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.

This page lists books of different categories than can be found in the game.

Story Item

• Dwarf's Poem
• Flora of the Dalelands
• Flumph Mating Rituals
• Goblin's Drawing
• Hide-bound Journal
• Highcliff's Blueprints
• Necromancy of Thay
• Rancid Note
• The Great Furnace of Grymforge
• Shipment Orders
• Lorroakan's Contract
• Letter to Kagha
• Flaming Fist Writ of Command

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 Guide to Avernus - One Hellish Holiday
• A Pleasurable Deal
• A Pleasurable Deal: The Shocking Truth
• A Primer on Mythical Beasts
• A Sprinter's Guide to Goblins
• A Swift and Sudden Death
• A Traveller's Guide to Baldur's Gate
• A Warning to the Sword Coast
• Abandoned Journal
• Absolute Orders: Newborn
• Address Book
• Always Hungry
• Amaps' Memoirs
• An Archduke's Leadership: Protection
• An Archduke's Leadership: Public Works
• 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

  B

• 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
• 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

  C

• Canticles of the Dark Mistress
• Chapel Records
• Charred Prayer Book
• File:Clasped Book Unfaded Icon.pngClasped Book
• Confiscated Book
• Corsairs of Luskan
• Crumpled Note

  D

• Dark Journal
• Dark Justiciar's Journal
• Death & Divinity: A Godly Guide
• Dead Druid's Journal
• Dear Ansur
• Dearest Elminster
• 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
• Disintegrating Journal
• Disorders of the Nerves and Mind: A Treatise
• Dispatches Ledger
• Do Not Fail
• Don't Mess With Djinnies
• File:Druid's Ledger Unfaded Icon.pngDruid's Ledger
• Druid Notebook
• Dusty Book
• Dwarf's Poem

  E

• Elder Brain Domination
• Elder's Journal
• Employee Pay Log
• File:Engraved Githyanki Disc Unfaded Icon.pngEngraved Githyanki Disc
• Extracts - The Rule of Three

  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
• File:Faded Logbook (Log 124) Unfaded Icon.pngFaded Logbook (Log 124)
• File:Faded Logbook (Log 182) Unfaded Icon.pngFaded Logbook (Log 182)
• Faded Note
• File:Faldorn's Canticle: The Shadow Druid's Doctrine Unfaded Icon.pngFaldorn's Canticle: The Shadow Druid's Doctrine
• Ffion's Journal
• Field Report - Deathstalker Zumm
• File:Final Warning Unfaded Icon.pngFinal Warning
• Findings from the Hinterlands - New Edition
• Flaming Fist Writ of Command
• Flow of the Chionthar
• Folksongs of Faerûn
• Forge Construction Log
• Form H, Refusal of Admittance
• Fringe Philosophy, Vol. V
• Front and Centre: A Thespian's Memoir

  G

• Get to Baldur's Gate
• Ghustil Stornugoss' Research Notes
• Glory of the Absolute
• Guest Log
• Guestbook of Rosymorn Abbey
• Graveyard Diary
• Grymforge: A History

  H

• 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

  I

• Illasera, the First
• Impractical Magic, Volume 1
• Infirmary Records
• File:Inkeeper's Journal Unfaded Icon.pngInkeeper's Journal
• Inroads by Arms Dealer Gortash
• Inscribed Githyanki Slate
• Inscrutable Journal
• Instructions from B
• Invasion Plans for the Sword Coast
• Investigation Notes
• Investigation Priorities
• Invitation to Lord Gortash
• Isobel's Diary

  J

• File:Jake's Encyclopedia of Eels Unfaded Icon.pngJake's Encyclopedia of Eels
• Journal of High Initiate Jarrus
• Journal of Magthew Budj
• File:Journal of Past Adventurers No 1 Unfaded Icon.pngJournal of Past Adventurers No 1
• File:Journal of Past Adventurers No 2 Unfaded Icon.pngJournal of Past Adventurers No 2
• File:Journal of Past Adventurers No 3 Unfaded Icon.pngJournal of Past Adventurers No 3
• File:Journal of Past Adventurers No 4 Unfaded Icon.pngJournal of Past Adventurers No 4
• Journal of a Novice Monk
• Journey Through The Jungle
• Judge of the Damned

  K

• Kill Order
• Kobold Journal

  L

• 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
• Letter to Kagha
• Life of Beaky
• List of Rules
• Log of Visitors to Rosymorn Monastery
• Logbook XII: 1371
• Lorroakan's Contract

  M

• Magic of the Weave - An Introduction
• Magical Histories, Volume 1: The Origins of Mystra
• Magmar's Record
• Manual of Hilaritie for the Trulie Unfunnie
• Mason's Letter
• Mason's Log
• Meticulous Notes
• 'Miracles' of the Outer City
• Mirkon's Story
• Missives of Candlekeep
• Mistress of the Night and Friends
• Moonhaven Logbook
• Moonrise Diagram
• Muddy Note

  N

• Necromantic Codexes, Their Enigmas
• NO CAUSE FOR ALARM
• Note from Helsik
• Note to Self
• Notes from a Soothsayer
• Notes on Mind Flayer Anatomy
• Notice

  O

• Olam's Journal
• Old Maintenance Records
• Old Schoolbook
• Oliver's Diary
• 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 Foot, Two Feet, Well Met, We'll Meet
• 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
• 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
• File:Parchment Unfaded Icon.pngParchment
• Patient Log: Duke Belynne Stelmane
• Patients' Registry
• Perfumed Letter
• File:Personal Note Unfaded Icon.pngPersonal Note
• Post House Delivery Complaints
• Post-House Dog's Log
• Postmaster Shipment Enquiry
• Potion of Animal Speaking Recipe
• Potion of Healing Recipe
• Prayer for Forgiveness
• File:Priestess' Journal Unfaded Icon.pngPriestess' Journal
• Primer on Calimshan

  Q

  R

• Record of Shipment
• Recruiting Gnolls
• Reflections Upon the Mirror of Loss
• Reflections of a Gullible Prick
• Refugee's Journal
• File:Research Notes Unfaded Icon.pngResearch Notes
• Return at Once
• Royal Orders
• Rules of the Reading Room

  S

• Scorched Book
• File:Scribbled Note Unfaded Icon.pngScribbled Note
• Scroll of Evidence
• Secret Societies of the Sword Coast: Exposed
• Selûne's Devotee
• Selûnite Journal
• Selûnite Prayer Book
• Selûnite Prayer Sheet
• Selûnite Rite
• Shanties for the Bitch Queen
• Sharran Initiate's Notes
• Sharran Registry
• Sharran's Journal
• Sharran's Psalm
• Shipment Orders
• Simple Poison Recipe
• Soft Letter
• Songs for Sailors, Soldiers, and Sirens
• Soul Cage Research
• File:Soul Coin: A Treatise Unfaded Icon.pngSoul Coin: A Treatise
• Staff Betting Pool
• File:Stained Book Unfaded Icon.pngStained Book
• Stained Letter
• Stamped Handbill
• Stedd's Virtues of Unions
• Study of the Sword Coast
• File:Suelto's Ethic of War Unfaded Icon.pngSuelto's Ethic of War
• Sulphurous Note
• Supplication Scrapbook
• Surgeon's Memorandum
• Surgeon's Research Notes
• Surgery and Physiology: A Sharran's Primer
• Suspended Ceremorphosis

  T

• Taking the Groves Off the Table
• 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
• 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 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 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 Hunter's Piercing Gaze
• The Illustrated Adventures of Balduran
• 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 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 Superior Durability of Hardwood
• The Task at Hand.
• File:The True and Impossible Adventures of Tenebrux Morrow, Vol. I Unfaded Icon.pngThe 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
• The True and Impossible Adventures of Tenebrux Morrow, Vol. 4
• The True Life of 'Lord' Gortash
• The Unclaimed
• The Waning Moon: Consignments
• The War between Selûne and Shar
• The Way of the Wanderer
• 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
• File:Tollhouse Ledger Unfaded Icon.pngTollhouse 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: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
• Treatise on the Antimagic Properties of Sussur Tree Flowers

  U

• Unsigned Trade Visa
• File:Urgent Report for Duke Ravenguard Unfaded Icon.pngUrgent Report for Duke Ravenguard
• URGENT: Request for Supplies

  V

• 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

  W

• Warden's Workbook
• Warning Letter
• Web-Covered Journal
• White Bishop - Orders
• White Knight - Orders
• White Pawn - Orders
• Word from the Tribunal
• File:Worn Letter Unfaded Icon.pngWorn Letter

  X

  Y

• Yearning for the Moon
• Yoshimo is Willing

  Z

• Z'rell's personal reminder

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Other

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

• Curious Book: a Container.