• Terry Pratchett, Discworld, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
• Aritha van Herk, Restlessness
• Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla
• Jeff Vandermeer, City of Saints and Madmen
• Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge
• Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions, Slaughterhouse-Five, Bluebeard
• David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, 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
• Gene Wolfe, The Fifth Head of Cerberus
• Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography
• Ronald Wright, A Scientific Romance

Stage plays
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• Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot and Endgame
• Joseph Heller, We Bombed in New Haven
• Arthur L. Kopit, End of the World With Symposium to Follow
• Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy
• Ira Levin, Deathtrap
• Dimitris Lyacos, Nyctivoe
• Steve Martin, Picasso at the Lapin Agile
• Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author
• William Shakespeare, Hamlet
• 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
• Federico García Lorca, Play Without a Title / Untitled Play (1935)

Films
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• Robert Altman, The Player
• David Cronenberg, screenplay for eXistenZ and Naked Lunch
• David Fincher, Fight Club
• Peter Greenaway, The Baby of Mâcon
• Charlie Kaufman, screenplay for Adaptation
• David Lynch, Inland Empire
• George Nolfi, screenplay for Ocean’s Twelve
• Zak Penn, Adam Leff, Shane Black and David Arnott, screenplay for Last Action Hero
• Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman, screenplay for American Splendor
• A Cock and Bull Story, film adaptation of Tristram Shandy
• Some of Wyllis Cooper’s Quiet, Please
• Keith Allen and Peter Richardson’s Comic Strip film Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown, Stranger than Fiction
• Mel Brooks, Spaceballs: the Movie
• Wes Craven, New Nightmare, Scream

Animated short films
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• Chuck Jones, Duck Amuck, (1953) and Rabbit Rampage, 1955.

Television shows
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• The Simpsons
• Arrested Development
• It’s Garry Shandling’s Show
• Sean’s Show
• Princess Tutu

Comic strips, comic books, comic characters and graphic novels
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• Berke Breathed, Bloom County
• Penny Arcade, Epic Legends of the Hierarchs: The Elemenstor Saga
• John Byrne’s run on The Sensational She-Hulk
• Dan Slott’s run on She-Hulk
• Grant Morrison’s run on Animal Man and Doom Patrol, Flex Mentallo, The Filth
• Dave Sim, chapters “Minds” and “Guys” from his six thousand pages graphic novel Cerebus
• Deadpool and Purple Man
• Claudio Sanchez, Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Vol. 1, first half of the fourth chapter of The Amory Wars, The Writing Writer
• Triangle and Robert
• Alan Moore’s Promethea and Supreme
• Rich Burlew,The Order of the Stick
• The Joker
• Kristofer Straub, Checkerboard Nightmare

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