- Anonymous, Solomon and Saturn (1000)
- Hildegard, Lingua Ignota (1200)
- Anonymous, Voynich manuscript (1404)
- Anonymous, Mutus Liber (1677)
- Joyce, Finnegans Wake (1939)
- Nabokov, Pale Fire (1962)
- Cortázar, Hopscotch (1963)
- Williams, Masquerade (1979)
- Serafini, Codex Seraphinianus (1981)
- Danielewski, House of Leaves (2000)
- King, The Ciphers of the Monks (2001)
- Munnich, Notpron (2004)
- 42 Entertainment, I Love Bees (2004)
- Jung, The Red Book (2009)
- 3301, Cicada 3301 (2012)
- Unfiction & CFIA, unforum, 2025
Additional
- Claudio Magris, “The Novel as Cryptogram,” New Left Review 95 (Sept/Oct 2015): 95-107