The Book can refer to:
- The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, a 1966 book by Alan Watts
- "The Book" (short story), an unfinished, fragmentary short story by H. P. Lovecraft
- 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")
- Indian mystic Meher Baba's missing book
- The telephone book
- Paul Erdős' concept of "The Book" in which God maintains the most elegant proofs from THE BOOK of mathematical theorems
- The second part of The Revelation of Arès, a publication of a 20th century religious movement founded by Michel Potay
As referred to in works of fiction, The Book may be
- Goldstein's book, from George Orwell's novel 1984
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (fictional)
- The Book (Time Warp Trio), a fictional item from the book and television series
Famous quotes containing the word book:
“I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in a book a single—and singular—piece of wisdom so penetrating, so soul stirring, so utterly applicable to my own life as to make all the bad books I have read seem well worth the countless hours spent on them. My guess is that this wisdom, if it ever arrives, will do so in the form of a generalization.”
—Joseph Epstein (b. 1937)