Libraries and librarians in fiction

Libraries and librarians are recurring elements in fiction.[1] Below is a list of notable fictional literary works, films and television episodes that are either set, either wholly or partially, in a library or in which a librarian features prominently. The year refers to the original release date of the work.

Books and comics

(Alphabetized by author's surname)

  • In Hiro Arikawa's Japanese light novel series Toshokan Sensō (2006-ongoing) (also the title of the series' first book), the Japanese government enacts a sweeping censorship law, which spawns a decades-long conflict with forces seeking to protect libraries.
  • Jorge Luis Borges' short story, "The Library of Babel" (1941), depicts a universe consisting of a library of hexagonal rooms.
  • In Ray Bradbury's science fiction novel, Fahrenheit 451 (1953), books are outlawed and some rebels fight back by memorizing works, making themselves living libraries.
  • Jen Swann Downey's The Ninja Librarian book series, which begins with The Ninja Librarians: The Accidental Keyhand (2014), follows a sword-wielding girl who apprentices herself to a secret society of warrior librarians whose job it is to protect writers from getting in trouble for the viewpoints and ideas they publish.
  • Umberto Eco's first novel, The Name of the Rose (1980), is a murder mystery revolving around the existence of a book in the library of a Benedictine monastery.
  • Stephen King's novella, The Library Policeman (September 1990[2]), is synopsized at King's official website as follows: "When a man forgets to return some books he borrowed from the library while writing a speech, and later accidentally destroys them, the phantom librarian who lent him the books sends the library policemen to terrorize him".[3]
  • In Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, The Librarian of the Unseen University is a recurring character that first appears in 1983.
  • Brandon Sanderson's young adult comic novel Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians (2007) is the first in a series about a young teen with an unusual skill, who finds himself battling against a cult of evil librarians who secretly rule the world.

Films

(Alphabetical by series or title)

Games

(Alphabetized by series or title)

  • Touhou Project (2003-present), also known as Project Shrine Maiden, is a series of Japanese bullet hell shooter video games developed by the single-person Team Shanghai Alice that features at least two libraries: a private library inside the Scarlet Devil Mansion, owned by Pautcholi Knowledge, and a book store set inside the Human village of Gensokyou, Suzunaan, which sells books with an option of borrowing them for a small fee.

Television

(Alphabetical by series, then chronological by episode)

See also

References
  1. The Library World. 6. Library Supply Company. 1904. pp. 126–130.
  2. "Written Works - A to Z: The Library Police (First published September 1990)". StephenKing.com.
  3. King, Stephen. "The Library Policeman Synopsis". StephenKing.com.

Further reading
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