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In the front of every one of the Flashman novels is a Who's Who entry for Sir Harry Flashman, and it includes the titles of several books written by Flashy. Unfortunately I no longer have any of my old Flashman paperbacks, so can't quote them here.
Anthony Boucher, a crime and SF writer/editor among other things, wrote a splendid comic crime novel called "Rocket to the Morque" (1942). The plot revolves around the literary legacy of the late Fowler Foulkes, a noted author of the 1920s whose hero was a Sherlock Holmes-esque character called Dr Derringer.
Several genuine SF writers/editors appear in it, lightly disguised: Heinlein, John W Campbell and others, and a full bibliography of Fowler Foulkes' novels appears at the front of the book as an extract from another imaginary book: "Who's What in the USA".
Among the titles are "The Purple Light", "The Researches of Dr Derringer", "Beneath the Abyss", "The Crimson Prism" and numerous others.
And how about the best-known reference work in history, created by Carl Barks, who produced the Scrooge McDuck/Donald Duck/Huey Dewey and Louie adventure comics for Disney: "The Junior Woodchuck Manual", which must surely contain more material than Wikipedia, and yet fit in your pocket...
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