Fallout New Vegas skill book locations
Every skill book in the Mojave, grouped by skill. Each book gives a permanent +3 (or +4 with Comprehension).
80 items
Barter6
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Tales of a Junktown Jerky VendorDead Money
Salida del Sol South, in the building across from the Salida del Sol house door that leads to Salida del Sol North. Go to the second floor; the book is on a bookshelf.
Skill: Barter
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Tales of a Junktown Jerky VendorLonesome Road
Go through the cellar door on the east wall of the building into the basement. The book is on a table (counter) near the pile of gore by the northwest wall.
Skill: Barter
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Tales of a Junktown Jerky Vendor
Allied Technologies Offices, in the largest room on the west side of the building. The book is on the floor in front of the Nuka-Cola machine.
Skill: Barter
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Tales of a Junktown Jerky Vendor
Cap Counterfeiting Shack, in the small back cellar room. The book is lying on the suitcase beside the bed.
Skill: Barter
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Tales of a Junktown Jerky Vendor
Primm, inside the Bison Steve Hotel. Go into the gift shop and look on the floor behind the counter.
Skill: Barter
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Tales of a Junktown Jerky Vendor
Vault 22, pest control level. Take the stairs up from the elevator into the lab room; the book is on the table with the bubbling vials.
Skill: Barter
Energy Weapons6
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Nikola Tesla and YouDead Money
In the area just before the vault room, inside a duffle bag next to the Founder's remains on a pipe, below the spot where the extracted holotape lies on the catwalk.
Skill: Energy Weapons
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Nikola Tesla and YouLonesome Road
Hopeville Missile Base Headquarters
In the first room, on the wooden shelf straight to your right as you enter. It sits at the end of the bottom shelf, half hidden under a large burned book.
Skill: Energy Weapons
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Nikola Tesla and You
Hidden Valley bunker, first floor, in Head Scribe Schuler's office west of the central hub corridor junction. The book is in the white plastic bin by the desk.
Skill: Energy Weapons
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Nikola Tesla and You
Old Nuclear Test Site, inside the nuclear test shack. The book is on the small table opposite the exit.
Skill: Energy Weapons
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Nikola Tesla and You
REPCONN Headquarters, first floor, in the room behind the Very Hard locked door, on top of the safe. The key is in a suitcase next to a skeleton on the third floor, or drop in through the hole in the floor of a western second-floor room past a Hard locked door.
Skill: Energy Weapons
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Nikola Tesla and You
REPCONN Headquarters, second floor. Take the first door on the left; the book is on the desk with the Very Easy locked terminal.
Skill: Energy Weapons
Explosives6
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Duck and Cover!Dead Money
Under the bed in Dean Domino's room, the room where you first meet him. It is wedged against the wall.
Skill: Explosives
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Duck and Cover!Lonesome Road
Just before the exit to the High Road, in a small camp to the south behind some sandbags. The book is in an open crate under a teddy bear, near a generator and a light.
Skill: Explosives
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Duck and Cover!
Mojave Outpost barracks (the bar building). Look under the bar counter, in the middle of the bottom shelf.
Skill: Explosives
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Duck and Cover!
Nellis Air Force Base, inside Pearl's barracks. The book sits among the other books on the shelf above the grenade rifle.
Skill: Explosives
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Duck and Cover!
Ranger Station Foxtrot, on the table next to Comm Officer Lenk.
Skill: Explosives
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Duck and Cover!
Sloan, inside the worker barracks. The book is on the back left shelf under a first aid box.
Skill: Explosives
Guns6
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Guns and BulletsDead Money
On the floor behind the cashier's desk on the casino floor. Reach it by jumping over the second floor lounge railing onto the ceiling beams and dropping down behind the cashier's window.
Skill: Guns
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Guns and BulletsLonesome Road
Under the desk in the northeast corner of the armory, the room that also has a bed you can sleep in.
Skill: Guns
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Guns and Bullets
Gomorrah on the Strip, in Big Sal's office upstairs from the main Brimstone level, behind a Hard locked door. The book is on the first low bookshelf on the left.
Skill: Guns
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Guns and Bullets
Nevada Highway Patrol Station, in the entrance office room. The book is on the desk without a computer, the one nearest the door that leads to the cells.
Skill: Guns
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Guns and Bullets
Vault 34, in the armory common room. The book is on the small metal table between the sofas by the pool table.
Skill: Guns
Lockpick6
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Tumblers TodayDead Money
Casino floor area, third floor, in the southeast office with the Auto-Doc. The book is on top of the tool cabinet.
Skill: Lockpick
- 02Show on map
Tumblers TodayLonesome Road
Inside the men's barracks, in one of the toilet stalls, under an overturned box.
Skill: Lockpick
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Tumblers Today
Bitter Springs Recreation Area
Bitter Springs Recreation Area, inside the office shack to the west. The book is on the desk in the smaller of the two rooms.
Skill: Lockpick
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Tumblers Today
The Prospector's Den, inside the caves in the subterranean den structure. Go to the large barracks room; the book is on the floor in the far right corner.
Skill: Lockpick
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Tumblers Today
Silver Peak Mine, inside the shack. To the right of the entrance, behind the two small tables, the book is on the ground in an open locker.
Skill: Lockpick
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Tumblers Today
Wolfhorn Ranch, inside the farmhouse. The book is partially tucked under the fridge that has no door.
Skill: Lockpick
Medicine6
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D.C. Journal of Internal MedicineDead Money
In the clinic basement, on a shelf of the cabinet next to the terminal, by some fire extinguishers.
Skill: Medicine
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D.C. Journal of Internal MedicineLonesome Road
In the buried building rooms you pass through after the Cave of the Abaddon, in the room with the bed and the exit out to the Divide. Look in the south corner under a nightstand, below the RALPHIE poster.
Skill: Medicine
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D.C. Journal of Internal Medicine
Followers Safehouse (requires the safehouse key from the Followers). In the second room, the book is on the bedside table shelf by the bed on the right.
Skill: Medicine
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D.C. Journal of Internal Medicine
HELIOS One, upstairs in the main building. The book is lying on a bed in the same room where the east terminal password is found.
Skill: Medicine
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D.C. Journal of Internal Medicine
Hell's Motel, the shack inside the Mesquite Mountains Crater. The book is on the table with the radio and repair kit, below the globe wearing a hat.
Skill: Medicine
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D.C. Journal of Internal Medicine
Novac, inside Ranger Andy's bungalow. The book is lying in the middle of the queen-sized bed.
Skill: Medicine
Melee Weapons6
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Grognak the BarbarianDead Money
Basement level, in the small room in the northwest corner off the generator room (the janitor closet). The book is on the floor in front of the filing cabinets.
Skill: Melee Weapons
- 02Show on map
Grognak the BarbarianLonesome Road
At the back of the women's barracks, on a small table under a ruined book.
Skill: Melee Weapons
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Grognak the Barbarian
Cannibal Johnson's Cave, on the mattress near the radio, close to the campfire.
Skill: Melee Weapons
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Grognak the Barbarian
Cottonwood Cove HQ, upper floor, in Aurelius of Phoenix's office. The book is inside the nightstand next to the bed.
Skill: Melee Weapons
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Grognak the Barbarian
Hidden Supply Cave, behind an Average locked door. The book rests on one of the large metal crates inside, though it can sometimes fall behind them.
Skill: Melee Weapons
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Grognak the Barbarian
Jacobstown, in the southernmost bungalow. The book is lying on the floor in front of the oven.
Skill: Melee Weapons
Repair5
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Dean's ElectronicsDead Money
Puesta del Sol switching station
Upper level in the southern part of the station, on the ground next to the corpse at the terminal that cuts power to the protected speakers.
Skill: Repair
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Dean's ElectronicsLonesome Road
Hopeville silo bunker entrance
Inside the Hopeville missile silo bunker, on the bottom level of the central silo room with the first missile. The book lies in rubble to the left of the stairs, right of an upside-down Easy locked desk against the wall.
Skill: Repair
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Dean's Electronics
Nellis Air Force Base, inside Loyal's house. The book is on the long counter next to the ruined terminal.
Skill: Repair
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Dean's Electronics
Sloan, inside the worker barracks. The book is on the top shelf to the left of the entrance.
Skill: Repair
- 05Show on map
Dean's Electronics
Southern Nevada Wind Farm, inside the shack. The book is on the table with the clipboard and scrap metal.
Skill: Repair
Science8
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Big Book of ScienceDead Money
In Vera's suite, on the bookshelf to the left of the door into the bedroom.
Skill: Science
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Big Book of ScienceOld World Blues
In a corner of the canyon south of the Y-0 building and its two trucks, between two xander root plants, by the hand of a skeleton with a duffle bag.
Skill: Science
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Big Book of ScienceLonesome Road
In the wreckage of the level 3 launch deck after the missile launch, in the north corner just past a Hard locked safe (to the left when facing the safe). Easiest to reach by dropping down from the catwalk right after entering the silo on level 2.
Skill: Science
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Big Book of Science
Brewer's Beer Bootlegging, down in the cellar. In the back room, the book is on a table to the left of the chemistry set.
Skill: Science
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Big Book of Science
Camp Forlorn Hope command center
Camp Forlorn Hope, inside the command center. The book is on the desk in the southeast corner.
Skill: Science
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Big Book of Science
HELIOS One. This copy is a quest reward from Ignacio Rivas for distributing power to the entire grid (Full Region option) during That Lucky Old Sun, not a world placement.
Skill: Science
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Big Book of Science
Nipton Town Hall, top floor, in Mayor Joseph B. Steyn's office. The book is on the desk.
Skill: Science
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Big Book of Science
REPCONN Headquarters, first floor. Go through the door next to the radioactive barrel display and past the Hard locked door; the book is on a shelf.
Skill: Science
Sneak8
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Chinese Army: Special Ops Training ManualDead Money
Puesta del Sol switching station
In the easternmost room of the station, which has a huge machine on its south side. The book is on the catwalk around that machine, on the one section you have to jump to.
Skill: Sneak
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Chinese Army: Special Ops Training ManualOld World Blues
On the floor, across from the door, in the room where you get the chest plate of the stealth suit Mk II.
Skill: Sneak
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Chinese Army: Special Ops Training ManualOld World Blues
In the testing facility section, inside the reward safe that opens once you finish all of the stealth suit tests.
Skill: Sneak
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Chinese Army: Special Ops Training ManualLonesome Road
Inside the tower, on the southeast landing one flight of stairs up from the ground floor entrance. The book is on a bookshelf that faces the wall, under a filing cabinet, so it is hidden from view.
Skill: Sneak
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Chinese Army: Special Ops Training Manual
Camp Searchlight, in the basement of the east church. The book is on the floor by the eastern wall at the foot of the metal shelves.
Skill: Sneak
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Chinese Army: Special Ops Training Manual
Goodsprings, in the home shared by Trudy and Sunny Smiles, east of the schoolhouse. The book is on a bookshelf inside.
Skill: Sneak
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Chinese Army: Special Ops Training Manual
NCR Sharecropper Farms, inside the sharecropper barracks near the four water towers in the northeast corner of the fenced area. The book is on some papers by the corner desk.
Skill: Sneak
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Chinese Army: Special Ops Training Manual
Vault 3, living quarters. From the recreation area, go down the stairs and through the Average locked door; the book is on a shelf.
Skill: Sneak
Speech6
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Lying, Congressional StyleDead Money
On a shelf across from the holotape projector.
Skill: Speech
- 02Show on map
Lying, Congressional StyleLonesome Road
Third Street Municipal Building
Top floor, reached through the municipal sewers. The book is in the easternmost corner, under a physician's desk.
Skill: Speech
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Lying, Congressional Style
Brooks Tumbleweed Ranch, in the upstairs room with the chessboard. The book is on an open locker shelf.
Skill: Speech
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Lying, Congressional Style
Cerulean Robotics, on the west side of Freeside. The book is on the floor among the office desks.
Skill: Speech
- 05Show on map
Lying, Congressional Style
Lucky Jim Mine, inside the house next to the mine. The book is on the bottom shelf below a varmint rifle.
Skill: Speech
- 06Show on map
Lying, Congressional Style
NCR Correctional Facility, second floor of the administration building. The book is on a desk.
Skill: Speech
Survival5
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Wasteland Survival GuideLonesome Road
Inside the station, in the middle of the area where the bunker floor has collapsed among fallen radioactive barrels. It is behind the barrel lying on its side with a skeleton draped over it, between two lead-lined metal boxes.
Skill: Survival
- 02Show on map
Wasteland Survival Guide
Lone Wolf Radio, inside the radio trailer. The book is near the mattress.
Skill: Survival
- 03Show on map
Wasteland Survival Guide
Matthews Animal Husbandry Farm
Matthews Animal Husbandry Farm, on the top balcony of the northern barn. The book is near the barrel crate.
Skill: Survival
- 04Show on map
Wasteland Survival Guide
Mesquite Mountains Camp Site, inside the western tent. The book is behind the bedding and toolbox; it can sometimes clip into the ground.
Skill: Survival
- 05Show on map
Wasteland Survival Guide
Scavenger Platform on Lake Mead, on the northern section of the platform. The book is among the books under the fallen metal bookshelf.
Skill: Survival
Unarmed6
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Pugilism IllustratedDead Money
On the ground behind the fountain where Dead Money starts, on the opposite side from where you wake up.
Skill: Unarmed
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Pugilism IllustratedLonesome Road
In the interior office (the third room), in the northeast corner behind a set of tipped-over lockers.
Skill: Unarmed
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Pugilism Illustrated
Fisherman's Pride Shack, inside on the bedside table.
Skill: Unarmed
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Pugilism Illustrated
Nipton Road Reststop, inside the store. The book is lying on the wooden shelf on the left as you enter, close to the counter.
Skill: Unarmed
- 05Show on map
Pugilism Illustrated
The Tops casino on the Strip, inside the presidential suite. Go into the pool room; the book is on the tiny table in the corner.
Skill: Unarmed
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Pugilism Illustrated
Vault 11, living quarters, in the first female dorm. The book is by the fallen dresser, under the small sign on the ceiling that reads ladies.
Skill: Unarmed