Works like Josefine Mutzenbacher
Josefine Mutzenbacher is disputed and belongs to Early 1900s. These works share its status, era, or form, ranked by how much they share.
- Disputed
Romance of Lust
The four volume Victorian erotic novel of 1873 to 1876, published anonymously. Attributed variously to Edward Sellon or William Simpson Potter; unresolved.
- Disputed
Might is Right
The 1896 social Darwinist tract published as Ragnar Redbeard. Arthur Desmond is the most commonly claimed author, with Jack London also proposed; the question is unsettled.
- Disputed
The String of Pearls
The 1846 to 1847 penny dreadful that created Sweeney Todd. Authorship is divided by scholars between James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest.
- Disputed
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
The lavish 1499 Venetian dream romance whose chapter initials spell an acrostic pointing to Francesco Colonna. The identification remains likely but unproven.
- Disputed
Kesh Temple Hymn
One of the oldest surviving works of literature, a Sumerian hymn praising the temple of Kesh. Tradition links the Temple Hymns to Enheduanna, but this hymn predates her.
- Still unknown
The Autobiography of a Flea
The 1887 Victorian erotic novel narrated by a flea observing its owner's corruptions. Published anonymously; the author remains unidentified.
- Later revealed
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
The 1912 novel of a biracial man who passes as white, published anonymously as a memoir. James Weldon Johnson credited himself in the 1927 reissue.
- Later revealed
The Bride Stripped Bare
The 2003 erotic novel of a wife's secret life, submitted for anonymous publication. The press identified Nikki Gemmell just before publication, and she acknowledged it.
- Pseudonym
The Expert at the Card Table
The 1902 bible of card sleight of hand, self-published as S. W. Erdnase. The identity behind the pseudonym is card history's most famous unsolved question.
- Later revealed
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
James De Mille's satirical lost-world novel, serialized anonymously in 1888 after the author's death. The attribution is documented in De Mille scholarship.
- Still unknown
Bourbon Kid
A supernatural horror series begun in 2000 with The Book with No Name, published by an author who has remained anonymous by choice ever since.
- Later revealed
Brother Jonathan: or, the New Englanders
John Neal's 1825 novel of New England life, published anonymously in Edinburgh. The attribution to Neal is documented in scholarship on the author.