Black book

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Black Book, Black book or Blackbook may refer to:

Film

• Black Book (film), a 2006 film of director Paul Verhoeven
  • Black Book (soundtrack), the soundtrack of the 2006 film Black Book
• The Black Book (serial), a 1929 film serial
• The Black Book, an alternative name for Reign of Terror (film), a 1949 drama set in the French Revolution

History

• Berlin Black Book, supposed list of British perverts compiled by Germany during the First World War
• 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 of Carmarthen, one of the earliest surviving manuscripts written entirely in Welsh
• Black Book (World War II), a compilation of documentary reports about the actions of Nazis against Jews in Eastern Europe during the Holocaust
• The Black Book: Imbalance of Power and Wealth in the Sudan, a 2000 dissident publication
• The Black Book of Capitalism, a book that assigns blame for historic repressions to capitalism
• The Black Book of Colonialism, a book documenting evils attributed to colonialism
• The Black Book of English Canada, a 2001 book detailing the history of Canada's crimes against ethnic minorities
• The Black Book of Communism, a 1999 publication that attempts to catalog crimes that it argues resulted from the pursuit of communism

Literature

• The Black Book (Durrell novel), a 1938 novel by Lawrence Durrell
• The Black Book (Pamuk novel), a 1990 novel by Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk
• The Black Book (Rankin novel), a 1993 novel by Scottish writer Ian Rankin
• Black Book (novel), a 2006 novel derived from the 2006 film Black Book
• Yazidi Black Book, one of the two holy books of the Yazidi religion (Kurdish language)
• BlackBook, an arts and culture magazine

Television

• "The Black Book" (Garfield and Friends), a 1989 episode of Garfield and Friends
• "The Black Book" (Rebus), an 2006 episode in the Inspector Rebus series
• Black Books, a British sitcom

Other uses

• Black Book (company), a Clearwater, FL-based market research company focusing on the healthcare industry
• Black Book (gambling), a nickname for a list of individuals blacklisted from casinos
• Black Book (non-standard disc format)
• Black books of hours, Flemish illuminated manuscripts, created on black dyed vellum.
• An informal term for a black MacBook, a notebook computer produced by Apple Inc.
• A traditional or Wiccan name for a grimoire, the personal guide book to ritual kept by every practicing witch, or other text instructing in magic
• Black book, a slang term for a graffiti artist's notebook or sketchbook
• Black books, records of Lincoln's Inn, a barristers association in London

See also

• Black Book of the Admiralty, a collection of medieval maritime law
• Book of Negroes, a 1783 list of the Black Loyalists, those African Americans who fought for the British Crown
• Liber Niger (disambiguation), Latin for "Black Book"
• Little black book (disambiguation)