List of books

This list of books contains an alphabetically organised assortment of various objects which can be placed in one's inventory and/or read. Most of the quest-related books are made available in the bookcase of a player-owned house.

A

Title		Also known as	Author	Quest?	Readable?	POH bookcase?
	Ablenkian's escape	Ablenkian's Escape	Ablenkian		Yes	Yes
	Abyssal book	Abyssal Research Notes	Mage of Zamorak	Enter the Abyss	Yes	Yes
	Address form			King's Ransom	Yes	No
	Agility tome				No	No
	Aivas' diary	Diary of Aivas	Aivas	Dragon Slayer II	Yes	Yes
	Akila's journal	Akila's Journal	Akila		Yes	Yes
	Alchemical notes			Recruitment Drive	Yes	No
	Al kharid flyer	Flyer	Ali Morrisane		Yes	No
	Ancient diary	Ancient Diary	Skeka		Yes	Yes
	Ancient letter		Xamphur	The Forsaken Tower	Yes	No
	Apmeken's capture	Apmeken's Capture			Yes	Yes
	Arachnids of vampyrium	Arachnids of Vampyrium		A Night at the Theatre	Yes	Yes
	Archaeologist's diary	The Diary of Charles Charlington	Charles Charlington		Yes	Yes
	Arena book	Mage Training Arena Lore Book			Yes	Yes
	Ash covered tome				Yes	No
	Astronomy book	The Tale of Scorpius		Observatory Quest	Yes	Yes
	Atlax's diary	Atlax's Diary	Atlax		Yes	Yes
	Awful anthem		Prince Brand	Throne of Miscellania	Yes	No

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B

Title		Also known as	Author	Quest?	Readable?	POH bookcase?
	Ballad	The Ballad of Jareesh		Spirits of the Elid	Yes	No
	Ballad of the basilisk				Yes	Yes
	Barcrawl card		Barbarian guard	Alfred Grimhand's Barcrawl	Yes	No
	Battered book	Book of the Elemental Shield		Elemental Workshop I	Yes	Yes
	Beaten book	Book of the Elemental Helm		Elemental Workshop II	Yes	Yes
	Bert's rota		Sandy	The Hand in the Sand	Yes	No
	Bervirius notes			Shilo Village	Yes	No
	Big book of bangs	Big Book o' Bangs	Mel Achy	Regicide	Yes	Yes
	Binding book	Book of Binding		Legends' Quest	Yes	Yes
	Bird book	William Oddity's Guide to the Avian	William Oddity	Eagles' Peak	Yes	Yes
	Bloody diary		Unnamed Hosidius adventurer		Yes	Yes
	Bloody grimoire				Yes	No
	Bloody notes		Otrava		Yes	Yes
	Book of folklore	The Myth of the Elder-dragons			Yes	No
	Book of 'h.a.m'			Zogre Flesh Eaters	Yes	No
	Book of haricanto		Haricanto	Ghosts Ahoy	No	No
	Book of knowledge				No	No
	Book of portraiture			Zogre Flesh Eaters	Yes	No
	Book of spyology		T. Gure	Monkey Madness II	Yes	Yes
	Book on baxtorian			Waterfall Quest	Yes	Yes
	Book on chemicals	"Volatile chemicals - Experimental Test Notes", "Chemistry book from the Dig site library"		The Dig Site	Yes	Yes
	Book on chickens	The Origins of the Bird of Evil			Yes	No
	Book on costumes			The Giant Dwarf	No	No
	Book o' piracy	The Little Book o' Piracy	Ali Morrisane	Cabin Fever	Yes	Yes
	Book (Plague City)	Turnip Growing for Beginners		Plague City	Yes	No
	Book (Shield of Arrav)	The Shield of Arrav	A. R. Wright	Shield of Arrav	Yes	Yes
	Brewin' guide				Yes	Yes
	The butcher		The Butcher	A Night at the Theatre	Yes	Yes
	Buried alive		"A"		Yes	No
	Burnt diary	Armod's Burnt Diary	Armod	Royal Trouble	Yes	Yes
	Byrne's coronation speech	Speech of King Byrne I			Yes	No

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C

Title		Also known as	Author	Quest?	Readable?	POH bookcase?
	Cadarn lineage	The Cadarn Lineage		Roving Elves	Yes	Yes
	Castle wars manual	Castle wars Handbook			Yes	No
	Champion scroll		Various		Yes	No
	Chores		Bob (cat)	A Tail of Two Cats	Yes	No
	Clockwork book	Clockwork Toys - A Clockwork Mechanism, Chapter 1.0		Cold War	Yes	Yes
	Cocktail guide	The Blurberry Cocktail Guide			Yes	Yes
	Construction guide	Guide to Construction			Yes	Yes
	Crazed scribbles		Randas	Underground Pass	Yes	Yes
	Creature keeper's journal	Creature Keeper's Journal	Creature keeper		Yes	Yes
	Crondis' capture	Crondis' Capture			Yes	Yes
	Crumbling tome	Legend of the Brothers			Yes	Yes
	Crumpled scroll				Yes	No
	Crystal singing for beginners	Crystal Singing for Beginners			Yes	Yes

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D

Title		Also known as	Author	Quest?	Readable?	POH bookcase?
	Dagon'hai history	The Fall of the Dagon'hai		What Lies Below	Yes	Yes
	Damaged book			Horror from the Deep	No	No
	Damp tablet			Desert Treasure II - The Fallen Empire	Yes	No
	Dark journal				Yes	Yes
	A dear friend		Caron's wife		Yes	Yes
	Death note				Yes	No
	Deed		Lord Drakan		Yes	No
	Demonic tome	The Confession of Ellemar	Ellemar	Shadow of the Storm	Yes	Yes
	The desert trout - ship's log	The Desert Trout - Ship's Log	Taiman		Yes	Yes
	Diary (Horror from the Deep) ("Diary")		Silas	Horror from the Deep	Yes	Yes
	Diary of Herbi Flax ("Diary")		Herbi Flax	Shades of Mort'ton	Yes	Yes
	Dirty note		Kasonde Shaw	The Garden of Death	Yes	No
	Dossier			Black Knights' Fortress	Yes	No
	Dusty note			Tale of the Righteous	Yes	No
	Dusty scroll (In Aid of the Myreque)		Sialathin	In Aid of the Myreque	Yes	No
	Dwarven lore	The Arzinian Being of Bordanzan		Between a Rock...	Yes	Yes

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E

Title		Also known as	Author	Quest?	Readable?	POH bookcase?
	Eastern discovery	Exploration of the Eastern Realm			Yes	Yes
	Eastern settlement	Settlement of the East			Yes	Yes
	Eathram & rada extract	An extract from Eathram & Rada	Anonymous		Yes	No
	Ebrill's journal		Ebrill		Yes	Yes
	Edern's journal	Journal of Nissyen Edern	Nissyen Edern	Mourning's End Part II	Yes	Yes
	The eight clans				Yes	Yes
	Embalming manual	The Little Book of Embalming	Bod E. Wrapper	Icthlarin's Little Helper	Yes	Yes
	Entomologist's diary	Diary of Buggie the Entomologist	Entomologist		Yes	Yes
	Explorer's notes	Memoirs of a Dwarven Explorer	Nestor Peregrine		Yes	Yes
	Explosive discovery				Yes	No

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F

Title		Also known as	Author	Quest?	Readable?	POH bookcase?
	Farming manual	Farmer Gricoller's Farming Manual	Farmer Gricoller	My Arm's Big Adventure	Yes	Yes
	Feathered journal	The Journal of Arthur Artimus	Arthur Artimus	Eagles' Peak	Yes	Yes
	Firemaking tome				No	No
	Fishing tome				No	No
	Flaygian's notes		Flaygian Screwte	A Taste of Hope	Yes	No
	Flyer		Bob (smith)		Yes	No
	Fossil island note book	Fossil Island Research Notes			Yes	Yes
	Full folder		Rat Burgiss	What Lies Below	Yes	No

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G

Title		Also known as	Author	Quest?	Readable?	POH bookcase?
	Game book	Party Pete's Bumper Book of Games	Party Pete		Yes	Yes
	Ghrim's book	Managing Thy Kingdom - for Noobes	Advisor Ghrim	Throne of Miscellania	Yes	Yes
	Gianne's cook book		Aluft Gianne snr.		Yes	Yes
	Gielinor's flora - allotments	Gielinor's Flora - Allotments			Yes	Yes
	Gielinor's flora - bushes	Gielinor's Flora - Bushes			Yes	Yes
	Gielinor's flora - flowers	Gielinor's Flora - Flowers			Yes	Yes
	Gielinor's flora - fruit	Gielinor's Flora - Fruit			Yes	Yes
	Gielinor's flora - herbs	Gielinor's Flora - Herbs			Yes	Yes
	Gielinor's flora - hops	Gielinor's Flora - Hops			Yes	Yes
	Gielinor's flora - trees	Gielinor's Flora - Trees			Yes	Yes
	Glassblowing book	Ultimate Guide to Glassblowing	Fritz the Glassblower		Yes	Yes
	Glough's journal		Glough	The Grand Tree	Yes	Yes
	Goblin book	The Book of the Big High War God			Yes	Yes
	Goblin symbol book	A History of the Goblin Race		The Lost Tribe	Yes	Yes
	God books - see Book of balance, Holy book, Unholy book, Book of law, Book of war and Book of darkness				Yes	No
	Gollwyn's final statement		Gollwyn		Yes	Yes
	Good anthem			Throne of Miscellania	Yes	No
	The great divide	The Great Divide			Yes	Yes
	Grim reaper's diary	Diary of Death, My Diary by Grim	Grim Reaper	2014 Halloween event	Yes	No
	Guide book	Tourist Guide to Ardougne			Yes	Yes

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H

Title		Also known as	Author	Quest?	Readable?	POH bookcase?
	Haemalchemy volume 1	Haemalchemy Volume 1		Darkness of Hallowvale	No	No
	Haemalchemy volume 2	Haemalchemy Volume 2		Sins of the Father	No	No
	A handwritten book	Crystal Singing for Beginners (trans. Oaknock)		The Eyes of Glouphrie	Yes	Yes
	Harmony (book)	Harmony	Aenwyn Iorwerth		Yes	Yes
	Hazeel scroll			Hazeel Cult	Yes	No
	Hazelmere's scroll		Hazelmere	The Grand Tree	Yes	No
	Het's capture	Het's Capture			Yes	Yes
	Herman's book	Dionysius: A Legend in His Own Lifetime	Herman Caranos	Swan Song	Yes	Yes
	Histories of the hallowland	Histories of Hallowland		In Aid of the Myreque	Yes	Yes
	History of iban	The Tale of Iban	Kardia	Underground Pass	Yes	Yes
	Houndmaster's diary				Yes	Yes
	Hosidius letter	A letter from Lord Hosidius to the Council of Elders	Lord Hosidius		Yes	No
	The hueycoatl (book)	Tales of the Old Ones: The Hueycoatl			Yes	Yes

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I

Title		Also known as	Author	Quest?	Readable?	POH bookcase?
	Ideology of darkness	The Ideology of Darkness	Philophaire		Yes	No
	Imafore's betrayal				Yes	Yes
	Imcandoria's fall	The Fall of Imcandoria	Highseer Gulbrand		Yes	Yes
	Instruction manual	Dwarf Multicannon Manual		Dwarf Cannon	Yes	Yes
	Invasion plans		Glough	The Grand Tree	Yes	No

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J

Title		Also known as	Author	Quest?	Readable?	POH bookcase?
	The jackal's torch	The Jackal's Torch			Yes	Yes
	Journal (Filliman Tarlock)		Filliman Tarlock	Nature Spirit	Yes	No
	Journal (Horror from the Deep)	Jossik's Diary	Jossik	Horror from the Deep	Yes	Yes
	Journal (Making History)	Drozal's Journal	Drozal	Making History	Yes	Yes
	Journal page				Yes	No

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K

Title		Also known as	Author	Quest?	Readable?	POH bookcase?
	Kasonde's journal		Kasonde Shaw	The Garden of Death	Yes	No
	Kharedst's memoirs		King Kharedst IV, Rose	Client of Kourend	Yes	No
	Killing of a king		Griselle		Yes	No
	King's message		King Lathas	Regicide	Yes	No
	Knight's notes		Sir Gerry		Yes	No

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L

Title		Also known as	Author	Quest?	Readable?	POH bookcase?
	Legends of the mountain				Yes	Yes
	Letter (Creature of Fenkenstrain)	Letter	Lord Rologarth	Creature of Fenkenstrain	Yes	No
	Letter (Forgettable Tale...)	Letter	Rind the gardener	Forgettable Tale...	Yes	No
	Letter (Jorral)	Letter	King Lathas	Making History	No	No
	Letter (King Lathas)	Letter	Jorral	Making History	No	No
	Letter (The Queen of Thieves)	Letter	Sophia Hughes	The Queen of Thieves	Yes	No
	Letter (Royal Trouble)	Letter	Queen Sigrid	Royal Trouble	Yes	No
	Letter (The Golem)	Letter	Elissa	The Golem	Yes	No
	Letter to surok		Rat Burgiss	What Lies Below	Yes	No
	Lift manual	AMCE Lift-In-A-Box User Manual	Ali Morrisane Commercial Enterprises Ltd.	Royal Trouble	Yes	No
	Lithkren vault notes		Zorgoth	Dragon Slayer II	Yes	Yes
	The living statues		Unnamed Dorgeshuun goblin		Yes	Yes
	Lumber order		Glough	The Grand Tree	Yes	No
	Lutwidge and the moonfly	Lutwidge and the Moonfly	Shudersque		Yes	Yes

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M

Title		Also known as	Author	Quest?	Readable?	POH bookcase?
	Mages' book				Yes	No
	Malumac's journal	Malumac's Journal	Malumac	Dragon Slayer II	Yes	Yes
	Manual	Lighthouse Manual		Horror from the Deep	Yes	Yes
	Meeting notes			The Giant Dwarf	Yes	No
	Melzar's notes		Melzar the Mad	Dragon Slayer I	No	No
	Message (fireplace)	Message	Mauritys Guile	Darkness of Hallowvale	Yes	No
	Message (Romeo & Juliet)	Message	Juliet	Romeo & Juliet	No	No
	Mining tome				No	No
	Mixology lab notes				Yes	No
	Modern day morytania	Modern Day Morytania		In Aid of the Myreque	Yes	Yes
	Moonclan manual	Basics of Magic			Yes	Yes
	Moonrise wines (book)	Moonrise Wines			Yes	Yes
	Mount karuulm diary	Mount Karuulm diary	Karuulm		Yes	Yes
	Mourner letter			Mourning's End Part I	Yes	No
	My life			Lunar Diplomacy	Yes	No
	My notes	Records from my discoveries beneath the lake			Yes	Yes

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N

Title		Also known as	Author	Quest?	Readable?	POH bookcase?
	Necromancy book			Zogre Flesh Eaters	Yes	No
	Neilan's journal		Neilan Redmark	Getting Ahead	Yes	Yes
	Newspaper	Varrock Herald			Yes	No
	Niff & Harry				Yes	Yes
	Nistirio's manifesto	Manifesto of Vasa Nistirio	Vasa Nistirio		Yes	Yes
	Note (2017 Halloween event)				Yes	No
	Note (numbers)	Note		The Feud	Yes	No
	Note (Fibonacci)	Note		The Feud	Yes	No

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O

Title		Also known as	Author	Quest?	Readable?	POH bookcase?
	Ode to eternity		Baxtorian	Song of the Elves	Yes	Yes
	Ohn's diary		Ohn		Yes	Yes
	Old diary		Serafina's brother	A Taste of Hope	Yes	Yes
	Old journal	The Journal of Randas	Randas	Underground Pass	Yes	Yes
	Old notes (Dragon Slayer II)		Zorgoth	Dragon Slayer II	Yes	No
	Old notes (The Forsaken Tower)		Dinh	The Forsaken Tower	Yes	No
	Old notes (Karuulm Slayer Dungeon)		Karuulm		Yes	No
	Old notes (A Taste of Hope)			A Taste of Hope	Yes	No
	Old note (Sins of the Father)		Sentinel Bloodmyre	Sins of the Father	Yes	No
	Old tablet			Desert Treasure II - The Fallen Empire	Yes	No
	On leprechauns				Yes	Yes
	Overseer's book		The Overseer		Yes	Yes

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P

Title		Also known as	Author	Quest?	Readable?	POH bookcase?
	Page 1/2/3			The Slug Menace	Yes	No
	Parchment (Contact!)	Parchment	Osman	Contact!	Yes	No
	Parchment (Olaf's Quest)	Parchment	Ulfric Longbeard	Olaf's Quest	Yes	No
	Pie recipe book	Pie Recipes			Yes	Yes
	Plaster fragment			In Aid of the Myreque	Yes	No
	Prayer book	Prayer of Deliverance from Poisons		The Great Brain Robbery	Yes	Yes
	Prifddinas' history	The Creation of Prifddinas			Yes	Yes

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Q

Title		Also known as	Author	Quest?	Readable?	POH bookcase?
	Queen help book	Queen Help			Yes	Yes

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R

Title		Also known as	Author	Quest?	Readable?	POH bookcase?
	Rada's census	Census of King Rada III	Matthias Vorseth		Yes	No
	Rada's journey	The Journey of Rada	Griselle		Yes	No
	The Ratpits Manual	Book			Yes	Yes
	Rat's paper		Rat Burgiss	What Lies Below	Yes	No
	Recipe	My favourite recipe		A Tail of Two Cats	Yes	No
	Ricktor's diary (7)	Diary of Steklan Ricktor, volume 7	Steklan Ricktor		Yes	No

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S

Title		Also known as	Author	Quest?	Readable?	POH bookcase?
	Scabaras' capture	Scabaras' Capture			Yes	Yes
	Scrawled note		Ungadulu	Legends' Quest	Yes	No
	A scribbled note		Ungadulu	Legends' Quest	Yes	No
	Scroll (Making History)	Scroll		Making History	Yes	No
	A scruffy note	Hangover cure	Bravek	Plague City	Yes	No
	Secret report		Suspicious crate	2022 Easter event	Yes	No
	Scrumpled note		Ungadulu	Legends' Quest	Yes	No
	Scrumpled paper	Ugthanki kebab recipe	Shantay		Yes	No
	Security book	RuneScape Account Security	Jagex		Yes	Yes
	Serafina	The Tale of Serafina	James Locke		Yes	Yes
	Serafina's diary		Serafina	A Night at the Theatre	Yes	Yes
	The shadow realm	The Shadow Realm		A Night at the Theatre	Yes	Yes
	Shaman's tome		Ungadulu	Legends' Quest	Yes	Yes
	Silver book		David Sinclair	Murder Mystery	No	No
	Sin'keth's diary	The Journal of Sin'keth Magis	Sin'keth Magis	What Lies Below	Yes	Yes
	Slashed book	Book of the Elemental Shield		Elemental Workshop I	Yes	No
	Slayer tome				No	No
	The sleeping seven	The Sleeping Seven		In Aid of the Myreque	Yes	Yes
	Slimy tablet			Desert Treasure II - The Fallen Empire	Yes	No
	Soul wars guide	Soul Wars Guide	Nomad		Yes	Yes
	Smelly journal		Larkur		Yes	No
	Soggy journal		Blunderguts		Yes	Yes
	Soul journey	The Journey of Souls	Aretha	Bear Your Soul	Yes	No
	Spirit anglers research notes		Spirit Anglers		Yes	Yes
	The spurned demon		Unnamed elf		Yes	Yes
	Stained journal		Unnamed dragonkin		Yes	Yes
	Strange book				Yes	No
	Strange hallowed tome				Yes	Yes
	Stronghold notes	Stronghold of Security - Notes	Solztun		Yes	Yes

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T

Title		Also known as	Author	Quest?	Readable?	POH bookcase?
	Tarn's diary	The Diary of Tarn Razorlor	Tarn Razorlor	The Lair of Tarn Razorlor	Yes	Yes
File:A taste of hope.png	A taste of hope	A Taste of Hope	Lowerniel Drakan	Sins of the Father	Yes	Yes
	Tattered book				Yes	No
	Tattered scroll			Shilo Village	Yes	No
	Tatty note		L.O.		Yes	No
	Tatty note			Sins of the Father	Yes	No
	Tekton's journal		Tekton		Yes	Yes
	Thieving tome				No	No
	To-do list		Nora T. Hagg	Grim Tales	Yes	No
	Tome of experience (Darkness of Hallowvale)			Darkness of Hallowvale	No	No
	Tome of experience (A Taste of Hope)			A Taste of Hope	No	No
	Tome of experience (Sins of the Father)			Sins of the Father	No	No
	Tome of the moon	Teachings of Ranul		In Search of Knowledge	Yes	Yes
	Tome of the sun	Teachings of Ralos		In Search of Knowledge	Yes	Yes
	Tome of the temple	The Temple to Ranul/Ralos		In Search of Knowledge	Yes	Yes
	Torn page		Sithik Ints	Zogre Flesh Eaters	Yes	No
	Transdimensional notes	Notes on Transdimentional Travel			Yes	Yes
	Translation	Four Diamonds translation, Translation Primer	Terry Balando	Desert Treasure I	Yes	Yes
	Translation book	Gnome-English Translation Dictionary		The Grand Tree	Yes	Yes
	Translation manual			Ghosts Ahoy	No	No
	Transportation incantations		Amon Ducot		Yes	No
	Transvergence theory	The Theory of Transvergence	Amon Ducot		Yes	No
	Treachery of royalty	The Treachery of Royalty	Professor Answith		Yes	No
	Tree wizards' journal	Tree Wizards' Journal	Xazyd Wier		Yes	Yes
	Tristessa's tragedy	The Tragedy of Tristessa			Yes	No
	The truth behind the myth (excerpt)				Yes	Yes
	The turncloak				Yes	No
	Twill accord	The Royal Accord of Twill			Yes	No

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U

Title		Also known as	Author	Quest?	Readable?	POH bookcase?
	Ungael lab notes		Zorgoth	Dragon Slayer II	Yes	Yes

V

Title		Also known as	Author	Quest?	Readable?	POH bookcase?
	Varlamore envoy	The Envoy to Varlamore	Deryk Paulson	The Depths of Despair	Yes	Yes
	Varrock census records			Dragon Slayer II	No	No
	Vanguard judgement	Judgement of the Vanguard			Yes	Yes
	Varmen's notes	Notes from Varman's expedition to Uzer	Varmen	The Golem	Yes	Yes
	Verzik vitur - patient record	Verzik Vitur - Patient Record	Vulcan Orvoros	A Night at the Theatre	Yes	Yes

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W

Title		Also known as	Author	Quest?	Readable?	POH bookcase?
	The wardens	The Wardens			Yes	Yes
	Warning note		Kasonde Shaw	The Garden of Death	Yes	No
	The weeping	The Weeping	Herbert Dunwich		Yes	Yes
	Weiss fire notes	Odd Mushroom's Notes	Odd Mushroom, with additions by Snowflake	Making Friends with My Arm	Yes	Yes
	The wild hunt	The Wild Hunt	Lowerniel Drakan	A Night at the Theatre	Yes	Yes
	Wintertodt parable	The Parable of the Wintertodt	Anonymous		Yes	No
	Witch's Diary	Diary	Nora T. Hagg	Witch's House	Yes	Yes
	Woodcutting tome				No	No
	Word translations		Kasonde Shaw	The Garden of Death	Yes	No

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