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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
- Baldur's Mouth 1492 DR Issue 83
- Balduran Founds a City
- Balthazar's Notes
- Barkskin Recipe
- Blacksmith's Note
- Blood Bank Log
- Bloody Journal
- Book of Poetry
- Bonded By Love - Husband's Diary
- Bonded By Love - Wife's Diary
- Broom and Bucket
- Canticles of the Dark Mistress
- Charred Prayer Book
- Clasped Book
- Confiscated Book
- Corsairs of Luskan
- Crumpled Note
- Dark Justiciar's Journal
- Dead Druid's Journal
- Dear Ansur
- Dearest Elminster
- Diary of Ketheric Thorm, Vol 1
- Diary of Ketheric Thorm, Vol 2
- Diary of Ketheric Thorm, Vol 3
- Diary, 1492DR, Ffion Goldgrind
- Dispatches Ledger
- Do Not Fail
- Don't Mess With Djinnies
- Dusty Book
- Dwarf's Poem
- Elder Brain Domination
- Employee Pay Log
- Engraved Githyanki Disc
- Extracts - The Rule of Three
- Fables of Faerûn IV: The Magnanimous Miner
- Faded Blueprints
- Faded Instructions
- Faded Note
- Ffion's Journal
- Field Report - Deathstalker Zumm
- Final Warning
- Findings from the Hinterlands - New Edition
- Flow of the Chionthar
- Form H, Refusal of Admittance
- 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
- Harper's Map
- Harvest of Memory
- Healers' Ledger
- Heavy Book
- Her Love For it Was Like A Plum
- How to Track an Illithid
- Hymns for the Gone
- Illasera, the First
- Infirmary Records
- Inroads by Arms Dealer Gortash
- Inscribed Githyanki Slate
- Instructions from B
- Invasion Plans for the Sword Coast
- Investigation Notes
- Invitation to Lord Gortash
- Journal of High Initiate Jarrus
- Journal of Magthew Budj
- Journal of Past Adventurers No 1
- Journal of Past Adventurers No 2
- Journal of Past Adventurers No 3
- Journal of Past Adventurers No 4
- Journal of a Novice Monk
- Judge of the Damned
- Kill Order
- Kobold Journal
- Larethian
- Last Notes of a Monk
- 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
- Magical Histories, Volume 1: The Origins of Mystra
- Mason's Letter
- Mason's Log
- Moonrise Diagram
- Muddy Note
- Necromantic Codexes, Their Enigmas
- NO CAUSE FOR ALARM
- Notice
- Olam's Journal
- Old Maintenance Records
- On Goblins: My Life Among the Conquering Host
- On Potions and Elixirs
- On Psionic Manipulations and Countermeasures
- On Serpent Venom Toxin
- On Sloth, Gluttony, and Vice
- On Weapon Coatings
- Template:Oral Histories of Faerûn: Paladin Oathbreakers
- Orders from B
- 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
- 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
- Selûne Devotee
- Selûnite Journal
- Selûnite Prayer Book
- Selûnite Prayer Sheet
- Selûnite Rite
- Sharran Initiate's Notes
- Sharran Registry
- Sharran's Psalm
- Simple Poison Recipe
- Soft Letter
- Songs for Sailors, Soldiers, and Sirens
- Soul Cage Research
- Staff Betting Pool
- Stained Book
- Stedd's Virtues of Unions
- Suelto's Ethic of War
- Sulphurous Note
- Supplication Scrapbook
- Surgeon's Memorandum
- Surgeon's Research Notes
- Surgery and Physiology: A Sharran's Primer
- Suspended Ceremorphosis
- Tattered Journal
- Teachings of Ilmater
- 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
- The Approachable East, Vol. 3
- The Big Book of Little Drinking Games
- The Blood War
- The Butler's Cane Has A Knob On The End
- The Final Sacrifice of the Moon Daughter
- The Five Year War: A Diplomat's Record
- The Folly and the Fall
- The Gate is Closed
- The Gauntlet of Shar
- The Grand Design
- The Hells Unleashed
- The Many tales of Mother Campestri
- The One that Got A Thay
- The Price of Pride
- The Purged Palate, Midwinter Edition
- The Quarta Sune
- The Realm According to Bumpo
- The True and Impossible Adventures of Tenebrux Morrow, Vol. 4
- The True Life of 'Lord' Gortash
- The Waning Moon: Consignments
- 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
- Tome of the Self-Same Trial
- Tome of the Soft-Step Trial
- Tough Letter
- Traveller's Guide to the Sword Coast Vol. VIII: The Outer City
- Treatise on the Antimagic Properties of Sussur Tree Flowers
- Unsigned Trade Visa
- Urgent Report for Duke Ravenguard - Priority Entry
- Veterinary Log
- Warden's Workbook
- Warning Letter
- Web-Covered Journal
- Word from the Tribunal
- 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.