DnD Book Name Generator

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Generate D&D book names for the shelves of your world: forbidden grimoires, dusty histories, bestiaries, spell primers, adventurers' journals, hymnals, cookbooks and cursed folios. Every title is ready to drop into a library, a dragon's hoard or a wizard's study.

About DnD book names

Books in Dungeons & Dragons do a lot of quiet work. A title on a shelf tells players what a wizard studies, what a cult believes, or what a dead adventurer was afraid of, and the best titles hint at a hook without spelling it out. Official D&D books set the tone: the Book of Vile Darkness, the Tome of Clear Thought, the Libram of Ineffable Damnation, Volo's Guide to Monsters. The pattern is an old-fashioned container word (tome, libram, codex, folio, psalter, grimoire) plus a subject that sounds either holy or forbidden, or an author's name plus a confident claim to expertise.

Not every book should be a legendary artifact, though. Real libraries are mostly ordinary, and a shelf feels lived-in when it holds 'Cheeses of the Dalelands' and 'Owlbear Husbandry, Second Edition' next to the cursed folio. Treatises ('On the Nature of Mimics'), journals ('The Diary of Ysolde Varn'), ledgers, hymnals, cookbooks, travelogues, plays and children's fables all give players texture and, occasionally, clues.

This list mixes canon artifacts with hundreds of original titles across those types. Use a grand one for the macguffin, a dry one for the scholar's study, and a funny one for the tavern bookshelf; the contrast is what makes each stand out.

How to choose DnD book names

  • Match the container word to the book's role: tome, libram and codex read as powerful artifacts; primer, handbook and almanac read as mundane; psalter, litany and catechism read as religious.
  • Put an author on it. 'Volo's Guide' and 'Mordenkainen's Tome' show how a name turns a generic title into a character, and an NPC author gives players someone to track down.
  • Use dull, specific titles for background filler ('Tariffs, Tolls, and Other Tyrannies') so the one sinister title on the shelf actually stands out.
  • A journal or letter collection is the easiest way to deliver exposition. Name it after the writer and a place or event, like 'Letters from the Ashen Front'.
  • For a cursed or sentient book, lean on body or sound words: bleeds, whispers, hungers, teeth, throat. Players will not want to open it, which is exactly right.

Frequently asked questions

Are any of these real D&D book names?

A handful are canon magic items or sourcebooks, such as the Book of Vile Darkness, the Tome of Clear Thought, Volo's Guide to Monsters and the Demonomicon of Iggwilv. The rest are original titles written to sit alongside them, so you can mix recognizable lore with books that are yours.

How do I name a spellbook for my wizard character?

Most wizards simply call it their spellbook, but a named one is more fun. Use a container word plus a personal detail ('The Brass Folio', 'Notes Toward a Taxonomy of Dragons') or your character's name plus a claim ('Arlo Fen's Complete Evocations'). Apprentices inherit books, so a title can also name the former owner.

What should a cursed or forbidden tome be called?

Forbidden books tend to use words of hunger, binding and silence: The Hungering Page, Tome of the Stilled Tongue, The Bound Scream. Give it a vague, dreadful subject rather than an explicit one; 'What the Worm Knows' is scarier than 'Book of Evil Spells'.

Can I use these titles for a fantasy novel or a non-D&D game?

Yes. Titles that do not reference Forgotten Realms places or official D&D items are generic fantasy and work in any setting. Just skip the handful that name Waterdeep, Barovia, Sigil or Wizards of the Coast products if you want your world to be your own.

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A: 45 names

  • A Barbarian's Guide to Cities
  • A Bard's Book of Lies
  • A Barovian Almanac
  • A Bat-Keeper's Diary
  • A Beginner's Primer on Evocation
  • A Brief Account of the Dwarf-Elf Accords
  • A Catalogue of Aberrations, Incomplete
  • A Chronicle of Phandalin
  • A Chronicle of the Salt Wars
  • A Dictionary of Undercommon
  • A Disquisition on Lichdom
  • A Dragonlance Bestiary
  • A Dwarf Abroad
  • A Field Guide to Oozes of the Eastern Marches
  • A Gloss on the Thirteen Keys

A, continued

  • A Goblin Cookbook (Ingredients Optional)
  • A Halfling's Guide to Second Breakfast
  • A Jester's Guide to Kings
  • A Lantern for Dark Places
  • A Lexicon of Curses, Mild to Mortal
  • A Lock Is a Question
  • A Merfolk Hymnal
  • A Necromancer's Almanac
  • A Puzzle for Every Door
  • A Sellsword's Ledger
  • A Short History of Long Cons
  • A Squire's Primer
  • A Study of Elder Brains
  • A Tourist's Guide to Ruins
  • A Treatise on the Proper Husbandry of Owlbears

A, continued

  • A Walk Across the Anauroch
  • A Warforged Reads Itself
  • A Witch's Year
  • Abjuration for the Anxious
  • Aboleth Dreams
  • Abyssal Grammar for Beginners
  • Abyssal Layers, Numbered
  • Acheron War Drums
  • Against the Cult of the Dragon
  • An Answer to the Heretic Voss
  • An Atlas of Places That Were
  • Annals of the Sunken Kingdom
  • Annotations on a Lost Text
  • Ashes of the Prophet
  • Athasian Water Laws

B: 14 names

  • Baking with Dragonfire
  • Ballads of the Tin Whistle Company
  • Banners of the Last Crusade
  • Beast Companions and Their Tempers
  • Beastlands Journals
  • Bedtime Stories from the Feywild
  • Bindings of the Marrow King
  • Bone, Blood, and Binding
  • Book of Bitter Dust
  • Book of the Thousand Eyes
  • Breath, Stone, and Water
  • Brewing in the Dark: Ales of the Deep Halls
  • Bridges of the Old Empire
  • Bullywug Court Records

C: 31 names

  • Calimshan Nights
  • Candles and Their Uses in Ritual
  • Canticle of the Wyrm
  • Cantrips for the Clumsy
  • Carceri Confessions
  • Castle Greyhawk: A Survey
  • Catalogue of Stolen Names
  • Catechism of the Silver Flame
  • Cavern Flora
  • Celestia's Seven Stairs

C, continued

  • Celestial Script Made Plain
  • Chains and Keys
  • Chants of the Deep Current
  • Cheeses of the Dalelands
  • Cinders of the Old Faith
  • Cloud Giant Genealogies
  • Coastlines of the Trackless Sea
  • Codex of the Infinite Planes
  • Codex of the Unwinking Eye
  • Codex Saturnine

C, continued

  • Comedic Timing for Warlocks
  • Commentaries on the Book of Hours
  • Compendium of the Dead Gods
  • Concerning the Founding of Waterfall City
  • Concerning the Migration of Rocs
  • Confessions Extracted by Fire
  • Conjuration and Its Consequences
  • Contracts Binding in Nine Hells
  • Crimes of the Shadow Thieves
  • Cult Handbook, Third Printing
  • Cursed Is the Hand

D: 10 names

  • Demonomicon of Iggwilv
  • Derro Ravings, Transcribed
  • Dinosaurs of Chult, Illustrated
  • Divination in Twelve Lessons
  • Do Not Read This Book
  • Down the River Chionthar by Barge
  • Draconic Blood, Draconic Fire
  • Drinking Songs of the Red Gauntlet
  • Druidic Calendars of the Moonwood
  • Dune Trader Accounts

E: 9 names

  • Earth Speaks Slowly
  • Eastward Under Strange Stars
  • Efreeti Contract Law
  • Elegy for the Iron Saint
  • Elminster's Ecologies
  • Elven Courtly Love, in Four Parts
  • Enchantment: A Gentle Introduction
  • Etiquette at the Court of the Fey
  • Exposing the False Prophet Ardan

F: 12 names

  • Fables of the Clever Kobold
  • Familiar Spirits and Their Upkeep
  • Fey Bargains and Their Fine Print
  • Feywild Etiquette
  • Firbolg Forest Lore
  • Fire, in Its Moods
  • Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
  • Foretellings of the Hollow Star
  • Forty Stances
  • Fragments of the First Age
  • Frost Charms
  • Fungi of the Underdark: An Illustrated Survey

G: 15 names

  • Gates of the Dead City
  • Gears of the Golem Maker
  • Gehenna Ledgers
  • Gemcutting for the Greedy
  • Ghost Stories of the Dessarin Valley
  • Githyanki War Poetry
  • Glassblowing in Sigil
  • Gnomish Inventions That Exploded
  • Goblin Jokes (With Diagrams)
  • Gold Veins of the Sword Mountains
  • Goliath Stone-Names
  • Gospel of the Bleeding Star
  • Grandmother's Book of Weather
  • Grimoire of the Flayed Mind
  • Grimoire of the Hollow Choir

H: 14 names

  • Hadozee Sky Shanties
  • Haggling with Dragons
  • Hands of the Puppeteer
  • Harvest Rites of the Hill Folk
  • Hearth Wards
  • Heraldry of the Northern Houses
  • Herbs of the High Moor
  • Heresies of the Ninth Hour
  • Hexes of the Marsh Witch
  • Histories of the Three Rivers
  • House Records of the Eighth House
  • Household Accounts of the Vanished Baron
  • How to Survive Your First Dungeon
  • Hymns to the Dawn Mother

I: 6 names

  • Illusion: Seeing Is Deceiving
  • Incense for the Discerning Cultist
  • Infernal Bureaucracy
  • Infernal Contracts for the Unwary
  • Innkeeper's Complaints, Volume One
  • Inventory of the Vault of Kor

K: 7 names

  • Kalashtar Dream Journals
  • Kata of the Four Winds
  • Keeping a Tower Warm
  • Kender Handbook (Borrowed)
  • Kenku Mimicry Exercises
  • Kingdoms That Were, and Why They Fell
  • Knots, Ropes, and Other Lifesavers

L: 14 names

  • Lamentations of Ungar
  • Last Notebook of Brother Tobin
  • Laws of the Thieves' Court
  • Letters from the Ashen Front
  • Letters of an Exiled Archmage
  • Letters to a Daughter I Will Not See
  • Libram of Ineffable Damnation
  • Libram of Seven Sorrows
  • Lightning Rail Schedules, Annotated
  • Limbo Survival
  • Litany of the Eighth Hour
  • Liturgies of the Raven Queen
  • Lizardfolk Ways: Thirty Years in the Fens
  • Lullabies of the Moonsea

M: 20 names

  • Manual of Golems
  • Maps Drawn from Memory
  • Maps of the Drow Ways
  • Marginalia of the Mad Monk
  • Masks and Their Wearers
  • Meditations of the Bone Abbot
  • Memoirs of an Unwilling Necromancer
  • Menzoberranzan Genealogies
  • Mercenary Companies of the Border
  • Metals That Remember

M, continued

  • Mimic Identification for Beginners
  • Mirrors and Their Dangers
  • Modron Census
  • Moonshae Legends
  • Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
  • Mortar and Meaning
  • Mulhorandi God-Kings
  • My Life as a Tavern Bard
  • Myconid Spore Dreams
  • Myths of the Mror Holds

N: 7 names

  • Names You Should Not Say
  • Necromancy Without Tears
  • Neverwinter Burning
  • Night Hag Dream Journal
  • Nine Hells, Nine Lies
  • Notes Toward a Taxonomy of Dragons
  • Nursery Rhymes of the Dead City

O: 8 names

  • Oaths Kept and Broken
  • Observations on Gelatinous Cubes, with Diagrams
  • Of Frost and Jarls
  • On the Nature of Mimics
  • On the Weighing of Souls, Being a Dispute
  • On Wyverns and Their Stings
  • Orcish Battle Poetry, Translated Badly
  • Owls, Cats, and Other Familiars

P: 16 names

  • Pages of the Root Mother
  • Pages Recovered from the Wreck of the Halcyon
  • Pixie Mischief, Catalogued
  • Plagues of the Southern Coast
  • Planar Travel for the Reluctant
  • Plunder, Politely
  • Poisoner's Garden
  • Poisons for the Household

P, continued

  • Portents of the Broken Moon
  • Prayers the Gods Did Not Answer
  • Primordial Words, Collected
  • Prison Songs of the Iron Mines
  • Private Papers of Lady Ashgrave
  • Prize Fights of Baldur's Gate
  • Property of the Zhentarim, Return If Found
  • Psalter of the Drowned God

Q: 1 name

  • Quartermaster's Tally

R: 10 names

  • Rage, and What Comes After
  • Rangers of the Greenwood
  • Ravnican Guild Pamphlets
  • Recipes from the Ashen Inn
  • Recruiting for the End Times
  • Riddles of the Sphinx, Unanswered
  • Rites of the Ebon Mouth
  • Roads of the North, Annotated
  • Rules of the Fighting Pit
  • Runes of the Giant Kings

S: 34 names

  • Sacred Geometries of the Gearforged
  • Saga of Ironbeard Clan
  • Sahuagin Raids and How to Survive Them
  • Sailing the Sea of Fallen Stars
  • Salt Lines and Cold Iron
  • Salves, Tinctures, and Prayers
  • Scrolls of the Serpent Kings
  • Scrolls of the Sleeping Sage
  • Seasons of the Marsh
  • Secrets of the Lich Queen
  • Seeds and Seasons

S, continued

  • Sermons Against the Dark
  • Seventeen Uses for a Dead Owlbear
  • Sharn Tower Directory
  • Shifter Moon Rites
  • Ships I Have Sunk
  • Siegecraft of the Dwarven Holds
  • Sigil Street Directory
  • Sigils of the Fallen Houses
  • Signs of the Sleeping Giant Inn
  • Signs You Live in a Cursed Village
  • Smuggler's Charts of the Nelanther

S, continued

  • Songs for the Long Road
  • Songs of Evermeet
  • Songs of the Wind Dukes
  • Sonnets for a Lich
  • Spelljammer Rigging for Landlubbers
  • Stagecraft for Spies
  • Star Charts of the Astral Sea
  • Statutes of the Free City of Korm
  • Stews of the Sword Coast
  • Stonework of the First Dwarves
  • Strixhaven Lecture Notes
  • Surveys of the Underdark, Abridged

T: 205 names

  • Tabaxi Travel Songs
  • Tactics of the Harper Wars
  • Tales for a Tiefling Child
  • Tales of the Genie Courts
  • Tales of the Lance
  • Tales of the Yawning Portal
  • Tariffs, Tolls, and Other Tyrannies
  • Tasha's Cauldron of Everything
  • Teeth of the Binding
  • Thayan Necropolis Surveys
  • The Aarakocra Sky Charts
  • The Alchemist's Mistake
  • The Apocrypha of the Grey Monks
  • The Apprentice's First Spellbook

T, continued

  • The Archer's Eye
  • The Archfey Courts, Briefly
  • The Archmage's Last Lecture
  • The Art of the Quiet Knife
  • The Ashen Codex of Ilgren
  • The Assassin's Grammar
  • The Bark Scrolls
  • The Beggar-Saint's Book of Questions
  • The Bitter Concord of Three Kings
  • The Black Dragon's Hoard Inventory
  • The Black Folio of Ilth
  • The Book of Deeds and Holdings
  • The Book of Exalted Deeds
  • The Book of Small Mercies
  • The Book of Vile Darkness

T, continued

  • The Book That Reads You
  • The Book Without Pages
  • The Bound Scream
  • The Bounty Book
  • The Boy Who Argued with a Dragon
  • The Brass Folio
  • The Brown Book of Greenest
  • The Burning of the Tallow Library
  • The Bytopian Harvest
  • The Captain's Log of the Brine Widow
  • The Care and Feeding of Blink Dogs
  • The Cartographer's Lament
  • The Changeling's Many Faces
  • The Chapbook of Blind Mira

T, continued

  • The Clockwork Testament
  • The Comedy of the Two Paladins
  • The Complete Bestiary of the Frostfell
  • The Complete Reckoning of the Moonfall Year
  • The Confession of Corvin Malk
  • The Coral Codex
  • The Courtier's Mirror
  • The Coven's Ledger
  • The Crimson Concordance
  • The Cutpurse Catechism
  • The Dark Sun Tablets
  • The Devil's Ledger
  • The Diary of Ysolde Varn
  • The Doomsday Pamphlet
  • The Draconic Prophecy, Partial

T, continued

  • The Dragon Kings of Old Tarrath
  • The Dragonborn Lineages
  • The Drowned Library Catalog
  • The Druid Tongue
  • The Drunkard's Psalter
  • The Duergar Ledgers
  • The Dwarven Larder
  • The Elemental Tongue
  • The Executioner's Etiquette
  • The Fall of the Ninth House
  • The Ferryman's Almanac
  • The Fire Giant Forges
  • The Fisherman's Ghost Stories
  • The Fourfold Path
  • The Fox and the Lantern

T, continued

  • The Gambler's Gospel
  • The General's Regrets
  • The Giant Alphabet
  • The Gilded Litany
  • The Glass Witch's Book
  • The Gnome's Pocket Guide to Constructs
  • The Gravedigger's Handbook
  • The Green Testament
  • The Grey Psalter
  • The Greyhawk Almanac
  • The Guild Charter of the Lamplighters
  • The Hag's Recipe Book
  • The Halfling Book of Comforts
  • The Halfling Hearth: Recipes for the Road

T, continued

  • The Hexblade's Edge
  • The Homunculus Handbook
  • The Honest Cheat
  • The Honest Fence
  • The Hordelands Ride
  • The Hungering Page
  • The Hunter's Almanac
  • The Hymnal of the Bloody Tusk
  • The Inn of the Last Home Cookbook
  • The Jeweler's Curse
  • The Journal of Arlo Fen, Tunnel-Rat
  • The Jungle Book of Chult
  • The Kinslayer Wars
  • The Knight's Vigil
  • The Kraken's Tithe

T, continued

  • The Lady of Pain, Unspoken
  • The Lament of the Sun Elves
  • The Last Days of the Emerald Court
  • The Last Dragonmark
  • The Last Words of Ulgar Bane
  • The Lay of the Hollow Knight
  • The Ledger of Haunted Debts
  • The Lexicon of Forgotten Doors
  • The Little Book of Big Fireballs
  • The Locksmith's Confession
  • The Long Winter of Vesk
  • The Lost Mine Ledger
  • The Loxodon Memory Book
  • The Luminous Depths
  • The Lute and the Lie

T, continued

  • The Mechanus Protocols
  • The Mind Flayer Question
  • The Mists and Their Meaning
  • The Monk's Empty Bowl
  • The Monuments of Eberron
  • The Mummer's Playbook
  • The Nether Scrolls
  • The Ninefold Prayers
  • The Oracle's Second Book
  • The Outlands Gazetteer
  • The Paladin's Burden
  • The Pale Folio
  • The Pandemonium Shriek
  • The Parable of the Wounded Hound

T, continued

  • The Penitent's Road
  • The Physician's Companion
  • The Pirate Kings of Luskan
  • The Red Book of Hollowdale
  • The Red Wizards Exposed
  • The Register of Unlicensed Wizards
  • The Reign of the Boy-King Aldus
  • The Rule of Saint Orrin
  • The Rust Gospel
  • The Sallow Book
  • The Saltmarsh Tidebook
  • The Scholar's Rebuttal
  • The Scripture of Teeth
  • The Serpent Scrolls
  • The Seven Sayings

T, continued

  • The Seventy Signs
  • The Shadowfell Diaries
  • The Siege of Harrowgate, as Witnessed
  • The Silvergleam Histories
  • The Slow Book of the Lizard Kings
  • The Sorcerer's Burden
  • The Spider Queen's Hymnal
  • The Stonefather's Ledger
  • The Strahd Chronicles
  • The Summer Court Gazette
  • The Sundered Leaf
  • The Sylvan Phrasebook
  • The Tavernkeeper's Ledger
  • The Thief's Apology
  • The Thirteen Keys

T, continued

  • The Throat of Night
  • The Tomb Robber's Companion
  • The Tome That Bleeds
  • The Torn Book
  • The Tragedy of Queen Imreth
  • The Unfinished Codex
  • The Unlocked Door
  • The Unnamed Testament
  • The Vellum Crown
  • The Vermilion Manuscript
  • The Wandering Islands: A Navigator's Guide
  • The Warlock's Bargain
  • The Wax Testament
  • The Weeping Prophecy of Vess

T, continued

  • The Whale-Road Sagas
  • The Whispering Codex
  • The Witch of Hollow Hill's Book
  • The Wizard's Domestic Economy
  • The Yawning Portal Guestbook
  • The Yuan-ti Chronicles
  • Theros Oracles
  • Thieves' Cant: A Lexicon
  • Things I Have Killed, and Regretted
  • Thirty Years Among the Lizardfolk
  • This Book Is Not a Mimic
  • Thornfather's Book of Hours
  • Three Doors and a Lie
  • Three-Dragon Ante, Explained
  • Tides of the Mere

T, continued

  • Tiefling Bloodlines, Traced and Untraced
  • Tilting at Wyverns
  • Tome of Clear Thought
  • Tome of the Stilled Tongue
  • Tortle Wisdom, Slowly Delivered
  • Totems of the Uthgardt
  • Towers of the Eastern Wizards
  • Towers That Should Not Stand
  • Tracking in Snow and Shadow
  • Transmutation for the Impatient
  • Traps I Have Known
  • Travels in the Shadowfell
  • Treasure Maps, Mostly False
  • True Accounts of the Haunted Mill
  • Tunnels of the Deep Gnomes

V: 5 names

  • Verses from the Drowning Tower
  • Village Charters of the Vale
  • Visions of the Last Emperor
  • Voices from the Far Realm
  • Volo's Guide to Monsters

W: 16 names

  • Wanted Posters of the Dales
  • Warnings Carved on the Door of the Deep Vault
  • Water Remembers
  • What Grows Without Sun
  • What I Saw in the Astral Sea
  • What the Kobolds Dug Up
  • What the Patron Promised
  • What the Worm Knows

W, continued

  • What Vecna Knew
  • Why the Beholder Does Not Sleep
  • Why the Gnome Stays Small
  • Wild Magic and Its Victims
  • Winter Court Obituaries
  • Wounds and Their Closing
  • Writings of the Hermit of Vale
  • Wyverns of the Thunder Peaks

X: 1 name

  • Xanathar's Guide to Everything