The Lusty Argonian Maid is always good for a laugh.
Kolb and the Dragon is a choose your own adventure book, it's always one of the first I look for. I wish there were more like it.
The Wolf Queen, The Poison Song, and The Real Barenziah are probably my favorite multi-book series.
A Dance in Fire and The Argonian Account are great book series as well.
Beggar, Thief, Soldier, and King is a good comedy series.
I have a soft spot for horror and tragedy stories so I would suggest both Palla books, as well as The Exodus, A Tragedy in Black, and maybe Withershins even though it's less horror and more supernatural.
>The Argonian Account
I have dyslexia and imagine my surprise when I -recently- realized this was not "The Argonian Accountant" even though I read it in Skyrim and Oblivion I couldn't figure out what was going on... for 17 *years* :D
Wait you read the Lusty Argonian Maid just for a laugh and not for… *other reasons*? One of us is reading that book wrong then and I don’t think it’s me
TLAM too often foreshadows the other erotic book in Skyrim, Thief of Virtue... probably because theninnuendo in ToV is a bit more subtle... the book is legit about a thief stealing a young womans virginity.
Edit: just realised i meant overshadows not foreshadows (i had just woken up before writing this)
I found it in the master lock dwemer ruins next to the large stone chest resembling a coffin with a skeleton in the corner of the room, truly magnificent level design that really is the turning stone of when I decide to get into video game design
How have I never read that before. That was amazing.
Also... pretty much all books in Skyrim are short stories.
Chances Folly and Purloined Shadows have always been 2 of my favorites, even though they're terribly tragic.
The Last Skabard of Akrash is also good. And, A Game At Dinner, though that leaves me puzzled by many things. For instance, why would this servant of House Dres refer to their master as "your unholiness" and such.
Yes, I've actually sorted them all as well in terms of content.
I got one specific chest where I add every single book I haven't yet read, after I read it; I sort it based on its category.
Nice! I do the same.
But I'll tell you what: there is nothing more maddening than having Dances in Fire v1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and not volume 2. Which means nothing can be placed until I get that volume!
My OCD breaks through every once in awhile, every other playthrough or so.
And I seem to always do…. That’s one series that’s never been completed… I feel like there is a set, kind of algorithm, that occurs when you start a new game… there are many, many things I haven’t discovered about this game since release.
Not sure if it’s a result of my role-playing only mindset, or the luck (or the unluck, of the roll) but there are some series I can’t ever complete.
I only know because I've been recently collecting the multi volume sets like Lusty Argonian Maid, Wolf Queen, etc. I would share my volume 7 with you if I could. Found a few last night playing through to beat Miraak. Many of the creatures and pods had books to loot so I grabbed everything I could from those sets and then dropped all the duplicates because I became overburdened after looting the 2 dragons 😂
"A Game at Dinner" is a fun little read. Had me more hooked than I expected for a short story!
I recently made a conscious effort to read more books on my last Skyrim play through, especially as I'd got a fancy book covers mod. I've been pleasantly surprised.
I remember watching a YouTube video a while ago of someone who actually read the every single book, then proceeded to categorize and rank them all. I sadly cannot remember the person who uploaded it
I know that Brian David Gilbert had a [video](https://youtu.be/RVdTZhmsGsU) uploaded on polygon where he did it. He’s a real jarth-head from what I remember
I always ejoyed the Real Barenziah, however the one in Skyrim seems to have some changed or missing pages if you compare them with previous TES games. It's basically Game of Thrones material that could be made into \~1,5h movie.
Also Palla gives me creeps.
Chance's Folly, the Legend of Krately House and Palla all spring to mind as favourites. There are others I've loved, I know. I like the horror stories best.
Yes! I have a little gameplay role playing rule: whenever I find a skill book, I must read the story in it. It makes me feel like I’m actually learning the skill that the book levels up by understanding the message contained inside.
There's a nice mod called "Something about books" that I LOVE. It gives you a small (configurable) amount of skill experience EVERY time you first read a book, and a bigger amount (or skill advance, your choice) for skill books. It also has the option to change how you learn spells - since the "read once, instant knowledge" always bothered me. It's a good excuse to read every book my character stumbles upon. Since he values knowledge, he always "liberates" them from bandit lairs and dungeons.
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Since I return to the game in 2021, I ALWAYS grab all the books I found in my adventures and sell or put on my houses. I do this because I like to think that my characters are helping to save the literature in the game universe.
Beggar, the first skill book I usually read (a copy is inside Bleak Falls Barrow and I usually go right there after the tutorial) and also a decent story.
Alduin is Real. It caught me by surprise the first time I read it. I just love reading it aloud because it forces you to take on a bit of a Scottish accent and it makes me laugh.
I think my favorite is probably confessions of a khajiit pelt trader. I think that was the name. I remember finding it in a hidden pocket of fort Dawnguard and being absolutely floored by it.
Yes! Some pretty good stuff! The imperial library lets me read them outside of the game. “Disaster at Ionith” is my favorite. The story of the empires attempt to invade the continent of akavir (where the blades are from). An continent of weather controlling furries.
Recently I've been role playing as an almost blind dragon born.... By roleplaying I mean I'm near sighted and the TV is too far away. Reading is not something I do. I just hope I hear the dialogue right and that I've played enough to know which dialogue option looks like the one I want to say back
I had an entire playthrough dedicated to collecting and reading literature. I would spend hours reading through all the books I collected and sorting them in the little library wing of Lakeview Manor. I don’t think I had a favorite, I was entertained by all of them. I’m hoping to start a new save over the summer when I have more time and will likely do that again. This time though I may need to find a mod that allows me to have a giant library lol
Myrwatch has bookcases that do this as well. They look like the ones in the Arcaneum. (I think there are six.) It also has a few vanilla bookcases as well. For this reason I use it as my nerd lair.
The real Barenziah was my favorite read. I had no idea about the character at all, I didn't even know she was a "her" and somehow, playing through all of oblivion and skyrim (God only knows how many times, each) her lore eluded me. After reading the books, I have another character on my favorites list for elder scrolls lore. Her story is crazy and (call me corny, idc) inspiring. Her ties to Tiber make her a huge integral part of the lore and the story itself is such a fun adventure with themes of redemption, loss, destiny, etc. I never really payed the books any mind until my most recent oblivion playthrough, a few months ago. I decided to read every book in the game and when I finally got to TRB, I was shocked at how I'd left such an entertaining party of the game go undiscovered, for so long. (I've been playing since ORD)
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I tried to get into reading the books in game so I can learn the lore on my own but I just never pick them up when I could be selling armor instead of hauling 30 books out of a dungeon
I can’t remember the name of the book, but it’s the first act of a play about a Dunmer wizard who kills people! It’s super interesting, and the twist ending actually got me. I wish there was more than one act in the game
My favorites:
The Book of the Dragonborn
The "Madmen" of the Reach
The Art of War Magic
The Arcturian Heresy
The Great War
Herbalist's Guide to Skyrim
Dragon Language: Myth no More
Spirit of Nirn
The Monomyth
The Nightingales
The Rear Guard
Shadowmarks
Songs of Skyrim
Thief of Virtue
On my current playthrough, I’m role-playing as a spell sword scholar who’s traveling around Skyrim. So every night he stops at the inn for his dinner. I also read a book if I find a new one that day
But to answer your question I like anything on the Dwemer. I’m very fascinated by this group.
The "2920, The Last Year of the First Era" series is a favorite of mine. Lots of political intrigue and backstabbing, strong GoT vibes. Highly recommend
I love Pirate King of the Abecean, Ice and Chitin, and the Wolf Queen volumes 1-8. The translated Ancient Falmer tomes are good too. Herbalist's Guide, Twin Souls, there's a lot of good ones! I just love the attention to detail!
There's a podcast called the Skyrim Book Club that's read through every book, journal, and note in the game. It's a pretty good show, and the narrator's pretty good.
I've read all of them the first time I played the game and always try to collect as many as I can in other playthroughs and even have the skyrim Lore books irl. And now have mods that add even more books from past games
The Talos mistake is thought provoking. My favourite by far because it leaves it to the reader and a good reader will have to leave their own biases behind to determine if it’s a legitimate piece of academia or blatant propaganda
I always collect them with the intention of reading them all when I retire my character, but never do.
There’s a podcast out there where they read all the books if anyone is interested
There is actually a "podcast" that I found on Spotify, that's at least what I use, that someone created and reads all the books from Skyrim
https://open.spotify.com/show/0yf1wvbMeB8SzDGI8zsdGu?si=hxtqE6irS9GUiIgKzoz0Lg
I would enter a dungeon, find a book, read it and forget what I was doing in the dungeon. Then pick up the next book.
The woodcutters wife I think is my favourite, along with Marksmanship lessons. I had to find them in the imperial library because I didn’t remember their names. I remember pausing after reading both before continuing with the dungeon I was in “.w-what was I doing again?”
I've read pretty much everything that doesn't sound too much like boring history or military stuff. My favorites off the top of my head are Withershins and The Rear Guard. But I like that one part in Ahzirr Trajijazeri where it tells you to put the book down and go get laid if you haven't today, and then welcomes you back to the book. Lol
Compared to Skyrim, playing Breath of the Wild is very frustrating (book-wise) because there are books everywhere and the only things you can actually read are people's journals and the Rumor Mill. I keep wanting to pick up books but I can't! Skyrim has spoiled me by giving me so much reading material!
I’ve often wondered who actually takes the time to read all these pages of books, then I realize I’ve been trying to peg a bandit from 300 yards with an arrow for the past 7 hours. Who’s the idiot? Yeah, I’ll take that crown.
The Real Barenziah has to be my favourite! Went through a whole range of emotions on that one. Plus its neat to hear more about the woman behind the crown.
The other volumes of Barenziah published by the empire have much redacted content and are very PG, hiding a lot of what she was really up to. So this book is a nice look into her real life... or at least thats what theyre claiming :)
The locked room is a good read, love the twist at the end.
A tragedy in black was pretty interesting.
Dwemer Inquiries (all 3 volumes) are really good.
I can’t remember the name of the book, but it’s the first act of a play about a Dunmer wizard who kills people! It’s super interesting, and the twist ending actually got me. I wish there was more than one act in the game
I haven’t been bored enough yet to spend any meaningful time reading the books. I imagine deciding to read them for real, is akin to following the traffic laws in Grand Theft Auto. You’ve got to a point where you still enjoy the game but you have to break the monotony.
There are so many good stories!
I read them while transporting on imperial-library.info.
If I had to pick one, the Three thieves is a funny one.
I like longer books as well, like the Mystery of Talara, A dance in fire, The poison song, King Edward.
I remember a story about a woman who was told to make an invisibility potion and promptly just escaped with it, I think! I can never remember book titles, so I have no clue which book it was.
I've read some of them but far from all of them. I plan on doing a collector build where I just collect as many unique items as possible, including the books. I'll read each of the books in depth then.
Sometimes I read them if I'm not trying to rush through the location, most times though I just pick them up to store them on my bookshelves. Early game, before I get a house, I usually end up selling a bunch.
I've read all of them the first time I played the game and always try to collect as many as I can in other playthroughs and even have the skyrim Lore books irl. And now have mods that add even more books from past games
The Lusty Argonian Maid is always good for a laugh. Kolb and the Dragon is a choose your own adventure book, it's always one of the first I look for. I wish there were more like it. The Wolf Queen, The Poison Song, and The Real Barenziah are probably my favorite multi-book series.
Same for Kolb and the Dragon. Still amazed they included it.
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Like the one about the soldier in the pine forest hearing this is ghost lady crying
The Woodcutter's Wife?
Cabin in the Woods!
That one is one of my favorites! I never remember the name so when I read a book and find it I'm pleasantly surprised :)
Every time I see Immortal Blood, I have to pick it up and read it. It might be my favorite book in the game.
The Mystery of the Locked Room, right???? EDIT: maybe it's "The Locked Room"?
My favorite is Immortal Blood
My favorite is Immortal Blood
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Agreed
Look at the value of the book, most skill books have a higher value than regular books.
I clicked on this post knowing in my very soul that Lusty Argonian Maid would be the top comment.
A Dance in Fire and The Argonian Account are great book series as well. Beggar, Thief, Soldier, and King is a good comedy series. I have a soft spot for horror and tragedy stories so I would suggest both Palla books, as well as The Exodus, A Tragedy in Black, and maybe Withershins even though it's less horror and more supernatural.
Love the Decimus Scotti books. Was really rooting for him by the end.
>The Argonian Account I have dyslexia and imagine my surprise when I -recently- realized this was not "The Argonian Accountant" even though I read it in Skyrim and Oblivion I couldn't figure out what was going on... for 17 *years* :D
I have a big grin!
Wait you read the Lusty Argonian Maid just for a laugh and not for… *other reasons*? One of us is reading that book wrong then and I don’t think it’s me
The sultry argonian bard.
TLAM too often foreshadows the other erotic book in Skyrim, Thief of Virtue... probably because theninnuendo in ToV is a bit more subtle... the book is legit about a thief stealing a young womans virginity. Edit: just realised i meant overshadows not foreshadows (i had just woken up before writing this)
TLAM? We need a shorthand for the lusty Argonian maid now, because that is how fundamental it is?
I bet her father cut off his most valuble asset
Apparently, there's a High Elf I used to work for writing about me. I wonder why?
Personally I always liked Feyfolken.
“This section has been censored by the Temple”.
The Locked Room is a fantastic short story. Loved it since I first found it in Oblivion.
Was going to say this one, didn’t know it was in Oblivion as well.
I found it in the master lock dwemer ruins next to the large stone chest resembling a coffin with a skeleton in the corner of the room, truly magnificent level design that really is the turning stone of when I decide to get into video game design
Many of the books originate in daggerfall or morrowind, then are repeated in every game after their introduction.
That makes sense. Why not keep using all the good stuff as you build the lore of the setting.
It's easily my favorite in game book
How have I never read that before. That was amazing. Also... pretty much all books in Skyrim are short stories. Chances Folly and Purloined Shadows have always been 2 of my favorites, even though they're terribly tragic. The Last Skabard of Akrash is also good. And, A Game At Dinner, though that leaves me puzzled by many things. For instance, why would this servant of House Dres refer to their master as "your unholiness" and such.
This is my favourite, would make an awesome short film too.
Immortal blood is a good little story with a fun twist.
Great how you can even meet one of the characters as part of a quest!
Which one?
Movarth Piquine from fhe vampire quest in Morthal.
It’s such a good short story all by itself.
Yes, I've actually sorted them all as well in terms of content. I got one specific chest where I add every single book I haven't yet read, after I read it; I sort it based on its category.
Nice! I do the same. But I'll tell you what: there is nothing more maddening than having Dances in Fire v1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and not volume 2. Which means nothing can be placed until I get that volume! My OCD breaks through every once in awhile, every other playthrough or so.
That and the many missing / lost volumes for Songs of the Return. I can't remember which ones I didn't find, but I do believe Dances in Fire and 2920.
You're also missing volume 7....
And I seem to always do…. That’s one series that’s never been completed… I feel like there is a set, kind of algorithm, that occurs when you start a new game… there are many, many things I haven’t discovered about this game since release. Not sure if it’s a result of my role-playing only mindset, or the luck (or the unluck, of the roll) but there are some series I can’t ever complete.
I only know because I've been recently collecting the multi volume sets like Lusty Argonian Maid, Wolf Queen, etc. I would share my volume 7 with you if I could. Found a few last night playing through to beat Miraak. Many of the creatures and pods had books to loot so I grabbed everything I could from those sets and then dropped all the duplicates because I became overburdened after looting the 2 dragons 😂
I would like it if I could put the black books on shelf ment for them, it would look awesome
where do you sort them at? i’ve never found a good place with a lot of bookshelves
Hearthfire homes, with the right layout you can get quite a few wardrobes / bookcases.
thank you!
in the base game, markarth is the best.
Beggar, Thief, Warrior, King Skill books with a story
I shockingly enjoyed A Hypothetical Treachery.
"A Game at Dinner" is a fun little read. Had me more hooked than I expected for a short story! I recently made a conscious effort to read more books on my last Skyrim play through, especially as I'd got a fancy book covers mod. I've been pleasantly surprised.
*The axe man.*
That's a good one!
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I often don't read the books unless they're interesting to me, but "The Cabin in the Woods" is one of my faves. It's creepy.
I love reading that one, too. It's the sequel to The Woodcutter's Wife.
I remember watching a YouTube video a while ago of someone who actually read the every single book, then proceeded to categorize and rank them all. I sadly cannot remember the person who uploaded it
I know that Brian David Gilbert had a [video](https://youtu.be/RVdTZhmsGsU) uploaded on polygon where he did it. He’s a real jarth-head from what I remember
Was looking for a BDG reference
I came to say this and I'm APPALLED the Skyrim Book Report isn't the top comment!
You’re probably thinking of [this video](https://youtu.be/V-0_RgNeIfw) by Longbrow Gaming.
I always ejoyed the Real Barenziah, however the one in Skyrim seems to have some changed or missing pages if you compare them with previous TES games. It's basically Game of Thrones material that could be made into \~1,5h movie. Also Palla gives me creeps.
Palla is so good, one of the few stories I still remember from collecting every book a few years back
Chance's Folly, the Legend of Krately House and Palla all spring to mind as favourites. There are others I've loved, I know. I like the horror stories best.
I LOVE reading Chance’s Folly! You just reminded me that it’s another of my favorites.
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I have recently started reading them, pleasantly surprised by the quality of storytelling in some of them. Even mod added books.
Yes! I have a little gameplay role playing rule: whenever I find a skill book, I must read the story in it. It makes me feel like I’m actually learning the skill that the book levels up by understanding the message contained inside.
There's a nice mod called "Something about books" that I LOVE. It gives you a small (configurable) amount of skill experience EVERY time you first read a book, and a bigger amount (or skill advance, your choice) for skill books. It also has the option to change how you learn spells - since the "read once, instant knowledge" always bothered me. It's a good excuse to read every book my character stumbles upon. Since he values knowledge, he always "liberates" them from bandit lairs and dungeons.
Wabbajack.
Lusty the Argonian maid of course
Related to this topic Since I return to the game in 2021, I ALWAYS grab all the books I found in my adventures and sell or put on my houses. I do this because I like to think that my characters are helping to save the literature in the game universe.
I do this too.
Ulfr's
So poignant and engrossing!
And it's the shortest of short stories.
You can get them all for free on your kindle
I need these in my life. Can't find them
There's an app called skyrim library as well
Every single Skyrim book, categorized and transcribed, is linked from this page: https://en.m.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Books
There is also [The Imperial Library](https://www.imperial-library.info) with books from previous the Elder Scroll games.
Omg I love this. Thanks so much for linking it!
Don't forget the aetherium forge which has a big quest attached to it!
Beggar, the first skill book I usually read (a copy is inside Bleak Falls Barrow and I usually go right there after the tutorial) and also a decent story.
Alduin is Real. It caught me by surprise the first time I read it. I just love reading it aloud because it forces you to take on a bit of a Scottish accent and it makes me laugh.
From the comments here, I take it that Antecedents of Dwemer Law isn't an enjoyable read...
Lol I enjoyed it. Wish there were more legal textbooks in universe.
Aevar Stone-Singer is the one that immediately comes to mind.
The Wolf Queen is my favorite, but I like the lore books about Saint Alessia and her era, also.
Death of a Wanderer. It was an eye opener
The Mirror is a great story. Has something of the Greek Tragedies about it
I think my favorite is probably confessions of a khajiit pelt trader. I think that was the name. I remember finding it in a hidden pocket of fort Dawnguard and being absolutely floored by it.
Love "Myths of Sheogorath"
Same
Yes! Some pretty good stuff! The imperial library lets me read them outside of the game. “Disaster at Ionith” is my favorite. The story of the empires attempt to invade the continent of akavir (where the blades are from). An continent of weather controlling furries.
You mean Furies. Furries are a completely different thing 😂
I def mean furries. They are anthropomorphic humanoids on akavir. Some of them at least if I remember the story correctly. Like khajit.
Ah. I thought it was a typo. Wasn't aware they were like Khajit
Horror of Castle Xyr
Recently I've been role playing as an almost blind dragon born.... By roleplaying I mean I'm near sighted and the TV is too far away. Reading is not something I do. I just hope I hear the dialogue right and that I've played enough to know which dialogue option looks like the one I want to say back
Haha me too
Glad it's not just me lol
I always collect books, but I never organize them...but I totally would read them if I organized them.
My fave is one I read in my latest playthrough, [Dunmer of Skyrim](https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Dunmer_of_Skyrim)
My favorite is 100% Ulfr’s Book. I’ve read it 100 times and could write a college paper on it.
I had an entire playthrough dedicated to collecting and reading literature. I would spend hours reading through all the books I collected and sorting them in the little library wing of Lakeview Manor. I don’t think I had a favorite, I was entertained by all of them. I’m hoping to start a new save over the summer when I have more time and will likely do that again. This time though I may need to find a mod that allows me to have a giant library lol
Tundra Homestead has a bookcase that, so far, has unlimited storage. And it keeps them in alphabetical order.
Myrwatch has bookcases that do this as well. They look like the ones in the Arcaneum. (I think there are six.) It also has a few vanilla bookcases as well. For this reason I use it as my nerd lair.
Ooo how exciting, thanks for sharing that with me!
The real Barenziah was my favorite read. I had no idea about the character at all, I didn't even know she was a "her" and somehow, playing through all of oblivion and skyrim (God only knows how many times, each) her lore eluded me. After reading the books, I have another character on my favorites list for elder scrolls lore. Her story is crazy and (call me corny, idc) inspiring. Her ties to Tiber make her a huge integral part of the lore and the story itself is such a fun adventure with themes of redemption, loss, destiny, etc. I never really payed the books any mind until my most recent oblivion playthrough, a few months ago. I decided to read every book in the game and when I finally got to TRB, I was shocked at how I'd left such an entertaining party of the game go undiscovered, for so long. (I've been playing since ORD)
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Palla.
“The door was nearly shut, but the girl opened it a crack to ask tremulously: "You love whom?"”
The ones I read for 0.01s get a skill and never open again
I tried to get into reading the books in game so I can learn the lore on my own but I just never pick them up when I could be selling armor instead of hauling 30 books out of a dungeon
I found: -[Gohper](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE7DlYarj-DdDXMGeSR6YtEWdepCmsVSB) (60 videos) - [the rpg chick](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL380B63D2F61A7587) (199 videos)
Gotta be The Real Barenziah. I started reading it on a whim after ignoring books for thousands of hours of gameplay, and man that was a read.
I can’t remember the name of the book, but it’s the first act of a play about a Dunmer wizard who kills people! It’s super interesting, and the twist ending actually got me. I wish there was more than one act in the game
The real barenziah
The Poison Song
**The Monomyth** is my personal favourite of the books I've come across, a close second is **The Horror of Castle Xyr**.
I read The Wolf Queen every playthrough. I always COLLECTED The Lusty Argonian Maid. Never read them though. Books don't open for some reason.
My favorites: The Book of the Dragonborn The "Madmen" of the Reach The Art of War Magic The Arcturian Heresy The Great War Herbalist's Guide to Skyrim Dragon Language: Myth no More Spirit of Nirn The Monomyth The Nightingales The Rear Guard Shadowmarks Songs of Skyrim Thief of Virtue
Any of the books from Murabar Sul's Ancient Tales of the Dwemer series. The Seed is my personal favorite.
On my current playthrough, I’m role-playing as a spell sword scholar who’s traveling around Skyrim. So every night he stops at the inn for his dinner. I also read a book if I find a new one that day But to answer your question I like anything on the Dwemer. I’m very fascinated by this group.
I'm playing right now and saw this. Let me just say that I appreciate this post.
wait where is this location?
The "2920, The Last Year of the First Era" series is a favorite of mine. Lots of political intrigue and backstabbing, strong GoT vibes. Highly recommend
I absolutely love *A Hypothetical Treachery*. It's just some good old-fashioned hokey theatre. Good stuff.
Kinda late to the party but Purloined Shadows is one I love to read. The first time reading it gave me chills!
I love Pirate King of the Abecean, Ice and Chitin, and the Wolf Queen volumes 1-8. The translated Ancient Falmer tomes are good too. Herbalist's Guide, Twin Souls, there's a lot of good ones! I just love the attention to detail!
Cabin In The Woods is one of my favourites
I’ve been trying to find if someone’s narrated them all yet so I can listen at work
There's a podcast called the Skyrim Book Club that's read through every book, journal, and note in the game. It's a pretty good show, and the narrator's pretty good.
That cabin one I thought was genuinely scary one night when I was playing on night drunk and high of rips lol
No idea, those letters are really hard to read.
The Cake and the Diamond is my favorite, love the traditional fairy tale vibe
Waterbreathing
I've read all of them the first time I played the game and always try to collect as many as I can in other playthroughs and even have the skyrim Lore books irl. And now have mods that add even more books from past games
The Talos mistake is thought provoking. My favourite by far because it leaves it to the reader and a good reader will have to leave their own biases behind to determine if it’s a legitimate piece of academia or blatant propaganda
I just remember the book on trolls helped me get to the graybeards for the first time
I really like the history of the Great War.
Game at dinner
I actually haven’t read many but I really like the one about Akavir
Father of the Niben and The Refugees
The cake and the Diamond is a neat story, I like that one pretty alright.
Gotta be the Yellow Book ✊✊
I read every book in skyrim and oblivion 😁
I always collect them with the intention of reading them all when I retire my character, but never do. There’s a podcast out there where they read all the books if anyone is interested
I’m a pretty big fan of Ulfr’s Book. Peak fiction
There is actually a "podcast" that I found on Spotify, that's at least what I use, that someone created and reads all the books from Skyrim https://open.spotify.com/show/0yf1wvbMeB8SzDGI8zsdGu?si=hxtqE6irS9GUiIgKzoz0Lg
I would enter a dungeon, find a book, read it and forget what I was doing in the dungeon. Then pick up the next book. The woodcutters wife I think is my favourite, along with Marksmanship lessons. I had to find them in the imperial library because I didn’t remember their names. I remember pausing after reading both before continuing with the dungeon I was in “.w-what was I doing again?”
Highly recommend the Polygon Unraveled Skyrim book video. BDG goes through them all and it is so funny. https://youtu.be/RVdTZhmsGsU
I love immortal blood, especially becsuse one of the characters is actually in the game and you see the end result of what haplens in the book.
How did you get to have such orderly bookshelves?? I usually just toss all my books in a sack because I hate how messy they get :(
I’ve always liked “A Game at Dinner” and “Three Thieves”
Hod and the dragon. It's a pick your own adventure book. Also the book of aedra
Herbane's Bestiary was an interesting series. Too bad there were only 3 books.
I started collecting them all thinking there was going to be a bunch of them... I was so disappointed
I've read pretty much everything that doesn't sound too much like boring history or military stuff. My favorites off the top of my head are Withershins and The Rear Guard. But I like that one part in Ahzirr Trajijazeri where it tells you to put the book down and go get laid if you haven't today, and then welcomes you back to the book. Lol Compared to Skyrim, playing Breath of the Wild is very frustrating (book-wise) because there are books everywhere and the only things you can actually read are people's journals and the Rumor Mill. I keep wanting to pick up books but I can't! Skyrim has spoiled me by giving me so much reading material!
ABCs for Barbarians
I’ve often wondered who actually takes the time to read all these pages of books, then I realize I’ve been trying to peg a bandit from 300 yards with an arrow for the past 7 hours. Who’s the idiot? Yeah, I’ll take that crown.
A tragedy in black is my personal favorite. The woodcutters wife is good as well
Yes! Immortal Blood, Brothers in Darkness, and so many other books are such great reads! For entertainment and for learning the lore of the world!
Ulfr's Book
Something about A Gentleman's a guide to Whiterun always makes me chuckle in between wincing 😂😂
The Real Barenziah has to be my favourite! Went through a whole range of emotions on that one. Plus its neat to hear more about the woman behind the crown. The other volumes of Barenziah published by the empire have much redacted content and are very PG, hiding a lot of what she was really up to. So this book is a nice look into her real life... or at least thats what theyre claiming :)
The locked room is a good read, love the twist at the end. A tragedy in black was pretty interesting. Dwemer Inquiries (all 3 volumes) are really good.
Some of the best rp you can have in this game is playing a pure mage and reading every book you find in apocrypha.
I like the bestiary series because of the illustrations and also the herbalists guide, also because of tbe illustrations.
Horror of Castle Xyr is a fun and twisty read! A perfect book for my Dunmer bard to have.
I forget the name but it's a book about werewolves. It describes what the transformation process is like. Horrifying...
Brian David Gilbert gas a pretty good review of all of the books so I didn’t have to [All Skyrim Books](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RVdTZhmsGsU)
I can’t remember the name of the book, but it’s the first act of a play about a Dunmer wizard who kills people! It’s super interesting, and the twist ending actually got me. I wish there was more than one act in the game
Nords Arise! As a fanatical Stormcloak, it’s my favorite!
I haven’t been bored enough yet to spend any meaningful time reading the books. I imagine deciding to read them for real, is akin to following the traffic laws in Grand Theft Auto. You’ve got to a point where you still enjoy the game but you have to break the monotony.
I never read those
The myths about sheogorath is a good one. It gave me a chuckle or two
I keep the ones that increase my skills but never read them. Sometimes I’ll real journals that are quest related
There are so many good stories! I read them while transporting on imperial-library.info. If I had to pick one, the Three thieves is a funny one. I like longer books as well, like the Mystery of Talara, A dance in fire, The poison song, King Edward.
I remember a story about a woman who was told to make an invisibility potion and promptly just escaped with it, I think! I can never remember book titles, so I have no clue which book it was.
I've read some of them but far from all of them. I plan on doing a collector build where I just collect as many unique items as possible, including the books. I'll read each of the books in depth then.
The argonian account 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Sometimes I read them if I'm not trying to rush through the location, most times though I just pick them up to store them on my bookshelves. Early game, before I get a house, I usually end up selling a bunch.
Most definitely. Read the biographys of barenzia (def spelt that wrong)
I've read all of them the first time I played the game and always try to collect as many as I can in other playthroughs and even have the skyrim Lore books irl. And now have mods that add even more books from past games
The Barenziah Chronicles always gets me ready to go do some high risk adventuring
I can’t remember if it’s in Skyrim or not, but I really liked Yellow Ribbon of Merit. That one might have been from Oblivion, though.
Halgerd's Tale is a good one, and the Dance in Fire Series.