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Shalidor's Library is a collection of 297 books that becomes available once the Mages Guild has been joined. Reading one of these books grants reputation points towards your rank in the guild, while reading all books in a collection gives you a large boost in your guild reputation. Some of these books are tied to a specific zone, while others can be found all around Tamriel, usually in 3 to 5 locations, and even in the DLC zones. Every time a book is read, it is added to the library and can be read at any time by accessing the game menu.

Once a collection has been completed, reprints of these books can be bought from Mystics. These serve as furnishing items and can be placed in your home and read at any time. It should be noted that reading guild reprint books do not increase your Mages Guild level in the same way reading books found out in the world do.

Many books are anachronistic and were not actually written until the future. This is explained with places like Gandranen Ruins, which pulls books from across time.

Upon completing the Mages Guild quest line, another collection called the Eidetic Memory is unlocked. This library lists all the remaining books, letters, and notes not included in Shalidor's Library.


Alik'r Desert Lore[edit]

Title Author Description Location
Motalion Necropolis Report
Redguards, History and Heroes, V. 1
Redguards, History and Heroes, V. 2
Redguards, History and Heroes, V. 3
Sacrilege and Mayhem in the Alik'r
The Salas En Expedition
Sentinel, the Jewel of Alik'r
Tu'whacca's Prayer
Varieties of Faith, Crown Redguards
Varieties of Faith, The Forebears


Auridon Lore[edit]

Title Author Description Location
Crimes of the Daggerfall Covenant
Fang of the Sea Vipers
Kinlord Rilis and the Mages Guild
The Lay of Firsthold
Life in the Eagle's Shadow
Regarding the Ebonheart Pact
The Rise of Queen Ayrenn
Thalmor Handbill
Varieties of Faith: The High Elves
Why Don the Veil?


Bangkorai Lore[edit]

Title Author Description Location
Aspects of Lord Hircine
Bangkorai, Shield of High Rock
The Glenmoril Wyrd
The Legend of Fallen Grotto
A Life Barbaric and Brutal
Living with Lycanthropy
The Posting of the Hunt
The True-Told Tale of Hallin, Pt. 1
The True-Told Tale of Hallin, Pt. 2
The Viridian Sentinel


Biographies[edit]

Title Author Description Location
Ayrenn: The Unforeseen Queen
Galerion the Mystic
Great Harbingers of the Companions
Jorunn the Skald-King
The All-Beneficent King Fahara'jad
The Illusion of Death
Trials of Saint Alessia
Triumphs of a Monarch, Ch. 3
Triumphs of a Monarch, Ch. 6
Triumphs of a Monarch, Ch. 10

Coldharbour Lore[edit]

Title Author Description Location
A Life of Strife and Struggle
The Black Forge
Chaotic Creatia: The Azure Plasm
Exegesis of Merid-Nunda
I was Summoned by a Mortal
The Library of Dusk: Rare Books
The Lightless Oubliette
Oath of a Dishonored Clan
Protocols of the Court of Contempt


The Whithering of Delodiil


Daedric Princes[edit]

Title Author Description Location
Aedra and Daedra
Boethiah's Proving
Fragmentae Abyssum Hermaeus Morus
Invocation of Azura
Modern Heretics
Opusculus Lamae Bal ta Mezzamortie
The Dreamstride
The House of Troubles
The Spawn of Molag Bal
The Totems of Hircine

Deshaan Lore[edit]

Title Author Description Location
Dark Ruins
Dwemer Dungeons: What I Know
The Judgment of Saint Veloth
Kwama Mining for Fun and Profit
Legend of the Ghost Snake
The Living Gods
A Pocket Guide to Mournhold
Sanctioned Murder
Shad Astula Academy Handbook
War of Two Houses


Divines and Deities[edit]

Title Author Description Location
Gods and Worship in Tamriel
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Monomyth: "Shezarr's Song"
A theological book containing the common creation myths Deshaan:

Stormhaven:

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Monomyth: Dragon God & Missing God
Excerpt of a theological book containing the common creation myths Auridon:

Glenumbra:

Stonefalls:

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Monomyth: Lorkhan and Satakal
Excerpt of a theological book containing the common creation myths Cyrodiil:

Deshaan:

Grahtwood:

Stormhaven:

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Monomyth: The Heart of the World
A theological book containing the Altmer creation myths Greenshade:

Rivenspire:

Shadowfen:

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Monomyth: The Myth of Aurbis
Excerpt of a theological book containing the common creation myths Deshaan:

Grahtwood:

Stormhaven:

Nine Commands of the Eight Divines
The Anuad Paraphrased
The Lunar Lorkhan
Vivec and Mephala

Dungeon Lore[edit]

Title Author Description Location
Arx Corinium: First Seed Report
Burning Vestige, Vol. I
Civility and Etiquette V. 5: Undead
Civility and Etiquette: Wood Orcs I
Josef the Intolerant
Soul-Trapping I: An Introduction
Tempest Island Briefing
The Art of Kwama Egg Cooking
The Binding Stone
The Thief God's Treasures
To All Who Pass Through
To Posterity
War Weather
Wayrest Sewers: A Short History
What is Volendrung?
Where Magical Paths Meet
With Regards to the Ebony Blade

Dwemer[edit]

Title Author Description Location
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Ancient Scrolls of the Dwemer, I-A
Marobar Sul How a boy escapes his kidnappers Stonefalls:

Auridon:

Glenumbra:

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Ancient Scrolls of the Dwemer I-B
Marobar Sul How a boy escapes his kidnappers
Ancient Scrolls of the Dwemer II
Ancient Scrolls of the Dwemer III
Ancient Scrolls of the Dwemer IV
Ancient Scrolls of the Dwemer V
Ancient Scrolls of the Dwemer VI
Ancient Scrolls of the Dwemer VIII
Ancient Scrolls of the Dwemer X
Ancient Scrolls of the Dwemer XI
Antecedents of Dwemer Law
Dwarven Automatons
Dwemer Inquiries Volume I
Dwemer Inquiries Volume II
Dwemer Inquiries Volume III
Guylaine's Dwemer Architecture

Eastmarch Lore[edit]

Title Author Description Location
All About Giants
The Brothers' War
The Crown of Freydis
Dreamwalkers
On Stepping Lightly
Orcs of Skyrim
Second Invasion: Reports
Spirits of Skyrim
The Stormfist Clan
The Ternion Monks


Glenumbra Lore[edit]

Title Author Description Location
The Code of Mauloch
Guide to the Daggerfall Covenant
Schemes of the Reachmage
True Heirs of the Empire
The True Nature of Orcs
Varieties of Faith: The Bretons
Varieties of Faith: The Orcs
A Warning to the Aldmeri Dominion
The Werewolf's Hide
Wyresses: The Name-Daughters


Grahtwood Lore[edit]

Title Author Description Location
Aurbic Enigma 4: The Elden Tree
Ayleid Survivals in Valenwood
The Book of the Great Tree
Common Arms of Valenwood
The Devouring of Gil-Var-Delle
In the Company of Wood Orcs
The Legend of Vastarie
Varieties of Faith: The Khajiit
Varieties of Faith: The Wood Elves
War Customs of the Tribal Bosmer


Greenshade Lore[edit]

Title Author Description Location
The Eldest: A Pilgrim's Tale
Gifts of the Nereids
The Green Pact and the Dominion
The Ooze: A Fable
Visions of the Green Pact Bosmer
The Wilderking Legend
The Wood Elf Gourmet, Ch. 1
Woodhearth: A Pocket Guide
Words of Clan Mother Ahnissi, Pt. 1
Words of Clan Mother Ahnissi, Pt. 2


Legends of Nirn[edit]

Title Author Description Location
An Accounting of the Elder Scrolls
Tamrielic Artifacts, Part One
Tamrielic Artifacts, Part Two
Tamrielic Artifacts, Part Three
The Adabal-a
The Amulet of Kings
The Cleansing of the Fane
The Exclusionary Mandates
The Last King of the Ayleids
The Order of the Ancestor Moth

Literature[edit]

Title Author Description Location
16 Accords of Madness, Vol. VI
Crow and Raven: Three Short Fables
Myths of Sheogorath, Volume 1
Myths of Sheogorath, Volume 2
The Homilies of Blessed Almalexia
The Legendary Scourge
The Lusty Argonian Maid, Volume 1
The Lusty Argonian Maid, Volume 2
The Red Book of Riddles
Wabbajack

Magic and Magicka[edit]

Title Author Description Location
Arcana Restored
Guild Memo on Soul-Trapping
Liminal Bridges
Magic from the Sky
Manual of Spellcraft
On the Detachment of the Sheath
Proposal: Schools of Magic
Reality and Other Falsehoods
The Old Ways
Wayshrines of Tamriel

Malabal Tor Lore[edit]

Title Author Description Location
Ayleid Cities of Valenwood
Green Lady, My Lady
The Humor of Wood Elves
A Nereid Stole My Husband
Pirates of the Abecean
The Red Paint
Valenwood: A Study
The Voice of the People
The Wedding Feast: A Memoir
The Woodsmer


Myths of the Mundus[edit]

Title Author Description Location
A Werewolf's Confession
Before the Ages of Man: Dawn Era
Before the Ages of Man: Merethic Era
Ebony Blade History
Noxiphilic Sanguivoria
Ruminations on the Elder Scrolls
Sithis
The Consecrations of Arkay
The Firmament
The Pig Children

Oblivion Lore[edit]

Title Author Description Location
Darkest Darkness
On Oblivion
On the Nature of Coldharbour
Spirit of the Daedra
The Book of Daedra
The Doors of Oblivion, Part 1
The Doors of Oblivion, Part 2
The Slave Pits of Coldharbour
Varieties of Daedra, Part 1
Varieties of Daedra, Part 2

Poetry and Song[edit]

Title Author Description Location
Flesh to Cut from Bone
Ode to the Tundrastriders
Proper-Life: Three Chants
Song of the Askelde Men
The Battle of Glenumbria Moors
The Book of Dawn and Dusk
The Cantatas of Vivec
The Five Far Stars
The Warrior's Charge
Words of the Wind

Reaper's March Lore[edit]

Title Author Description Location
Cohort Briefing: Arenthia
The Eagle and the Cat
Elven Eyes, Elven Spies
Litter-Mates of Darkness
A Looter's Paradise
Master Zoaraym's Tale, Part 1
Master Zoaraym's Tale, Part 2
The Moon Cats and their Dance
Moon-Sugar for Glossy Fur? Yes!
Yours for the Taking!


Rivenspire Lore[edit]

Title Author Description Location
The Barrows of Westmark Moor
Bloodfiends of Rivenspire
Dire Legends of the Doomcrag
The Horse-Folk of Silverhoof
House Ravenwatch Proclamation
House Tamrith: A Recent History
Northpoint: An Assessment
The Remnant of Light
Shornhelm, Crown City of the North
The Story of Princess Eselde


Shadowfen Lore[edit]

Title Author Description Location
Dust's Shadow
Fair Argonian Maiden
Freedom's Price
A Mother's Nursery Rhyme
On the Knahaten Flu
Remember Me
The Right Mattock for the Job
The Ruby Necklace
A Shallow Pool
Suril's Journal


Stonefalls Lore[edit]

Title Author Description Location
Ancestors and the Dunmer
Argonians Among Us
The Brothers of Strife
The Great Houses and Their Uses
Guide to the Ebonheart Pact
Mottos of the Dunmeri Great Houses
Nords of Skyrim
Varieties of Faith: The Argonians
Varieties of Faith: The Dark Elves
Varieties of Faith: The Nords


Stormhaven Lore[edit]

Title Author Description Location
The Bretons: Mongrels or Paragons?
Founding of the Spirit Wardens
The Knightly Orders of High Rock
Once
Orcs: The Vermin Among Us
Our Calling, Our Pledge
Sacred Rites of the Stonechewers
To Dream Beyond Dreams
Tower of Adamant
Wayrest, Jewel of the Bay


Tamriel History[edit]

Title Author Description Location
Ayleid Inscriptions Translated
Eulogy for Emperor Varen
Frontier, Conquest
History of the Fighters Guild Pt. 1
History of the Fighters Guild Pt. 2
House Tharn of Nibenay
Origin of the Mages Guild
Return to Orsinium
The Order of the Black Worm
The Second Akaviri Invasion

The Rift Lore[edit]

Title Author Description Location
Clans of the Reach: A Guide
Rivers of Profit in Riften
The Road to Sovngarde
Songs of the Return, Volume 5
Songs of the Return, Volume 27
Songs of the Return, Volume 49
Thenephan's Mysteries of Mead
Touch of the Worm's Tongue
Unexpected Allies
The Wandering Skald


The Trial of Eyevea[edit]

Title Author Description Location
A Gift of Sanctuary
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Circus of Cheerful Slaughter
A book of nonsensical repetition
Aldmeri Dominion *Elden Root Mages Guild
Daggerfall Covenant *Wayrest Mages Guild
Ebonheart Pact *Mournhold Mages Guild
How the Kwama Lost His Shoes
Robier's Vegetable Garden