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
- 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 XI- A Pleasurable Deal
- A Pleasurable Deal: The Shocking Truth
A Primer on Mythical Beasts- A Traveller's Guide to Baldur's Gate
- An Open Letter on Oppression and Peacocks
- Apothecary's Ledger
- Apprentice's Journal
- As Per My Last Letter
- Blacksmith's Note
Blood-smeared Logbook- Bloody Journal
- 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- Dearest Elminster
Discarded Journal- Disintegrating Journal
- Disorders of the Nerves and Mind: A Treatise
- Druid's Ledger
- Druid Notebook
- Dwarf's Poem
- 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 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
- Folksongs of Faerûn
Forge Construction Log
Fringe Philosophy, Vol. V- Front and Centre: A Thespian's Memoir
- Halsin's Journal, Vol I
- Harper's Map
- Harper's Notebook
- Healer's Log
- Highcliff's Journal
- Inroads by Arms Dealer Gortash
- 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
- Letter from 'M'
- 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 Goblins: My Life Among the Conquering Host
- 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 Faerun: Paladin Oathbreakers
- Oral Histories of Faerûn: The Spellplague
- Pandirna's Diary
- Perfumed Letter
- Personal Note
- Priestess' Journal
- Secret Societies of the Sword Coast: Exposed
- Selûnite Journal
- Selûnite Prayer Sheet
- Selûnite Rite
- Shanties for the Bitch Queen
- Sharran's Journal
- Simple Poison Recipe
- Soft Letter
Soul Coin: A Treatise- Stained Book
- Study of the Sword Coast
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 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
- 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
- Theskan Anthology of Goblin Poetry
- To the Good Godly Folk of Faerûn
- Tollhouse Ledger
- Tough Letter
- 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 Baldur's Gate
- Volo's Guide to Spirits and Spectres
- Web-Covered Journal
Other
These items are not treated as books by the game, and have a different functionality.
- Curious Book: a container.
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