The Book Explained

The Book may refer to:

Religious texts

• The Bible, especially a Tyndale House edition of the New Living Translation published as "The Book"
• The Qur’ān (Arabic: القرآن al-qur'ān, literally "the recitation")
• The second part of The Revelation of Arès, a publication of a 20th-century religious movement founded by Michel Potay

Music albums

• The Book (D-Sisive EP), 2008
• The Book (Yoasobi EP), 2021
• The Book (album), by Root

In fiction

• The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, a fictional book written by Emmanuel Goldstein that serves as a major plot element in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (fictional), often referred to simply as "the book" within its namesake series
• The Book (Time Warp Trio), a fictional item from the book Time Warp Trio and television series The Time Warp Trio

Other uses

• Paul Erdős' concept of "The Book", in which God maintains the most elegant proofs of mathematical theorems and which inspired Proofs from THE BOOK
• The Book (short story), an unfinished, fragmentary short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, a 1966 work by Alan Watts
• The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food, a Soviet-era government-sponsored cookbook

See also

• Book (disambiguation)
• The Books, an American music group