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.

In addition, other forms of written material can be found at:

• Notes provides for a list of letters and notes in the game.
• Category:Books provides a comprehensive list of written material found in game.

Story Item

• Flora of the Dalelands
• Flumph Mating Rituals
• Hide-bound Journal
• Highcliff's Blueprints
• Necromancy of Thay
• The Great Furnace of Grymforge

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 Primer on Mythical Beasts
• A Sprinter's Guide to Goblins
• A Swift and Sudden Death
• A Traveller's Guide to Baldur's Gate
• Abandoned Journal
• Absolving the Wayward Heart
• Accelerated Grand Design
• Account of the Establishment of Crèche Y'llek
• Address Book
• Always Hungry
• Amaps' Memoirs
• An End to Suffering
• Ancient Selûnite Journal
• Apostle Diary
• Apothecary's Ledger
• Apprentice's Journal
• Arfur's Private Musings
• Artefact Mission: Agent Roster
• Artefact Mission: Challenges
• Attention Acolytes
• Attracting Drow Exiles
• Avernus Survival Guide

B

• 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

D

• Dark Journal
• Dark Justiciar's Journal
• Death & Divinity: A Godly Guide
• Dead Druid's Journal
• 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
• Druids' Ledger
• Druid Notebook
• Dusty Book

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)
• File:Faldorn's Canticle: The Shadow Druid's Doctrine Unfaded Icon.pngFaldorn's Canticle: The Shadow Druid's Doctrine
• Ffion's Journal
• File:Final Warning Unfaded Icon.pngFinal Warning
• Findings from the Hinterlands - New Edition
• Flow of the Chionthar
• Folksongs of Faerûn
• Forge Construction Log
• 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 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
• 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

• Kobold Journal

L

• Larethian
• Last Notes of a Monk
• Lessons for Sensible Living IV: Cities and How to Survive Them
• Life of Beaky
• Log of Visitors to Rosymorn Monastery
• Logbook XII: 1371

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 Log
• Meticulous Notes
• Missives of Candlekeep
• Mistress of the Night and Friends
• Moonhaven Logbook

N

• Necromantic Codexes, Their Enigmas
• NO CAUSE FOR ALARM
• 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
• Patient Log: Duke Belynne Stelmane
• Patients' Registry
• Post House Delivery Complaints
• Post-House Dog's Log
• Potion of Animal Speaking Recipe
• Potion of Healing Recipe
• Prayer for Forgiveness
• File:Priestess' Journal Unfaded Icon.pngPriestess' Journal
• Primer on Calimshan

Q

R

• Recruiting Gnolls
• Reflections Upon the Mirror of Loss
• Reflections of a Gullible Prick
• Refugee's Journal

S

• Scorched Book
• Secret Societies of the Sword Coast: Exposed
• Selûne's Devotee
• Selûnite Journal
• Selûnite Prayer Book
• Shanties for the Bitch Queen
• Sharran Initiate's Notes
• Sharran Registry
• Sharran's Journal
• Shipment Orders
• Simple Poison Recipe
• Songs for Sailors, Soldiers, and Sirens
• Soul Cage Research
• File:Soul Coin: A Treatise Unfaded Icon.pngSoul Coin: A Treatise
• File:Stained Book Unfaded Icon.pngStained Book
• Stedd's Virtues of Unions
• Study of the Sword Coast
• File:Suelto's Ethic of War Unfaded Icon.pngSuelto's Ethic of War
• Supplication Scrapbook
• Surgeon's Memorandum
• 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. 1
• 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 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 True and Impossible Adventures of Tenebrux Morrow, Vol. 1
• 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
• Threadbare Book
• File:Tollhouse Ledger Unfaded Icon.pngTollhouse Ledger
• Tome of the Self-Same Trial
• Tome of the Soft-Step Trial
• 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

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
• Web-Covered Journal
• Winery Records
• Writings of a Wroot

X

Y

• Yearning for the Moon
• Yoshimo is Willing

Z

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Other

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

• Curious Book: a Container.