More random tables I've collected

Now, my players can run into a warehouse, or a library, and I won't be
stuck thinking about titles.
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Interview with some vampires
Cosmos-ology by Cal Sargan
I Golem
The 13 Habits of Highly Effective Necromancers
To Kill a Mimic-bird
The Grungs of Wrath
A Clockwork Orog
Invisible Man when spells become permanent
All the Kings Men-at-Arms
The Blind-sight Assassin
Little Women a book of famous gnomes and halflings
Are You My Mummy? A to choosing your undead servants
Three Mages in a Boat
The Wind in the Will-o-wisps
A Passage to Icewind Dale
How I Ate My Mother Confessions of a Lycanthrope
The Moonsea Chronicles
Fairefire 451
Do Golems Dream of Awakened Sheep?
The Little Elder Brain that Could
Thomas the Tank Elementalist Story of a War Mage
The Very Hungry Carrion Crawler
Pride and Phylacteries.
Speaker with the Dead.
Heart of +1 Darkness.
Great Divinations.
Treasure Island: Find Yours.
Kidnapped (by Kobolds).
Of Near-Human Bondage.
Invisible Lizardman.
A Farewell to Armor: A Delvers Guide to Rust Monsters.
For Whom the Die Rolls: A Fools Guide to Dice Games and Gambling.
The Great Gadsbee, and Other Famous Illusionists.
Blindsense and Sensibility: Feeling your Way in the Dark.
Blood Maridan.
Born Efreet.
Lucky Djinn.
The Life and Mines of a Dwarvish Prospector.
Star Lores (this is in the astronomy section).
A History of the Decline and Fall of the Dwarven Empire.
Of Mice and Half-Men
The Elvish Gene.
Were Going on an Owl-bear Hunt
The Tale of Peter Rakshasa
Ferdinand the Bullette
The Worst Witch a guide to min-maxing
Cloudy with a chance of Manitcores
The Pied Piper Why you shouldnt trust bards
Stuart Little and the Dangers of the Awaken Spell
Around the world in 80 Dimension Doors
The Hunger of Hadar Games
Pretty Woman: An Adventurers Guide to Nymphs ..
Dances with Wolves: An Adventurers Guide to Lycanthropes ..
There Will Be Blood: An Adventurers Guide to Vampires ..
Clear and Present Danger: A Dungeoneers Guide to Traps ..
Along Came a Spider: A Dungeoneers Guide to Driders and Drow ..
Kiss the Girls: A Travelers Guide to Succubi ..
Unwrapped: A Delvers Guide to Mummies ..
Frozen: A Travelers Guide to Frost Giants ..
Tangled: A Delvers Guide to Ropers ..
Into the Woods: An Adventurers Guide to Sprites and Pixies ..
Some like it hot: A guide to fire elementals
Under Da Sea: In Search of the Kraken ..
The Boy Who Cried Roc — A classic childrens tale about a boy that though it was funny to announce to the village that there was a Roc nearby. One day there was, and the nobody believed him. He was the only survivor.
The Five People You Meet in the Astral Plane
Girls Gone Feywild
Secret Life of Banshees
The Cat in the Hat the joys of awaken
The Rise and Fall of the Third Roc
A Thousand Splendid Sunbursts
A Tree Grows in Baulders Gate
The Demon-Haunted World: Faith and a Sacred Flame in the Dark
The Conjuration Manifesto
The Grick who Stole Midwinter
The Phantom Tollbooth and other strange hauntings
Faerunian Gods
All the Light We Cannot See counterspelling darkness
Me Before You: A Study of Initative Rolls.
50 Shades of Fey
50 Shades of Gray Oozes
50 Shades of Orange is the New Black
7 Habits of Highly Effective Peasants (The sequel to “The Hunger Games: A True Story”)
A Brave New Halfling: Small People Can Make a Big Difference (obviously a work of fiction)
A Farewell to Magics
A Handmaids Tail: a collection of short stories by notable Tieflings
A Hitchhikers Guide to the Multiverse
A Passage to the Underdark
A Tale of One Ettin
A Tale of Two Gith Seas a travellers guide to the astral sea.
A Wrinkle in Mana.
Adventures with Muck, Berries, and Fins a herbalists guide to useful foraging.
Airship Up
Alices Adventures in the Underdark
Ansalon, Ansalon! An Atlas of the Dragonlance land Ansalon
As I Lay at Zero Hit Points
Bigbys Little Lies
Bond with the Wind a guide to summoning elementals.
Buddy Folio. A magical tome which tells you who your true friends are so that you might rule them out as possible enemies… (Name doubles as an in-game social media network)
Bugbear, Bugbear, What do you See?
Catch 22D12
Catoblepas Shrugged
Celestials and Demons a tale of a Githyanki explorer and his adventures through the planes.
Couatl in the Rye
Dantes Infernal: A tourists guide to the nine hells
Diary of a Wimpy Kobold
Dignity and Discrimination
Dragon Turtles All the Way Down
Dretch-22
Eat, Prey, Club A Guidebook for Orcs
Everything is Illuminated thanks to Faerie Fire.
Fantastic Drinks and where to buy them: A Dwarfs guide to all the taverns in , cataloguing the best and most curious drinks each tavern has
Fight. Club. A Comprehensive Guide for Barbarians (a pop-up book)
Fighters Club First rule of Fighters Club, dont talk about Fighters Club… Second rule of Fighters Club, protect the Cleric.
For Whom the Behir Tolls
For Whom the Bridge Troll A tragic love story of a misunderstood Bridge Troll
Frank and his Stein The story of a poor drunk named Frank
Game of Twilight
Girl with the Dragon Turtle a story about a young elfs journey through life.
Girl with the Dragonborn Tattoo
Glaive Hewn World
Gone with the Healing Wind
Gone with the Wind and a Fly Check
Great Incantations
Green Hags and Ham
Harry Otter. A story about a young orphan Druid who lives with his boring fighter uncle and aunt who denies the existence of druids. The story sees Harry start at the Druid school led by Albus Bumbledoor, the archdruid who loves to be a Bumblebee. Bumbledoor takes Harry under his gravity defying wings and tells him the true story about how his parents died and that he is known by all druids as The Otter Who Lived. He must now meet his destiny and fight the most evil druid of all time, Voldemoth. Featuring the great cast of: Ron the Weasel, Hermione Ranger (some people can never choose only one class), Hagrid the lover of all creatures, Severus Snake and many more!
Harry Otter and the Transmute Stone
Harry Otter and the Room of DMs Hidden Notes
Harry Otter and the Prisoner of the Fire Plane
Harry Otter and the Bag of Holding Fire
Harry Otter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Otter and the Half-Elf Prince
Harry Otter and the Saving throws
Fantastic Beasts and How To Turn Into Them
Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Kidney Stone, a thrilling novel how an ordinarily normal surgery gets complicated due to wild magic leaving Harry with unexpected results. Spoiler Harry gets magic and becomes Dr. Strange after prolonged contact with the Sorcerers insides
Heart of Darkvision
How to Cast Friends and Polymorph People
How to make Illusions and Charm People
Hunger for Names a successful Nothics book of baby names for any and all species.
In His Steps, What Would Saint Cuthbert Do? a religious self-help book.
In Kobold Blood
Journey to the centre of the Underdark
Llothlita
Lolths Web a study of Drow religion.
Lord of the flies: A biography on Baalzebul
Lord of the Githzerai
MarrE Rotter and the Sorcerers Bones a jaded druid seeks the remains of a powerful sorcerer to bring about the end of the world
Memoirs of a Geisha in Oriental Adventures.
Memoirs of a Genasi
Memoirs of a Nymph the life and times of a fey seductress.
Mephitmorphosis
Mordenkainenstein
Of Merr and Men
Of mimics and men
One Flew Over the Harpys Nest
One Flew Over the Kenkus Nest
One Lich, Two Lich
One Thousand and One Knights
Paradise Lost: Make A Perception Check to Find It
Planar-shifting for People in a Hurry
Pride and Prestidigitation
Raging for Help: The Shocking True Story of one Barbarians Dark Past
Ready Mindflayer One
Rune -a story about the application and use of runes from an ancient desert society.
Satyrs and Sensibility
Sense Motive and Sensibility
Snow Dwarf and the Seven Wights
The (insert race here) Cook Book A book about how to best cook (insert race here)
The Adventures of Goodberry Flint.
The Adventures of Nancy Druid
The Amityville Hook Horror
The Brothers Dragonbornov
The Charming Bones a tale about a Necromancer looking for love in all the wrong places.
The Cockatrice in the Rye
The Constant Scrivener
The Dog in the Bog a childrens tale about a Blink Dog disembowelling a Displacer Beast to save a swamp village.
The Drapes of Wrath a guide to identifying and destroying animated objects.
The Giving Treant
The Grapes of Wraith: Wining and Dining the Undead
The Great Ghast-B
The Haunting of Every Place You Find
The Illithid by Virgil
The Left Hand Casts Darkness
The Lion, the Witch, and the War-forged
The Liches of Eastwick
The Lusty Lizardfolk Maid
The Odd Sea Stories of ships disappearing/shipwrecks off the Sword Coast.
The Power of Mimics: Why Certain Encounters Have Extraordinary Impact
The Ruler of the Bracelets- Its about two gnomes who find a bracelet of power, and they have to take it to the Burning Steppes and cast it into the Cauldron. They form the Brotherhood of the Bracelet. Along the way theyre trailed by a murloc named Gottom, whos obsessed with the bracelet, and nine bracelet bogeymen. It could be a three-parter, called Ruler of the Bracelet. The first part would be called The Brotherhood of the Bracelet, followed by A Couple of Towers, with the climactic ending called Hey, the Kings Back!'”
The Secret Life of Bards
The Sound and the Flurry of Blows
The Sound and The Fury (No change in the title but this is a Buddy Cop novel with a Bard and Barbarian)
The Thieves Cant Tales
The Treant of Wildfell Hall.
The Ugly Darkling
The Vault in our Stars an Illithids guide to the treasures of the Far Realms.
The Very Hungry Purple Worm a childrens book about the death and devouring of civilization.
The Wizard of Ooze
The Wyrm in the Willows
Tis Pity Shes a Drow
To Kill a Griffon
To Kill a Manticore
To Kill a Roc with Birds a military study on aerial combat.
War and Geas an enchanters guide to bringing down established governments.
War of the Wurms
War or Peace: Make A Diplomacy Check
What to Expect When Youre Spectating a history of the world written by a famed Beholder author.
Worg and Pieces
Zen and the Art of Punching Dragons in the Face: One Monks Life as an Adventurer