hmmm...you left out three of my favorites, Stephen King's The Book of Counted Sorrows, The Philosophy of Time Travel by Gertrude Sparrow (from Donnie Darko, perhaps the greatest movie of all time, except for House of Flying Daggers, of course), and of course, the unholy Necronomicon.
Some lost books mentioned in the Tanach, or Old Testament of the Bible.
They are lost apart from fragments quoted in the Bible:
The Book of the Wars of Yahweh (Numbers 21:14)
The Book of Yashar (Joshua 10:13, 2 Samuel 1:18 )
For more, see the Introduction to
Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis by Robert Graves.
Word up to Jinnderella for The Philosophy of Time Travel.
I wanted to mention The Encyclopedia of Unimaginable Customs, Vol. 11, and Die Sieben und Dreißig Wollüste, both from Edward Gorey's hilarious "porn" book, The Curious Sofa. (I believe the German title means something roughly like "The 37 Perverts" -- I looked it up once, long ago.)
That last reference of mine should be
to Robert Graves and Raphael Patai
Of course if you want something totally made-up then my favorite would be:
The Encyclopedia Galactica
116th edition published in 1020FE by the Encyclopedia Galactica Publishing Co, Terminus.
Referenced in the "Foundation" series by Isaac Asimov.
Dan -
Hari Seldon's Encyclopedia was a major oversight.
I did not overlook the Necronomicon, though - it's the translation of Al Azif.
Wu and Fabricant's Guidebook: A travel guide to the galaxy. Don't know who created it, but it's mentioned in Alexi Panshin's Starwell, and Joanna Russ excerpted a "Phrases for the Tourist" section.
Glen! *my bad*
The Cryptonomicon is a mythical book, and Stephenson took the name from Army of Darkness, of the Evil Dead series, not from Lovecraft. 
"The Seven Minutes" by J.J.Jadway does exist, because I have read it - in German though, titled "Sieben" by Jane Way. There are also copies available in Germany titled: "Die Wirklichen Sieben Minuten" (="The Real Seven Minutes") by J.J. Jadway.
I guess the book was written after Irving Wallace's "The Seven Minutes" was published - by somebody who liked that novel. Maybe Wallace even wrote it himself.
But I don't think he did, because I read something about a court case, copyright and so on, so the title was changed to just "Sieben" (="Seven")
It's a good book.
I read it about 7 years ago, funny, hmm?
deseo saber donde encontrar el libro de j.jadway en espaņol?
angry dog?
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