Witcher library guide

Welcome to the witcher library guide!

This is a quick guide created specifically for the busy witcher who has little time left for reading after roaming the countryside chatting up complete strangers and dealing with their various and sundry monster troubles. The Witcher game is no different really in its portrayal of Geralt's day-to-day routine. He still goes around talking to people and slaying monsters. Special thanks go to Licensed Luny for the many, many hours of research it took!

In the course of the game, Geralt gathers journal entries about the various monsters he encounters and the ingredients he can extract from them. He also passes by many potentially useful plants, so knowing about as many as possible also helps make his life easier.

Most of these journal entries can be obtained by speaking with NPCs, but a few can not be obtained in any other way than by reading the appropriate book or scroll. Luckily, many books and scrolls can also be obtained for free, or as rewards for completing quests. That said, there are still a few wiley entries for which no free source exists. To date, that list of entries seems to be:

Alghoul Bloedzuiger

Feainnewedd Giant centipede Green mold

Wolf (Beast liver) Wraith

Below are the books which are necessary to obtain in order to have a complete set of journal entries. After all other means of acquiring the information have been exhausted. Strictly speaking, although some entries can be had for free, their availability earlier in the game is often preferable. Technically, you may want to splash out a bit more to make sure you have all the necessary Bestiary entries before starting a new chapter. For that information, see the list of monsters by Chapter.

Necessary books

The following books are necessary if you want to have every single journal entry available. Otherwise, it could be said that no books are necessary.

Must be purchased

• The Book of Animals, or Physiologus (free since the Enhanced Edition)
• Feainnewedd
• Subterranean Plants
• The Tome of Fear and Loathing, volume II
• The Wonderful World of Insectoids
• The Book of the Golden Oriole

Necessary, but can be obtained for free

• The Book of the Kiss
• Specters, Wraiths, and the Damned
• Swamp Monsters

Books obtained as rewards

• Hymns of Madness and Despair (Quest: Diplomacy and Hunting)
• Ain Soph Aur (necessary for quest: A Mysterious Tower, obtained from Golan Vivaldi if you spring him from jail).
• The Secret Gates (necessary for quest: A Mysterious Tower, obtained from Vivaldi if you spring him from jail).

Catalogue

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Click on the book Title for a more complete description. The Chapter column lists the first Chapter in which a book or scroll can be found for free. If the book is a quest reward, then clicking on the quest icon will open the corresponding quest page. Not all books listed as "Free" are in fact free for all paths through the game. Some are also optional quest rewards and so may or may not be considered free.

Item	Title	Chapter	Buy	Sell	Free
	Aftermath of the War		50	10	0 N
	Against Nonhumans	2	80	16	1 Y
	Animating the Inanimate		150	30	0 N
	Ars Amandi	4	50	10	1 Y
	Ballads	4	50	10	1 Y
	Barghests		50	10	0 N
	Basics of Alchemy	2	70	14	1 Y
	Book of Animals		100	20	0 N
	Conjunction of the Spheres	3	50	10	1 Y
	Cults and Religions of the Nordlings	3	90	18	1 Y
	Curse of the Black Sun (only in The Price of Neutrality)		70	14	0 N
	Curses and the Cursed	4	500	100	1 Y
	Description of the Vodyanoi or the Fishpeople	8	600	120	1 Y
	Diary of a Dice Collector		50	10	0 N
	Disease of Civilization		350	70	0 N
	Disenchanting a Striga	6	120	24	1 Y
	Double Cross of Alzur	6	200	40	1 Y
	Druid's Herbarium		600	120	0 N
	Elder Blood	4	80	16	1 Y
	Experiment Notes	6	1000	200	1 Y
	Fairytales and Stories	5	50	10	1 Y
	Feainnewedd		300	60	0 N
	Field Plants		200	40	0 N
	Flower and the Flame	3	70	14	1 Y
	Foreign Lands	4	60	12	1 Y
	Forensic Medicine	4	150	30	1 Y
	Frightener	1	50	10	1 Y
	Great Book of Minerals		600	120	0 N
	Greater Brothers	6	1000	200	1 Y
	Guide to Vizima	3	60	12	1 Y
	History of the World	3	40	8	1 Y
	Hymns of Madness and Despair	8	100	20	1 Y
	Invitation to Magic	2	70	14	1 Y
	Ithlinne's Prophecy	2	60	12	1 Y
	Kingdom of Temeria	3	80	16	1 Y
	Lara's Gift	3	70	14	1 Y
	The Last Wish	6	800	160	1 Y
	Monstrum, or a Portrayal of Witchers	1	50	10	1 Y
	Ornithosaurs		400	80	0 N
	Physiologus	4	1000	200	1 Y
	Plants of Barren Lands	5	600	120	1 Y
	Recent History	2	40	8	1 Y
	Ritual Plants		400	80	0 N
	Rivian Pogrom	4	50	10	1 Y
	Road of No Return		150	30	0 N
	Shadow People, or the story of His Majesty's Secret Service	3	n /a	n /a	1 Y
	Small Book of Minerals		400	80	0 N
	Sorceresses and Sorcerers	4	60	12	1 Y
	Specters, Wraiths, and the Damned	3	400	80	1 Y
	Story of Lara Dorren and Cragen of Lod	3	60	12	1 Y
	Subterranean Plants		300	60	0 N
	Swamp Monsters	2	200	40	1 Y
	Swamp Plants	4	400	80	1 Y
	Tome of Fear and Loathing I	2	250	50	1 Y
	Tome of Fear and Loathing II		500	100	0 N
	Transmutations and Metamorphoses		80	16	0 N
	Vampires: Facts and Myths	5	600	120	1 Y
	Wonderful World of Insectoids		600	120	0 N
	Zerrikanian Insects and Other Vermin		110	22	0 N
	Dagon Sap	5	600	120	1 Y
	Formula for De Vries' Extract	4	400	80	1 Y
	Dragon's Dream		200	40	0 N
	Frightener's Vision	1	100	20	1 Y
	The Book of the Golden Oriole		400	80	0 N
	Golem's Pith	3	400	80	1 Y
	Formula for Hanged Man's Venom	3	300	60	1 Y
	Hellhound's Soul	2	200	40	1 Y
	Kikimore's Ire	4	600	120	1 Y
	The Book of the Kiss	3	400	80	1 Y
	Koshchey's Core	6	800	160	1 Y
	Formula for Maribor Forest		300	60	0 N
	Petri's Philter formula	3	100	20	1 Y
	Samum	4	600	120	1 Y
	Secrets of the Southern Masters	4	400	80	1 Y
	Striga's Urge	6	800	160	1 Y
	The Book of the Swallow	2	100	20	1 Y
	The Book of the Tawny Owl	2	200	40	1 Y
	The Book of the Full Moon	5	800	160	1 Y
	Werewolf's Wrath	4	600	120	1 Y
	Formula for White Raffard's Decoction	4	400	80	1 Y
	The Book of the Wolverine	4	600	120	1 Y
	Zerrikanian Alchemy		200	40	0 N
	Zeugl's Vigor	7	1000	200	1 Y
	Ain Soph Aur	8	300	n /a	1 Y
	Secret Gates	8	100	n /a	1 Y