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Generate spellbook names with the weight of real grimoires: Latin-titled codices, named compendiums like Malvorin's Compendium of Lesser Bindings, evocative tomes such as The Codex of Ashen Stars, and humble hedge-witch household books. Made for D&D loot tables, fantasy novels, tabletop worldbuilding and Harry Potter-style settings.

About spellbook names

Real historical grimoires set the template for how a spellbook should sound. The Key of Solomon, the Picatrix, the Sworn Book of Honorius and the Book of Abramelin are all either attributed to a named author, titled in Latin (Liber, Clavicula, Lemegeton) or described by what they do. Fantasy fiction borrowed all three habits: Lovecraft's Necronomicon, Robert Bloch's De Vermis Mysteriis, the Book of Vile Darkness in D&D, and Hogwarts textbooks like Advanced Potion-Making all fit one of those moulds.

The names here follow the same logic. You will find Latin titles (Liber Umbrarum, Codex Ignis), author-attributed books (Hesper Quill's Compendium of Small Wonders), classic 'The X of Y' tomes (The Codex of Ashen Stars), tradesman grimoires (The Beekeeper's Book of Hours) and treatise-style titles that read like chapter headings (On the Proper Feeding of Shadows). The head noun matters: a Psalter or Breviary implies ritual and prayer, a Herbal or Bestiary implies catalogued knowledge, a Ledger or Register suggests bargains and debts, and a Primer suggests something an apprentice would be handed.

Pick the style that fits who wrote the book in your world. A scholarly archmage leaves a Codex; a hedge witch keeps a Household Grimoire; something old and malevolent tends to have a title nobody is sure how to translate.

How to choose spellbook names

  • Match the head noun to the book's role: Primer for apprentices, Codex or Treatise for scholars, Psalter or Catechism for cults, Ledger or Register for books that record pacts and debts.
  • For a book that should feel ancient or dangerous, use a Latin or Latin-flavored title and have characters disagree about its translation.
  • Author-attributed titles (Whitlock's Book of Weather-Working) instantly give your world a named mage and a hook for a quest to find them or their other writings.
  • In D&D, a spellbook's name can hint at its school: fire words for evocation, doors and keys for conjuration, mirrors and sleep for illusion, bones and salt for necromancy.
  • Short nicknames stick: a tome called The Annotated Corvin will be referred to by players simply as 'the Corvin', so make sure the key word is memorable.

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between a spellbook, a grimoire and a tome?

In practice they overlap. A spellbook is any book of spells, the term D&D uses for a wizard's personal collection. Grimoire is the older word for a manual of magic and ritual, and carries a darker, occult feel. Tome simply means a large, heavy, often old book, so 'tome' titles suggest age and weight.

How do I name a spellbook in D&D?

Wizards' spellbooks are usually nameless in the rules, so naming yours is a flavor choice. Use the character's name (Teodric's Catalogue of Doors), their school (The Nightglass Manual for an illusionist) or a title that hints at a previous owner if the book was found as loot.

Are these spellbook names based on real grimoires?

They follow the conventions of real historical grimoires such as the Key of Solomon and the Picatrix, which used Latin titles, attributed authors and descriptive names, but every title here is original and free to use in your campaign, novel or game.

Can I use these names for magic books in my own fiction?

Yes. The titles are generated ideas, not trademarks. If you are publishing, a quick search is still worth doing to make sure a title is not already the name of another author's famous book.

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A: 22 names

  • A Bestiary of Small Shadows
  • A Catalogue of Quiet Weather
  • A Field Guide to Ghosts
  • A Grammar of Storms
  • A Reckoning of Lanterns
  • A Short Treatise on Long Sleep
  • A Treasury of Minor Miracles
  • Aeromancia
  • Aethermancy Primaria
  • Against Forgetting
  • Against the Turning of Mirrors

A, continued

  • Almanac of the Blind Moon
  • Almanac of Unmade Things
  • Almanac Tenebris
  • Ambrose Vell's Lesser Key
  • An Alphabet of Fire
  • An Inventory of Vanishings
  • Annals of the Cinder Court
  • Apocrypha of the Sleeping Sun
  • Ashbound Liturgies
  • Ashthorn Breviary
  • Atlas of the Unmapped Hours

B: 40 names

  • Bestiary of Lantern Beasts
  • Bestiary of the Unseen Court
  • Bloodroot Lexicon
  • Book of Ash and Amber
  • Book of Ashes
  • Book of Black Honey
  • Book of Cradled Fire
  • Book of Deep Doors
  • Book of Ember Psalms
  • Book of Forgotten Latches
  • Book of Heavy Stars
  • Book of Low Tides
  • Book of Quiet Thunder

B, continued

  • Book of Small Thunders
  • Book of Teeth and Tallow
  • Book of Ten Thousand Doors
  • Book of the Blue Hour
  • Book of the Burning Bee
  • Book of the Burning Ledger
  • Book of the Drowned Lantern
  • Book of the Hollow Sun
  • Book of the Lantern Choir
  • Book of the Lantern Moth
  • Book of the Mirrored Wood
  • Book of the Nine Gates
  • Book of the Seventh Tide

B, continued

  • Book of the Silent Orchard
  • Book of the Tallow Saint
  • Book of the Unspoken
  • Book of Thorns and Thread
  • Book of Thunderless Storms
  • Book of Unspoken Rivers
  • Book of Wandering Light
  • Book of Whispered Arithmetic
  • Book of Winter Doors
  • Book of Winter Tongues
  • Breviary of the Waking Tide
  • Breviary of Thorns
  • Briarcantus
  • Brother Aldous's Unfinished Psalter

C: 41 names

  • Canticles of Rust
  • Canticles of the Deep Hearth
  • Cassius Dray's Atlas of Absences
  • Catechism of Fire and Ash
  • Chronicle of the Severed Root
  • Cinderlore
  • Codex Argenti
  • Codex Aurorae
  • Codex Ferri et Sanguinis
  • Codex Hallow
  • Codex Ignis
  • Codex Lunae Veteris
  • Codex Mortis Vivae

C, continued

  • Codex Noctis et Rosae
  • Codex of Cold Iron
  • Codex of Embers
  • Codex of Falling Lanterns
  • Codex of Hungering Frost
  • Codex of the Crooked Lantern
  • Codex of the Last Candle
  • Codex of the Paper Moon
  • Codex of the Quiet Furnace
  • Codex of the Seven Sleepers
  • Codex of the Wayfarer
  • Codex of Thorned Light
  • Codex Pluviae
  • Codex Sanguinis Antiqui

C, continued

  • Codex Spiralis
  • Codex Umbralis Minor
  • Codex Veneficorum
  • Codex Viridis
  • Coldwater Hymnal
  • Compendium Nocturnum
  • Compendium of Sleeping Stones
  • Compendium of the Lesser Winds
  • Compendium of Uneasy Stars
  • Compendium Tenebrae
  • Concerning Rooms That Do Not Exist
  • Concerning the Hours Between Hours
  • Concordance of the Broken Moon
  • Copybook of the Last Apprentice

D: 5 names

  • Dawnwell Psalter
  • Deepmoss Register
  • Dresmond's Treatise on Unlight
  • Duskhallow
  • Duskmarrow Codex

E: 10 names

  • Ebonleaf Grimoire
  • Elspeth Crane's Ledger of Bargains
  • Embergale Treatise
  • Embervellum
  • Emberwick Catechism
  • Enchiridion of the Wandering Flame
  • Enchiridion Spinosum
  • Enchiridion Umbrae
  • Epistles of the Ninth Circle
  • Every Lock Is a Question

F: 5 names

  • Fables of the Undying Lamp
  • Ferrin Oakhallow's Bestiary
  • Florilegium of Bitter Herbs
  • Folio Obscura
  • Fragments of the Ivory Gate

G: 28 names

  • Geomantikon
  • Glasswing Codex
  • Glimmerlore
  • Gravemoss Herbal
  • Grimoire Aeternum
  • Grimoire Autumnalis
  • Grimoire Hibernalis
  • Grimoire of Bitter Roots
  • Grimoire of Hallowed Rust
  • Grimoire of Hollow Teeth
  • Grimoire of Roots
  • Grimoire of Saltglass
  • Grimoire of Silent Weather
  • Grimoire of Stolen Hours

G, continued

  • Grimoire of the Briar Queen
  • Grimoire of the Copper Sun
  • Grimoire of the First Frost
  • Grimoire of the Glass Key
  • Grimoire of the Hollow Moon
  • Grimoire of the Last Lamplighter
  • Grimoire of the Ninth Bell
  • Grimoire of the Red Harvest
  • Grimoire of the Sorrowing Sea
  • Grimoire of the Speaking Stone
  • Grimoire of the Unquiet Well
  • Grimoire of the Waking Orchard
  • Grimoire of Whispered Keys
  • Grimoire Vespertine

H: 12 names

  • Hearthwick Psalter
  • Herbal of Poisons Gentle and Grim
  • Herbal of the Moonless Garden
  • Hesper Quill's Compendium of Small Wonders
  • Hexquill
  • Hollis Fane's Grimoire of Rain
  • Hollow Hill Household Grimoire
  • How the Dead Keep Time
  • How to Speak to Water
  • Hydromanteia
  • Hymnal of the Pale Court
  • Hymns for the Hollow King

I: 5 names

  • Idris Quillon's Folio of Mirrors
  • Ignatius Wren's Herbal of the Burning Wood
  • Ignivox
  • Instructions for the Last Candle
  • Isolde Vane's Book of Quiet Rooms

L: 27 names

  • Ledger of Small Debts to the Dead
  • Letters to a Young Necromancer
  • Lexicon Arcanum
  • Lexicon Ignis Frigidi
  • Lexicon of Drowned Bells
  • Lexicon of Hushed Fires
  • Lexicon of the Hollow Tongue
  • Liber Aquarum Nigrarum
  • Liber Cineris et Rosae
  • Liber Clavium Perditarum
  • Liber Hiemis
  • Liber Inversus
  • Liber Lunaris

L, continued

  • Liber Ossium
  • Liber Portarum
  • Liber Radicum
  • Liber Somniorum
  • Liber Speculorum
  • Liber Spinarum
  • Liber Tenebrarum
  • Liber Umbrarum
  • Liber Ventorum
  • Liber Vermium
  • Libram Obscurum
  • Libram of the Silver Gate
  • Libram of the Wandering Gate
  • Lunariad

M: 7 names

  • Magda Ferrow's Book of Hinges
  • Manual of the Clockwork Saints
  • Manual of the Gentle Art of Binding
  • Mirewood Manual
  • Mirrorlore
  • Mother Greaves's Kitchen Grimoire
  • Mothwing Breviary

N: 6 names

  • Necrolexicon
  • Nightfall Codex
  • Nightloom Lexicon
  • Nightreed Treatise
  • Nocturnium
  • Notes Toward a Theory of Doors

O: 12 names

  • Obscuravia
  • Of Salt, Iron and Other Refusals
  • Old Marrowby's Book of Small Mercies
  • On the Proper Feeding of Shadows
  • On the Quieting of Storms
  • On the Weight of Names
  • On Walking Through Walls
  • Oneirocodex
  • Orlaith Brannagh's Book of Knots
  • Ossuaria
  • Oswin Thale's Primer for the Unwilling
  • Owlmere Herbal

P: 9 names

  • Palimpsest of Drowned Kings
  • Primer of Stolen Sparks
  • Proverbs of the Hanging Garden
  • Psalms for the Dry Well
  • Psalms of the Rusted Crown
  • Psalter of Burning Hours
  • Psalter of Salt
  • Psalter of the Wild Hunt
  • Pyrolexis

R: 7 names

  • Ravenwood Compendium
  • Register of Borrowed Shadows
  • Register of Hollow Saints
  • Rites of the Ninth Candle
  • Rites of the Sleeping Orchard
  • Riverbone Register
  • Rustwing Bestiary

S: 21 names

  • Saltmarsh Psalter
  • Saltscript
  • Scriptorium of Falling Ash
  • Scrolls of Red Mercury
  • Scrolls of Salt Mercy
  • Scrolls of the Amber Court
  • Scrolls of the Ashen Court
  • Scrolls of the Last Ferry
  • Scrolls of the Quiet Harvest
  • Scrolls of the Unlit Hour

S, continued

  • Scrolls of Unbroken Salt
  • Secrets of the Eleventh Hour
  • Secrets of the Living Ink
  • Sermons for the Drowned
  • Shadowfen Bestiary
  • Silverthorn Codex
  • Small Curses for Daily Use
  • Somniarium
  • Songs the Dead Still Remember
  • Starfall Catechism
  • Stellarium Obscurum

T: 226 names

  • Tales Told to Locked Doors
  • Teodric's Catalogue of Doors
  • Testament of the Black Lantern
  • Testament of Thorns
  • The Alabaster Codex
  • The Amber Herbal
  • The Annotated Corvin
  • The Apothecary's Black Book
  • The Ashen Apocrypha
  • The Ashenvale Compendium
  • The Ashfall Psalter
  • The Ashmoor Lexicon
  • The Ashmoth Treatise
  • The Barrowfield Herbal

T, continued

  • The Beekeeper's Book of Hours
  • The Bellfounder's Psalter
  • The Bitter Orchard Codex
  • The Bitterwood Hymnal
  • The Blackbound Psalter
  • The Bone Grimoire
  • The Bone-Flute Catechism
  • The Bone-Setter's Grimoire
  • The Book Bound in Moth
  • The Book of Bells and Bindings
  • The Book of Forty Locks
  • The Book of Wet Ink
  • The Book That Reads Itself
  • The Book That Was Never Written

T, continued

  • The Book With Nine Covers
  • The Book With No Spine
  • The Bramblebound Book
  • The Brambleheart Codex
  • The Brasswright's Grimoire
  • The Brightwater Grimoire
  • The Brinebound Book
  • The Calloway Fragments
  • The Candle-Stub Almanac
  • The Care and Keeping of Lesser Flames
  • The Cartographer's Grimoire
  • The Chandler's Book of Flames
  • The Cinder Bestiary
  • The Cindermoth Primer

T, continued

  • The Cinderstone Codex
  • The Cindertongue Lexicon
  • The Clockmaker's Lexicon
  • The Cold Iron Almanac
  • The Collected Errata of Sister Maud
  • The Cooper's Book of Binding
  • The Cradlewood Grimoire
  • The Crooked Spire Lexicon
  • The Crow's Feast Psalter
  • The Dowser's Folio
  • The Driftwood Lexicon
  • The Dustroad Codex
  • The Emberleaf Folio
  • The Etiquette of Summoning

T, continued

  • The Falconer's Grimoire
  • The Fennelwood Almanac
  • The Ferryman's Folio
  • The Fisherwife's Grimoire of Tides
  • The Fourteen Silences
  • The Fox-Fire Folio
  • The Frostmoth Testament
  • The Frostquill Folio
  • The Gardener's Grimoire
  • The Gilded Bestiary of Nowhere
  • The Glassblower's Book of Breath
  • The Glassmere Bestiary
  • The Glasswright's Grammar
  • The Goldenrod Folio

T, continued

  • The Greenfire Hymnal
  • The Greenwitch's Almanac
  • The Grey Grimoire
  • The Greyfrost Almanac
  • The Greyling Grimoire
  • The Greywater Grimoire
  • The Harrowbone Herbal
  • The Harrowgate Manuscript
  • The Harrowlight Manual
  • The Harrowmere Compendium
  • The Harvest Moon Catechism
  • The Hawthorn Breviary
  • The Hedgewitch's Household Book
  • The Hexbinder's Manual

T, continued

  • The Hexwood Primer
  • The Hollowbone Treatise
  • The Hollowmere Grimoire
  • The Hollowpine Psalter
  • The Hollowthorn Register
  • The Hourglass Hymnal
  • The Hushed Hour Primer
  • The Iron Psalter
  • The Ironwood Catechism
  • The Ivory Testament
  • The Kestrel Codex
  • The Lamplighter's Lexicon
  • The Lantern and the Loom
  • The Lantern-Keeper's Index

T, continued

  • The Lantern-Maker's Grammar of Light
  • The Leaden Lexicon
  • The Little Green Grimoire
  • The Lockhart Palimpsest
  • The Lockpick's Catechism
  • The Long Black Book
  • The Margent Notebooks
  • The Marrowlight Primer
  • The Marrowmoth Manual
  • The Marsh Light Manual
  • The Mechanics of Enchantment
  • The Midwife's Grimoire
  • The Miller's Black Book
  • The Mistvale Compendium
  • The Moonmilk Herbal

T, continued

  • The Moonshard Folio
  • The Mossbound Herbal
  • The Moth-Eaten Testament
  • The Moth-Wing Codex
  • The Nettlebound Folio
  • The Night Market Ledger
  • The Nightglass Manual
  • The Ninefold Garden
  • The Ninefold Key
  • The Obsidian Catechism
  • The Onyx Register
  • The Opal Vademecum
  • The Owl-Light Treatise
  • The Owlbone Compendium

T, continued

  • The Oxblood Grimoire
  • The Pale Ashen Primer
  • The Pearlbone Primer
  • The Pellworth Codex
  • The Quartz Catechism
  • The Quicksilver Treatise
  • The Ravenfeather Compendium
  • The Red Grimoire
  • The Red Thread Compendium
  • The Rime and Rust Folio
  • The Rookwood Catechism
  • The Ropewalker's Book of Knots
  • The Sable Folio
  • The Sablewood Psalter

T, continued

  • The Salt Road Codex
  • The Salt-Gatherer's Psalter
  • The Salt-Priest's Almanac
  • The Saltbone Breviary
  • The Saltcellar Grimoire
  • The Saltwater Litany
  • The Sea Glass Breviary
  • The Sea-Witch's Ledger
  • The Seven Refusals
  • The Seventh Door Codex
  • The Shape of Every Shadow
  • The Sleeping Lantern Primer
  • The Somnambulist's Grimoire
  • The Sparrowbone Treatise

T, continued

  • The Stillwater Breviary
  • The Stonemason's Litany
  • The Storm-Caller's Primer
  • The Stormwarden's Ledger
  • The Sunken Psalter
  • The Sunless Ledger
  • The Tallow-Light Lexicon
  • The Tanglewood Notebooks
  • The Thin Grey Folio
  • The Thistledown Hymnal
  • The Thistlemere Psalter
  • The Thorn-Crowned Testament
  • The Thornlight Psalter
  • The Thornwood Apocrypha

T, continued

  • The Thornwright Herbal
  • The Tide-Stained Grimoire
  • The Tidewatcher's Codex
  • The Umbral Atlas
  • The Unbound Pages of Corvinus
  • The Unburnable Book
  • The Uses of Moonlight
  • The Vellum of Seven Winds
  • The Verdigris Treatise
  • The Vintner's Book of Years
  • The Wandering Page
  • The Wax and Wick Almanac
  • The Wax-Sealed Testament
  • The Wax-Worker's Book of Hours

T, continued

  • The Weaver's Grimoire of Knots
  • The Weeping Atlas
  • The Well-Keeper's Psalter
  • The Whalebone Almanac
  • The Widow's Hymnal
  • The Widow's Walk Lexicon
  • The Widowmoth Hymnal
  • The Winter Garden Grimoire
  • The Winterglass Manual
  • The Wolfsbane Register
  • The Wormwood Almanac
  • Thirteen Ways to Open a Locked Door
  • Thornfield Testament
  • Thornscript

T, continued

  • Thornwick Testament
  • Tome of Brass Serpents
  • Tome of Clouded Seas
  • Tome of Endless Hallways
  • Tome of Gentle Curses
  • Tome of Glass Thorns
  • Tome of Hungry Mirrors
  • Tome of Lost Latitudes
  • Tome of Sleeping Rivers
  • Tome of the Broken Compass
  • Tome of the Hollow Bell
  • Tome of the Knotted Wind
  • Tome of the Moth Queen
  • Tome of the Rusted Key

T, continued

  • Tome of the Seventh Shadow
  • Tome of the Seventh Well
  • Tome of the Silvered Wound
  • Tome of the Sleepless Lantern
  • Tome of the Veiled Ledger
  • Tome of the Wakeful Dead
  • Tome of the Wandering Hearth
  • Tome of Unfinished Doors
  • Treatise of the Iron Rose
  • Treatise of Whispers
  • Treatise on Borrowed Wings
  • Treatise on Glass and Shadow
  • Treatise on Quiet Fire
  • Treatise on the Keeping of Echoes
  • Treatise on the Unraveling

U: 1 name

  • Umbracodex

V: 5 names

  • Vademecum Lunaris
  • Vademecum of the Night Roads
  • Vellum of the Burning Sea
  • Verity Ashcombe's Book of Glass
  • Vesperalia

W: 11 names

  • What the Ravens Know
  • What the Salt Remembers
  • Whispered Weights and Measures
  • Whitebark Primer
  • Whitlock's Book of Weather-Working
  • Willowmere Folio
  • Wintermoth Hymnal
  • Winterthorn Ledger
  • Wren Halloway's Pocket Grimoire
  • Wyrdwright
  • Wyrmwright's Folio