Books
- James M. Cain's 1975 novel Rainbow's End is a fictional account of what might have happened to Cooper after he parachuted from the plane.
- J.D. Reed's 1980 novel Free Fall was used as a basis for the 1981 film The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper.
- Elwood Reid's 2004 novel D.B.: a novel is a fictionalized account of what supposedly happened to the real Cooper in the years following the hijacking, as a pair of FBI agents attempt to pick up his trail and arrest him. In one edition, the book jacket cover featured artwork derived from the FBI composite sketch of the real Cooper.
- The 1998 novel Sasquatch by Roland Smith features a character named Buckley Johnson, who eventually admits that he is D. B. Cooper to the novel's protagonist, a boy named Dylan Hickock. In this story, Johnson says he committed the hijacking to pay for cancer treatments for his son.
- Greg Cox's novel, The 4400: The Vesuvius Prophecy features Cooper as one of The 4400.
- The Skyjacker's Guide, or Please Hold This Bomb While I Go to the Bathroom, a humorous book inspired by the Cooper hijacking
- In Stephen King's novella Rita Hayworth & Shawshank Redemption, narrator Red says that Andy Dufresne (the inmate played by Tim Robbins in the later movie) jokingly theorized that D. B. Cooper was really one of the other convicts who had escaped from the prison.
- Jake Aurelian's 2011 book, Dead Wrestlers, Broken Necks & The Women Who Screwed Me Over: A Main Event of Photography & Fiction includes a short story entitled, "Shaving Rasputin: The Life & Times of Beck Shabang" wherein time traveler Beck Shabang travels back to 1971 and boards Flight 305 so he can "hang out" during the hijacking.
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