Black book

Black Book or Blackbook may refer to:

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"