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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.

Tips for choosing a name

  • 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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  • The Book of Vile Darkness
  • The Book of Exalted Deeds
  • Tome of Clear Thought
  • Manual of Golems
  • Libram of Ineffable Damnation
  • Codex of the Infinite Planes
  • Tome of the Stilled Tongue
  • The Nether Scrolls
  • Demonomicon of Iggwilv
  • Volo's Guide to Monsters
  • Xanathar's Guide to Everything
  • Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
  • Tasha's Cauldron of Everything
  • Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
  • Elminster's Ecologies
  • Libram of Seven Sorrows
  • Codex of the Unwinking Eye
  • The Black Folio of Ilth
  • Grimoire of the Hollow Choir
  • The Sallow Book
  • The Lexicon of Forgotten Doors
  • Psalter of the Drowned God
  • The Gilded Litany
  • Heresies of the Ninth Hour
  • The Unnamed Testament
  • What the Worm Knows
  • On the Nature of Mimics
  • A Treatise on the Proper Husbandry of Owlbears
  • Concerning the Migration of Rocs
  • Observations on Gelatinous Cubes, with Diagrams
  • The Care and Feeding of Blink Dogs
  • Why the Beholder Does Not Sleep
  • A Field Guide to Oozes of the Eastern Marches
  • Fungi of the Underdark: An Illustrated Survey
  • The Complete Bestiary of the Frostfell
  • Notes Toward a Taxonomy of Dragons
  • On Wyverns and Their Stings
  • A Catalogue of Aberrations, Incomplete
  • The Gnome's Pocket Guide to Constructs
  • Lizardfolk Ways: Thirty Years in the Fens
  • The Fall of the Ninth House
  • A Chronicle of the Salt Wars
  • Annals of the Sunken Kingdom
  • The Reign of the Boy-King Aldus
  • The Siege of Harrowgate, as Witnessed
  • Histories of the Three Rivers
  • The Long Winter of Vesk
  • A Brief Account of the Dwarf-Elf Accords
  • The Burning of the Tallow Library
  • The Dragon Kings of Old Tarrath
  • Kingdoms That Were, and Why They Fell
  • The Last Days of the Emerald Court
  • Concerning the Founding of Waterfall City
  • The Diary of Ysolde Varn
  • Letters from the Ashen Front
  • Last Notebook of Brother Tobin
  • The Journal of Arlo Fen, Tunnel-Rat
  • Private Papers of Lady Ashgrave
  • The Confession of Corvin Malk
  • Pages Recovered from the Wreck of the Halcyon
  • The Captain's Log of the Brine Widow
  • Letters to a Daughter I Will Not See
  • A Sellsword's Ledger
  • The Thief's Apology
  • My Life as a Tavern Bard
  • Memoirs of an Unwilling Necromancer
  • Things I Have Killed, and Regretted
  • Seventeen Uses for a Dead Owlbear
  • The Halfling Hearth: Recipes for the Road
  • Stews of the Sword Coast
  • Baking with Dragonfire
  • A Goblin Cookbook (Ingredients Optional)
  • Brewing in the Dark: Ales of the Deep Halls
  • Cheeses of the Dalelands
  • The Dwarven Larder
  • The Tragedy of Queen Imreth
  • Ballads of the Tin Whistle Company
  • The Mummer's Playbook
  • Songs for the Long Road
  • The Lay of the Hollow Knight
  • Verses from the Drowning Tower
  • Sonnets for a Lich
  • Drinking Songs of the Red Gauntlet
  • The Comedy of the Two Paladins
  • Lullabies of the Moonsea
  • The Drunkard's Psalter
  • Hymns to the Dawn Mother
  • Liturgies of the Raven Queen
  • The Ninefold Prayers
  • Catechism of the Silver Flame
  • The Rule of Saint Orrin
  • Meditations of the Bone Abbot
  • The Book of Small Mercies
  • The Penitent's Road
  • Sermons Against the Dark
  • The Parable of the Wounded Hound
  • The Scripture of Teeth
  • Prayers the Gods Did Not Answer
  • Sacred Geometries of the Gearforged
  • The Apocrypha of the Grey Monks
  • An Atlas of Places That Were
  • Surveys of the Underdark, Abridged
  • Roads of the North, Annotated
  • The Cartographer's Lament
  • Coastlines of the Trackless Sea
  • Maps Drawn from Memory
  • The Wandering Islands: A Navigator's Guide
  • Tales for a Tiefling Child
  • Why the Gnome Stays Small
  • The Fox and the Lantern
  • Bedtime Stories from the Feywild
  • Fables of the Clever Kobold
  • The Boy Who Argued with a Dragon
  • Nursery Rhymes of the Dead City
  • The Ledger of Haunted Debts
  • Statutes of the Free City of Korm
  • The Guild Charter of the Lamplighters
  • Tariffs, Tolls, and Other Tyrannies
  • The Book of Deeds and Holdings
  • Contracts Binding in Nine Hells
  • Laws of the Thieves' Court
  • The Register of Unlicensed Wizards
  • Cantrips for the Clumsy
  • A Beginner's Primer on Evocation
  • Abjuration for the Anxious
  • The Little Book of Big Fireballs
  • Necromancy Without Tears
  • Illusion: Seeing Is Deceiving
  • Conjuration and Its Consequences
  • Transmutation for the Impatient
  • Divination in Twelve Lessons
  • Enchantment: A Gentle Introduction
  • The Apprentice's First Spellbook
  • Runes of the Giant Kings
  • Scrolls of the Sleeping Sage
  • Thirty Years Among the Lizardfolk
  • A Walk Across the Anauroch
  • Travels in the Shadowfell
  • Eastward Under Strange Stars
  • Down the River Chionthar by Barge
  • What I Saw in the Astral Sea
  • A Dwarf Abroad
  • The Seventy Signs
  • The Weeping Prophecy of Vess
  • Portents of the Broken Moon
  • The Oracle's Second Book
  • Visions of the Last Emperor
  • Foretellings of the Hollow Star
  • Do Not Read This Book
  • Property of the Zhentarim, Return If Found
  • Mimic Identification for Beginners
  • This Book Is Not a Mimic
  • How to Survive Your First Dungeon
  • Traps I Have Known
  • A Lock Is a Question
  • The Art of the Quiet Knife
  • Haggling with Dragons
  • Etiquette at the Court of the Fey
  • Knots, Ropes, and Other Lifesavers
  • Poisons for the Household
  • The Honest Fence
  • Cursed Is the Hand
  • The Hungering Page
  • The Whispering Codex
  • Book of the Thousand Eyes
  • The Tome That Bleeds
  • Grimoire of the Flayed Mind
  • The Vermilion Manuscript
  • Ashes of the Prophet
  • The Pale Folio
  • Hexes of the Marsh Witch
  • The Bound Scream
  • Teeth of the Binding
  • The Sundered Leaf
  • Book of Bitter Dust
  • The Throat of Night
  • A Necromancer's Almanac
  • Compendium of the Dead Gods
  • The Last Words of Ulgar Bane
  • Rites of the Ebon Mouth
  • The Witch of Hollow Hill's Book
  • The Serpent Scrolls
  • Canticle of the Wyrm
  • The Green Testament
  • Pages of the Root Mother
  • Elegy for the Iron Saint
  • The Rust Gospel
  • Codex Saturnine
  • The Crimson Concordance
  • The Bitter Concord of Three Kings
  • Thornfather's Book of Hours
  • The Grey Psalter
  • The Vellum Crown
  • Cinders of the Old Faith
  • A Disquisition on Lichdom
  • Bone, Blood, and Binding
  • The Thirteen Keys
  • The Unlocked Door
  • Hands of the Puppeteer
  • Chants of the Deep Current
  • The Whale-Road Sagas
  • Saga of Ironbeard Clan
  • The Stonefather's Ledger
  • The Lament of the Sun Elves
  • The Silvergleam Histories
  • Elven Courtly Love, in Four Parts
  • Songs of Evermeet
  • Orcish Battle Poetry, Translated Badly
  • The Hymnal of the Bloody Tusk
  • Goblin Jokes (With Diagrams)
  • What the Kobolds Dug Up
  • The Dragonborn Lineages
  • Tiefling Bloodlines, Traced and Untraced
  • The Halfling Book of Comforts
  • Gnomish Inventions That Exploded
  • A Halfling's Guide to Second Breakfast
  • The Aarakocra Sky Charts
  • Tortle Wisdom, Slowly Delivered
  • The Fire Giant Forges
  • Cloud Giant Genealogies
  • Of Frost and Jarls
  • Druidic Calendars of the Moonwood
  • The Bark Scrolls
  • Seeds and Seasons
  • Herbs of the High Moor
  • The Physician's Companion
  • Wounds and Their Closing
  • Plagues of the Southern Coast
  • Salves, Tinctures, and Prayers
  • The Gravedigger's Handbook
  • The Executioner's Etiquette
  • A Jester's Guide to Kings
  • The Courtier's Mirror
  • Heraldry of the Northern Houses
  • Sigils of the Fallen Houses
  • The Black Dragon's Hoard Inventory
  • Inventory of the Vault of Kor
  • The Alchemist's Mistake
  • Metals That Remember
  • Glassblowing in Sigil
  • The Clockwork Testament
  • Gears of the Golem Maker
  • Infernal Contracts for the Unwary
  • The Devil's Ledger
  • Nine Hells, Nine Lies
  • Abyssal Grammar for Beginners
  • Celestial Script Made Plain
  • Primordial Words, Collected
  • The Druid Tongue
  • Thieves' Cant: A Lexicon
  • A Dictionary of Undercommon
  • The Giant Alphabet
  • The Sylvan Phrasebook
  • Letters of an Exiled Archmage
  • The Archmage's Last Lecture
  • What Vecna Knew
  • Secrets of the Lich Queen
  • The Strahd Chronicles
  • A Barovian Almanac
  • The Mists and Their Meaning
  • Ghost Stories of the Dessarin Valley
  • True Accounts of the Haunted Mill
  • A Chronicle of Phandalin
  • Neverwinter Burning
  • Tales of the Yawning Portal
  • The Pirate Kings of Luskan
  • Smuggler's Charts of the Nelanther
  • Sailing the Sea of Fallen Stars
  • Ships I Have Sunk
  • The Saltmarsh Tidebook
  • Moonshae Legends
  • The Hordelands Ride
  • Wyverns of the Thunder Peaks
  • The Jungle Book of Chult
  • Dinosaurs of Chult, Illustrated
  • The Tomb Robber's Companion
  • Spelljammer Rigging for Landlubbers
  • Star Charts of the Astral Sea
  • Githyanki War Poetry
  • The Mind Flayer Question
  • A Study of Elder Brains
  • Aboleth Dreams
  • The Kraken's Tithe
  • Sahuagin Raids and How to Survive Them
  • The Coral Codex
  • A Merfolk Hymnal
  • The Drowned Library Catalog
  • The Chapbook of Blind Mira
  • The Red Book of Hollowdale
  • The Brown Book of Greenest
  • The Torn Book
  • The Book Without Pages
  • The Book That Reads You
  • Riddles of the Sphinx, Unanswered
  • A Puzzle for Every Door
  • Three Doors and a Lie
  • The Locksmith's Confession
  • The Cutpurse Catechism
  • A Short History of Long Cons
  • Masks and Their Wearers
  • Poisoner's Garden
  • The Assassin's Grammar
  • The Knight's Vigil
  • Oaths Kept and Broken
  • The Paladin's Burden
  • A Squire's Primer
  • Tilting at Wyverns
  • Siegecraft of the Dwarven Holds
  • Tactics of the Harper Wars
  • The General's Regrets
  • Quartermaster's Tally
  • Mercenary Companies of the Border
  • Banners of the Last Crusade
  • The Archer's Eye
  • A Barbarian's Guide to Cities
  • Rage, and What Comes After
  • Totems of the Uthgardt
  • The Monk's Empty Bowl
  • Forty Stances
  • Breath, Stone, and Water
  • Kata of the Four Winds
  • The Sorcerer's Burden
  • Wild Magic and Its Victims
  • Draconic Blood, Draconic Fire
  • The Warlock's Bargain
  • Voices from the Far Realm
  • What the Patron Promised
  • The Hexblade's Edge
  • Rangers of the Greenwood
  • Tracking in Snow and Shadow
  • The Hunter's Almanac
  • Beast Companions and Their Tempers
  • A Bard's Book of Lies
  • The Lute and the Lie
  • Stagecraft for Spies
  • Comedic Timing for Warlocks
  • Recipes from the Ashen Inn
  • The Tavernkeeper's Ledger
  • Signs of the Sleeping Giant Inn
  • Innkeeper's Complaints, Volume One
  • The Yawning Portal Guestbook
  • Rules of the Fighting Pit
  • Prize Fights of Baldur's Gate
  • The Gambler's Gospel
  • Three-Dragon Ante, Explained
  • The Honest Cheat
  • Scrolls of the Serpent Kings
  • The Yuan-ti Chronicles
  • The Slow Book of the Lizard Kings
  • Bullywug Court Records
  • Kenku Mimicry Exercises
  • Tabaxi Travel Songs
  • Firbolg Forest Lore
  • Goliath Stone-Names
  • The Loxodon Memory Book
  • A Warforged Reads Itself
  • Hadozee Sky Shanties
  • The Changeling's Many Faces
  • Shifter Moon Rites
  • Kalashtar Dream Journals
  • Myths of the Mror Holds
  • The Draconic Prophecy, Partial
  • The Last Dragonmark
  • Lightning Rail Schedules, Annotated
  • Sharn Tower Directory
  • Ravnican Guild Pamphlets
  • Strixhaven Lecture Notes
  • Theros Oracles
  • The Monuments of Eberron
  • A Dragonlance Bestiary
  • The Kinslayer Wars
  • Tales of the Lance
  • The Inn of the Last Home Cookbook
  • Kender Handbook (Borrowed)
  • The Dark Sun Tablets
  • Dune Trader Accounts
  • Athasian Water Laws
  • The Greyhawk Almanac
  • Castle Greyhawk: A Survey
  • The Ashen Codex of Ilgren
  • Bindings of the Marrow King
  • Litany of the Eighth Hour
  • Catalogue of Stolen Names
  • The Brass Folio
  • The Wax Testament
  • A Lantern for Dark Places
  • The Seven Sayings
  • Gospel of the Bleeding Star
  • Lamentations of Ungar
  • Writings of the Hermit of Vale
  • Fragments of the First Age
  • The Unfinished Codex
  • Annotations on a Lost Text
  • Marginalia of the Mad Monk
  • Commentaries on the Book of Hours
  • A Gloss on the Thirteen Keys
  • The Scholar's Rebuttal
  • An Answer to the Heretic Voss
  • Against the Cult of the Dragon
  • Exposing the False Prophet Ardan
  • Wanted Posters of the Dales
  • The Bounty Book
  • Crimes of the Shadow Thieves
  • Confessions Extracted by Fire
  • Prison Songs of the Iron Mines
  • Chains and Keys
  • Tunnels of the Deep Gnomes
  • Maps of the Drow Ways
  • The Spider Queen's Hymnal
  • Menzoberranzan Genealogies
  • House Records of the Eighth House
  • The Duergar Ledgers
  • Myconid Spore Dreams
  • Derro Ravings, Transcribed
  • Cavern Flora
  • The Luminous Depths
  • What Grows Without Sun
  • A Bat-Keeper's Diary
  • The Fisherman's Ghost Stories
  • Tides of the Mere
  • Seasons of the Marsh
  • The Ferryman's Almanac
  • Bridges of the Old Empire
  • Stonework of the First Dwarves
  • Mortar and Meaning
  • Towers That Should Not Stand
  • Gates of the Dead City
  • A Tourist's Guide to Ruins
  • Plunder, Politely
  • Treasure Maps, Mostly False
  • The Lost Mine Ledger
  • Gold Veins of the Sword Mountains
  • Gemcutting for the Greedy
  • The Jeweler's Curse
  • Mirrors and Their Dangers
  • The Glass Witch's Book
  • Candles and Their Uses in Ritual
  • Incense for the Discerning Cultist
  • Cult Handbook, Third Printing
  • Recruiting for the End Times
  • The Doomsday Pamphlet
  • Signs You Live in a Cursed Village
  • Village Charters of the Vale
  • Harvest Rites of the Hill Folk
  • Grandmother's Book of Weather
  • Frost Charms
  • Hearth Wards
  • Salt Lines and Cold Iron
  • Fey Bargains and Their Fine Print
  • Names You Should Not Say
  • The Archfey Courts, Briefly
  • The Summer Court Gazette
  • Winter Court Obituaries
  • Pixie Mischief, Catalogued
  • The Hag's Recipe Book
  • Night Hag Dream Journal
  • The Coven's Ledger
  • A Witch's Year
  • Familiar Spirits and Their Upkeep
  • Owls, Cats, and Other Familiars
  • The Homunculus Handbook
  • The Wizard's Domestic Economy
  • Keeping a Tower Warm
  • Towers of the Eastern Wizards
  • The Red Wizards Exposed
  • Thayan Necropolis Surveys
  • Mulhorandi God-Kings
  • Calimshan Nights
  • Tales of the Genie Courts
  • Efreeti Contract Law
  • The Elemental Tongue
  • Fire, in Its Moods
  • Water Remembers
  • Songs of the Wind Dukes
  • Earth Speaks Slowly
  • The Fourfold Path
  • Planar Travel for the Reluctant
  • Sigil Street Directory
  • The Lady of Pain, Unspoken
  • Modron Census
  • The Mechanus Protocols
  • Limbo Survival
  • Celestia's Seven Stairs
  • The Bytopian Harvest
  • Beastlands Journals
  • The Outlands Gazetteer
  • Gehenna Ledgers
  • Carceri Confessions
  • The Pandemonium Shriek
  • Abyssal Layers, Numbered
  • Infernal Bureaucracy
  • Acheron War Drums
  • The Shadowfell Diaries
  • Feywild Etiquette
  • The Beggar-Saint's Book of Questions
  • On the Weighing of Souls, Being a Dispute
  • A Lexicon of Curses, Mild to Mortal
  • Household Accounts of the Vanished Baron
  • The Complete Reckoning of the Moonfall Year
  • Warnings Carved on the Door of the Deep Vault

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