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
• 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
• File:Book GenericGray.png ? A is for Azuth and other Gods II
• [[File:|link=A is for Azuth and other Gods III|x25px|alt=A is for Azuth and other Gods III|class=bg3wiki-icon ]] 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
• [[File:|link=A Guide to Avernus - One Hellish Holiday|x25px|alt=A Guide to Avernus - One Hellish Holiday|class=bg3wiki-icon ]] A Guide to Avernus - One Hellish Holiday
• [[File:|link=A Pleasurable Deal|x25px|alt=A Pleasurable Deal|class=bg3wiki-icon ]] A Pleasurable Deal
• [[File:|link=A Pleasurable Deal: The Shocking Truth|x25px|alt=A Pleasurable Deal: The Shocking Truth|class=bg3wiki-icon ]] A Pleasurable Deal: The Shocking Truth
• File:Book RichB.png ? A Primer on Mythical Beasts
• [[File:|link=A Sprinter's Guide to Goblins|x25px|alt=A Sprinter's Guide to Goblins|class=bg3wiki-icon ]] A Sprinter's Guide to Goblins
• [[File:|link=A Swift and Sudden Death|x25px|alt=A Swift and Sudden Death|class=bg3wiki-icon ]] A Swift and Sudden Death
•  A Traveller's Guide to Baldur's Gate
• [[File:|link=A Warning to the Sword Coast|x25px|alt=A Warning to the Sword Coast|class=bg3wiki-icon ]] A Warning to the Sword Coast
• [[File:|link=Abandoned Journal|x25px|alt=Abandoned Journal|class=bg3wiki-icon ]] Abandoned Journal
• [[File:|link=Absolute Orders: Newborn|x25px|alt=Absolute Orders: Newborn|class=bg3wiki-icon ]] Absolute Orders: Newborn
• [[File:|link=Address Book|x25px|alt=Address Book|class=bg3wiki-icon ]] Address Book
• [[File:|link=Always Hungry|x25px|alt=Always Hungry|class=bg3wiki-icon ]] Always Hungry
• [[File:|link=Amaps' Memoirs|x25px|alt=Amaps' Memoirs|class=bg3wiki-icon ]] Amaps' Memoirs
• [[File:|link=An Archduke's Leadership: Protection|x25px|alt=An Archduke's Leadership: Protection|class=bg3wiki-icon ]] An Archduke's Leadership: Protection
• [[File:|link=An Open Letter on Oppression and Peacocks|x25px|alt=An Open Letter on Oppression and Peacocks|class=bg3wiki-icon ]] An Open Letter on Oppression and Peacocks
• [[File:|link=An Open Heresy|x25px|alt=An Open Heresy|class=bg3wiki-icon ]] An Open Heresy
• [[File:|link=Ancient Selûnite Journal|x25px|alt=Ancient Selûnite Journal|class=bg3wiki-icon ]] Ancient Selûnite Journal
• [[File:|link=Apothecary's Ledger|x25px|alt=Apothecary's Ledger|class=bg3wiki-icon ]] Apothecary's Ledger
• [[File:|link=Apprentice's Journal|x25px|alt=Apprentice's Journal|class=bg3wiki-icon ]] Apprentice's Journal
• [[File:|link=As Per My Last Letter|x25px|alt=As Per My Last Letter|class=bg3wiki-icon ]] As Per My Last Letter
• [[File:|link=Attention Acolytes|x25px|alt=Attention Acolytes|class=bg3wiki-icon ]] Attention Acolytes
• [[File:|link=Attracting Drow Exiles|x25px|alt=Attracting Drow Exiles|class=bg3wiki-icon ]] Attracting Drow Exiles
• Baldur's Mouth 1492 DR Issue 83
• Balduran Founds a City
• 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
• 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
•  Discarded Journal
•  Disintegrating Journal
•  Disorders of the Nerves and Mind: A Treatise
• Dispatches Ledger
• Do Not Fail
• Don't Mess With Djinnies
•  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 Three
•  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 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
•  Journey Through The Jungle
• Judge of the Damned
• Kill Order
• 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
• NO CAUSE FOR ALARM
•  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
• Template:Oral Histories of Faerûn: 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
• Stedd's Virtues of Unions
•  Study of the Sword Coast
• 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
•  Talis: Divination Without Magic
• Tattered Journal
•  Tattered Notes
• 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
• File:Book WizardyGenericA.png The Annals of Baldur's Gate
•  The Approachable East, Vol. 2
• The Approachable East, Vol. 3
•  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 Five Year War: A Diplomat's Record
• 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
• The True Life of 'Lord' Gortash
• 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
• 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.

• Curious Book: a Container.