Category:Shadows over Loathing books

Icon	Book	Perk or Skill	Where to find	XP cost	Note
Pig Skinner Skill Books
	Celsius 212	Hot-Foot	Murray's Antique Store, bookshelf	100 to upgrade	Set target on fire for 3
	Field Manual PS706: Troop Morale Maintenance	Cheerlead	Cola Wars Surplus	75 to upgrade	Increase all allies' stats by 1 (once per fight)
	Do-It-Yourself Sports Medicine	Tape Up	Ocean City Boardwalk, first aid kiosk	50 to upgrade	Heal target for 5 HP
	Chaos And Its Discontents	Free-For-All	A Fitful Dream	50 to upgrade	Deal 3 physical damage to all combatants
	Complete Sports Almanac, 1880-1890	Throw Ball	Crystaldream Dam, outhouse	100 to upgrade	Deal 5 physical damage
	A Treatise on a Treatise on Metareferentiality	Stop Hitting Yourself	Rufus's Lab, bookshelf	75 to upgrade	Deal target's Muscle in Physical Damage
	Advanced Bullying Techniques	Noogie	Zeta Omega Omicron, bookshelf	75 to upgrade	Reduce target's stats by 3
	The Breeze In The Bristlecones	Second Wind	S.I.T. (Greenhouse), Kalos' bookshelf	75 to upgrade	Restore half of your maximum HP
	Kicking Things For Fun and Profit	Punt	The Old Dauphin House, right bedroom	100 to upgrade	Deal 3 Physical Damage and reduce Mysticality by 3
	To Stretch Man	Stretch	Gatorman Fortress (Throne Room), bookshelf	100 to upgrade	+3 Muscle
	How To Cheat At Sports	Wind Up	Jasper's Feed and Tack (Back Room)	150 to upgrade	Your next melee attack deals 2x damage
Cheese Wizard Skill Books
	Cheeses I Have Smelt	Queso Fustulento	Murray's Antique Store, bookshelf	100 to upgrade	Deal 5 Stench Damage
	Field Manual CW401: Culinary Tactics	Parmesan Missile	Cola Wars Surplus	100 to upgrade	Deal 3 Physical Damage and reduce Moxie by 3
	Cooking For Health	Medical Manchego	Ocean City Boardwalk, first aid kiosk	50 to upgrade	Heal target for 10 HP and cure all negative status effects
	The Melting Mind	Mind Melt	A Fitful Dream	75 to upgrade	Deal target's Mysticality in Hot Damage
	Cooking With Power Tools	Stilton Splatter	Valley Hardware	100 to upgrade	Deal 3 Sleaze Damage to 3 different enemies
	Spacetime's Rainbow	Reality Shift	Rufus's Lab, bookshelf	75 to upgrade	Gain 3 armor against every element
	Sloppy Cooking For Huge Groups	Fondue Deluge	Zeta Omega Omicron, bookshelf	75 to upgrade	Light up random foes for a total of 5 On Fire
	Hard Rock, Soft Rock	Cheddarmor	S.I.T. (Geology Classroom), Dr. Morton	75 to upgrade	+3 Physical Armor to target
	Mascarpone's Monster or The Modern Provolone	Emmental Elemental	Monster Shack, bookshelf	100 to upgrade	Summon a Cheezling ally (once per fight)
	Bones And How To Crack Them	Crack Knuckles	Gatorman Fortress (Throne Room), bookshelf	100 to upgrade	+3 Mysticality
	Anarchy Through Spirituality	Gather Cheese-Chi	Jasper's Feed and Tack (Back Room)	150 to upgrade	Your next magical attack deals 2x damage
Jazz Agent Skill Books
	History's Worst Honking	Sax of Violence	Murray's Antique Store, bookshelf	75 to upgrade	Deal 1 Physical Damage to all enemies each round
	Field Manual JA227: Extraordinary Audition	Orchestra Strike	Cola Wars Surplus	100 to upgrade	Deal 5 Physical Damage
	Flute Music Is The Best Medicine	Soothing Flute	Ocean City Boardwalk, first aid kiosk	75 to upgrade	Heal all allies by 1 HP per round
	Vibrations of the Netherzones	Jazz Hands	A Fitful Dream	75 to upgrade	+3 Moxie
	Greta's Guide to Cross-Species Friendship	Call for Backup	Greta's Compassionate Pet Store	100 to upgrade	Cause your familiar to act 2 additional times
	Harmonic Frequency Reference (90Hz - 180Hz)	Tricky Timpani	Rufus's Lab, bookshelf	75 to upgrade	Deal target's Moxie in Sleaze Damage
	Piano Repair for Abject Imbeciles	Piano Crush	Zeta Omega Omicron, bookshelf	100 to upgrade	Deal 3 Physical Damage and reduce Muscle by 3
	Poisons from Arsenic to Zinc Oxide	Venomous Riff	S.I.T. (Spiders Classroom), bookshelf (Jazz Agent only)	100 to upgrade	Poison target for 5
	Advanced Scowling	Grit Teeth	Haim Quarry, foreman's office	50 to upgrade	Heal target for 5 HP
	Making The Most Of Your Stabbings	Knife in the Dark	Gatorman Fortress (Throne Room), bookshelf	100 to upgrade	Deal 25% of target's Max HP in Physical Damage
	Destroying Authority With Music	Drum Roll	Jasper's Feed and Tack (Back Room)	150 to upgrade	Your next Moxie attack deals 2x damage
Perk Books
	The Handgun's Tale	Advanced Handgunnery	Farmer Chekhov's House	none; requires 5 Mysticality	+1 to Ranged Weapon Attacks
	Advanced Poison Chemistry	Poison Metabolizer	S.I.T. (Spiders Classroom), bookshelf (Jazz Agent only)	none; requires 7 Mysticality	Poison wears off more quickly
	Advanced Collision Physics	Collision Dynamics Expert	S.I.T. textboox salesman	75	+1 to Melee Weapon Attacks
	Advanced Magnetospheric Flux	Seen Forces	S.I.T. textboox salesman	75	+1 to Magical Weapon Attacks
	Advanced Projectile Physics	Cannon Canon	S.I.T. textboox salesman	75	+1 to Ranged Weapon Attacks
	Advanced Neurological Anatomy	Energized Brain	S.I.T. textboox salesman	100	Allows use of an extra combat item every round
	Advanced Vascular Anatomy	Comprehensively Veined	S.I.T. textboox salesman	50	+3 Maximum HP
	Encyclopaedium of Bloode	Bloode Lore	Village of Sandwich, Proctor Cellar	30, 40, 50...	+3 Maximum HP, then +2 per use
	Expensive Luxuries, Inc. catalog	There's Treasure Everywhere	Black Gold Mine	30, 40, 50...	+20% to Item Drops, then +10% per use
	The Psychography of Panhandling	Expert Panhandlery	S.I.T. Library Stacks stacks with 6 Hobo Literacy	50	+25% to Meat Drops
	101 Delicious Mutton Recipes	Mutton Magnate	Uncurse Librum Umbra Malum Ovilla	none	+30% to Meat Drops
	111 Delicious Mutton Recipes	Meaty Expertise	Lift The Book's Curse	30, 40, 50...	+20% to Meat Drops, then +10% per use
	Posthumous Works of the Romance Poets	Coldridge's Armor	Upgrade His Majesty's Least Favorite Poems at The H***hole	30, 40, 50...	+1 Cold Armor per use
	Short Stories of Long Winters	I Choose Not to be Cold	S.I.T. (Barbecue Wing Freezer Room)	30, 40, 50...	+1 Hot Armor per use
	Flora foetidae	Nostrildamus	The Old Junkyard (Faerie Complex)	30, 40, 50...	+1 Stench Armor per use
	Scary Stories for Spooky Children	Nightmare Alloy	The Old Gilmore Place	30, 40, 50...	+1 Spooky Armor per use
	Surely Shocking Jokes (complete set)	Heard 'Em All	Travelling salesman in Ocean City or Crystaldream Lake	30, 40, 50...	+1 Sleaze Armor per use
	Librum Umbra Malum Ovilla	Several	S.I.T. Library Stacks	100 each; 900 total	Requires Shadow taint level 3
...Books
	The Complete Works of Schmedlund Plencer	None	The Black House	n/a	Can be used in the ending
	complicated S.I.T. textbook (Name is randomized and starts with a number)	None	S.I.T. wandering salesman	n/a	Gives when used
	His Majesty's Least Favorite Poems	None	Ovid's Store	n/a	Can be upgraded at The H***hole into Posthumous Works of the Romance Poets
	The History of Mudhenge	None	Mudhenge	n/a	Highly informative
	Tom Chapman's diary	None	Largemouth Bass & Sons (Chapman House quarters)	n/a	Part of the quest to find Tom and Cathy
	Welding & Wielding	Weapon Repair Aware	The Tin Lizzies' Chop Shop shed	n/a	It's a joke perk