Books

Books are readable items in Baldur's Gate 3. Reading them might start or update Quests or trigger a cutscene. Most of them provide world or character lore.

In addition, other forms of written material can be found on these pages:

• Notes includes a list of letters and notes in the game.
• Category:Books provides a comprehensive list of written material found in game.
• There are separate articles grouping Books by Subject and Books by Author.

Story Item

• Flora of the Dalelands
• Flumph Mating Rituals
• Grey Scout's Journal
• Halsin's Journal, Vol II
• Hide-Bound Journal
• In Search of the Nightsong
• Kozakuran Dictionary
• Madeline's Ledger
• Necromancy of Thay
• On Antidotes
• Regarding the Slayer
• The Great Furnace of Grymforge

Legendary

• Caution Before the Seelie
• The Annals of Karsus
• File:The Red Knight's Final Stratagem Unfaded Icon.pngThe Red Knight's Final Stratagem
• The Tharchiate Codex

Common

A

• A Brush with Evil: On Hags
• Absolutely Unnerving
• Acquisitions
• A is for Azuth, and other Gods I
• A is for Azuth, and other Gods II
• A is for Azuth, and other Gods III
• A is for Azuth, and other Gods VI
• A is for Azuth, and other Gods VII
• A is for Azuth, and other Gods IX
• A is for Azuth, and other Gods XI
• A Fall of Netheril
• A Guide to Avernus - One Hellish Holiday
• A History of the Flaming Fist
• A Hunter's Guide to Hags
• A List of Essential Personnel
• A Modest Guide To Sword Coast Wine
• A Mummy's Memories
• A New Blasphemy: Bloodletting and Sanguine Arcana
• An History of the Society of Brilliance as Told by Its Members
• Annotated Ship's Manifest
• A Pleasurable Deal
• A Promising Candidate
• A Primer on Mythical Beasts
• A Sprinter's Guide to Goblins
• A Study of Ores
• A Study of Spores and their Supraterranean Effects
• A Swift and Sudden Death
• A Tour of Tempest
• A Traveller's Guide to Baldur's Gate
• Abandoned Journal
• Abandoned Journal (Lower City)
• About Creation of Orphic Hammer
• Absolving the Wayward Heart
• Accelerated Grand Design
• Account of the Establishment of Crèche Y'llek
• Address Book
• Adopters of Culture
• Adventures on the Sea of Fallen Stars
• Always Hungry
• Amaps' Memoirs
• An Archduke's Leadership: Decorum
• An Archduke's Leadership: Discipline
• An Archduke's Leadership: Protection
• An Archduke's Leadership: Public Works
• An Archduke's Leadership: Surveillance
• An Archduke's Leadership: Verification
• An End to Suffering
• Ancient Selûnite Journal
• Apothecary's Ledger
• Apprentice's Journal
• Arfur's Private Musings
• Armbrust's Ledger
• Art Appraisal
• Artefact Mission: Agent Roster
• Artefact Mission: Challenges
• Art Show Schedule
• Attention Acolytes
• Attracting Drow Exiles
• Avernus Survival Guide

B

• Baelen's Alchemical Notes
• Bagida's Diary
• Balduran Founds a City
• Balduran the Sailor
• Baldur's Bones
• Baldur's Gate and the Dialectics of Plunder
• Baldur's Gate Protectors
• Baldur's Gate Temple Of Bhaal
• Balthazar's Notes
• Balthazar Personal Notes: 2
• Balthazar Personal Notes: 3
• Bane's Book of Admonitions
• BAN LIST
• Barcus' Log
• Barkskin Recipe
• Battle Plans
• Beheading the Bitterroots
• Bhaal Cult Resurgence
• Blood Bank Log
• Blood-Envy for the Unworthy
• Blood-Smeared Logbook
• Bloody Journal
• Bonded By Love - Husband's Diary
• Bonded By Love - Wife's Diary
• Book Draft - Volume I
• Book Draft - Volume II
• Book Draft - Volume III
• Book Draft - Volume IV
• Book of Dead Gods
• Book of Final Breath
• Book of Poetry
• Born to be Wild
• Broom and Bucket
• Burnt Journal

C

• Canticles of the Dark Mistress
• Captives of Shar
• Chapel Records
• Charred Prayer Book
• Cheese Record
• Circus of the Last Days: Employees
• Clasped Book (Moonrise Towers)
• Clasped Book (The Glitter Gala)
• Client List
• Cobbler's Ledger
• Codicilliary Rules of Engagements for the Flaming Fist
• Colfax's Compendium of Consecrated Creatures
• Concerning Orin the Red
• Confessions, Vol. 1, Father Lorgan
• Confiscated Book
• Confronting the False Heart
• Consolation of the Dark
• Corsairs of Luskan
• Counting the Conchs
• Crawler Mucus Poison Recipe
• Credo of the Rack-Stricken Lord
• Crimes of the Moonmaiden
• Crumbling File
• Curfew (Confidential Orders)

D

• Dalyria's Journal
• Damaged Journal
• Dammon's Journal
• Dangerous Tunes
• Dark Journal
• Dark Justiciar's Journal
• Dark Justiciar's Plea
• Dawsen Kiltmaker's Confession
• De Hurst's Diary
• Dead Druid's Journal
• Death & Divinity: A Godly Guide
• Derryth's Journal
• Devil Don't Rhyme - A Verse Epic
• Diary of Ketheric Thorm, Vol 1
• Diary of Ketheric Thorm, Vol 2
• Diary of Ketheric Thorm, Vol 3
• Diary, 1492DR, Ffion Goldgrind
• Discarded Journal
• Diseases of the Blood
• Disintegrating Journal
• Disorders of the Nerves and Mind: A Treatise
• Dispatches Ledger
• Divine Rapture of Ilmater
• Donation Record
• Don't Prod the Specimen
• Don't Sniff the Specimen
• Don't Swallow the Specimen
• Downfall of the Iron Throne
• Druid Notebook
• Druids' Ledger
• Dufay's Diary
• Dusty Book
• Dusty Prayerbook
• Dwarven Taxonomy

E

• Easy Furnitures DIY
• Efficacious Brain Removal
• Eilistraee: Lady Silverhair
• Elder Brain Domination
• Elder's Journal
• Employee Pay Log
• Encyclopaedia Apotheca, by Sandre Toliar
• Enhanced' Weapons - Sales Ledger
• Enver... Is your blood sweet?
• Engraved Githyanki Disc
• Estra's Insights
• Ethical Review of the Flaming Fist
• Evading the Elder Brain
• Evil's Ascent
• Excavation of the Enclave of Nhalloth
• Exile
• Experiment on Cruor
• Exploits of the Order of Keen Strike
• Extracts - The Rule of Three
• Eyewitness Account

F

• Fables of Faerûn I: The Dimwitted Drow
• Fables of Faerûn II: The Daring Duergar
• Fables of Faerûn III: The Enticing Elder
• Fables of Faerûn IV: The Magnanimous Miner
• Fables of Faerûn V: The Boy and the Beholder
• Fables of Faerûn VI: The Cheerful Deep Gnome
• Fables of Rashemi
• Facemaker, Tastemaker
• Faded Blueprints
• Faded Instructions
• Faded Logbook (Selunite, 124)
• Faded Logbook (Selunite, 182)
• Faded Logbook (Meerna)
• Faldorn's Canticle: The Shadow Druids' Doctrine
• Ffion's Journal
• Fiendish Alchemy
• Fiendish Bestiary
• Findings from the Hinterlands - New Edition
• Fine at Home: A Cookery Book
• Five (Or Six) Heroes
• Flaming Fist History
• Flaming Fist New Recruit Booklet
• Flask of Light
• Flintdigger's Abridged Dwarven History
• Flophouse Issues
• Flophouse Rules
• Flophouse Tenants Logs
• Flow of the Chionthar
• Folksongs of Faerûn
• Forge Construction Log
• Forging Success
• Fringe Philosophy, Vol. V
• Front and Centre: A Thespian's Memoir

G

• Garlow's Retirement Plan
• Gerringothe's Logbook
• Get to Baldur's Gate
• Ghustil Stornugoss' Research Notes
• Glory of the Absolute
• Glory to the House of Oblodra
• Gnomefather
• Gond and Gripping Life By The Tongs
• Gondian Automaton Conversion
• Gondian Autoprinter Manual
• Gondian Research Report
• Guest Log
• Guestbook of Rosymorn Abbey
• Graveyard Diary
• Grymforge: A History
• Guide to Taming Worgs

H

• Habits of Patriars
• Hag Research Notes
• Hairy Henry's Journal
• Halfred's Note
• Halsin's Journal, Vol I
• Harper Journal
• Harper's Notebook
• Harvest of Memory
• Havkelaag's Journal
• Havkelaag's Notes
• Healer's Log
• Healers' Ledger
• Heavy Book
• Helm-Embossed Journal
• Her Love For it Was Like A Plum
• Highcliff's Journal
• His Holy Blood, Vol. 1, Dawnmaster Dovaer
• His Holy Blood, Vol. 2, Paladin Vaseid
• His Holy Blood, Vol. 3, Dawnmaster Vaseid
• Hostage Census
• Hostel Registry
• House Rules of the Bee Hive
• How to Build a Watcher
• How to Track an Illithid
• Hymns for the Gone

I

• Ideas for New Outfits
• Illasera, the First
• Ilmatari Combat Manual
• Impractical Magic, Volume 1
• In the Mode of Masters
• Incomplete Journal
• Infernal Contracts And Bargains
• Infirmary Records
• Inklings
• Ink-Spattered Journal
• Inner Peace: The Path to Perfection
• Innkeeper's Journal
• Inroads by Arms Dealer Gortash
• Inscribed Githyanki Slate
• Inscrutable Journal
• Intelligence concerning the weapon
• Interrogation Log
• Into the Feywild
• Inventory of Takings
• Inventory Report
• Investigation Notes
• Ironhand Gnomes: Our Grievances
• Iron Throne - Windup and Shutdown
• Isobel's Diary

J

• Jake's Encyclopaedia of Eels
• Jhessem's Journal
• Journal Log of True Soul Korliss
• Journal of Enver Gortash
• Journal of Gyldro Angleiron
• Journal of High Initiate Jarrus
• Journal of Magthew Budj
• Journal of a Novice Monk
• Journey Through The Jungle
• Judge of the Damned

K

• Kobold Journal

L

• Lacie and the Modrons
• Lady Jannath's Journal
• Larethian
• Last Notes of a Monk
• Leather-Bound Book
• Ledger: Blood Donors
• Ledger of Production: Explosives
• Lessons for Sensible Living IV: Cities and How to Survive Them
• Lessons for Sensible Living XII: Zariel's Fall
• Lessons from the Boiler
• Lessons of Helm
• Level Up Your Life
• Life of Beaky
• Lo! A Most Joyous Sensation!
• Log of Visitors to Rosymorn Monastery
• Logbook of Sendings
• Logbook XII: 1371
• Lower City and Upper City
• Lunar Dark Lies

M

• Maggie's Recipe for Perfect Cookies
• Magical Histories, Volume 1: The Origins of Mystra
• Magical Histories, Volume 2: The Spellplague
• Magical Histories, Volume 3: The Second Sundering
• Magical Histories, Volume 4: The Chosen of Mystra
• Magic of the Weave - An Introduction
• Magmar's Record
• Manifesto
• Manipulations and Motivations: Sacrifice
• Mantras and Meditations of the Sun Soul
• Manual of Hilaritie for the Trulie Unfunnie
• Manuscript
• Mason's Log
• Masters of the Painterly Arts
• Mastodonian Memoirs, Vol. 1, Investigator Valeria
• Meditations, Vol. 1, Father Lorgan
• Memoir Notes with Recent Addenda
• Memoirs of My Death
• Memoirs, Vol 1, Sister Clarwen
• Memory Book
• Merchant's Almanac: The Coast Way
• Merchant's Almanac: The Trade Way
• Meticulous Notes
• Missives of Candlekeep
• Mistress of Souls' Research Log
• Mistress of the Night and Friends
• Moonhaven Logbook
• Mother of Halflings
• Moxy's Mixology Manual
• Murder, Be My Muse
• Mysterious Moonshae
• Myth Drannan Amphigory

N

• Necromantic Codexes, Their Enigmas
• Needle's Points: Tips for Top Stories
• Night-Night, Pirate Ship
• NO CAUSE FOR ALARM
• No Price Too High
• Note About the Shield of Silvam
• Notes from a Soothsayer
• Notes on Mind Flayer Anatomy
• File:Notice Unfaded Icon.pngNotice

O

• Observations on the Shadow Curse
• Officially Unofficial Circus History
• Olam's Journal
• Old Architectural Collection
• Old Maintenance Records
• Old Schoolbook
• Oliver's Diary
• On Antidotes
• On Death & Resurrection
• On Educating the Faithful
• One-Eye
• One Foot, Two Feet, Well Met, We'll Meet
• One Night in Nashkel
• On Goblins: My Life Among the Conquering Host
• Ongoing Murder Investigations
• On Illithids, Volume XXVI
• On Potions and Elixirs
• On Psionic Manipulations and Countermeasures
• On Receiving Her Grace
• On Serpent Venom Toxin
• On Sloth, Gluttony, and Vice
• On the Greater Healing Potion
• On the Inevitability of Moral Decay and its Benefits
• On the Origins of Evil
• On the Origins of the Zhentarim
• On the Weary, Vol. 1, Father Lorgan
• On Weapon Coatings
• Oral Histories of Faerûn: Gith and Mind Flayers
• Oral Histories of Faerûn: Paladin Oathbreakers
• Oral Histories of Faerûn: The Spellplague
• Order of Ilmatari Service
• Order of the Gauntlet: On Matters of Law and Justice
• Orpheus, Prince of the Comet, Part One: Betrayal
• Orpheus, Prince of the Comet, Part Two: Sacrifice
• Orpheus, Prince of the Comet, Part Three: Resurrection
• Our Enemies' Fate
• Out of the Sausage Tube Into The Shadow
• Overlapping Lines

P

• Pandirna's Diary
• Park Keeper's Journal
• Passage of Penitence
• Patient Log: Duke Belynne Stelmane
• Patients' Registry
• Patriars, A Homegrown Aristocracy
• Patriars Journal
• Peer Review
• Plea of Rest
• Post House Delivery Complaints
• Post-House Dog's Log
• Potion Catalogue
• Potion of Animal Speaking Recipe
• Potion of Healing Recipe
• Potion of Mind Reading Recipe
• Prayer for Forgiveness
• Prayers of Repent
• File:Priestess' Journal Unfaded Icon.pngPriestess' Journal
• Primer on Calimshan
• Prisoner's Journal
• Prison Log
• Profiling Methods
• Provender Ledger

Q

• Queen of Kingpins
• Queen of Ravens

R

• Ragged Diary
• Raphael's Diary - Chapter 1
• Raphael's Diary - Chapter 2
• Raphael's Diary - Chapter 3
• Recipe of Drow Poison
• Recipe of Elixir of Arcane Cultivation
• Recipe of Elixir of Necrotic Resistance
• Recipe of Wyvern Toxin
• Record of Complaints
• Recruiting Gnolls
• Redhammer's Journal
• Reflections of a Gullible Prick
• Reflections Upon the Mirror of Loss
• Refugee Arrival Record
• Refugee's Journal
• Register of Goods Received
• Register of Temple Deadspeakers
• Registry of Citizens' Complaints
• Research Notes (Balthazar)
• Research Notes (Waning Moon)
• Ribald Shanties for the Discerning Whoreson
• Rives' Failures as a Banite
• Rules for Elfsong Customers
• Runepowder and the Modern Gnome

S

• Safe and Sound: a Guide to our Vaults
• Sarevok Anchev: A Study in Suffering
• Scaled Scions of Abeir
• Schematic Compendium
• Schematics for Subsurface Vessel
• Schools of Magic: Necromancy
• Scorched Book
• Scorching Street - A Flaming Fist Ruleset
• Scrapbook of Letters
• Scrapbook of Love Letters
• Scrappy Order Book
• Secrets of the Talis
• Secret Societies of the Sword Coast: Exposed
• Selûne's Devotee
• Selûnite Journal
• Selûnite Prayer Book
• Shanties for the Bitch Queen
• Sharess' Caress Finances
• Sharran Registry
• Sharran's Journal
• Sheet Music (Szarr Palace)
• Shipment Ledger
• Simple Poison Recipe
• Skeletons in Patriar Closets
• Sod The Maimed God
• Songs for Sailors, Soldiers, and Sirens
• Soul Cage Research
• Soul Coins: A Treatise
• SOUPS OF THE REALMS BY BROTHER DONNICK
• Spattered Diary
• Speak your Loss
• Special Operation - Infernal Arms
• Stained Book (Night Orchid Cave)
• Stained Book (Thorm Mausoleum)
• Stained Book (Waukeen's Rest)
• Stedd's Virtues of Unions
• Stock Display: A Primer, by Sana Aeran
• Stock Haul For Armoury
• Studies of the Elder Brains
• Study of the Sword Coast
• Submersible Maintenance
• File:Suelto's Ethic of War Unfaded Icon.pngSuelto's Ethic of War
• Superior Potion of Healing Recipe
• Supplication Scrapbook
• Supplications to Umberlee
• Surgeon's Memorandum
• Surgeon's Research Notes
• Surgery and Physiology: A Sharran's Primer
• Surveillance Notes
• Suspended Ceremorphosis
• Sword Coast Songbook

T

• Tales Of The Hells
• Talis
• Talis: Divination without Magic
• Talis Tactics - Ultimate Trick Book
• Tamia Domina
• Tarbell's Guide to Distractions
• Tattered Journal
• Tattered Notes
• Teachings of Ilmater
• Teachings of Loss: Dark Justiciar
• Teachings of Loss: Endless Dark
• Teachings of Loss: Forgetting and Loss
• Teachings of Loss: Light's Love
• Teachings of Loss: Oblivion
• Teachings of Loss: Own Secret
• Teachings of Loss: The Nightsinger
• File:Tenants of the Broken God Unfaded Icon.pngTenants of the Broken God
• The Absolute End
• The Amiable Art of Necromancy
• The Annals of Baldur's Gate
• The Approachable East, Vol. 1
• The Approachable East, Vol. 2
• The Approachable East, Vol. 3
• The Approachable East, Vol. 4
• The Approachable East, Vol. 5
• The Approachable East, Vol. 6
• The Bhaalspawn Saga: Part II
• The Bibliophile Recommends
• The Big Book of Little Drinking Games
• The Blood War
• The Book of Cheesomancy
• The Book of Suitors
• The Butler's Cane Has A Knob On The End
• The Careful Art of Tir'su Ciphers
• The Collectanea Rubrum
• The Curse of the Vampyr
• The Demonic Crisis
• The Devil You Know: An Autobiography
• The Diary of Lump the Enlightened
• The Dukes of Baldur's Gate
• The Easy Life
• The Egg-Duty Clan-Call
• The Elf Song
• The Evil Eye
• The Ecstasy of Murder
• The Five Year War: A Diplomat's Record
• The Folly and the Fall
• The Folly of Zerthimon
• The Forgotten Forest
• The Founding of Baldur's Gate
• The Gate's Pub Crawl Guide
• The Gauntlet of Shar
• The Genesis of Selûne and Shar
• The Glitter Gala - Glittering Baldur's Gate for over Twenty Years
• The Grand Design
• The Guild: Hidden Rulers of Baldur's Gate
• The Hag's Bane
• The Harpers
• The Hells Unleashed
• The Hound and the Hand
• The House of Wonders
• The Hunter's Piercing Gaze
• The Illustrated Adventures of Balduran
• The Landed Families of Tethyr
• The Leadership of the Zhentarim
• The Legend of Ansur
• The Lord of Murder's Songbook
• The Lords of Madness, Vol 4: Yeenoghu
• The Lost Tomb of Khaem
• The Many Faces of Gond
• The Many Tales of Mother Campestri
• The Mortal View: Eyewitness Accounts of the Bhaalspawn Crisis
• The Most Holy Sermons of Lashbearer Catrine
• The Mountain Is You
• The Needled Book
• The One that Got A Thay
• The Parables of Dawnmaster Vaseid
• The Pilgrimage to Gravenhollow
• The Power of the Crown
• The Pronunciation of Common for Monstrous Species: A Guide for Pedagogues
• The Purged Palate, Midwinter Edition
• The Quarta Sune
• The Realm According to Bumpo
• The Roads to Darkness
• The Rumour of Reithwin
• The Screed of the Willing
• The Sea Queen's Wrath
• The Shattered Seldarine
• The Soul Forger
• The Stone Lord: A New Threat
• The Suffering Masses
• The Superior Durability of Hardwood
• The Surprising Habits of Kara-Turian Warlords
• The Triad for Children
• The True and Impossible Adventures of Tenebrux Morrow, Vol. 1
• The True and Impossible Adventures of Tenebrux Morrow, Vol. 2
• The True and Impossible Adventures of Tenebrux Morrow, Vol. 3
• The True and Impossible Adventures of Tenebrux Morrow, Vol. 4
• The Ultimate State
• The Unclaimed
• The Velkynvelve Pursuit
• The Waning Moon: Consignments
• The War between Selûne and Shar
• The Warrior of Love
• The Watch and the Steel Watch
• The Way of the Wanderer
• The Well-Tended Garden
• The Wonders of Phandalin
• The Would-Be Saint
• Therapeutics
• Threadbare Book
• Tollhouse Ledger (Reithwin)
• Tollhouse Ledger (Risen Road)
• Tombstone Shop Notes
• Tome of the Faith-leap Trial
• Tome of the Self-Same Trial
• Tome of the Soft-Step Trial
• Traveller's Guide to the Sword Coast Vol. IV: The Risen Road
• Traveller's Guide to the Sword Coast Vol. VIII: The Outer City
• File:Traveller's Guide to the Sword Coast Vol. IX: Inns and Guesthouses Unfaded Icon.pngTraveller's Guide to the Sword Coast Vol. IX: Inns and Guesthouses
• Treatise on the Antimagic Properties of Sussur Tree Flowers
• Tymora, Lady Luck
• Tym's Notebook

U

• Unpublished Portents
• File:U.R.: For the Absolute's Glory Unfaded Icon.pngU.R.: For the Absolute's Glory
• Unsent Sending
• Urban Exploration - The Undercity!

V

• Valarken's Failed Coup
• Vault Pass Ledger
• Veronica Hamperclips and her Adventures Beyond The Washbasin
• Veterinary Log
• Violet's Diary
• Volo's Complete Guide to the Behaviour of Nymphs
• Volo's Guide to Baldur's Gate
• Volo's Guide to Baldur's Gate (Signed)
• Volo's Guide to Spirits and Spectres

W

• Wall of the Faithless
• Warden's Workbook
• Wealth Offering to Bhaal
• Web-Covered Journal
• What Abides Below
• When Love Fumbles
• Winery Records
• Writin Exorcises
• Writings of a Wroot

X

Y

• Ye Follye of Karsus
• Yearning for the Moon
• Yoshimo is Willing
• You've Got Friends in the Guild

Z

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Other

These items are not treated as books by the game, and have a different functionality.

• Curious Book: a Container.