Black book

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Black book or Black Book may refer to:

In 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
• The Black Book, a set of household ordinances regulating the English Court, published in the reign of Edward IV
• 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

In 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 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

In television:

• "The Black Book (Garfield and Friends)", episode of Garfield and Friends from 1989
• Black Books, a British television sitcom broadcast on Channel 4

In film and its derivatives:

• 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 2006 film directed by Nick Hurran

In other fields:

• Black book, a revision of a technical paper named according to common practice after the color of its cover page. Other possibilities include white paper, orange book, etc.
• a small book, usually an address book with a black cover, that a person writes the info (name, telephone number, sexual rating) of their ex-partners, hook-ups, or one night stands
• Black Book (gaming), a nickname for a list of individuals blacklisted from casinos
• A book or collection of papers used by graffiti artists to paractice writing.

[edit] See also

• Book of Negroes, a 1783 list of the Black Loyalists, those African Americans who fought for the British Crown