# A B C D E F G H I J K
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Best places to look!
Note! We don't intend this to be a perfect guide to each book, what it's about and where to get all copies, rather a simple way to find a copy of a specific book you're looking for.
So far this just has the skill books here. We hope to get the rest here soon.
Bonus:
Raises your blade skill
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Can be found in Anvil, in the castle's private quarters.
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Raises your mysticism skill
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Can be found lying on a shelf in the Chapel of Julianos in Skingrad
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None
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Leyawiin, SOuthern bookstore.
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Raises your restoration skill
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Can be found lying on a shelf in the Chapel of Mara, in Cheydinhal
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Raises your speechcraft skill
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Can be found in the Imperial City, inside the Imperial palace in councilor Ocato's chambers.
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Raises your heavy armor skill.
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Can be found in Chorrol, in the store fire and steel
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Raises your mercantile skill
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Can be found in the Imperial city, in the market district, inside the offices of the horse courier.
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Raises your sneak skill
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Can be found in Bravil, in the house of City-Swimmer
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Raises your conjuration skill
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Can be found in Bruma, inside the Chapel of Talos
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Raises your conjuration skill
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Can be found in Anvil, inside the great chapel of Dibella there.
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None
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Leyawiin, Southern books
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None
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Bravil, inside the castle barracks and in Anvil, in the royal quarters.
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None
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Leyawiin, in the southern bookstore and in the Anvil and Leyawiin mages guilds, and of course a copy is at the mystic archives in the Imperial city.
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Raises your acrobatics skill
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Can be found in Cheydinhall, inside Ganredhel's house
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Raises your block skill
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Can be found in the Imperial City, in the elven gardens district. It lies within the guardhouse in the northeastern part of it.
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Raises your athletics skill
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Can be found southwest of Skingrad, in the house of Uura the shepherd.
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Raises your acrobatics skill
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Can be found in the same place as part 1; CHeydinhal, Ganredhel's house.
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Raises your marksman skill
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Can be found in Bruma, in Regners house.
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Raises your mercantile skill
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Can be found in Chorrol, in the house of Casta Scribonia
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Raises your mercantile skill
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Appears in boss and Vampire loot.
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None
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Chorrol, mages guild
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None
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SKingrad, Castle lords Manor.
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None
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Can be found all over the place, like the Anvil and bravil mages guilds and of course at the mystic archives in the Imperial city.
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None
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Leyawiin and Bravil mages guilds, Leyawiin fighters guild and the mystic archives.
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None
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Leyawiin mages guild
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Raises your security skill
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Top level of the fingerbowl cave, just northeast of Aleswell, north of the Imperial city
March-Na's bookstore in Cheydinhal
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Raises your hand to hand skill
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Below J'Ghasta's house in Bruma
In the Dark Brotherhood sanctuary of Cheydinhal
Bonus:
None
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Can be found in many chapels, castles and mages guilds, some are even owned by citizens.
Library of Chorrol
First edition bookstore in the Imperial City
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Raises your athletics skill
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Appears only as random loot
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None
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Can be found in Chorrol, in the mages guildhall there and Renoit's books.
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Raises your illusion skill
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Can only be found In the Imperial city, at the mystic archives inside the arcane university.
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None
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This can be found in practically every Chapel.
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Raises your Armorer skill
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Can be found in Cheydinhal, in the fighters guild or in the Imperial City, in the first edition bookstore in the market district.
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Raises your Blade skill
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Castle Bravil, in the main hall on display there.
can be found As random loot
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Raises your mysticism skill
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Can be found in the Imperial City, in the Chironasium inside the Arcane University
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Raises your athletics skill
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Can be found in the Cloud ruler temple, in the great hall there.
Bonus:
None
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Available at most bookstores and can be found as random loot.
Editions can easily be found at the Chorrol and Skingrad mages guild, and in the Imperial City, in the mystic archives inside the Arcane University.
Bonus:
Raises your speechcraft skill
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Imperial city, waterfront. Is found in the house of Armand Christophe
Bonus:
Raises your acrobatics skill
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Brindle home, north of Skingrad, in the home of Torbal the sufficient
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Raises your marksman skill
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Can be found in boss level vampire and bandit loot, and in the cheydinhal Dark brotherhood sanctuary (underneath the abandoned house)
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Raises your mysticism skill
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Can be found in the Imperial city, in the market district in the mystic Emporium.
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Raises your mercantile skill
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Imperial city, elven gardens district Inside Fathis Ules's house.
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Raises your Alchemy skill
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This book can be found as random loot.
One fixed place to get it, is by doing the quest "two sides of a coin" a quest situated in Bruma. Speak to Arnoria Auria there to start it.
Bonus:
Raises your armorer skill
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Imperial City, market district, can be found in the first edition bookstore.
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Raises your heavy armor skill
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Imperial City, can be found in the imperial legion barracks.
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Raises your Alteration skill
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Can be found in Skingrad, in the mages guild, there in the living quarters.
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Raises your block skill
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Can be found in the dining room of the Anvil fighters guild.
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Raises your alchemy skill
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Can be found in Skingrad in the store called "all things alchemy"
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Raises your conjuration skill
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Can be found in Anvil, in the mages guild.
Additional copies are in the Cloud Ruler temple, in the great hall there and in a tower above forth Caractus, which is on the north side of lake Rumare
Bonus:
Raises your Alteration skill
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Imperial city, elven gardens district, can be found in Dovyn Aren's house there.
Bonus:
None
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This can be found at quite a few locations, to name but a few;
Book shops, random loot, Chorrol; inside the mages guild, in the palace library and of course in the Mystic archives in the Imperial City's Arcane university
Bonus:
Raises your restoration skill
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Can be found in Skingrad, in the great chapel of Julianos there.
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Raises your marksman skill
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Can be found in Bravil, in the castle of Bravil.
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Raises your heavy armor skill
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Can be found in both the Chorrol and Anvil fighters guild, and of course in the Mystic Archives in the Arcane university.
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Raises your mysticism skill
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Can be found in the Cheydinhal mages guild, downstairs.
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Raises your Blade skill
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This is quest related, it can be found during one of the thieves guild quests called "the ultimate heist"
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None
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Can be found in just about every Mages guild.
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None
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Can be found in the Cloud rules temple, inside the great hall, in the Imperial City in the homes of Umbacano and Herminia Cinna.
Additionally there's a copy in the Market district in the store called Rindir's staffs
Bonus:
None
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Can be found in the Imperial City, at the first edition bookshop, in Cheydinhal in Mach-Na's bookstore, in Chorrol at Renoits bookstore and in Skingrad, at the mages guild.
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Raises your marksman skill
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Can be found in the Cheydinhal Dark brotherhood sanctuary.
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Raises your laughter +2
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These can be found all over the place, and are worth the read.
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Raises your heavy armor
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Chorrol, can be found in the fighters guild
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Raises your armorer skill
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Can be found only as marauder and tomb loot.
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None
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Can be found in the Lake Arrius Caverns, in the outer portion of those caverns.
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None
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Can be found at the first edition bookstore in the Imperial City.
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Raises your destruction skill
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Bravil, can be found in the mages guild.
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Raises your heavy armor skill
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Bruma, can be found in the castle, in the lords manor.
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Raises your light armor skill
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Leyawiin, can be found in Ahdarji's house there.
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Raises your hand to hand skill
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Can be found in the Imperial city, in the temple district inside the house of Seridur, in his cellar.
Additionally copies can be found in J'Gasta's house in Bruma, and in a bandit camp just outside the Ayleid ruin Vilverin
Bonus:
Raises your blunt skill
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Bravil, can be found in the dungeon of the castle there.
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Raises your illusion skill
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Cheydinhal, can be found in the Willow bank
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Raises your blunt weapon skill
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Can be found in Anvil, inside the castle's royal quarters.
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None
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The easiest to get book is in the first edition bookstore in the Imperial city's market district
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Raises your armorer skill
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Imperial city, can be found in the fighting chance store in the Market district there.
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Raises your sneak skill
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This books is located inside the cloud rules temple, in the library there.
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Raises your blunt weapon skill.
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Can be found in Chorrol, in the house of Vilena Donton.
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Raises your armorer skill
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Can be found in Bravil, inside the castle barracks.
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Raises your conjuration skill
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Can be found in the Imperial city, at the Arcane University's mystic archives
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Raises your security skill
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Anvil, can be found in a cave below the castle of Anvil
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Raises your light armor skill
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Bleak flats cave, can be found north-northeast of Skingrad.
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Raises your alteration skill
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Can be found in boss level conjurer and Necromancer loot.
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Raises your blunt skill
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Can only be found as random loot.
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None
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Can be found in Bruma, in the castle there, and in the Leyawiin and Anvil mages guilds. And of course a copy is in the mystic archives in the Imperial city.
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Raises your alchemy skill
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Can be found in the mystic archives, inside the Arcane university in the Imperial City
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None
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Can be found at Slash 'N Smash in the Imperial city's market district, in the house of Alval Uvani in Leyawiin and of course in the Mystic Archives.
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None
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Can be bought in the first edition bookstore in the Imperial City, and found inside the mystic archives in the Arcane University.
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None
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One of these can be gotten through the mages guild quest recommendation of Bruma, and a second book with the same name can most easily be found in the Chorrol mages guild.
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Raises your hand to hand skill
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Can be found in boss level tomb creature and marauder loot.
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Raises your block skill
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Can be found in Leyawiin, in the city barracks there on the ground floor.
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None
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Can be found in the Leyawiin mages guild, and in the house of Newheim the portly in Anvil.
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Raises your acrobatics skill
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Can be found in boss level bandit and vampire loot.
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Raises your restoration skill
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Can be found in boss level conjurer and necromancer loot.
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Raises your destruction skill
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Can be found in boss level Conjurer and Necromancer loot.
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Raises your illusion skill
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Can be found in boss level conjurer and Necromancer loot.
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None
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Not as rare as the others, can be found among other places in: CHorrol; Renoits bookstore, Cheydinhal; Mages guild, Bravil; mages guild.
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None
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In Skingrad, in the house of Glarthir you can find 4 copies of this book, and in Chorrol, in the mages guild there you can find a few more.
Bonus:
Raises your blunt skill
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Goblin Jim's cave, north of Skingrad is where you can find this book.
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Raises your restoration skill
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CHorrol, can be found in the great chapel there.
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Raises your illusion skill
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Can be found in Arkveds tower, south of lake Poppad
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None
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Leyawiin; Mages guild, and in Anvil, in the castle's royal quarters.
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Raises your security skill
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You can find this book in the Imperial city, in the waterfront district. Inside the house of Dareloth.
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Raises your sneak skill.
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This you can only find as random loot.
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Raises your athletics skill
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It can be found lying against the outer wall of the Arena bloodworks
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Raises your Alteration skill
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This can be found in Leyawiin, in the southern books bookstore.
Bonus:
Raises your light armor skill
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Cheydinhal, can be found in the dark brotherhood sanctuary there.
Bonus:
Raises your athletics skill
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Can be found in Anvil, inside the castle in the private quarters there.
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Raises your light armor skill
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Can be found at the first edition bookstore in the Market district in the Imperial city.
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None
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Can be found in the cloud rules temple
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None
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Found in most fighters guilds
Bonus:
Raises your destruction skill
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Can be found in the Mystic Archives, inside the arcane university in the Imperial City
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Raises your light armor skill
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Can only be found in bandit and Vampire loot.
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Raises your sneak skill
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Can be found in the antechamber complex inside the Lake Arrius caverns.
Bonus:
Raises your Alteration skill
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Leyawiin, can be found in the great chapel there.
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Raises your alchemy skill
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Can be found in the Lustrarium in the Imperial city's arcane university
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Raises your blade skill
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Can be found in Bravil, in the castle's private quarters in Drels Theran's room
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Raises your mysticism skill
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Can be found in loot and one edition is lying on the second level of fort Cuptor
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Raises your security skill
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Can be found in boss level vampire and bandit loot.
Bonus:
None
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Can be found plentifull in the Mages guild libraries like the Chorrol one, and of course at the mystic archives.
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Raises your acrobatics skill
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Can be found in Bravil, at S'krivva's house.
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None
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Can be found in Cheydinhal, Mach-Na's bookstore and of course the Mystic Archives.
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None
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Can be found in Chorrol, in the mages guild there and in the Imperial city, in the first edition bookstore.
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None
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Can be found in four mages guilds; Anvil, Bravil, Bruma and Leyawiin and in bookstores in Chorrol and Leyawiin.
Bonus:
Raises your marksman skill
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CHorrol, is located in Renoits bookstore
Bonus:
Raises your block skill
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Can be found as random loot and one copy lies in the great hall of the Cloud Rules temple.
Bonus:
Raises your block skill
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Can be found in Leyawiin, in the castle's royal bedroom
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Raises your conjuration skill
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Can be found in boss level necromancer and conjurer loot
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Raises your hand to hand skill
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Can be found on the southside of Fieldhouse cave, lying underneath a mushroom.
Bonus:
Raises your security skill
Locations:
Bravil, inside Dro'Shanji's house
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Raises your hand to hand skill
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Skingrad, can be found inside the lords manor in the castle there.
Bonus:
Raises your illusion skill
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Bruma, can be found in the cellar of the mages guild there.
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Raises your mercantile skill
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Imperial City, in the market district, can be found in the Imperial commerce office
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Raises your speechcraft skill
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Imperial city, temple district. Inside Hastrel Ottus's house.
Bonus:
Raises your speechcraft skill
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Cheydinhal, can be found in the castle there in the lords quarters
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Raises your sneak skill
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Cheydinhal, can be found in the Dark Brotherhood sanctuary there.
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Raises your Blade skill
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CHorrol, can be found in Modryn Oreyn's house.
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Looking for a book? There's a very good chance this place has it;
Mystic Archives, Arcane university in the Imperial City
First edition bookstore, Market district in the Imperial City
Cloud ruler temple, a blade fortress in the Jerall Mountains to the northwest of Bruma.
Best places to look!
Note! We don't intend this to be a perfect guide to each book, what it's about and where to get all copies, rather a simple way to find a copy of a specific book you're looking for.
So far this just has the skill books here. We hope to get the rest here soon.
2920; Morningstar
Bonus:
Raises your blade skill
Locations:
Can be found in Anvil, in the castle's private quarters.
2920; Sun's Dawn
Bonus:
Raises your mysticism skill
Locations:
Can be found lying on a shelf in the Chapel of Julianos in Skingrad
2920; First seed
Bonus:
None
Locations:
Leyawiin, SOuthern bookstore.
2920; Rain's Hand
Bonus:
Raises your restoration skill
Locations:
Can be found lying on a shelf in the Chapel of Mara, in Cheydinhal
2920; Second Seed
Bonus:
Raises your speechcraft skill
Locations:
Can be found in the Imperial City, inside the Imperial palace in councilor Ocato's chambers.
2920; Midyear
Bonus:
Raises your heavy armor skill.
Locations:
Can be found in Chorrol, in the store fire and steel
2920; Sun's height
Bonus:
Raises your mercantile skill
Locations:
Can be found in the Imperial city, in the market district, inside the offices of the horse courier.
2920; Last Seed
Bonus:
Raises your sneak skill
Locations:
Can be found in Bravil, in the house of City-Swimmer
2920; Heartfire
Bonus:
Raises your conjuration skill
Locations:
Can be found in Bruma, inside the Chapel of Talos
2920; Frostfall
Bonus:
Raises your conjuration skill
Locations:
Can be found in Anvil, inside the great chapel of Dibella there.
2920; Suns Dusk
Bonus:
None
Locations:
Leyawiin, Southern books
2920; Evening Star
Bonus:
None
Locations:
Bravil, inside the castle barracks and in Anvil, in the royal quarters.
A Childrens Annuad
Bonus:
None
Locations:
Leyawiin, in the southern bookstore and in the Anvil and Leyawiin mages guilds, and of course a copy is at the mystic archives in the Imperial city.
A dance in Fire 1
Bonus:
Raises your acrobatics skill
Locations:
Can be found in Cheydinhall, inside Ganredhel's house
A dance in Fire 2
Bonus:
Raises your block skill
Locations:
Can be found in the Imperial City, in the elven gardens district. It lies within the guardhouse in the northeastern part of it.
A dance in Fire 3
Bonus:
Raises your athletics skill
Locations:
Can be found southwest of Skingrad, in the house of Uura the shepherd.
A dance in Fire 4
Bonus:
Raises your acrobatics skill
Locations:
Can be found in the same place as part 1; CHeydinhal, Ganredhel's house.
A dance in fire 5
Bonus:
Raises your marksman skill
Locations:
Can be found in Bruma, in Regners house.
A dance in Fire 6
Bonus:
Raises your mercantile skill
Locations:
Can be found in Chorrol, in the house of Casta Scribonia
A dance in Fire 7
Bonus:
Raises your mercantile skill
Locations:
Appears in boss and Vampire loot.
A Game at Dinner
Bonus:
None
Locations:
Chorrol, mages guild
A Hypothetical treachery
Bonus:
None
Locations:
SKingrad, Castle lords Manor.
A Less rude song
Bonus:
None
Locations:
Can be found all over the place, like the Anvil and bravil mages guilds and of course at the mystic archives in the Imperial city.
A life of Uriel Septim VII
Bonus:
None
Locations:
Leyawiin and Bravil mages guilds, Leyawiin fighters guild and the mystic archives.
A new guild for fighters?
Bonus:
None
Locations:
Leyawiin mages guild
Advances in Lockpicking
Bonus:
Raises your security skill
Locations:
Top level of the fingerbowl cave, just northeast of Aleswell, north of the Imperial city
March-Na's bookstore in Cheydinhal
Ahziir Traajajazeri
Bonus:
Raises your hand to hand skill
Locations:
Below J'Ghasta's house in Bruma
In the Dark Brotherhood sanctuary of Cheydinhal
The Amulet of Kings
Bonus:
None
Locations:
Can be found in many chapels, castles and mages guilds, some are even owned by citizens.
Library of Chorrol
First edition bookstore in the Imperial City
The Argonian Account 1
Bonus:
Raises your athletics skill
Locations:
Appears only as random loot
The Argonian account 2
Bonus:
None
Locations:
Can be found in Chorrol, in the mages guildhall there and Renoit's books.
The Argonian account 3
Bonus:
Raises your illusion skill
Locations:
Can only be found In the Imperial city, at the mystic archives inside the arcane university.
The Argonian account 4
Bonus:
None
Locations:
This can be found in practically every Chapel.
The Armorers Challenge
Bonus:
Raises your Armorer skill
Locations:
Can be found in Cheydinhal, in the fighters guild or in the Imperial City, in the first edition bookstore in the market district.
Battle of Sancre Tor
Bonus:
Raises your Blade skill
Locations:
Castle Bravil, in the main hall on display there.
can be found As random loot
Before the age of Man
Bonus:
Raises your mysticism skill
Locations:
Can be found in the Imperial City, in the Chironasium inside the Arcane University
Beggar
Bonus:
Raises your athletics skill
Locations:
Can be found in the Cloud ruler temple, in the great hall there.
Beggar Prince
Bonus:
None
Locations:
Available at most bookstores and can be found as random loot.
Editions can easily be found at the Chorrol and Skingrad mages guild, and in the Imperial City, in the mystic archives inside the Arcane University.
Biography of the wolf Queen
Bonus:
Raises your speechcraft skill
Locations:
Imperial city, waterfront. Is found in the house of Armand Christophe
The Black Arrow I
Bonus:
Raises your acrobatics skill
Locations:
Brindle home, north of Skingrad, in the home of Torbal the sufficient
The Black Arrow II
Bonus:
Raises your marksman skill
Locations:
Can be found in boss level vampire and bandit loot, and in the cheydinhal Dark brotherhood sanctuary (underneath the abandoned house)
The Black arts on trial
Bonus:
Raises your mysticism skill
Locations:
Can be found in the Imperial city, in the market district in the mystic Emporium.
The Buying game
Bonus:
Raises your mercantile skill
Locations:
Imperial city, elven gardens district Inside Fathis Ules's house.
Calcinator Treatise
Bonus:
Raises your Alchemy skill
Locations:
This book can be found as random loot.
One fixed place to get it, is by doing the quest "two sides of a coin" a quest situated in Bruma. Speak to Arnoria Auria there to start it.
Cherim's Heart of Anequina
Bonus:
Raises your armorer skill
Locations:
Imperial City, market district, can be found in the first edition bookstore.
Chimarvamidium
Bonus:
Raises your heavy armor skill
Locations:
Imperial City, can be found in the imperial legion barracks.
Daughter of the Niben
Bonus:
Raises your Alteration skill
Locations:
Can be found in Skingrad, in the mages guild, there in the living quarters.
Death blow of Abernanit
Bonus:
Raises your block skill
Locations:
Can be found in the dining room of the Anvil fighters guild.
De Rerum Dirennis
Bonus:
Raises your alchemy skill
Locations:
Can be found in Skingrad in the store called "all things alchemy"
The doors of oblivion
Bonus:
Raises your conjuration skill
Locations:
Can be found in Anvil, in the mages guild.
Additional copies are in the Cloud Ruler temple, in the great hall there and in a tower above forth Caractus, which is on the north side of lake Rumare
The Dragon Break
Bonus:
Raises your Alteration skill
Locations:
Imperial city, elven gardens district, can be found in Dovyn Aren's house there.
Dwemer history and culture
Bonus:
None
Locations:
This can be found at quite a few locations, to name but a few;
Book shops, random loot, Chorrol; inside the mages guild, in the palace library and of course in the Mystic archives in the Imperial City's Arcane university
The Exodus
Bonus:
Raises your restoration skill
Locations:
Can be found in Skingrad, in the great chapel of Julianos there.
Father of the Niben
Bonus:
Raises your marksman skill
Locations:
Can be found in Bravil, in the castle of Bravil.
Fighters guild history
Bonus:
Raises your heavy armor skill
Locations:
Can be found in both the Chorrol and Anvil fighters guild, and of course in the Mystic Archives in the Arcane university.
The Firsthold Revolt
Bonus:
Raises your mysticism skill
Locations:
Can be found in the Cheydinhal mages guild, downstairs.
Fire and Darkness
Bonus:
Raises your Blade skill
Locations:
This is quest related, it can be found during one of the thieves guild quests called "the ultimate heist"
Fundamentals of Alchemy
Bonus:
None
Locations:
Can be found in just about every Mages guild.
Glories and Laments
Bonus:
None
Locations:
Can be found in the Cloud rules temple, inside the great hall, in the Imperial City in the homes of Umbacano and Herminia Cinna.
Additionally there's a copy in the Market district in the store called Rindir's staffs
Gods and Worship
Bonus:
None
Locations:
Can be found in the Imperial City, at the first edition bookshop, in Cheydinhal in Mach-Na's bookstore, in Chorrol at Renoits bookstore and in Skingrad, at the mages guild.
The Gold Ribbon of Merit
Bonus:
Raises your marksman skill
Locations:
Can be found in the Cheydinhal Dark brotherhood sanctuary.
Guide to [insert city name here]
Bonus:
Raises your laughter +2
Locations:
These can be found all over the place, and are worth the read.
Hallgerds Tale
Bonus:
Raises your heavy armor
Locations:
Chorrol, can be found in the fighters guild
Heavy armor repair
Bonus:
Raises your armorer skill
Locations:
Can be found only as marauder and tomb loot.
Hiding with the shadow
Bonus:
None
Locations:
Can be found in the Lake Arrius Caverns, in the outer portion of those caverns.
History of Lockpicking
Bonus:
None
Locations:
Can be found at the first edition bookstore in the Imperial City.
The Horrors of castle Xyr
Bonus:
Raises your destruction skill
Locations:
Bravil, can be found in the mages guild.
How Orsinium passed to the Orcs
Bonus:
Raises your heavy armor skill
Locations:
Bruma, can be found in the castle, in the lords manor.
Ice and Chitin
Bonus:
Raises your light armor skill
Locations:
Leyawiin, can be found in Ahdarji's house there.
Immortal blood
Bonus:
Raises your hand to hand skill
Locations:
Can be found in the Imperial city, in the temple district inside the house of Seridur, in his cellar.
Additionally copies can be found in J'Gasta's house in Bruma, and in a bandit camp just outside the Ayleid ruin Vilverin
The Importance of Where
Bonus:
Raises your blunt skill
Locations:
Bravil, can be found in the dungeon of the castle there.
Incident in Necrom
Bonus:
Raises your illusion skill
Locations:
Cheydinhal, can be found in the Willow bank
King
Bonus:
Raises your blunt weapon skill
Locations:
Can be found in Anvil, inside the castle's royal quarters.
The Last king of the Ayleids
Bonus:
None
Locations:
The easiest to get book is in the first edition bookstore in the Imperial city's market district
Last Scabbard of Akrash
Bonus:
Raises your armorer skill
Locations:
Imperial city, can be found in the fighting chance store in the Market district there.
Legend of Krately house
Bonus:
Raises your sneak skill
Locations:
This books is located inside the cloud rules temple, in the library there.
The Legendary Sancre Tor
Bonus:
Raises your blunt weapon skill.
Locations:
Can be found in Chorrol, in the house of Vilena Donton.
Light Armor repair
Bonus:
Raises your armorer skill
Locations:
Can be found in Bravil, inside the castle barracks.
Liminal bridges
Bonus:
Raises your conjuration skill
Locations:
Can be found in the Imperial city, at the Arcane University's mystic archives
The Locked room
Bonus:
Raises your security skill
Locations:
Anvil, can be found in a cave below the castle of Anvil
Lord Jornibret's last chance
Bonus:
Raises your light armor skill
Locations:
Bleak flats cave, can be found north-northeast of Skingrad.
The Lunar Lorkhan
Bonus:
Raises your alteration skill
Locations:
Can be found in boss level conjurer and Necromancer loot.
Mace Etiquette
Bonus:
Raises your blunt skill
Locations:
Can only be found as random loot.
Magic from the Sky
Bonus:
None
Locations:
Can be found in Bruma, in the castle there, and in the Leyawiin and Anvil mages guilds. And of course a copy is in the mystic archives in the Imperial city.
Mannimarco; King of Worms
Bonus:
Raises your alchemy skill
Locations:
Can be found in the mystic archives, inside the Arcane university in the Imperial City
Manual of Armor
Bonus:
None
Locations:
Can be found at Slash 'N Smash in the Imperial city's market district, in the house of Alval Uvani in Leyawiin and of course in the Mystic Archives.
Manual of Arms
Bonus:
None
Locations:
Can be bought in the first edition bookstore in the Imperial City, and found inside the mystic archives in the Arcane University.
Manual of Spellcraft
Bonus:
None
Locations:
One of these can be gotten through the mages guild quest recommendation of Bruma, and a second book with the same name can most easily be found in the Chorrol mages guild.
Master Zoaraym's Tale
Bonus:
Raises your hand to hand skill
Locations:
Can be found in boss level tomb creature and marauder loot.
The Mirror
Bonus:
Raises your block skill
Locations:
Can be found in Leyawiin, in the city barracks there on the ground floor.
More then Mortal, volume 10
Bonus:
None
Locations:
Can be found in the Leyawiin mages guild, and in the house of Newheim the portly in Anvil.
Mystery of Talara I
Bonus:
Raises your acrobatics skill
Locations:
Can be found in boss level bandit and vampire loot.
Mystery of Talara II
Bonus:
Raises your restoration skill
Locations:
Can be found in boss level conjurer and necromancer loot.
Mystery of Talara III
Bonus:
Raises your destruction skill
Locations:
Can be found in boss level Conjurer and Necromancer loot.
Mystery of Talara IV
Bonus:
Raises your illusion skill
Locations:
Can be found in boss level conjurer and Necromancer loot.
Mystery of Talara V
Bonus:
None
Locations:
Not as rare as the others, can be found among other places in: CHorrol; Renoits bookstore, Cheydinhal; Mages guild, Bravil; mages guild.
Mysticism
Bonus:
None
Locations:
In Skingrad, in the house of Glarthir you can find 4 copies of this book, and in Chorrol, in the mages guild there you can find a few more.
Night falls on Sentinel
Bonus:
Raises your blunt skill
Locations:
Goblin Jim's cave, north of Skingrad is where you can find this book.
Notes on racial philogeny
Bonus:
Raises your restoration skill
Locations:
CHorrol, can be found in the great chapel there.
Palla I
Bonus:
Raises your illusion skill
Locations:
Can be found in Arkveds tower, south of lake Poppad
Palla II
Bonus:
None
Locations:
Leyawiin; Mages guild, and in Anvil, in the castle's royal quarters.
Proper lock design
Bonus:
Raises your security skill
Locations:
You can find this book in the Imperial city, in the waterfront district. Inside the house of Dareloth.
Purloined Shadows
Bonus:
Raises your sneak skill.
Locations:
This you can only find as random loot.
The ransom of Zarek
Bonus:
Raises your athletics skill
Locations:
It can be found lying against the outer wall of the Arena bloodworks
Reality and other Falsehoods
Bonus:
Raises your Alteration skill
Locations:
This can be found in Leyawiin, in the southern books bookstore.
The Rear Guard
Bonus:
Raises your light armor skill
Locations:
Cheydinhal, can be found in the dark brotherhood sanctuary there.
The Red kitchen reader
Bonus:
Raises your athletics skill
Locations:
Can be found in Anvil, inside the castle in the private quarters there.
The Refugees
Bonus:
Raises your light armor skill
Locations:
Can be found at the first edition bookstore in the Market district in the Imperial city.
Remanada
Bonus:
None
Locations:
Can be found in the cloud rules temple
Report: Disaster at Ionith
Bonus:
None
Locations:
Found in most fighters guilds
Response to Bero's speech
Bonus:
Raises your destruction skill
Locations:
Can be found in the Mystic Archives, inside the arcane university in the Imperial City
Rislav the Righteous
Bonus:
Raises your light armor skill
Locations:
Can only be found in bandit and Vampire loot.
Sacred Witness
Bonus:
Raises your sneak skill
Locations:
Can be found in the antechamber complex inside the Lake Arrius caverns.
Sithis
Bonus:
Raises your Alteration skill
Locations:
Leyawiin, can be found in the great chapel there.
Song of the Alchemists
Bonus:
Raises your alchemy skill
Locations:
Can be found in the Lustrarium in the Imperial city's arcane university
Song of Hrormir
Bonus:
Raises your blade skill
Locations:
Can be found in Bravil, in the castle's private quarters in Drels Theran's room
Souls, Black and White
Bonus:
Raises your mysticism skill
Locations:
Can be found in loot and one edition is lying on the second level of fort Cuptor
Surfeit of Thieves
Bonus:
Raises your security skill
Locations:
Can be found in boss level vampire and bandit loot.
Ten Commands; Nine divines
Bonus:
None
Locations:
Can be found plentifull in the Mages guild libraries like the Chorrol one, and of course at the mystic archives.
Thief
Bonus:
Raises your acrobatics skill
Locations:
Can be found in Bravil, at S'krivva's house.
Thief of Virtue
Bonus:
None
Locations:
Can be found in Cheydinhal, Mach-Na's bookstore and of course the Mystic Archives.
Trials of St. Alessia
Bonus:
None
Locations:
Can be found in Chorrol, in the mages guild there and in the Imperial city, in the first edition bookstore.
Varieties of Daedra
Bonus:
None
Locations:
Can be found in four mages guilds; Anvil, Bravil, Bruma and Leyawiin and in bookstores in Chorrol and Leyawiin.
Vernaccus and Bourier
Bonus:
Raises your marksman skill
Locations:
CHorrol, is located in Renoits bookstore
The Warp in the West
Bonus:
Raises your block skill
Locations:
Can be found as random loot and one copy lies in the great hall of the Cloud Rules temple.
Warrior
Bonus:
Raises your block skill
Locations:
Can be found in Leyawiin, in the castle's royal bedroom
The Warriors charge
Bonus:
Raises your conjuration skill
Locations:
Can be found in boss level necromancer and conjurer loot
Way of the Exposed Palm
Bonus:
Raises your hand to hand skill
Locations:
Can be found on the southside of Fieldhouse cave, lying underneath a mushroom.
The Wolf Queen I
Bonus:
Raises your security skill
Locations:
Bravil, inside Dro'Shanji's house
The Wolf Queen II
Bonus:
Raises your hand to hand skill
Locations:
Skingrad, can be found inside the lords manor in the castle there.
The Wolf Queen III
Bonus:
Raises your illusion skill
Locations:
Bruma, can be found in the cellar of the mages guild there.
The Wolf Queen IV
Bonus:
Raises your mercantile skill
Locations:
Imperial City, in the market district, can be found in the Imperial commerce office
The Wolf Queen V
Bonus:
Raises your speechcraft skill
Locations:
Imperial city, temple district. Inside Hastrel Ottus's house.
The Wolf QUeen VI
Bonus:
Raises your speechcraft skill
Locations:
Cheydinhal, can be found in the castle there in the lords quarters
The Wolf Queen VII
Bonus:
Raises your sneak skill
Locations:
Cheydinhal, can be found in the Dark Brotherhood sanctuary there.
The Wolf Queen VIII
Bonus:
Locations:
Words and Philosophy
Bonus:
Raises your Blade skill
Locations:
CHorrol, can be found in Modryn Oreyn's house.
Best places to look
Looking for a book? There's a very good chance this place has it;
Mystic Archives, Arcane university in the Imperial City
First edition bookstore, Market district in the Imperial City
Cloud ruler temple, a blade fortress in the Jerall Mountains to the northwest of Bruma.