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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
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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
Legendary
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Common
- A is for Azuth and other Gods III
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- A Guide to Avernus - One Hellish Holiday
- A Pleasurable Deal
- A Pleasurable Deal: The Shocking Truth
- A Sprinter's Guide to Goblins
- A Swift and Sudden Death
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- A Warning to the Sword Coast
- Abandoned Journal
- Absolute Orders: Newborn
- Address Book
- Always Hungry
- Amaps' Memoirs
- An Archduke's Leadership: Protection
- An Open Letter on Oppression and Peacocks
- An Open Heresy
- Ancient Selûnite Journal
- Apothecary's Ledger
- Apprentice's Journal
- As Per My Last Letter
- Attention Acolytes
- 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
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- Bloody Journal
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- 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
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- 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
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- Dispatches Ledger
- Do Not Fail
- Don't Mess With Djinnies
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- Dusty Book
- Dwarf's Poem
- Elder Brain Domination
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- Employee Pay Log
- Engraved Githyanki Disc
- Extracts - The Rule of Three
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- Fables of Faerûn IV: The Magnanimous Miner
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- Faded Blueprints
- Faded Instructions
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- Faded Note
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- Ffion's Journal
- Field Report - Deathstalker Zumm
- Final Warning
- Findings from the Hinterlands - New Edition
- Flow of the Chionthar
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- Form H, Refusal of Admittance
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- 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
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- Harper's Map
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- Harvest of Memory
- Healers' Ledger
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- Heavy Book
- Her Love For it Was Like A Plum
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- 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
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- 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
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- Judge of the Damned
- Kill Order
- Kobold Journal
- Larethian
- Last Notes of a Monk
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- 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
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- Magical Histories, Volume 1: The Origins of Mystra
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- Manual of Hilaritie for the Trulie Unfunnie
- Mason's Letter
- Mason's Log
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- Moonrise Diagram
- Necromantic Codexes, Their Enigmas
- NO CAUSE FOR ALARM
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- Notice
- Olam's Journal
- Old Maintenance Records
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- On Goblins: My Life Among the Conquering Host
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- On Potions and Elixirs
- On Psionic Manipulations and Countermeasures
- On Serpent Venom Toxin
- On Sloth, Gluttony, and Vice
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- On Weapon Coatings
- Template:Oral Histories of Faerûn: Paladin Oathbreakers
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- Orders from B
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- 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
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- 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
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- Sharran's Psalm
- Simple Poison Recipe
- Soft Letter
- Songs for Sailors, Soldiers, and Sirens
- Soul Cage Research
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- Staff Betting Pool
- Stained Book
- Stedd's Virtues of Unions
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- 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
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- Tattered Journal
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- 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
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- The Approachable East, Vol. 3
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- The Big Book of Little Drinking Games
- The Blood War
- The Butler's Cane Has A Knob On The End
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- 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
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- The Grand Design
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- The Hells Unleashed
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- The Many tales of Mother Campestri
- The One that Got A Thay
- The Price of Pride
- The Purged Palate, Midwinter Edition
- The Quarta Sune
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- The Realm According to Bumpo
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- The Superior Durability of Hardwood
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- The True and Impossible Adventures of Tenebrux Morrow, Vol. 4
- The True Life of 'Lord' Gortash
- The Waning Moon: Consignments
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- 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
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- Tome of the Self-Same Trial
- Tome of the Soft-Step Trial
- Tough Letter
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- 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
- Veterinary Log
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- 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.
