The Book of Sui is the official history of the Sui dynasty, which ruled China in the years AD 581–618. It ranks among the official Twenty-Four Histories of imperial China. It was written by Yan Shigu, Kong Yingda, and Zhangsun Wuji, with Wei Zheng as the lead author. In the third year of Zhenguan of the Tang dynasty (629), Emperor Taizong of Tang ordered Fang Xuanling to supervise the completion of the Book of Sui, which was being compiled around the same time as other official histories were being written. The Book of Sui was completed in 636 AD, the same year as the Book of Chen was completed.
The format used in the text follows the composite historical biography format (斷代紀傳體) established by Ban Gu in the Book of the Later Han with three sections: annals (紀), treatises (志), and biographies (傳). The extensive set of 30 treatises, sometimes translated as "monographs", in the Book of Sui was completed by a separate set of authors and added in 656 – 20 years after the original text was completed. The treatises cover the Liang, Chen, Northern Qi, and Northern Zhou dynasties in addition to the Sui. In addition to the Book of Liang and Book of Chen, the Book of Sui is an essential source of information on the subjects covered for those dynasties. The treatises on classics (經籍) are especially important because the Book of Sui is the only standard history including such a section since the Book of Han and contains essential bibliographical information for the period from the Later Han (25–220) to the Sui dynasty. The treatises were initially circulated as a separate set titled "Treatises of the History of the Five Dynasties" (五代史志).
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| 帝紀第1 高祖上 | |||||||
| 帝紀第2 高祖下 | Gaozu | ||||||
| 帝紀第3 煬帝上 | |||||||
| 帝紀第4 煬帝下 | Emperor Yang | ||||||
| 帝紀第5 恭帝 | |||||||
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| 志第1 禮儀1 | Rites | ||||||
| 志第2 禮儀2 | Rites | ||||||
| 志第3 禮儀3 | Rites | ||||||
| 志第4 禮儀4 | Rites | ||||||
| 志第5 禮儀5 | Rites | ||||||
| 志第6 禮儀6 | Rites | ||||||
| 志第7 禮儀7 | Rites | ||||||
| 志第8 音樂上 | Music | ||||||
| 志第9 音樂中 | Music | ||||||
| 志第10 音樂下 | Music | ||||||
| 志第11 律曆上 | Rhythm and the Calendar | ||||||
| 志第12 律曆中 | Rhythm and the Calendar | ||||||
| 志第13 律曆下 | Rhythm and the Calendar | ||||||
| 志第14 天文上 | Astronomy | ||||||
| 志第15 天文中 | Astronomy | ||||||
| 志第16 天文下 | Astronomy | ||||||
| 志第17 五行上 | The Five Elements | ||||||
| 志第18 五行下 | The Five Elements | ||||||
| 志第19 食貨 | Food and Money | ||||||
| 志第20 刑法 | Punishment and Law | ||||||
| 志第21 百官上 | Government Offices | ||||||
| 志第22 百官中 | Government Offices | ||||||
| 志第23 百官下 | Government Offices | ||||||
| 志第24 地理上 | Geography | ||||||
| 志第25 地理中 | Geography | ||||||
| 志第26 地理下 | Geography | ||||||
| 志第27 經籍1 | Classics | ||||||
| 志第28 經籍2 | Classics | ||||||
| 志第29 經籍3 | Classics | ||||||
| 志第30 經籍4 | Classics | ||||||
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| 列傳第1 后妃 | Empresses | ||||||
| 列傳第2 李穆 梁睿 | Li Mu | ||||||
| 列傳第3 劉昉 鄭譯 柳裘 皇甫績 盧賁 | Liu Fang | ||||||
| 列傳第4 于義 陰壽 陰世師 竇榮定 元景山 源雄 豆盧勣 豆盧毓 賀若誼 | |||||||
| 列傳第5 梁士彥 宇文忻 王誼 元諧 王世積 虞慶則 元胄 | Liang Shiyan | ||||||
| 列傳第6 高熲 蘇威 | Gao Jiong | ||||||
| 列傳第7 李德林 李百藥 | Li Delin | ||||||
| 列傳第8 河間王弘 楊処綱 楊子崇 觀德王雄 | |||||||
| 列傳第9 滕穆王瓚 道悼王靜 衛昭王爽 蔡王智積 | Yang Zan | ||||||
| 列傳第10 文四子 | Four Princes of Wen | ||||||
| 列傳第11 趙煚 趙芬 楊尚希 長孫平 元暉 韋師 楊異 蘇孝慈 李雄 張煚 | |||||||
| 列傳第12 韋世康 柳機 | |||||||
| 列傳第13 楊素 弟約 從父文思 文紀 | |||||||
| 列傳第14 牛弘 | |||||||
| 列傳第15 宇文慶 李禮成 元孝矩 郭榮 龐晃 李安 | |||||||
| 列傳第16 長孫覽 從子熾 熾弟晟 | |||||||
| 列傳第17 韓擒虎 賀若弼 | Han Qinhu | ||||||
| 列傳第18 達奚長儒 賀婁子幹 史萬歲 劉方 | Daxi Zhangru | ||||||
| 列傳第19 王長述 李衍 伊婁謙 田仁恭 元亨 杜整 李徹 崔彭 | |||||||
| 列傳第20 杜彥 高勱 爾朱敞 周搖 獨孤揩 乞伏慧 張威 和洪 侯莫陳穎 | |||||||
| 列傳第21 盧愷 令狐熙 薛胄 宇文㢸 張衡 楊汪 | |||||||
| 列傳第22 盧思道 李孝貞 薛道衡 | Lu Sidao | ||||||
| 列傳第23 明克讓 魏澹 陸爽 杜台卿 辛德源 柳䛒 許善心 李文博 | |||||||
| 列傳第24 煬帝三男 | Three Princes of Yang | ||||||
| 列傳第25 崔仲方 于仲文 段文振 | Cui Zhongfang | ||||||
| 列傳第26 宇文述 雲定興 郭衍 | |||||||
| 列傳第27 王韶 元岩 劉行本 梁毗 柳彧 趙綽 裴肅 | |||||||
| 列傳第28 樊子蓋 史祥 元壽 楊義臣 衛玄 劉權 | |||||||
| 列傳第29 李圓通 陳茂 張定和 張奫 麥鐵杖 沈光 來護兒 魚俱羅 陳稜 王辯 | |||||||
| 列傳第30 周羅睺 周法尚 李景 慕容三藏 薛世雄 王仁恭 權武 吐萬緒 董純 趙才 | |||||||
| 列傳第31 李諤 鮑宏 裴政 柳庄 源師 郎茂 高構 張虔威 榮毗 陸知命 房彥謙 | |||||||
| 列傳第32 虞世基 裴蘊 裴矩 | Yu Shiji | ||||||
| 列傳第33 宇文愷 閻毗 何稠 | |||||||
| 列傳第34 王劭 袁充 | Wang Shao | ||||||
| 列傳第35 楊玄感 李子雄 趙元淑 斛斯政 劉元進 李密 裴仁基 | Yang Xuangan | ||||||
| 列傳第36 誠節 | Sincere Men | ||||||
| 列傳第37 孝義 | Filial Piety | ||||||
| 列傳第38 循吏 | Upright Officials | ||||||
| 列傳第39 酷吏 | Cruel Officials | ||||||
| 列傳第40 儒林 | Confucian Scholars | ||||||
| 列傳第41 文學 | Literature | ||||||
| 列傳第42 隱逸 | Hermits | ||||||
| 列傳第43 藝術 | Artists | ||||||
| 列傳第44 外戚 | Imperial Affines | ||||||
| 列傳第45 列女 | Exemplary Women | ||||||
| 列傳第46 東夷 | The Dongyi | ||||||
| 列傳第47 南蠻 | The Nanman | ||||||
| 列傳第48 西域 | The Western Regions | ||||||
| 列傳第49 北狄 | The Beidi | ||||||
| 列傳第50 宇文化及 宇文智及 司馬德戡 裴虔通 王充 段達 | Yuwen Huaji | ||||||