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.
List of Books
Story Item
Flora of the Dalelands
Flumph Mating Rituals- Goblin's Drawing
- Hide-bound Journal
Highcliff's Blueprints- File:Book NecromancyofThayUnsocketed.png Necromancy of Thay
- Rancid Note
The Great Furnace of Grymforge- Shipment Orders
- Stamped Handbill
Common
- File:Book WizardyGenericA.png A Brush with Evil: On Hags
- File:Book GenericGray.png ? A is for Azuth and other Gods II
- A is for Azuth and other Gods III
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A is for Azuth, and other Gods VI
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A is for Azuth, and other Gods VII
- File:Book RichA.png ? A is for Azuth, and other Gods XI
- A Pleasurable Deal
- A Pleasurable Deal: The Shocking Truth
- File:Book RichB.png ? A Primer on Mythical Beasts
- A Traveller's Guide to Baldur's Gate
- A Warning to the Sword Coast
- Amaps' Memoirs
- An Open Letter on Oppression and Peacocks
- Ancient Selûnite Journal
- Apothecary's Ledger
- Apprentice's Journal
- As Per My Last Letter
- Barkskin Recipe
- Blacksmith's Note
- Blood Bank Log
-
Blood-Smeared Logbook
- Bloody Journal
- Book Draft - Volume III
- File:Book WizardyFancyA.png Book of Dead Gods
- Book of Final Breath
- Book of Poetry
- Bonded By Love - Husband's Diary
- Bonded By Love - Wife's Diary
- Broom and Bucket
- Canticles of the Dark Mistress
- File:Book RichB.png ? Chapel Records
- Confiscated Book
- Corsairs of Luskan
- Dark Journal
- Dark Justiciar's Journal
- File:Book RichC.png ? Death & Divinity: A Godly Guide
- Dead Druid's Journal
- Dearest Elminster
-
Discarded Journal
-
Disintegrating Journal
- Disorders of the Nerves and Mind: A Treatise
- Druid's Ledger
- Druid Notebook
- Dusty Book
- Dwarf's Poem
- Elder's Journal
- Extracts - The Rule of Three
-
Fables of Faerûn I: The Dimwitted Drow
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Fables of Faerûn II: The Daring Duergar
- File:Book WizardyGenericA.png 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
- Faded Blueprints
- Faded Instructions
- Faded Logbook (Log 124)
- Faded Logbook (Log 182)
- Faded Note
-
Faldorn's Canticle: The Shadow Druid's Doctrine
- Findings from the Hinterlands - New Edition
- Flow of the Chionthar
- Folksongs of Faerûn
-
Forge Construction Log
- File:Book GenericEye.png ? Fringe Philosophy, Vol. V
- Front and Centre: A Thespian's Memoir
- Ghustil Stornugoss' Research Notes
- Guestbook of Rosymorn Abbey
- Graveyard Diary
- Grymforge: A History
- Halfred's Note
- Halsin's Journal, Vol I
- Harper's Map
- Harper's Notebook
- Harvest of Memory
- Healers' Ledger
- Healer's Log
- Heavy Book
- Highcliff's Journal
- How to Track an Illithid
- Hymns for the Gone
- Infirmary Records
- Inroads by Arms Dealer Gortash
- Inscribed Githyanki Slate
- File:Book WizardyGenericA.png Inscrutable Journal
- Investigation Notes
-
Jake's Encyclopedia of Eels
- Journal of High Initiate Jarrus
- Journal of a Novice Monk
- Journey Through The Jungle
- Judge of the Damned
- Kobold Journal
- Last Notes of a Monk
- Lessons for Sensible Living IV: Cities and How to Survive Them
- Letter from 'M'
- Log of Visitors to Rosymorn Monastery
- Logbook XII: 1371
- File:Book RichC.png ? Magic of the Weave - An Introduction
- Magmar's Record
- Mason's Letter
- Mason's Log
- Meticulous Notes
-
Missives of Candlekeep
-
Mistress of the Night and Friends
- Moonhaven Logbook
- Muddy Note
-
Notes from a Soothsayer
- Olam's Journal
- Old Maintenance Records
- Old Schoolbook
- File:Book WizardyGenericA.png On Death & Resurrection
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On Educating the Faithful
-
On Illithids, Volume XXVI
- On Goblins: My Life Among the Conquering Host
- On Receiving Her Grace
- On Potions and Elixirs
- On Psionic Manipulations and Countermeasures
- On Serpent Venom Toxin
- On Sloth, Gluttony, and Vice
- On the Origins of the Zhentarim
- File:Book RichC.png ? One Foot, Two Feet, Well Met, We'll Meet
- File:Book RichB.png ? Oral Histories of Faerûn: Gith and Mind Flayers
- Oral Histories of Faerun: Paladin Oathbreakers
- Oral Histories of Faerûn: The Spellplague
- Pandirna's Diary
- Patients' Registry
- Perfumed Letter
- Personal Note
- Potion of Animal Speaking Recipe
- Priestess' Journal
- Refugee's Journal
- Research Notes
- Royal Orders
- File:Book RichC.png ? Secret Societies of the Sword Coast: Exposed
- Selûne Devotee
- Selûnite Journal
- Selûnite Prayer Book
- Selûnite Prayer Sheet
- Selûnite Rite
- File:Book GenericGray.png ? Shanties for the Bitch Queen
- Sharran Registry
- Sharran's Journal
- Simple Poison Recipe
- Soft Letter
- Songs for Sailors, Soldiers, and Sirens
-
Soul Coin: A Treatise
- Stained Book
- Study of the Sword Coast
- Surgery and Physiology: A Sharran's Primer
-
Talis: Divination Without Magic
- Tattered Journal
- Tattered Notes
- File:Book WizardyGenericA.png The Annals of Baldur's Gate
- The Approachable East, Vol. 2
- The Approachable East, Vol. 4
- The Approachable East, Vol. 6
- The Big Book of Little Drinking Games
- The Collectanea Rubrum
- The Curse of the Vampyr
- The Devil You Know: An Autobiography
- The Diary of Lump the Enlightened
-
The Evil Eye
- The Folly and the Fall
- The Gate is Closed
- The Genesis of Selûne and Shar
- The Guild: Hidden Rulers of Baldur's Gate
- The Illustrated Adventures of Balduran
- File:Book WizardyGenericA.png The Lord of Murder's Songbook
- The Lords of Madness, Vol 4: Yeenoghu
- File:Book WizardyGenericA.png The Mortal View: Eyewitness Accounts of the Bhaalspawn Crisis
- The Realm According to Bumpo
- The Roads to Darkness
- The Purged Palate, Midwinter Edition
- The Realm According to Bumpo
- The Shattered Seldarine
- The True and Impossible Adventures of Tenebrux Morrow, Vol. I
- The True and Impossible Adventures of Tenebrux Morrow, Vol. 2
- File:Book RichC.png ? The True and Impossible Adventures of Tenebrux Morrow, Vol. 3
- File:Book WizardyGenericA.png The Unclaimed
- The Waning Moon: Consignments
- The War between Selûne and Shar
- The Wonders of Phandalin
- Therapeutics
- Theskan Anthology of Goblin Poetry
- Threadbare Book
- To the Good Godly Folk of Faerûn
- Tollhouse Ledger
- Tough Letter
- Traveller's Guide to the Sword Coast Vol. IV: The Risen Road
- File:Book RichC.png ? Traveller's Guide to the Sword Coast Vol IX: Inns and Guesthouses
- Treatise on the Antimagic Properties of Sussur Tree Flowers
- Veterinary Log
-
Volo's Complete Guide to the Behaviour of Nymphs
- Volo's Guide to Baldur's Gate
- Volo's Guide to Spirits and Spectres
- Warden's Workbook
- Warning Letter
- Web-Covered Journal
- Yearning for the Moon
Other
These items are not treated as books by the game, and have a different functionality.
