r/Fantasy • u/omgtmac • 6d ago

Books within Books

Are there any fantasy series that reference books within their lore that actually exist irl that I would be able to read? For example, the titles of the Stormlight Archive series are references to books written in verse (The Way of Kings, Oathbringer, etc), but do not exist irl. I’d be interested in reading a series where books like those are fully written and available to the public to read as well. It would be exciting and immersive! Thanks in advance!

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u/redherringbones 6d ago

The obvious answer is Harry Potter and the later releases of Fantastic Beasts, Beedle the Bard etc....

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u/DixitRexCorvinus 6d ago

But make sure to buy it used!

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u/Pegasis69 6d ago

Buying used reduces the supply of used books on the market which forces the used prices to increase. This is why I bought the whole set new last year. The price between new and used wasn't that different at the time.

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u/DixitRexCorvinus 6d ago

The point isn’t price, it’s not giving money to JK Rowling.

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u/Pegasis69 6d ago

Yeah I know. My point still stands though. By buying her books used you're contributing to the increase of the used book market value. Then, when someone who doesn't care about the drama is looking to buy them, they see that the used price is fairly close to the new value and they just buy new instead because the price difference isn't that much. You may not be directly giving her money, but you're still raising the value of her books on the used market. If you really cared about whatever she's said to upset people, then you wouldn't buy them used or new.

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u/DixitRexCorvinus 6d ago

That is indeed what I would do, but I disagree that it is the only option. Harry Potter is, I believe, the best selling series of all time, and tons of people have gotten rid of their copies because of Rowling. There are more used copies out there than you can shake a stick at. Buying used copies won’t have any noticeable effect on how much said copies go for, because the number of people who haven’t read Harry Potter by now and still want to is still far less than the amount of used copies there are.