Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia famous among teachers as an unacceptable reference and among students as an introductory source on nearly all knowledge thus far acquired by humans, maintains a surprisingly authoritative list of books that don't actually exist. You can take a look at the list here:
List of fictional books
Note that the list is not concerned with works of fiction so much as it is with works that exist only in the prose of writers of fiction. I say that Wikipedia's list is surprising, but those who are familiar with the site shouldn't be surprised at all. The flagship of the Wikimedia Foundation is well-curated, with over four million articles in English and a large pack of editors who zealously and expeditiously smite even reasonable minor edits to articles when they don't come from an acceptable source. Thousands of people at least have contributed to Wikipedia's list of books that don't exist in this universe, and the list extends to a dizzying height.
Since I don't have very much clever to say about fictional books, here's a video of Carl Sagan talking about books that do exist:
Woah. That's a lot of fake books.
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