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(direct link, original post @ http://valerie1972.tumblr.com/post/162615642289 ) Adding to my list of Resources You Didn't Know You Needed And Maybe Don't Need Anyway, here's a list I've been compiling of all of the books and authors we know of in Thedas. You can sort and download to your hearts' content; by default they're sorted by author and then by title. Author names have been converted to something akin to "lastname, firstname" when an equivalent doesn't exist. Titles were kept intact when they're used as part of the author's official name but if they seemed extraneous I dropped them. As a good example, "Brother Ferdinand Genitivi, Chantry Scholar" is "Genitivi, Brother Ferdinand" on the table. "Unknown" can mean that it's either not given or that it's truly unknown in-world; there are also a few "Anonymous" authors. The books, plays, and stories are gleaned mostly from Codex citations, but there are also things in there that are mentioned in other in-universe books (like the plays mentioned in The Compendium of Orlesian Theater and the novels rated by the Randy Dowager) and in other contexts in-game (like the list of books Solas requests at Skyhold and Varric's published works). This does not include things like diaries, letters, and other "informal" written communication, even if it's used as a citation for a codex entry. It does include oral tales, especially stories told by Dalish and alienage elves.