[seanhunter]

One of my favourite dedications is in the preface to “Real Analysis: A long-form mathematics textbook” by Jay Cummings (which is as it sounds a maths textbook). The dedication reads

“To my loving wife, who read this entire book, apart from the maths parts.”

[sanswork]

Along similar lines, Tad Williams dedicates each of his Otherland books to his dad but notes his dad doesn't read his books so probably won't know about it. By the 4th book his dad still doesn't know and he mentions something like "I'm thinking of creative ways to let him know like getting all my family in a room and saying 'Everyone that hasn't had a book dedicated to them take three steps forward...oops actually dad...'