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
• 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
• File:'An History of the Society of Brilliance as Told by Its Members' Unfaded Icon.png'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
• 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-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
• Confessions, Vol. 1, Father Lorgan
• Confiscated Book
• Confronting the False Heart
• Consolation of the Dark
• Corsairs of Luskan
• 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
• 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

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
• Ironhand Gnomes: Our Grievances
• 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 Past Adventurers N°1
• Journal of Past Adventurers N°2
• Journal of Past Adventurers N°3
• Journal of Past Adventurers N°4
• Journal of a Novice Monk
• Journey Through The Jungle
• Judge of the Damned

K

• Kobold Journal

L

• Lacie and the Modrons
• Larethian
• Last Notes of a Monk
• Leather-Bound Book
• Ledger: Blood Donors
• Ledger of Production: Explosives
• Ledger of Production: Motivators
• 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
• Mantras and Meditations of the Sun Soul
• Manual of Hilaritie for the Trulie Unfunnie
• Manuscript
• Mason's Log
• Mastodonian Memoirs, Vol. 1, Investigator Valeria
• Meditations, Vol. 1, Father Lorgan
• Memoir Notes with Recent Addenda
• 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
• 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
• File:'On the Inevitability of Moral Decay and its Benefits' Unfaded Icon.png'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
• 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
• 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
• Reflections of a Gullible Prick
• Reflections Upon the Mirror of Loss
• Refugee Arrival Record
• Refugee's Journal
• 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
• Schools of Magic: Necromancy
• Scorched Book
• Scorching Street - A Flaming Fist Ruleset
• Scrapbook of Letters
• 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
• 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
• Suelto's Ethics 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 Butler's Cane Has A Knob On The End
• The Careful Art of Tir'su Ciphers
• The Collectanea Rubrum
• The Curse of the Vampyr
• File:'The Demonic Crisis' Unfaded Icon.png'The Demonic Crisis'
• The Devil You Know: An Autobiography
• The Diary of Lump the Enlightened
• The Dukes of Baldur's Gate
• 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
• File:'The Lost Tomb of Khaem' Unfaded Icon.png'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
• File:'The Pilgrimage to Gravenhollow' Unfaded Icon.png'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
• File:'The Velkynvelve Pursuit' Unfaded Icon.png'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 IX: Inns and Guesthouses
• Traveller's Guide to the Sword Coast Vol. IV: The Risen Road
• Traveller's Guide to the Sword Coast Vol. VIII: The Outer City
• Treatise on the Antimagic Properties of Sussur Tree Flowers
• Tymora, Lady Luck
• Tym's Notebook

U

• Unpublished Portents
• 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 Spirits and Spectres

W

• Wall of the Faithless
• Warden's Workbook
• Web-Covered Journal
• What Abides Below
• 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.