Books You'd Find In A Fantasy Library

[Thief of Always]

This is somewhat related to a thread I made earlier on thoughts for a school of adventuring.

I'm making a list of intriguing books one would expect to find in a library in a fantasy world. I'm looking for books like, "The Art of Planeswalking", "Zombiism and Related Energy", "The Anatomy of a Dragon", "Ramblings from the Chattering Mimir", etc. I have failed to create anything really creative and elaborate, so I'm asking for some help.

Post your ideas on what kind of books would be in a fantasy library.

 

[Jolly Giant]

Cool ideas! Have collectec some of book titles is a doc somewhere, taken from a similar thread I started myself once. I'll see if I can't find it.

In the meantime, how about:

"In the Eye of the Beholder" (about beholders and their eye-rays)

"The Illustrated Book of Nymphs" (Probably very popular among young, male students! )

"Through the Looking Glass" (a tome about scrying)

 

[Hand of Evil]

Try the following page...

http://www.seventhsanctum.com/generate.php?Genname=bookspinner

Here are a few from it...

A Comparison of the Sex Life of the Satyr and the Cockatrice
The Everyday Application of Essential Charms
The Legendary Theological Crusades of the Empire
A Comparison of the Courtship Rituals of the Jabberwock and the Harpy

 

[Flyspeck23]

Also, check out this thread:

http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=92389

 

[Gez]

"In the Eye of the Beholder" (about beholders and their eye-rays)

I like the title The Book of Many Tears, on the topic of fighting beholders...

 

[JoeBlank]

Creative Mountain Games has a handy little random title generator. You can stock a library full of titles at the click of a button.

Unlimited Titles Generator
Only $4.95

 

[Henry]

One sample of the Lexus - Unlimited Titles:

Noisy Sky
The General's Opus
The Aunt's Creative Volume
The Wooden Painting
The Singular Pirate's Reality
Silvery Warden
The Giant Squid and the Anniversary
The Dictionary on the Kyton
The Shearman's Monstrous Spider and the Arrangement
The Elder's Basic Hound Archon
Of Brother & Darkness
The Maximum or the Cachalot Whale

Admittedly, mine is a version 1 (got it in a giveaway) - the current is version 4, and it has been expanded quite a bit since then.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

http://www.dcrouzet.net/nbobooks/

 

[Desdichado]

The Book of Eibon
The King in Yellow
The Necronimicon
The Pnakotic Manuscripts
The Revelations of Glaaki
The R'lyeh Text
Unaussprechlichen Kulten

 

[StalkingBlue]

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