BookJumpr: books mentioned inside other books

Updated October 20, 2026 · 5,950 books · 8,727 mentions

BookJumpr maps the books mentioned inside other books: when a character reads one, quotes one, or name-drops one. It covers 5,950 books and 8,727 mentions, most with the line where it happens. Pick a book, see every book it mentions and every book that mentions it, and jump from one to the next.

A few connections

• Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami) mentions The Catcher in the Rye: “No War and Peace, no Kenzaburo Oe, no Catcher in the Rye.”
• Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) mentions Romeo and Juliet: “Upstairs in his room the Savage was reading Romeo and Juliet.”
• Franny and Zooey (J. D. Salinger) mentions Peter Pan: “Even before the curtain goes up at 'Peter Pan,' I'm a goddam puddle of tears.”
• The Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger) mentions Oliver Twist: “He's carrying this copy of Oliver Twist and so's she.”
• The Marriage Plot (Jeffrey Eugenides) mentions Invisible Cities: “a girl ... was smoking a clove cigarette and reading Invisible Cities”

The most-mentioned books

1. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, mentioned in 82 books
2. Hamlet by William Shakespeare, mentioned in 78 books
3. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, mentioned in 68 books
4. A Thousand and One Nights by Anonymous, mentioned in 61 books
5. Iliad by Homer, mentioned in 54 books
6. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, mentioned in 51 books
7. Paradise Lost by John Milton, mentioned in 45 books
8. King Lear by William Shakespeare, mentioned in 39 books
9. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, mentioned in 38 books
10. The Odyssey by Homer, mentioned in 38 books
11. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, mentioned in 32 books
12. Macbeth by William Shakespeare, mentioned in 32 books
13. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, mentioned in 30 books
14. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, mentioned in 29 books
15. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, mentioned in 27 books
16. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, mentioned in 25 books
17. The Republic by Plato, mentioned in 25 books
18. The Tempest by William Shakespeare, mentioned in 25 books
19. The Aeneid by Virgil, mentioned in 24 books
20. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, mentioned in 24 books
21. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, mentioned in 23 books
22. Inferno by Dante Alighieri, mentioned in 22 books
23. Ivanhoe by Walter Scott, mentioned in 22 books
24. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, mentioned in 22 books
25. As You Like It by William Shakespeare, mentioned in 21 books
26. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, mentioned in 21 books
27. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, mentioned in 21 books
28. Othello by William Shakespeare, mentioned in 20 books
29. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne, mentioned in 20 books
30. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, mentioned in 19 books

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