Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami: “Finally I decide on a multivolume set, with beautiful covers, of the Burton translation of The Arabian Nights, pick out one volume, and take it back to the reading room.”
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens: “they, and the Arabian Nights, and the Tales of the Genii,--and did me no harm”
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë: “I thought I could distinguish the two volumes of Bewick's British Birds occupying their old place on the third shelf, and Gulliver's Travels and the Arabian Nights ranged just above.”
Dracula by Bram Stoker: “this diary seems horribly like the beginning of the "Arabian Nights," for everything has to break off at”
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas: “Since, the evening before, he had really been the hero of one of the tales of the "Thousand and One Nights," and he was irresistibly attracted towards the grotto.”
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray: “She had a vivid imagination; she had, besides, read the Arabian Nights and Guthrie's Geography”
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell: “the steam-hammer, which was recalling to Mr. Hale some of the wonderful stories of subservient genii in the Arabian Nights”
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens: “they have a house out of the Tales of the Genii, and give dinners out of the Arabian Nights.”
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell: “we are like the genie and the fairy in the _Arabian Nights' Entertainment_, who each cried up the merits of the Prince Caramalzaman and the Princess Badoura.”
Shirley by Charlotte Bronte: “if a magician or a genius had, at that moment, offered me Prince Ali's tube (you remember it in the 'Arabian Nights'?)”
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: “His life-story, like an Arabian Nights, was told night after night to his mother.”
Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac: “he began to think that this was some story out of the Arabian Nights made real”
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas: “in which all the wonders of the “Arabian Night’s Entertainments” seemed to be reproduced for his especial amusement”
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens: “I have woke up, by mistake, in an Arabian Night, instead of a London one.”
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens: “as if she had come into possession of the enchanted piece of carpet, bought for forty purses by one of the three princes in the Arabian Nights”
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell: “told more wonderful stories than Sindbad the Sailor; and, as Miss Pole said, was quite as good as an Arabian Night any evening.”
Greenmantle by John Buchan: “a picture of an old man in a turban coming out of a bottle in a cloud of smoke, which I remembered from a child's edition of the _Arabian Nights_.”
The History of Mr Polly by H. G. Wells: “Mr. Polly bought a number of books, Rabelais for his own, and "The Arabian Nights," the works of Sterne”
The Europeans by Henry James: “She possessed herself of a very obvious volume—one of the series of the _Arabian Nights_—and she brought it out into the portico and sat down with it in her lap.”
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain: “the true spirit of it can never be found in any book save The Arabian Nights.”
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott: “Arithmetic is not half so pleasant as 'Arabian Nights,' I know, but it is a very useful thing”
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin: “He had brought a new copy of The Arabian Nights for Rebecca, wishing to replace the well-worn old one”
The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy: “I suspected, I am ashamed to say, that she, this queen of 'The Thousand and One Nights,' deceived me with my serf”
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes: “I suppose it doesn't really deceive people any more than the “Arabian Nights” or “Gulliver's Travels” do.”
Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian Nights, Cid, Iliad, Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work of single men.”
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller: “"A Child's History of England" by Dickens, "The Arabian Nights," "The Swiss Family Robinson,"”
Felix Holt, the Radical by George Eliot: “people seem to think he gets turned into something like the one-eyed calender in the 'Arabian Nights!'”
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett: “It will be like a story from the Arabian Nights.”
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington: “a Bible, “The Arabian Nights’ Entertainment,” ... on a doctor’s ante-room table”
The Wisdom of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton: “the gate of all the fancies and monstrosities of the ‘Thousand and One Nights’”
Jean-Christophe by Romain Rolland: “Have you read the Arabian Night in which a genii, as tall as a mountain, is imprisoned in a bottle sealed with the seal of Solomon?”
The Girl from the Marsh Croft by Selma Lagerlöf: “she strung together stories of the Sultans in 'Thousand and One Nights.'”
The Red Lily by Anatole France: “It was The Arabian Nights. Romantic engravings...”
The Island Pharisees by John Galsworthy: “he took up a volume of the 'Arabian Nights', which some member had left reposing on the book-rest”
Monsieur Bergeret in Paris by Anatole France: “I was reading the story of the porter and the young girls in The Arabian Nights, newly translated”
Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami: “"Like Queen Scheherazade in A Thousand and One Nights" / "this Scheherazade had nothing in common with the beautiful queen of A Thousand and One Nights" (Scheherazade)”
Why Read the Classics by Italo Calvino: “Ovid essay: 'some ancestor of The Arabian Nights'; recurs in Nezami essay”
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A. S. Byatt: “Orhan Rifat was to speak last: his title was 'Powers and powerlessness: djinns and women in The Arabian Nights.' Gillian Perholt spoke before him.”
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino: “"That story of which I spoke... It must be a story of the Arabian Nights." / "Would it set the beginning of one tale inside another, as in the Arabian Nights?" (referenced multiple times as a real structural model)”
Mr. President by Miguel Ángel Asturias: “"a candy straight from A Thousand and One Nights and a little black rubber ball" (dream sequence)”
Redburn by Herman Melville: “just as you read the Arabian Nights, which no one ever believes”
The Ebb-Tide by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne: “I am a magician out of the Arabian Nights, and this mat that I have under my arm is the original carpet of Mohammed Ben Somebody-or-other.”
The Story of a Bad Boy by Thomas Bailey Aldrich: “I do not allude especially to Baxter's Saints' Rest, which is far from being a lively work for the young, but to the Arabian Nights, and particularly Robinson Crusoe.”
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell: “I’ve thought of this balcony as my own belvedere, from A Thousand and One Nights.”
The Alchemist by Ben Jonson: ““It looks like A Thousand and One Nights,” said the Englishman, impatient to meet with the alchemist.”
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie: “On a shelf of Changez Chamchawala's teak-lined study, beside a ten-volume set of the Richard Burton translation of the Arabian Nights, which was being slowly devoured by mildew and bookworm”
The Duniazat by Salman Rushdie: “There was a Persian book called "Hazar Afsaneh," or "One Thousand Stories," which had been translated into Arabic... Ibn Rushd had not seen the book, but several of its stories had been told to him at court. The story of the fisherman and the jinni appealed to him...”
The Uses of Literature by Italo Calvino: Discussed as the framework tale of Shahryar and Scheherazade, exemplifying nested storytelling
Babel by R. F. Kuang: “'I've read Arabian Nights,' Robin offered, drunk on excitement”
The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton: “…presented pictures of a life unfamiliar to her experience and interesting to her imagination; pictures, indeed, of a life more resembling that which we lead every day above ground, coloured by our sorrows, sins, passions, and much to her what the tales of the Genii or the Arabian Nights are to us.”
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan: “My father had brought me out from Scotland at the age of six, and I had never been home since; so England was a sort of Arabian Nights to me, and I counted on stopping there for the rest of my days.”
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon: “The Arabian Nights, a faithful and amusing picture of the Oriental world, represent in the most odious colors of the Magians, or worshippers of fire”
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens: “and there the mighty talisman, the rare Arabian Nights, with Cassim Baba, divided by four, like the ghost of a dreadful sum, hanging up, all gory, in the robbers' cave.”
The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic: “THAT was all exhausted by collectors who bought it for its supposed obscenity, like Burton's 'Arabian Nights.' Come this way, and I will show you my laboratory."”
The Wild Ass's Skin by Honoré de Balzac: “Unable to analyze Foedora by any other process, I told her this fanciful story; but no hint of her resemblance to this poetry of the impossible crossed her--it simply diverted her; she was like a child over a story from the _Arabian Nights_.”
What Maisie Knew by Henry James: “It was still at any rate the Arabian Nights.”
John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Mulock Craik: “"What books have you got through?" "All you sent--Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, and the Arabian Nights.”
Some Prefer Nettles by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki: “"The Arabian Nights is, on the whole, a book for adults to read. What you children have is just a collection of the stories fit for children to read, picked out from it." Kaname explains to his son, who is peering at the illustrations. [auto-translated]”