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Black Book or Blackbook may refer to:

1. Any of several books or documents of a political character, published at different times and for different purposes; so called either from the colour of the binding, or from the character of the contents.
   1. Template:Lb A book compiled in the twelfth century, containing a description of the court of exchequer of England, an official statement of the revenues of the crown, etc.
   2. Template:Lb A book containing details of the enormities practiced in the English monasteries and religious houses, compiled by order of their visitors under Henry VIII, to hasten their dissolution.
   3. Template:Lb A book of admiralty law, of the highest authority, compiled in the reign of Edward III.
   4. Template:Lb A book kept for the purpose of registering the names of persons liable to censure or punishment, as in the English universities, or the English armies.
   5. Any book dealing with necromancy.

History

• The Black Book, the list of people to be arrested by the Gestapo following a planned Nazi invasion of Britain in the Second World War
• Black Book (World War II), a compilation of documentary reports about the actions of Nazis against Jews in Eastern Europe during the Holocaust

Literature

• The Black Book (1938 novel), a 1938 novel by Lawrence Durrell
• The Black Book (1990 novel), a 1990 novel by Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk
• The Black Book (1993 novel), a 1993 novel by Scottish writer Ian Rankin
• Black Book (2006 novel), the novelization of the 2006 film Black Book
• Black Book of Carmarthen, one of the earliest surviving manuscripts written entirely in Welsh
• Yazidi Black Book, one of the two holy books of the Yazidi religion
• The Black Book: Imbalance of Power and Wealth in the Sudan, a 2000 dissident publication
• The Black Book of English Canada, a 2001 book detailing the history of Canada's crimes against ethnic minorities
• The Black Book of Capitalism, a book that attempts to assign blame for historic repressions to capitalism
• The black book of colonialism, a book documenting evils attributed to colonialism.
• The Black Book of Communism, a 1999 publication that attempts to catalog crimes that it argues resulted from the pursuit of communism
• Black Book (Talat Pasha)
• BlackBook Magazine, an arts and culture magazine

Television

• "The Black Book" (Garfield and Friends), episode of Garfield and Friends from 1989
• "The Black Book" (Rebus), an 2006 episode in the Inspector Rebus TV series
• Black Books, a British television sitcom broadcast on Channel 4

Film

• Black Book (film), a 2006 film of director Paul Verhoeven
  • Black Book (novel), the novelization of the 2006 film Black Book
  • Black Book (soundtrack), the soundtrack of the 2006 film Black Book
• The Black Book (serial), a 1929 film serial
• Little Black Book, a 2004 film directed by Nick Hurran
• The Black Book, an alternative name for Reign of Terror (film), a 1949 drama film set in the French Revolution

Technology

• Black Book (Non-Standard Disc Format)

Other uses

• The Black Book of the Admiralty, a collection of medieval maritime law
• Black Book (gambling), a nickname for a list of individuals blacklisted from casinos
• An informal term for a black MacBook, a notebook computer produced by Apple Inc.
• A traditional name for a grimoire, Book of Shadows, or other text instructing in magic

• Cyprianus, a traditional title or author for a Scandinavian grimoire (svarte boka).

• Black Book, a slang term for a graffiti artist's notebook or sketchbook

See also

• Book of Negroes, a 1783 list of the Black Loyalists, those African Americans who fought for the British Crown
• Address book, sometimes referred to as the "Little Black Book"