Archmage Theocritus' Research Journal
The Lessons of Ta'zo
The Apothecary's Metaphysical Primer
The Dalaran Digest, Vol. 23
Nar'thalas Almanac, Vol. 74
Bewitchments and Glamours
Arcanic Systems Manual
Secrets of the Dreamers
Fury of the Land
Crimes Against Anatomy
Goaz Scrolls
Geomancy: The Stone-Cold Truth
Defensive Magics 101
A Web of Lies: Debunking Myths and Legends
Basilisks: Should Petrification be Feared?
Mummies: A Guide to the Unsavory Undead
A Luddite's Guide to Caring for Your Demonic Pet
Legends of the Tidesages
Venomous Journeys
A Mind of Metal
Northern Kalimdor - A Comprehensive Guide
Undead Potatoes
A Study of the Light
Stormwind Library CardForty books are hidden around Azeroth in WoW Forever. Pick one up, take it to the librarian in Stormwind or Undercity, and after 10, 20 and 25 books you get to choose a piece of gear. Mages from Season of Discovery will recognise the books: they used to be rune hunts. In Forever every class can collect them.
Use the map and tracker at the top of this page. Every book has a pin on the world map and on its zone map. Tick a book when you hand it in, pick your faction, and the tracker shows how many books you still need for the next reward. Your ticks stay in your browser.
Book names, the reward items and their level requirements come from the Forever game files (build 1.60.1.70790). Spots and coordinates come from community guides that started from the Season of Discovery locations. We checked every coordinate against the in-game zone map. Two of them pointed somewhere else, and those books are now pinned on the places the guides describe (see “Where guides disagree”).
Where to turn in the books
| Faction | Librarian | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Alliance | Garion Wendell | Stormwind, Mage Quarter, top of the Wizard’s Sanctum tower |
| Horde | Owen Thadd | Undercity, inner Magic Quarter (about 74, 33) |
Guides disagree on Garion Wendell’s coordinates (38, 81 in one, 49.0, 86.4 in another). Look for the tall tower in the Mage Quarter and climb to the top.
- Hand each book in as you get it. You do not need to save them up. The turn-in quest only appears while the book is in your bags.
- Never delete a book. In the beta, players could not loot the same book again after destroying it.
- Duplicates do not count. Each title counts once toward the total.
- Mages get a bonus. Conquest Capped reports that the first book a mage turns in teaches Study, a Research skill. In a library it uses a Light Feather and gives a Bundle of Scrolls.
Rewards
| Books | Quest level | Choose one |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 1 | Scholarly Pendant (neck) or Erudite’s Amulet (neck) |
| 20 | 20 | Field Researcher’s Loop (ring) or Philanthropist’s Ring (ring) |
| 25 | 30 | Truthseeker’s Bow, Crest of Elucidation (shield) or Researcher’s Night Light (off-hand) |
- The first quest is Friend of the Library, the second Greater Friend of the Library.
- The neck and ring rewards have no level requirement, so they are great early upgrades.
- The 25-book items are item level 45 and need level 40 to equip. You can finish the quest at 30 and wear the reward later.
- All rewards are Bind on Pickup.
Which books to grab first
You only need 25 of the 40. Skip books deep in enemy cities and start with:
- Your own capital and starting zones. Alliance: Elwynn, Ironforge, Westfall, Loch Modan, Darkshore. Horde: Orgrimmar, Tirisfal, Silverpine, The Barrens.
- Books on your leveling route. The Barrens, Stonetalon, Duskwood, Wetlands and Thousand Needles are on the way for most characters.
- Books near the Cozy Sleeping Bag route. That chain sends you to Westfall, The Barrens, Stonetalon, Loch Modan and the Wetlands anyway.
All 40 book locations
Starting zones and cities
| Book | Zone | Spot | Coords |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archmage Theocritus’ Research Journal | Elwynn Forest | Top floor of the Tower of Azora, on a low table | 65.4, 70.1 |
| Archmage Antonidas: The Unabridged Autobiography | Ironforge | Back room of the Hall of Explorers, table | 76.1, 10.2 |
| The Lessons of Ta’zo | Orgrimmar | Mural of Ta’zo (painted rock) near the mage trainer, Valley of Spirits | 38.5, 78.2 |
| The Apothecary’s Metaphysical Primer | Tirisfal Glades | Alchemy shop in Brill, shelf in the corner | 59.5, 52.3 |
Level 10–20
| Book | Zone | Spot | Coords |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ataeric: On Arcane Curiosities | Silverpine Forest | The Sepulcher, bottom floor, shelf next to the armorer | 43.4, 41.2 |
| The Dalaran Digest, Vol. 23 | Silverpine Forest | Ambermill town hall, small bookshelf at the back | 63.5, 63.1 |
| Nar’thalas Almanac, Vol. 74 | Darkshore | Ruins of Mathystra, scrolls on a landing of the stairs | 59.6, 22.2 |
| Rumi of Gnomeregan: The Collected Works | Loch Modan or Westfall | Stoutlager Inn upstairs (35.6, 48.9) or Sentinel Hill inn (52.7, 53.7) | see spot |
| Runes of the Sorcerer-Kings | Loch Modan | Mo’grosh Stronghold, middle cave (entrance 74.5, 19.6), side chamber | 77.5, 14.1 |
| Bewitchments and Glamours | Westfall | Moonbrook, yellow-roofed house on the west edge | 45.4, 70.4 |
| Arcanic Systems Manual | The Barrens | The Sludge Fen, control room of the oil rig | 56.3, 8.8 |
| Baxtan: On Destructive Magics | The Barrens | Ratchet engineering shop, upstairs | 62.7, 36.3 |
| Secrets of the Dreamers | The Barrens | Cavern of Mists (Wailing Caverns cave), by a double rock column | 52.8, 54.7 (cave map) |
| Fury of the Land | Stonetalon Mountains | Grimtotem Post, the smaller hut | 74.4, 85.7 |
Rumi of Gnomeregan counts once. If you loot it in one inn, the other copy will not drop.
Level 20–40
| Book | Zone | Spot | Coords |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crimes Against Anatomy | Duskwood | Dawning Wood Catacombs (entrance 16.0, 38.5), last room | 6.7, 28.5 |
| Goaz Scrolls | Wetlands | Whelgar’s Excavation Site, inside a half-buried pot | 33.6, 47.9 |
| Geomancy: The Stone-Cold Truth | Thousand Needles | Darkcloud Pinnacle, largest hut | 34.0, 40.0 |
| Defensive Magics 101 | Alterac Mountains | Ogre fortress, first tower | 48.5, 57.6 |
| A Web of Lies: Debunking Myths and Legends | Arathi Highlands | Witherbark Village, outside a tent | 73.0, 65.0 |
| Demons and You | Desolace | Thunder Axe Fortress, large building | 55.0, 28.0 |
| Basilisks: Should Petrification be Feared? | Stranglethorn Vale | Outside a cave entrance, on the right | 41.5, 50.8 |
Level 35–50
| Book | Zone | Spot | Coords |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mummies: A Guide to the Unsavory Undead | Badlands | Crypt on the south side of the butte | 57.0, 39.0 |
| RwlRwlRwlRwl! | Dustwallow Marsh | East side of the murloc camp, on the ground | 57.0, 21.0 |
| A Luddite’s Guide to Caring for Your Demonic Pet | Swamp of Sorrows | Cage in Fallow Sanctuary (key from the Lost Ones, or loot through the bars) | 61.0, 22.0 |
| Sanguine Sorcery | Swamp of Sorrows | Top of the Sunken Temple, room before the instance | 70.0, 51.0 |
| The Liminal and the Arcane | Feralas | Inside the Nightmare | 50.6, 15.7 |
| Legends of the Tidesages | Tanaris | Bookshelf in a pirate building | 72.7, 47.8 |
| Venomous Journeys | The Hinterlands | – | 36.0, 72.7 |
| A Mind of Metal | Searing Gorge | – | 37.0, 49.0 |
Level 47–60
| Book | Zone | Spot | Coords |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conjurer’s Codex | Blasted Lands | – | 55.3, 32.2 |
| Everyday Etiquette | Azshara | Heldarr Encampment, on a crate by the hut | 20.0, 61.0 |
| Northern Kalimdor - A Comprehensive Guide | Felwood | Timbermaw Hold, by the bridge | 65.2, 3.2 |
| Magma or Lava? | Burning Steppes | Blackrock Mountain, near the Blackrock Depths entrance (outside the instance) | – |
| Necromancy 101 | Western Plaguelands | Caer Darrow castle, up the ladders, on a table (not in Scholomance) | 69.4, 72.8 |
| Undead Potatoes | Western Plaguelands | House at Felstone Field | 38.0, 54.0 |
| Stonewrought Design | Blackrock Depths (dungeon) | Altar where Franclorn Forgewright stands | – |
| A Study of the Light | Eastern Plaguelands | Light’s Hope Chapel, back left | about 81, 58 |
| Scourge: Undead Menace or Misunderstood? | Eastern Plaguelands | Table before the bridge to Stratholme | 31.3, 21.0 |
| The Knight and the Lady | Eastern Plaguelands | By the small lake in the centre of the zone | 55.0, 51.0 |
| Ka-Boom! | Winterspring | Everlook, shelf behind the alchemy supplies vendor | 61.0, 38.0 |
That is all 40 books in the game files. Rumi of Gnomeregan has two spawn spots but counts as one book.
Where guides disagree
The coordinates above come from Warcraft Tavern. Conquest Capped lists different spots for some books:
| Book | Other reported spot |
|---|---|
| Archmage Antonidas: The Unabridged Autobiography | 76.3, 10.8 |
| The Lessons of Ta’zo | 38.7, 78.4 |
| Crimes Against Anatomy | Raven Hill Crypt, 16.7, 28.5 |
| Magma or Lava? | Blackrock Mountain, 48.4, 63.6 |
| Stonewrought Design | Blackrock Mountain, Center Vault |
| Scourge: Undead Menace or Misunderstood? | 26.5, 15.0 |
| The Knight and the Lady | 47.3, 42.3 |
If a book is not where the first table says, try the other spot. Conquest Capped did not find The Liminal and the Arcane in Feralas.
Two published coordinates miss on the in-game zone map. Warcraft Tavern’s 52.7, 26.3 for Necromancy 101 lands in Hearthglen, not Caer Darrow, so we use Conquest Capped’s 69.4, 72.8. For A Study of the Light, both 73.0, 65.0 and 71.8, 48.2 land outside Light’s Hope Chapel, so the pin sits on the chapel itself.
Faction-only books
Conquest Capped reports that each faction can return 34 of the 40 books. It lists The Apothecary’s Metaphysical Primer, Ataeric: On Arcane Curiosities, The Dalaran Digest, Vol. 23 and The Lessons of Ta’zo as Horde-only. Alliance players should skip those four. The Alliance-only list was not given.
Book Return is a different quest
Many players search “book return quest” when they mean the library books. Book Return is reported to be a separate quest in Elwynn Forest, where you bring back lost books. Its reported reward is a 6-slot Book Bag. A 6-slot Book Bag is in the Forever game files, but we have not confirmed the quest itself, so check the quest text in game.
What is not confirmed yet
- Moved books. The coordinates above started as Season of Discovery locations, and guides disagree on several of them (see the table above).
- The Liminal and the Arcane. It is in the game files, but no one has confirmed it on the live servers. Some trackers list 39 books without it.
- Which books are Alliance-only.
- Name of the third quest. Our source lists the 25-book quest under the same name as the 20-book one. That may be a typo.
- Library Cards. The game files contain a Stormwind Library Card and an Undercity Library Card. What they do is not known yet.
- More rewards past 25 books. There are 40 books but only three reward tiers so far. A later tier is possible, but nothing points to one yet.