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.

List of Books

Story Item

• Flora of the Dalelands
• Flumph Mating Rituals
• Hide-bound Journal
• File:Book NecromancyofThayUnsocketed.png Necromancy of Thay
• The Great Furnace of Grymforge

Common

• File:Book WizardyGenericA.png A Brush with Evil: On Hags
• A is for Azuth and other Gods II
• A is for Azuth, and other Gods VI
• A is for Azuth, and other Gods VII
• A is for Azuth, and other Gods XI
• A Primer on Mythical Beasts
• A Traveller's Guide to Baldur's Gate
• Blood-smeared Logbook
• Book Draft - Volume III
• File:Book WizardyFancyA.png Book of Dead Gods
• Book of Final Breath
• Chapel Records
• Dark Journal
• Death & Divinity: A Godly Guide
• Discarded Jorunal
• Disintegrating Journal
• Disorders of the Nerves and Mind: A Treatise
• Druid's Ledger
• Druid Notebook
• Elder's Journal
• 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 Cheerful Deep Gnome
• Fables of Faerûn V: The Boy and the Beholder
• Faded Logbook (Log 124)
• Faded Logbook (Log 182)
• Faldorn's Canticle: The Shadow Druid's Doctrine
• Folksongs of Faerûn
• Forge Construction Log
• Fringe Philosophy, Vol. V
• Front and Centre: A Thespian's Memoir
• Halsin's Journal, Vol I
• Harper's Notebook
• Healer's Log
• Highcliff's Journal
• File:Book WizardyGenericA.png Inscrutable Journal
• Jake's Encyclopedia of Eels
• Journey Through The Jungle
• Lessons for Sensible Living IV: Cities and How to Survive Them
• Logbook XII: 1371
• Magic of the Weave - An Introduction
• Magmar's Record
• Meticulous Notes
• Missives of Candlekeep
• Mistress of the Night and Friends
• Moonhaven Logbook
• Notes from a Soothsayer
• Old Schoolbook
• File:Book WizardyGenericA.png On Death & Resurrection
• On Educating the Faithful
• On Illithids, Volume XXVI
• On Receiving Her Grace
• On the Origins of the Zhentarim
• One Foot, Two Feet, Well Met, We'll Meet
• Oral Histories of Faerûn: Gith and Mind Flayers
• Oral Histories of Faerûn: The Spellplague
• Priestess' Journal
• Secret Societies of the Sword Coast: Exposed
• Shanties for the Bitch Queen
• Sharran's Journal
• Soul Coin: A Treatise
• Study of the Sword Coast
• Talis: Divination Without Magic
• 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 Collectanea Rubrum
• The Curse of the Vampyr
• The Devil You Know: An Autobiography
• The Diary of Lump the Enlightened
• The Evil Eye
• 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 Shattered Seldarine
• The True and Impossible Adventures of Tenebrux Morrow, Vol. I
• The True and Impossible Adventures of Tenebrux Morrow, Vol. 2
• The True and Impossible Adventures of Tenebrux Morrow, Vol. 3
• File:Book WizardyGenericA.png The Unclaimed
• The War between Selûne and Shar
• The Wonders of Phandalin
• Tollhouse Ledger
• Traveller's Guide to the Sword Coast Vol. IV: The Risen Road
• Traveller's Guide to the Sword Coast Vol IX: Inns and Guesthouses
• Volo's Complete Guide to the Behaviour of Nymphs
• Volo's Guide to Spirits and Spectres

Other

These items are not treated as books by the game, and have a different functionality.

• Curious Book: a container.

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