Books are items obtained in quests and elsewhere in RuneScape. Most books can be read by players, which provides information ranging from lore to information on game mechanics.
When a player reads a book, their game screen will largely be covered by an interface displaying the contents of the book, and their character will be seen reading a green (sometimes yellow) book.
Books in bookcase[]
Bookcases are built in the Parlour, Quest Hall or Study of a player-owned house. All of the bookcases will contain the same books. Bookcases have the ability to save bank space, because they automatically store most books from previously completed quests and other miscellaneous books.
There are currently a total of 98 books that can be stored in a bookcase, and are stored in the following order:
Item name | Name in bookcase | Source | |
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Construction guide | Guide to Construction | Bookcase | |
Game book | Party Pete's Bumper Book of Games | Bookcase | |
Security book | RuneScape Account Security | General store | |
Stronghold notes | Stronghold of Security - Notes | Searching Solztun's corpse in the Stronghold of Security | |
Abyssal book | Abyssal Research Notes | Speaking to the Mage of Zamorak after completing Enter the Abyss | |
Gianne's cook book | Gianne's Cook Book | Speaking to Aluft Gianne snr. | |
Cocktail guide | The Blurberry Cocktail Guide | Speaking to Blurberry | |
Queen help book | Queen Help (from Barbarian Assault) | Select The Final Battle tutorial with Captain Cain at Barbarian Assault | |
Diary | Witch's Diary | Witch's House quest | |
Instruction manual | Dwarf Multicannon Manual | Dwarf Cannon quest | |
Book on chemicals | Chemistry book from the Dig Site library | The Dig Site quest | |
Battered book | Book of the Elemental Shield | Elemental Workshop I quest | |
Varmen's notes | Notes from Varmen's expedition to Uzer | The Golem quest | |
Goblin symbol book | A History of the Goblin Race | The Lost Tribe quest | |
Translation | Four Diamonds translation | Desert Treasure quest | |
Translation book | Gnome-English Translation Dictionary | The Grand Tree quest | |
Glough's journal | Glough's Journal | The Grand Tree quest | |
Journal | Jossik's Diary (from the Lighthouse) | Horror from the Deep quest | |
Diary | Ancient Diary (from the Lighthouse) | Horror from the Deep quest | |
Manual | Lighthouse Manual | Horror from the Deep quest | |
Shamans tome | Shaman's Tome | Legends' Quest | |
Binding book | Book of Binding | Legends' Quest | |
Ghrim's book | Managing Thine Kingdom for Noobes | Speaking to Advisor Ghrim after completing Throne of Miscellania | |
Astronomy book | Astronomy Book | Table in the building north of the Observatory | |
Old journal | The Journal of Randas | Underground Pass quest | |
History of iban | The Tale of Iban | Underground Pass quest | |
Big book of bangs | Big Book o' Bangs | Regicide quest | |
Cadarn lineage | The Cadarn Lineage | Roving Elves quest | |
Crystal of seren | Crystal Singing for Beginners | Speaking to Ilfeen after completing Roving Elves | |
Diary | Diary of Herbi Flax | Shades of Mort'ton quest | |
Book | The Shield of Arrav | Shield of Arrav quest | |
Guide book | Tourist Guide to Ardougne | Table in the estate agent's building in East Ardougne | |
Book on baxtorian | Book on Baxtorian (The Missing Relics) | Waterfall Quest | |
Dwarven lore | The Arzinian Being of Bordanzan | Between a Rock... quest | |
Embalming manual | The Little Book of Embalming | Icthlarin's Little Helper quest | |
Demonic tome | The Confession of Ellemar | Shadow of the Storm quest | |
Crumbling tome | Legend of the Brothers | Table in the building just outside the Barrows | |
Book | The Ratpits Manual | Speaking to Felkrash after completing Ratcatchers | |
Edern's journal | Journal of Nissyen Edern | Mourning's Ends Part II quest | |
Prifddinas' history | The Creation of Prifddinas | Bookcases in Lletya | |
Eastern discovery | Exploration of the Eastern Realm | Bookcases in Lletya | |
Eastern settlement | Settlement of the East | Bookcases in Lletya | |
The great divide | The Great Divide | Bookcases in Lletya | |
Journal | Drozal's Journal | Making History quest | |
Moonclan manual | Basics of Magic (from Lunar Isle) | Baba Yaga's Magic Shop | |
Herman's book | Dionysius: A Legend in His Own Lifetime | Herman's desk in the Piscatoris Fishing Colony | |
Pie recipe book | Pie Recipe Book | Pie Shop | |
Book o' piracy | Book o' Piracy | Cabin Fever quest | |
Brewin' guide | Brewin' Guide | Trouble Brewing waiting lobby | |
Burnt diary | Armod's Burnt Diary | Royal Trouble quest | |
Arena book | Mage Training Arena Lore Book | Rewards Guardian | |
Sin'keth's diary | Sin'keth's journal | What Lies Below quest | |
Dagon'hai history | The Fall of the Dagon'hai | What Lies Below quest | |
Tarn's diary | The Diary of Tarn Razorlor | The Lair of Tarn Razorlor miniquest | |
Bird book | William Oddity's Guide to the Avian | Eagles' Peak quest | |
Feathered journal | The Journal of Arthur Artimus | Eagles' Peak quest | |
Farming manual | Farmer Gricoller's Farming Manual | My Arm's Big Adventure quest | |
Prayer book | Prayer of Deliverance from Poisons | The Great Brain Robbery quest | |
Beaten book | Book of the Elemental Helm | Elemental Workshop II quest | |
A handwritten book | Crystal Singing for Beginners (trans. Oaknock) | The Eyes of Glouphrie quest | |
Battered tome | Histories of Hallowland | In Aid of the Myreque quest | |
Leather book | Modern Day Morytania | In Aid of the Myreque quest | |
Ancient book | The Sleeping Seven | In Aid of the Myreque quest | |
Clockwork book | Clockwork Toys - A Clockwork Mechanism, Chapter 1.0 | Cold War quest | |
Goblin book | The Book of the Big High War God | Goblins | |
My notes | Records from my discoveries beneath the lake | Barbarian Training | |
Explorer's notes | Memoirs of a Dwarven Explorer | Keldagrim library | |
Glassblowing book | Glassblowing Book | Table in the building north of the Observatory | |
Entomologist's diary | Diary of Buggie the Entomologist | Buggie's corpse in the Kalphite Cave | |
Ohn's diary | Ohn's Diary | A crate east of High Priestess Zul-Harcinqa in Zul-Andra | |
Overseer's book | Overseer's book | Abyssal Nexus after having The Overseer create an abyssal bludgeon | |
Book of spyology | Book of Spyology | Monkey Madness II quest | |
Creature keeper's journal | Creature Keeper's Journal | Searching the creature keeper in the Chambers of Xeric | |
Nistirio's manifesto | Manifesto of Vasa Nistirio | Defeating Vasa Nistirio | |
Tekton's journal | Tekton's journal | Defeating Tekton | |
Transdimensional notes | Notes on Transdimentional Travel | Defeating Vespula | |
Vanguard judgement | Judgement of the Vanguard | Defeating the Vanguard | |
Dark journal | Dark journal | Defeating the Great Olm | |
Houndmaster's diary | Houndmaster's Diary | Defeating the muttadiles | |
Fossil island note book | Fossil Island Notebook | Bone Voyage quest | |
Archaeologist's diary | The Diary of Charles Charlington | Charles Charlington in the Tar Swamp | |
Ancient diary | Ancient Diary | Bottom floor of the House on the Hill | |
Varlamore envoy | The Envoy to Varlamore | The Depths of Despair quest | |
Aivas' diary | Diary of Aivas | Dragon Slayer II quest | |
Malumac's journal | Malumac's Journal | South-west corner of the Karamjan Temple | |
Ablenkian's escape | Ablenkian's Escape | Myths' Guild Library | |
Imcandoria's fall | The Fall of Imcandoria | Myths' Guild Library | |
Imafore's betrayal | Imafore's Betrayal | Myths' Guild Library | |
Lutwidge and the moonfly | Lutwidge and the Moonfly | Myths' Guild Library | |
Serafina | The Tale of Serafina | Myths' Guild Library | |
The weeping | The Weeping | Myths' Guild Library | |
Old diary | Old Diary | A Taste of Hope quest, search the bed in Serafina's home | |
Serafina's diary | Serafina's Diary | Grand bookshelves in Verzik Vitur's treasure vault | |
The butcher | The Butcher | Grand bookshelves in Verzik Vitur's treasure vault | |
Arachnids of vampyrium | Arachnids of Vampyrium | Grand bookshelves in Verzik Vitur's treasure vault | |
The shadow realm | The Shadow Realm | Grand bookshelves in Verzik Vitur's treasure vault | |
The wild hunt | The Wild Hunt | Grand bookshelves in Verzik Vitur's treasure vault | |
Verzik vitur - patient record | Verzik Vitur - Patient Record | Grand bookshelves in Verzik Vitur's treasure vault | |
Weiss fire notes | Odd Mushroom's Notes | Given by Snowflake during Making Friends with My Arm |
Inventory-only books[]
Having these books in your inventory, and using them on the bookcase gives this message: There doesn't seem to be space for that on the bookcase.
- God books
- Lift manual (Royal Trouble)
- Mage's book - reward from Mage Training Arena minigame
- Smelly journal obtained from the Fishing Hamlet
- Arceuus House Library texts (excluding Varlamore envoy)
- From the town of Slepe:
- From Wise Old Man's bookshelves:
- Kharedst's memoirs - reward from Client of Kourend
- Slashed book - After the quest, it will be found in the same house south of the Elemental Workshop in Seers' Village. The Battered book, however, can be found within the bookcase; use a knife on the Battered book to get the Slashed book. However, either book can be used in the Elemental Workshop to make a Elemental shield or Mind shield.
- Books given as rewards:
- Tome of experience - a reward from Darkness of Hallowvale quest. After the third reading: "The book crumbles into a dust cloud of knowledge."
- Book of knowledge - a reward from the Surprise Exam random event
Missing books[]
Some books obtained during certain quests do not appear in the bookcase:
- Journal (Filliman Tarlock) - Nature Spirit quest; obtained when searching the Nature Grotto, and is not available after the quest.
- Books obtained from Sithik Ints's bedroom drawers in the Yanille guest house north of the bank as part of the Zogre Flesh Eaters quest; no longer available after the quest.
- Book of haricanto from Ghosts Ahoy quest
- Book on costumes from The Giant Dwarf quest
- Silver book from Murder Mystery quest
- Translation manual from Ghosts Ahoy quest
- Haemalchemy from Darkness of Hallowvale quest
Unreadable books[]
Some books are unreadable and cannot be taken in the inventory. Some examples follow:
- From Wizards' Tower library, ground floor. Upon searching the bookcase: There's a large selection of books, the majority of which look fairly old. Some very strange names... You pick one at random:
- The Life & Times of a Thingummywut by Traiborn the Wizard
- Wind Strike for Beginners
- Life With a Wizard Husband ~ a Housewife's Story
- The Dark Arts of Magical Wands
- So You Think You're a Mage? Volume 28
- Fire, Earth and Water ~ What's it all About?
- How to become the Ultimate Wizard of the Universe
- 101 Ways to Impress Your Mates with Magic
- Interesting... - Only the titles of the books are mentioned, and the books have no image and cannot be read.
- There are 2 stacks of books outside Nickolaus' tent in the Hunter Woodland area north-west of Eagles' Peak. Upon examining: These books stacked very neatly.
- Flying Books, in the Mage Training Arena minigame.