Fiction Literature and Chess by Bill Wall
- Allen, Woody - Getting Even (Random House, 1971); The Gossage-Varabedian
Papers
- Altman, Linda - Checkmate Julie
- Anderson, Poul (1926-2001) - The Immortal Game (F&SF,1954)
- Andreyev, Leonid (1871-1919) - The Seven That Were Hanged (1908)
- Arrabal, Fernando - The Tower Struck by Lightning (Prix Nadal 1983)
- Asimov, Isaac (1920-1992) - Pebble in the Sky (Doubleday, 1950)
- Bailey, Len - Clabbernappers
- Bard, Benedict - The Black Queen
- Becket, Samuel (1906-1989) - Murphy (1938) and Endgame (1957)
- Bellairs, John - Chessmen of Doom (Johnny Dixon)
- Bennett, Ronan, Zugzwang (2006)
- Berman, Ruth - A Board in the Other Direction (The Magazine of Fantasy
and Science Fiction, 1974)
- Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914) - Moxon's Master (1893)
- Birch, David - The King's Chessboard
- Bland, Mark - The Four Chessmen (Morris, 2001)
- Bochak, John - The Gamemaster (1995)
- Borges, Jorge Luis - The Gardens of Forking Paths (1941)
- Borges, Jorge Luis - The Game of Chess (Dreamtigers, 1974)
- Boucher, Rita - Miss Gabriel's Gambit (Avon, 1993)
- Brown, Dan - Da Vinci Code (Doubleday, 2003)
- Brunner, John - The Squares of the City (Ballentine, 1965)
- Burroughs, Edgar Rice (1875-1950) - The Chessmen of Mars (Argosy, 1922)
- Canetti, Elias (1905-1994) - Auto-da-Fe (1935)
- Caris, John - Reality Inspector (Westgate House, 1982)
- Carrol, Lewis (1832-1898) - Through The Looking Glass (1872)
- Carter, Stephen - The Emperor of Ocean Park (2002)
- Chesbro, George - King's Gambit (New English Library 1976)
- Christie, Agatha - The Big Four (Collins, 1927)
- Clarke, Arthur C. - Quarantine (Asimov's SFM Spring 1977)
- Cockburn, Alexander - Idle Passion: Chess and the Dance of Death (Simon
& Shuster, 1974)
- Coggins, Mark - The Immortal Game (1999)
- Contoski, Victor - Von Goom's Gambit (Chess Review, 1966)
- Couperus, Louis - Het zwevende schaakbord (1922)
- Courtenay, Bryce - The Power of One (Random House, 1989)
- Delman, David - The Last Gambit (St. Martins 1991)
- Devroe, Hans - Het schaakspel van Leuvren
- Duerrenmatt, Friedrich - Der Schachspieler
- Dumas pere, Alexander - Twenty Years After (1845)
- Dunnett, Dorothy - Pawn in Frankincense (1969)
- Dunsany, Lord - "Jorken's Problem" in The Ghosts of the Heavside Layer
and Other Fantasms and Three Sailor's Gambit (1916)
- Eliot, T.S. - Waste Land (1922)
- Farber, Erica - Kiss of the Mermaid (Random House, 1996)
- Faulkner, William - Knight's Gambit (1949)
- Fleming, Ian - Moonraker (Jonathan Cape, 1955) and From russia With Love (1957)
- Frazier, Robert - Rendezvous 2062 (Fantasy Book, 1982)
- Freymann-Weyr, Garret - The King's Are Already Here
- Garrow, Simon - The Amazing Adventure of Dan, the Pawn
- Gavin, Thomas - King Kill (Vintage/Ebury, 1978)
- Gerrold, David - Chess With A Dragon
- Gilbert, Daniel - Kokomu
- Glavinic, Thomas - Carl Haffner's Love of the Draw (2000)
- Glyn, Anthony - The Dragon Variation (Hutchinson, 1969)
- Golding, William - Lord of the Flies (1954)
- Gormley, Beatrice - The Magic Mean Machine
- Hale, Lucretia - The Queen of the Red Chessmen
- Hall, Adam - Hugo Bishop
- Hall, Katy - My Secret Life
- Hansen, Brooks - The Chess Garden (London, 1996)
- Harness, Charles - The Chessplayers
- Harper, Piers - Checkmate at Chess City
- Hehl, Eileen - Playing Games
- Heinlein, Robert - The Rolling Stone (1952
- Hesse, Hermann - Steppenwolf (1929)
- Hochberg, Burt - 64-Square Looking Glass
- Huigen, Rene - De meter van Napoleon (1988)
- Ipcar, Dahlov - The Warlock of Night
- Jacobs, Linda - Checkmate Julie (1974)
- Jackson, Anita - A Deadly Game (Lake Pub Co, 1979)
- Keckhut, John - The Dublin Pawn (Norton, 1977)
- Keyes, Frances Parkinson - The Chess Players (1960)
- Kraus, Robert - Mort the Sport (Scholastic, 2000)
- Krol, Gerrit - Een schaaknovelle (2002)
- Kuttner, Henry (Lewis Padgett) - The Chess Civilization
- Leiber, Fritz - A Pail of Air (Aeonian, 1979)
- Leiber, Fritz - Midnight by the Morphy Watch (Worlds of If, Aug 1974)
- Leiber, Fritz - ChangeWar Story
- Leiber, Fritz - The 64-Square Madhouse (If, May 1962)
- Leithauser, Brad - Hence (Penguin, 1990)
- Levy, Elizabeth - The Computer That Said Steal Me (Winds Press, 1983)
- Levy, Elizabeth - Vampire State Building
- London, Jack - The Jacket (Star-Rover) (Mills & Boon, 1915)
- Mahony, Mary - Stand Tall, Harry
- Malzberg, Barry - Tactics of Conquest (Penguin Putman, 1974)
- Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - Love in the Time of Cholera (1989)
- Martin, George - Unsound Variations (Amazing, Jan 1982)
- Maurensig, Paolo - The Luneburg Variation (Farrar 1997)
- Meras, Icchokas - De glimlach van Busia
- Middleton, Thomas - A Game at Chess
- Milky, D. - Treasure Chess
- Muldoon, Kathleen - Checkmate
- Murphy, Warren & Cohran, Molly - Grandmaster
- Murphy, Warren & Cohran, Molly - Endgame
- Nabokov, Vladimir - The Defense (Zashchita Luzhina) (1930)
- Nabokov, Vladimir - Lolita (1955) (Humbert plays chess with Polish doctor and neighbor)
- Neville, Katherine - The Eight (Ballentine, 1988)
- Orwell, George - 1984 (1949)
- Padgett, Lewis - Chessboard Planet
- Padgett, Lewis - The Chess Civilization
- Padilla, Ignacio - Shadow Without a Name (Farrar, 2003)
- Perez-Reverte, Arturo - The Flanders Panel (Bantam, 1996)
- Peyton, Richard - Sinister Gambits (Souvenir Press, 1991)
- Poe, Edgar Allen - Maezel's Chess-Player
- Propper, Ryan - The Ultimate Chess Challenge (1999)
- Richardson, Maurice - "A Quiet Game of Chess" in The Exploits of
Engelbrecht (1948)
- Robinson, Nancy K. - Countess Veronica (1994)
- Roggeveen, Leonard - Werldkampioen 2003
- Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2004)
- Rushdie, Salman - East, West ('The Courter')
- Russ, Joanna - A Game of Vlet (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Feb 1974)
- Saberhagen, Fred - Pawn to Infinity (Ace, 1982)
- Saberhagen, Fred - To Move and Win
- Sawaski, James - The Chess Team (iUniverse, 2005)
- Shakespeare, William - The Tempest
- Shepherd, William - The Chessmen
- Shura, Mary Francis - The Josie Gambit (Putnam 1989)
- Sienkiewicz, Henryk - The Knights of the Corss and With Fire and Sword
- Simmons, Dan - Carrion Comfort (Dark Harvest, 1989)
- Singer, Isaac - Shadows of the Hudson (1997)
- Smith - The Sicilian Dragon
- Smullyan, Raymond - Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes (Random House, 1994)
- Snodgrass, Melinda - Queen's Gambit Declined (1989)
- Soltis, Andy - Los Voraces, 2019 (2003)
- Stewart, Alfred - Reflections on the Looking-Glass
- Stout, Rex - Gambit (Viking, 1962)
- Stryker, Dev - End Game (1994)
- Sutcliff, Rosemary - Chess-dream in a Garden (Candlewick, 1993)
- Tan, Amy - The Joy Luck Club (Ladies Home Journal 1989)
- Tepper, Sheri - King's Blood Four
- Tepper, Sheri - Necomancer Nine
- Tepper, Sheri - Wizard's Eleven
- Tevis, Walter - The Queen's Gambit (Dell 1984)
- Timmer, Ernst - Het waterrad van Ribe
- Truzzi, Marcello - Chess in Literature (Avon 1974)
- Vernon, Roger Lee - The Chess Civilization (short story)
- Vogt, Alfred E. van - The Players of Null-A (Berkely, 1966)
- Vonnegut, Kurt - Welcome to the Monkey House (1998)
- Waitzkin, Fred - Searching for Bobby Fischer (1988)
- Waterman, Andrew - Poetry of Chess
- Watson, Ian - Queenmagic, Kingmagic (1986)
- Whitney, Phyllis - Hunter's Green (Doubleday, 1995)
- Wolf, Gene - The Marvelous Brass Chessplaying Automaton (1977)
- Wong, Janet - Alex and the Wednesday Chess Club
- Woro, Eric - Under the Black Sun (1995)
- Yaffe, Charles - Alekhine's Anguish (1999)
- Zelazny, Roger - Unicorn Variations (Timescape, 1983)
- Zelman, Anita - The Right Moves (St Martin's Press, 1988)
- Zweig, Stefan - The Royal Game (Schachnovelle) (1941)