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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
- File:Highcliffs Blueprints Icon.png 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
- A is for Azuth, and other Gods VI
- A is for Azuth, and other Gods VII
- File:Book RichA.png ? A is for Azuth, and other Gods XI
- A Guide to Avernus - One Hellish Holiday
- A Pleasurable Deal
- A Pleasurable Deal: The Shocking Truth
- File:Book RichB.png ? A Primer on Mythical Beasts
- A Sprinter's Guide to Goblins
- A Swift and Sudden Death
- A Traveller's Guide to Baldur's Gate
- A Warning to the Sword Coast
- Abandoned Journal
- Absolute Orders: Newborn
- Address Book
- Amaps' Memoirs
- An Open Letter on Oppression and Peacocks
- An Open Heresy
- Ancient Selûnite Journal
- Apothecary's Ledger
- Apprentice's Journal
- As Per My Last Letter
- Attention Acolytes
- Attracting Drow Exiles
- Baldur's Mouth 1492 DR Issue 83
- Balthazar's Notes
- 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
- Charred Prayer Book
- Clasped Book
- Confiscated Book
- Corsairs of Luskan
- Crumpled Note
- Dark Journal
- Dark Justiciar's Journal
- File:Book RichC.png ? Death & Divinity: A Godly Guide
- Dead Druid's Journal
- Dearest Elminster
- Diary of Ketheric Thorm, Vol 1
- Diary of Ketheric Thorm, Vol 2
- Diary of Ketheric Thorm, Vol 3
- Diary, 1492DR, Ffion Goldgrind
- Discarded Journal
- Disintegrating Journal
- Disorders of the Nerves and Mind: A Treatise
- Dispatches Ledger
- Do Not Fail
- Druid's Ledger
- Druid Notebook
- Dusty Book
- Dwarf's Poem
- Elder Brain Domination
- Elder's Journal
- Employee Pay Log
- Engraved Githyanki Disc
- Extracts - The Rule of Threet
- Fables of Faerûn I: The Dimwitted Drow
- 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
- Ffion's Journal
- Field Report - Deathstalker Zumm
- Final Warning
- Findings from the Hinterlands - New Edition
- Flow of the Chionthar
- Folksongs of Faerûn
- Forge Construction Log
- Form H, Refusal of Admittance
- File:Book GenericEye.png ? Fringe Philosophy, Vol. V
- Front and Centre: A Thespian's Memoir
- Get to Baldur's Gate
- Ghustil Stornugoss' Research Notes
- Glory of the Absolute
- Guestbook of Rosymorn Abbey
- Graveyard Diary
- Grymforge: A History
- Hairy Henry's Journal
- Halfred's Note
- Halsin's Journal, Vol I
- Harper's Map
- Harper's Notebook
- Harvest of Memory
- Healers' Ledger
- Healer's Log
- Heavy Book
- Her Love For it Was Like A Plum
- Highcliff's Journal
- How to Track an Illithid
- Hymns for the Gone
- Illasera, the First
- Infirmary Records
- Inroads by Arms Dealer Gortash
- Inscribed Githyanki Slate
- File:Book WizardyGenericA.png Inscrutable Journal
- Instructions from B
- Invasion Plans for the Sword Coast
- Investigation Notes
- Invitation to Lord Gortash
- Jake's Encyclopedia of Eels
- Journal of High Initiate Jarrus
- Journal of Magthew Budj
- Journal of a Novice Monk
- Journey Through The Jungle
- Judge of the Damned
- Kobold Journal
- Larethian
- Last Notes of a Monk
- Lessons for Sensible Living IV: Cities and How to Survive Them
- Letter from Ironfinger
- Letter from 'M'
- Letter of Surrender
- Letter to the Absolute
- Life of Beaky
- List of Rules
- Log of Visitors to Rosymorn Monastery
- Logbook XII: 1371
- File:Book RichC.png ? Magic of the Weave - An Introduction
- Magical Histories, Volume 1: The Origins of Mystra
- Magmar's Record
- Mason's Letter
- Mason's Log
- Meticulous Notes
- Missives of Candlekeep
- Mistress of the Night and Friends
- Moonhaven Logbook
- Moonrise Diagram
- Muddy Note
- Necromantic Codexes, Their Enigmas
- Notes from a Soothsayer
- Notice
- Olam's Journal
- Old Maintenance Records
- Old Schoolbook
- File:Book WizardyGenericA.png On Death & Resurrection
- 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
- On Weapon Coatings
- 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
- Orders from B
- Pandirna's Diary
- Parchment
- Patients' Registry
- Perfumed Letter
- Personal Note
- Post House Delivery Complaints
- Post-House Dog's Log
- Potion of Animal Speaking Recipe
- Potion of Healing Recipe
- Prayer for Forgiveness
- Priestess' Journal
- Primer on Calimshan
- Record of Shipment
- Reflections Upon the Mirror of Loss
- Reflections of a Gullible Prick
- Refugee's Journal
- Research Notes
- Return at Once
- Royal Orders
- Scribbled Note
- 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 Initiate's Notes
- Sharran Registry
- Sharran's Journal
- Sharran's Psalm
- Simple Poison Recipe
- Soft Letter
- Songs for Sailors, Soldiers, and Sirens
- Soul Cage Research
- Soul Coin: A Treatise
- Staff Betting Pool
- Stained Book
- Study of the Sword Coast
- Suelto's Ethic of War
- Sulphurous Note
- Surgeon's Memorandum
- Surgeon's Research Notes
- Surgery and Physiology: A Sharran's Primer
- Suspended Ceremorphosis
- Talis: Divination Without Magic
- Tattered Journal
- Tattered Notes
- Teachings of Loss: Dark Justiciar
- Teachings of Loss: Endless Dark
- Teachings of Loss: Light's Love
- Teachings of Loss: Oblivion
- Teachings of Loss: Own Secret
- Tenants of the Broken God
- The Absolute End
- 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 Blood War
- The Butler's Cane Has A Knob On The End
- The Collectanea Rubrum
- The Curse of the Vampyr
- The Devil You Know: An Autobiography
- The Diary of Lump the Enlightened
- The Evil Eye
- The Final Sacrifice of the Moon Daughter
- The Folly and the Fall
- The Gate is Closed
- The Gauntlet of Shar
- The Genesis of Selûne and Shar
- The Grand Design
- The Guild: Hidden Rulers of Baldur's Gate
- The Hells Unleashed
- The Illustrated Adventures of Balduran
- File:Book WizardyGenericA.png The Lord of Murder's Songbook
- The Lords of Madness, Vol 4: Yeenoghu
- The Many tales of Mother Campestri
- File:Book WizardyGenericA.png The Mortal View: Eyewitness Accounts of the Bhaalspawn Crisis
- The One that Got A Thay
- The Price of Pride
- The Purged Palate, Midwinter Edition
- The Quarta Sune
- The Realm According to Bumpo
- The Realm According to Bumpo
- The Roads to Darkness
- 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
- The True and Impossible Adventures of Tenebrux Morrow, Vol. 4
- 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 Hiring Manager, Steel Watch Foundry
- To Lily Chazman, Provoss Academy
- To Lord Haverford Gist
- To the Good Godly Folk of Faerûn
- Tollhouse Ledger
- Tome of the Self-Same Trial
- Tome of the Soft-Step Trial
- Tough Letter
- 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:Book RichC.png ? Traveller's Guide to the Sword Coast Vol IX: Inns and Guesthouses
- Treatise on the Antimagic Properties of Sussur Tree Flowers
- Unsigned Trade Visa
- Urgent Report for Duke Ravenguard - Priority Entry
- 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
- Worn Letter
- Yearning for the Moon
- Z'rell's personal reminder
Other
These items are not treated as books by the game, and have a different functionality.