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Robert Ludlum is likely the author one thinks of in relation to plots turning on the archival record. Peter Gillis's 1979-80 essay on archives in espionage fiction uses several examples from Ludlum's novels. A more recent peer-reviewed scholarly analysis of fictional archivists is Arlene B. Schmuland's "The Archival Image in Fiction: An Analysis and Annotated Bibliography" (American Archivist) based on her M.A. thesis (August 1997). The titles listed in Schmuland's bibliography are incorporated into the title list on this site.

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  1. Act of God by Charles Templeton (1977)
  2. Alamo House: Women Without Men, Men Without Brains by Sarah Bird (1986)
  3. The Alienist by Caleb Carr (1994)
  4. All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (1946)
  5. Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin (1985)
  6. Amnesia: A Novel by Douglas Cooper (1992)
  7. Archangel by Robert Harris (1998)
  8. The Archivist by Gill Alderman (1989)
  9. The Archivist by Martha Cooley (1998)
  10. Area 51 by Robert Doherty (1997)
  11. "The Aspern Papers" by Henry James (The Aspern Papers, 1888)
  12. The Assassini by Thomas Gifford (1990)
  13. Asta's Book by Barbara Vine (1993)
  14. Bear: A Novel by Marion Engel (1976)
  15. Beyond the Fall of Night by Gregory Benford and Arthur C. Clarke (1990)
  16. The Blair Witch Project: A Dossier by Dave Stern (1999)
  17. Bleak House by Charles Dickens (1852)
  18. The Blood of the Covenant: A Novel of the Vampire by Brent Monahan (1995)
  19. The Bone Collector by Jeffery Deaver (1997)
  20. The Book of the Common Dread by Brent Monahan (1993)
  21. Borrower of the Night by Elizabeth Peters (1973)
  22. Breath of Magic by Teresa Medeiros (1996)
  23. The British Museum Is Falling Down by David Lodge (1967)
  24. The Bunyip Archives by James E. Schutte (1992)
  25. A Calculated Risk by Katherine Neville (1992)
  26. Canopus in Argos: Archives (series title) by Doris Lessing (1979-1983)
  27. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. (1960)
  28. The Case of the Missing Brontë by Robert Barnard (1983)
  29. Centaur Aisle by Piers Anthony (1981)
  30. Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd (1987)
  31. The Choir by Joanna Trollope (1988)
  32. City of the Horizon by Anton Gill (1991)
  33. Coyote Waits by Tony Hillerman (1990)
  34. The Crown of Columbus by Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris (1981)
  35. Cruel and Unusual by Patricia Cornwell (1993)
  36. The Dancing Men by Duncan Kyle (1985)
  37. The Death of an Ardent Bibliophile by Bartholomew Gill (1995)
  38. The deMaury Papers by Isabelle Holland (1977)
  39. The Deryni Archives by Katherine Kurtz (1986)
  40. The Diary of Emily Dickinson by Jamie Fuller (1993)
  41. The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L. Sayers and Robert Eustache (1930)
  42. The Dossier by Pierre Salinger and Leonard Gross (1984)
  43. The Dracula Archives by Raymond Rudorff (1971)
  44. The Dune Novels by Frank Herbert (Chapterhouse: Dune, 1985; God Emperor of Dune, 1981; Heretics of Dune, 1984)
  45. Earthlight by Arthur C. Clarke (1955)
  46. Faith by Len Deighton (1994)
  47. Fatherland by Robert Harris (1992)
  48. The Final Encyclopedia by Gordon R. Dickson (1984)
  49. The First Horseman by John Case (1998)
  50. Fixes by Eugene Kennedy (1989)
  51. The Flashman Novels by George MacDonald Fraser (Flashman and the Dragon, 1986; Flashman and the Mountain of Light, 1991; Flashman and the Redskins, 1982)
  52. The Fly on the Wall by Tony Hillerman (1971)
  53. Footsucker by Geoff Nicholson (1995)
  54. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman (1975)
  55. Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco (1989)
  56. The Foundation Novels by Isaac Asimov and Friends
  57. The Genesis Code by John Case (1997)
  58. The Godwulf Manuscript by Robert B. Parker (1974)
  59. The Haunted Mesa by Louis L'Amour (1987)
  60. Hemingway's Notebook by Bill Granger (1986)
  61. The Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry (1994)
  62. Honor Among Thieves by Jeffrey Archer (1993)
  63. The House of Dr. Dee by Peter Ackroyd (1993)
  64. Huckleberry Fiend by Julie Smith (1987)
  65. I Been There Before by David Carkeet (1985)
  66. Imzadi by Peter David (1992)
  67. The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead (1999)
  68. Italian Fever by Valerie Martin (1999)
  69. Jackie by Josie by Caroline Preston (1997)
  70. Joshua Then & Now: A Novel by Mordecai Richler (1980)
  71. Juan in America by Eric Linklater (1931)
  72. The Judgment Day Archives by Andre Moskovit (1988)
  73. Just Cause by John Katzenbach (1992)
  74. The L.A. Quartet by James Ellroy (The Black Dahlia, 1987; The Big Nowhere, 1988; L.A. Confidential, 1990; White Jazz, 1992)
  75. The Lampitt Papers by A.N. Wilson (Hearing Voices, v. 4, 1996)
  76. The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett (1998)
  77. The Late George Apley: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir by John P. Marquand (1937)
  78. The Last Pumpkin Paper by Bob Oeste (1996)
  79. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (1969)
  80. Legends: Tales from the Eternal Archives edited by Margaret Weis (1999)
  81. Lemprière's Dictionary by Lawrence Norfolk (1991)
  82. Look At Me by Anita Brookner (1983)
  83. The Magic Circle by Katherine Neville (1998)
  84. Making History by Stephen Fry (1997)
  85. Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks (1998)
  86. Miriam Premiere by Francine Noel (1987)
  87. Murder at Monticello, or, Old Sins by Rita Mae Brown (1994)
  88. Murdercon by Richard Purtill (1982)
  89. My Dearest Enemy by Connie Brockway (1998)
  90. My Enemy, My Ally by Diane Duane (1984)
  91. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (1980, 1983)
  92. Neuromancer by William Gibson (1984)
  93. Night Mare by Piers Anthony (1982)
  94. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949)
  95. The Novels of Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (Nothing Sacred, 1991; Phantom Banjo, 1991; The Unicorn Creed, 1983)
  96. The Novels of John Le Carré (A Small Town in Germany, 1968; The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, 1964; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, 1974)
  97. The Novels of Margaret Truman (Murder at the FBI, 1992 [reissue]; Murder at the Library of Congress, 1999; Murder at the National Gallery, 1996; Murder in the Smithsonian, 1990 [reissue])
  98. The Novels of Michael Crichton (Airframe, 1996; Disclosure, 1994; Sphere, 1987; Timeline, 1999)
  99. The Novels of Nick Bantock (Capolan: Travels of a Vagabond Country, 1997; The Griffin and Sabine Trilogy, 1994; The Museum at Purgatory, 1999)
  100. The Novels of Robert Ludlum
  101. The Novels of Robertson Davies (The Lyre of Orpheus, 1988; Murther and Walking Spirits, 1991; The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks, 1986; The Rebel Angels, 1981)
  102. The Novels of Steve Erickson
  103. The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth (1972)
  104. On This Rockne: A Notre Dame Mystery by Ralph M. McInerny (1997)
  105. Original Sin by P.D. James (1994)
  106. "The Originist" (in Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card) by Orson Scott Card (1990)
  107. Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus by Orson Scott Card (1996)
  108. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (1911)
  109. Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt (1990)
  110. The Princess and the Barbarian by Betina Krahn (1993)
  111. Provenance by Frank McDonald (1979)
  112. Publish & Perish, Vol. 1; Pride & Predator, Vol. 2 by Sally S. Wright (1997)
  113. The Quiet Pools by Michael P. Kube-McDowell (1990)
  114. Reaching Tin River by Thea Astley (1990)
  115. Republic of Dreams: A Reverie by G. Garfield Crimmins (1998)
  116. The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood (1987)
  117. A Sandler Inquiry by Noel Hynd (1977)
  118. A Secret History of Time to Come by Robie Macauley (1979)
  119. The Secrets of Pistoulet (1996) and The Legend of the Villa Della Luna: The Sequel to the Secrets of Pistoulet (1997) by Jana Kolpen and Mary Tiegreen (photographer)
  120. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1959)
  121. The Sixteen Pleasures by Robert Hellenga (1994)
  122. Small Gods: A Novel of Discworld by Terry Pratchett (1992)
  123. Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg (1993)
  124. The Smithsonian Institution by Gore Vidal (1998)
  125. Spy Hook by Len Deighton (1988)
  126. Star Trek Avenger by William Shatnet (1997)
  127. Star Trek: Federation by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens (1994)
  128. The Stately Home Murder by Catherine Aird (1970)
  129. A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder by James de Mille (1888)
  130. Sweet Starfire by Jayne Ann Krentz (1986)
  131. Swann: A Myster by Carol Shields (1987)
  132. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1914)
  133. The Tattooed Map by Barbara Hodgson (1995)
  134. The Tetramachus Collection by Philippe van Rjndt (1976)
  135. Thunderhead by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (1999)
  136. Time Enough for Love: The Lives of Lazarus Long by Robert A. Heinlein (1973)
  137. Treasure by Clive Cussler (1988)
  138. War Machine by William Marshall (1982)
  139. War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches edited by Kevin J. Anderson (1996)
  140. The Wars by Timothy Findley (1977)
  141. Welcome to Hard Times by E.L. Doctorow (1960)
  142. The Werner-Bok Series by Charles A. Goodrum (Dewey Decimated, no. 1, 1977; Carnage of the Realm, no. 2, 1979; The Best Cellar, no. 3, 1987; A Slip of the Tong, no. 4, 1992)
  143. The Williamsburg Forgeries by John Ballinger (1989)
  144. The Wolf of Winter by Paula Volsky (1993)
  145. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (1859-1860)
  146. The Word by Irving Wallace (1972)
  147. Zinnia by Jayne Castle (1997)

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