Books

Template:Up to date 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 at:

• Notes provides for a list of letters and notes in the game.
• Category:Books provides a comprehensive list of written material found in game.
• See also: Books by Subject and Books by Author

Story Item

File:A Study of the Slayer Unfaded Icon.pngA Study of the Slayer

Flora of the Dalelands

Flumph Mating Rituals

Grey Scout's Journal

Halsin's Journal, Vol II

Hide-Bound Journal

Highcliff's Journal

Kozakuran Dictionary

Necromancy of Thay

On Antidotes

The Great Furnace of Grymforge

Legendary

Caution Before the Seelie

The Annals of Karsus

The Red Knight's Final Stratagem

The Tharchiate Codex

Common

A

• A Brush with Evil: On Hags
• 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 List of Essential Personnel
• A Modest Guide To Sword Coast Wine
• A Pleasurable Deal
• A Promising Candidate
• A Primer on Mythical Beasts
• A Sprinter's Guide to Goblins
• A Swift and Sudden Death
• A Tour of Tempest
• A Traveller's Guide to Baldur's Gate
• Abandoned Journal
• 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
• Always Hungry
• Amaps' Memoirs
• An End to Suffering
• Ancient Selûnite Journal
• Apostle Diary
• Apothecary's Ledger
• Apprentice's Journal
• Arfur's Private Musings
• Artefact Mission: Agent Roster
• Artefact Mission: Challenges
• Attention Acolytes
• Attracting Drow Exiles
• Avernus Survival Guide

B

• BAN LIST
• Bagida's Diary
• Baldur's Bones
• Baldur's Gate and the Dialectics of Plunder
• Baldur's Gate Protectors
• Baldur's Gate Temple Of Bhaal
• Balduran Founds a City
• Barkskin Recipe
• Beheading the Bitterroots
• Blood Bank Log
• Blood-Smeared Logbook
• Bloody Journal
• 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
• Bonded By Love - Husband's Diary
• Bonded By Love - Wife's Diary
• Born to be Wild
• Broom and Bucket
• Burnt Journal

C

• Canticles of the Dark Mistress
• Captives of Shar
• Chapel Records
• Charred Prayer Book
• Circus of the Last Days: Employees
• File:Clasped Book Unfaded Icon.pngClasped Book
• Client List
• Confiscated Book
• Confronting the False Heart
• Consolation of the Dark
• Corsairs of Luskan
• Crimes of the Moonmaiden
• Curfew (Confidential Orders)

D

• Dalyria's Journal
• Damaged Journal
• Dark Journal
• Dark Justiciar's Journal
• Dark Justiciar's Plea
• 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
• Downfall of the Iron Throne
• Druid Notebook
• Druids' Ledger
• Dufay's Diary
• Dusty Book

E

• Easy Furnitures DIY
• Efficacious Brain Removal
• Eilistraee: Lady Silverhair
• Elder Brain Domination
• Elder's Journal
• Employee Pay Log
• File:Engraved Githyanki Disc Unfaded Icon.pngEngraved Githyanki Disc
• 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
• 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
• Flaming Fist History
• Flaming Fist New Recruit Booklet
• 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

• Gerringothe's Logbook
• Get to Baldur's Gate
• Ghustil Stornugoss' Research Notes
• Glory of the Absolute
• Gnomefather
• Gond and Gripping Life By The Tongs
• Gondian Research Report
• Guest Log
• Guestbook of Rosymorn Abbey
• Graveyard Diary
• Grymforge: A History

H

• Habits of Patriars
• Hairy Henry's Journal
• Halfred's Note
• Halsin's Journal, Vol I
• Halsin's Journal, Vol II
• Harper Journal
• Harper's Notebook
• Harvest of Memory
• Havkelaag's Journal
• Havkelaag's Notes
• Healer's Log
• Healers' Ledger
• Heavy Book
• 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
• How to Track an Illithid
• Hymns for the Gone

I

• Ideas for New Outfits
• Illasera, the First
• File:Illmatari Combat Manual Unfaded Icon.pngIllmatari Combat Manual
• Impractical Magic, Volume 1
• In the Mode of Masters
• Incomplete Journal
• Infernal Contracts And Bargains
• Infirmary Records
• File:Inkeeper's Journal Unfaded Icon.pngInkeeper's 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
• Inventory of Takings
• Inventory Report
• Isobel's Diary

J

• Jake's Encyclopaedia of Eels
• 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

• Larethian
• Last Notes of a Monk
• Ledger: Blood Donors
• 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
• Life of Beaky
• Log of Visitors to Rosymorn Monastery
• Logbook of Sendings
• Logbook XII: 1371

M

• Magic of the Weave - An Introduction
• 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
• Magmar's Record
• Manual of Hilaritie for the Trulie Unfunnie
• Mason's Log
• Mastodonian Memoirs, Vol. 1, Investigator Valeria
• Memoir Notes with Recent Addenda
• Memoirs, Vol 1, Sister Clarwen
• Meticulous Notes
• Missives of Candlekeep
• Mistress of the Night and Friends
• Mistress of Souls' Research Log
• Moonhaven Logbook
• Mysterious Moonshae

N

• Necromantic Codexes, Their Enigmas
• NO CAUSE FOR ALARM
• No Price Too High
• Note About the Shield of Silvam
• Notes from a Soothsayer
• Notes on Mind Flayer Anatomy
• Notice

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
• 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
• One-Eye
• One Foot, Two Feet, Well Met, We'll Meet
• One Night in Nashkel
• Oral Histories of Faerûn: Gith and Mind Flayers
• Oral Histories of Faerûn: Paladin Oathbreakers
• Oral Histories of Faerûn: The Spellplague
• Orcs of the Trielta Hills
• Order of the Gauntlet: On Matters of Law and Justice
• Orders from B
• Orpheus, Prince of the Comet, Part One: Betrayal
• Orpheus, Prince of the Comet, Part Two: Sacrifice
• Overlapping Lines

P

• Pandirna's Diary
• Patient Log: Duke Belynne Stelmane
• Patients' Registry
• Patriars, A Homegrown Aristocracy
• Patriars Journal
• Post House Delivery Complaints
• Post-House Dog's Log
• Potion Catalogue
• Potion of Animal Speaking Recipe
• Potion of Healing Recipe
• Prayer for Forgiveness
• Prayers of Repent
• File:Priestess' Journal Unfaded Icon.pngPriestess' Journal
• Primer on Calimshan
• Prisoner's Journal
• Provender Ledger

Q

• Queen of Ravens

R

• Ragged Diary
• Raphael's Diary - Chapter 1
• Raphael's Diary - Chapter 2
• Raphael's Diary - Chapter 3
• Record of Complaints
• Recruiting Gnolls
• Reflections Upon the Mirror of Loss
• Reflections of a Gullible Prick
• Refugee's Journal
• Rives' Failures as a Banite

S

• Safe and Sound: a Guide to our Vaults
• Scaled Scions of Abeir
• Schematic Compendium
• Scorched Book
• Secret Societies of the Sword Coast: Exposed
• Selûne's Devotee
• Selûnite Journal
• Selûnite Prayer Book
• Shanties for the Bitch Queen
• Sharess' Caress Finances
• Sharran Initiate's Notes
• 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
• Spattered Diary
• Speak your Loss
• Special Operation - Infernal Arms
• File:Stained Book Unfaded Icon.pngStained Book
• Stedd's Virtues of Unions
• Studies of the Elder Brains
• Study of the Sword Coast
• Submersible Maintenance
• Suelto's Ethics of War
• 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

• Taking the Groves Off the Table
• Tales Of The Hells
• Talis
• Talis: Divination without Magic
• Talis Tactics - Ultimate Trick Book
• 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
• Tenants of the Broken God
• The Absolute End
• 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. 6
• The Bhaalspawn Saga: Part II
• 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
• 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 Final Sacrifice of the Moon Daughter
• The Five Year War: A Diplomat's Record
• The Folly and the Fall
• The Folly of Zerthimon
• The Founding of Baldur's Gate
• The Gate's Pub Crawl Guide
• 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 Hound and the Hand
• The House of Wonders
• The Hunter's Piercing Gaze
• The Illustrated Adventures of Balduran
• The Leadership of the Zhentarim
• The Legend of Ansur
• The Lord of Murder's Songbook
• The Lords of Madness, Vol 4: Yeenoghu
• The Many tales of Mother Campestri
• The Mortal View: Eyewitness Accounts of the Bhaalspawn Crisis
• The Mountain Is You
• The Needled Book
• The One that Got A Thay
• The Power of the Crown
• The Purged Palate, Midwinter Edition
• The Quarta Sune
• The Realm According to Bumpo
• The Realm According to Bumpo
• The Roads to Darkness
• The Rumour of Reithwin
• The Screed of the Willing
• The Shattered Seldarine
• The Superior Durability of Hardwood
• The Surprising Habits of Kara-Turian Warlords
• 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 True Life of 'Lord' Gortash
• The Ultimate State
• The Unclaimed
• The Waning Moon: Consignments
• The War between Selûne and Shar
• 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)
• Tome of the Self-Same Trial
• Tome of the Soft-Step Trial
• 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
• 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

U

V

• Valarken's Failed Coup
• Vault Pass Ledger
• 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
• Winery Records
• Writin Exorcises
• Writings of a Wroot

X

Y

• Ye Follye of Karsus
• Yearning for the Moon
• Yoshimo is Willing

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.