Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges: “Los dos (según creo haber indicado) son reimpresiones de la décima Encyclopaedia Britannica.”
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan: “The Encyclopaedia Britannica used to be set in Gerritszoon; Wikipedia just switched last month.”
The White Album by Joan Didion: “he 'had read both the dictionary and the phone book from cover to cover by the time he was five, and a whole set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica before he was ten.'”
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende: “Alma stared wide-eyed at father and son as if they were from another species: they were nothing like the Chinese she had seen in the illustrations in the Encyclopaedia Britannica.”
Becoming by Michelle Obama: “They bought us a dictionary and a full Encyclopaedia Britannica set, which lived on a shelf in the stairwell to our apartment, its titles etched in gold.”
Contact by Carl Sagan: “"there's this couple lying naked in bed reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica to each other"; later she reaches for "Volume 16 of an old Encyclopaedia Britannica Macropaedia, titled 'Rubens to Somalia'" and reads the article "Sacred or Holy."”
Outline by Rachel Cusk: “"any more than I would spend the afternoon reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica" (simile)”
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle: “'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first volume of it in that press.”
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens: “'He _crammed _for it, to use a technical but expressive term; he read up for the subject, at my desire, in the "Encyclopaedia Britannica."'”