- This list is as accurate as possible as of 7 July, 2015.
- All titles identified by mid0nz unless otherwise credited (iow all mistakes are mine!)
Abbreviation Key:
Only episodes with an * have books that I’ve seen/remembered/listed.
*P = Unaired Pilot
*ASiP = A Study in Pink
*TBB = The Blind Banker
TGG =The Great Game
*ASiB = A Scandal in Belgravia
*THoB = The Hounds of Baskerville
*TRF = The Reichenbach Fall
TEH = The Empty Hearse
*TSo3 = The Sign of Three
HLV = His Last Vow
MHR = Many Happy Returns
TV = The Blog of John H. Watson- The Visitor
AWJ = Arwel Wyn Jones pre-S3 set photos
AWJ Setlock 4 = Arwel Wyn Jones Twitter pix from S4 #setlock
PS = Publicity Stills
SU = Sherlock Unlocked
Sherlocked = Fan Photos from London Sherlocked Con, 2015
Sherlockology = Sherlockology.com photos
US= Unlocking Sherlock
N = The Network (Sherlock game)
SHSL = Sherlock Holmes Society of London
?= Indicates that the title is partially illegible
1. Books Visible at 221B
Sherlock’s Bookcases
- 17th Century ?? [SHSL]
- A Beginner’s Guide to Airsports (Flying & Gliding) by Keith Carey [TBB] [TRF]
- Advances in Chromatography [Sherlocked]
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain [SHSL]
- American Men of Science J.G. Crowther [SHSL]
- Arctic Village (Penguin Travel and Adventure Series) by Robert Marshall [SHSL]
- A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants by Christopher Brickell and Royal Horticultural Society (behind John’s chair) [ASiP]
- Basic Writings in the History of Psychology by Robert I. Watson [SHSL]
- Bible Commentary? [TBB]
- Blackstone’s Statutes on Criminal Law, Peter Glazebrook (Editor) [TRF]
- The Bleak Age by J.L. Hammond and Barbara Hammond (Penguin) [SHSL]
- Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Murder by James E. Waller [SHSL]
- Bringing Down the House: How Six Students Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich [TBB]
- Britannica Year Book of Science and the Future by David Calhoun 1991, 1997 [TBB]
- Business at the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy by Bill Gates and Collins Hemingway [SHSL]
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (Penguin) [SHSL]
- Chambers Dictionary [TRF]
- Chambers Dictionary of World History [TBB]
- Chambers’ Encyclopedia Vols V & VI [SU]
- The Change Masters: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the American Corporation by Rosabeth Moss Kanter [TBB] [TRF]
- The Children’s Encyclopedia by Arthur Mee [TV] [TBB]
- Chronicle of the 20th Century [Sherlocked]
- Criminal Law by Catherine Elliott and Francis Quinn [TBB] OR Criminal Law by William Wilson [TBB]
- The Comprehensive School by Robin Pedley [SHSL]
- The Concise OED [TRF]
- Constitutional and Administrative Law by Hilaire Barnett [SU]
- The Courage to Be by Paul Tillich [TBB]
- Cunningham’s Manual of Practical Anatomy: Volume 1. Upper and Lower Limbs by G. J. Romanes [SHSL]
- Current Surgical Guidelines by Abdullah Jibawi and David Cade [TBB]
- The Damage Done – Twelve Years of Hell in a Bankok Prison by Warren Fellows [TBB]
- Darwin’s Lost World: The hidden history of animal life by Martin Brasier [TBB ][TRF]
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (Penguin) [SHSL]
- The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jewish Origins of Christianity by Carsten Peter Theide [US]
- Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information by Vlatko Vedra [TRF]
- Diary of Jack the Ripper by Shirley Harrison [TBB]
- Directory of Local Government Management [Sherlocked]
- Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope [SHSL]
- Drug Addiction and its Treatment by Michael Gossop [TBB]
- Easing the Passing: Trial of Dr. John Bodkin Adams by Lord Devlin [TRF]
- The English Parliament by Kenneth Mackenzie (Penguin) {SHSL]
- Essential Family Law by Keith Morgan [TBB]
- Essays in Popular Science by Julian Huxley [SHSL]
- Evidence (Nutshells) by Christina McAlhone and Michael Stockdale [TBB]
- The Evolution of the British Welfare State: A History of Social Policy since the Industrial Revolution by Derek Fraser [SHSL]
- Exactly What We Want by Philip Oakes [SHSL]
- The Experience of Prison by David Ball [Sherlocked]
- Forbidden Drugs by Philip Robson [TBB] [TRF]
- Forensic Neuropsychology: A Scientific Approach by Glenn J. Larrabee [SHSL]
- ??? The Four Gospels Vol. VII??
- Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope [SHSL]
- From Virgil to Milton by Cecil Maurice Bowra [SHSL]
- Giant Molecules: From nylon to nanotubes by Walter Gratzer [TBB] [TRF]
- The Glittering Prizes by Frederic Raphael [SHSL]
- Globalization and World Society [Sherlocked]
- Going to Extremes: How Like Minds Unite and Divide by Cass Sunstein [SHSL]
- Growing Up in New Guinea by Margaret Mead [SHSL]
- A Guide to (?) [TRF] A Guide to ?? Practical ??? Endocrinology [SHSL]
- The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn [Sherlocked]
- Halsbury’s Laws of England Vols. 54 & 21 [SU] & 29 [SHSL]
- HANSARD 1803–2005; Sixth Series (Commons), Volume 386 (Part 2) [TRF]
- HANSARD 1803–2005; Sixth Series (Commons), Volume 417 (Part 1) [TRF]
- Happy Like Murderers by Gordon Burn [SHSL]
- Harold Shipman: Prescription for Murder by Brian Whittle and Jean Ritchie [SU] [identified by aninconvenientruth1976 and mydwynter]
- A History of Latin America by George Pendle [SHSL]
- Human Physiology Study Guide (?) [Sherlockology] [SHSL] [Sherlocked]
- Holy Bible [TBB]
- How to Succeed at an Assessment Centre by Harry Tolley [Sherlocked]
- Images for Africa [Sherlocked]
- Industrial Gasses by N.A. Downie [N] [SHSL]
- An Introduction to ?? [SHSL]
- In Search Of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies by Robert H Waterman Jr, Tom Peters and Peters & Water [TBB] [TRF]
- Introduction to Neuropsychology by J. Graham Beaumont [TV] [TBB] [TRF]
- Investigative Interviewing: The Conversation Management Approach by Eric Shepherd [TBB]
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte [TBB]
- Land Law by J.G. Riddall [TRF]
- The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope [SHSL]
- The Law by Frederic Bastiat [TBB]
- Le Morte D’Arthur Volume Two by Sir Thomas Malory [SHSL]
- Learning to Fly in 21 Days by Phil Stone [TBB]
- The Linebacker Raids: The Bombing Of North Vietnam, 1972 by John T. Smith [TRF]
- The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius by George Orwell [TRF]
- Literary Theory and English Teaching [Sherlocked]
- Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad [SHSL]
- Macbeth by Shakespeare [TBB]
- Man and the Vertebrates: v. 2 by Alfred Sherwood Romer [SHSL]
- Man’s Fate by Andre Malraux [SHSL]
- The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief by V.S. Naipaul [TBB]
- Mathematics Teaching: Theory in Practice by T.H.F. Brissenden [SHSL]
- Mind you, I’ve said Nothing: Forays in the Irish Republic by Honor Tracy [SHSL]
- The Modern Novel in English Studied in Extracts by Jim Hunter [TBB]
- Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht [PROBABLY] [TRF]
- The Mystic Masseur by V. S. Naipaul [SHSL]
- Natural History by ?? Harris [SHSL]
- Not a Chimp by Jeremy Taylor [TV] [TBB] [TRF]
- A New Look at Britain’s Economic Policy by Juliet Evangeline Rhys-Williams [SHSL]
- The New Man by ?? [SHSL]
- New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors: The Essential A-Z Guide to the Written Word [TBB]
- The Normal Child and Some of his Abnormalities by C W Valentine [SHSL]
- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen [SHSL]
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez [Sherlocked]
- Organ Donation and Transplantation after Cardiac Death by David Talbot [Sherlocked]
- Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Elizabeth Knowles [TRF]
- New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry by Michael Gelder, Nancy Andreasen, Juan Lopez-Ibor and John Geddes [TBB]
- Oxford Desk Reference Clinical Genetics by Jane. A. Hurst, Helen V. Firth [TV] [TBB] [TRF]
- Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms by John Ayto [TRF]
- Oxford Handbook of Clinical Specialties by Judith Collier, Murray Longmore, Tom Turmezei, et. al. [SHSL]
- Oxford Textbook of Suicidology and Suicide Prevention: A Global Perspective by Danuta Wasserman and Camilla Wasserman [TBB]
- Paradise Postponed by John Mortimer [SHSL]
- Paranoia by ? [TBB]
- The Penal System: An Introduction by Mick Cavadino, James Dignan [TBB] [TRF]
- Personal Values in the Modern World by M.V. C. Jeffreys [SHSL]
- Perspectives in Sociology by E. C. Cuff [TGG] [TRF]
- The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens [Sherlocked]
- Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi [SHSL]
- Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis by Michael Ward [behind John’s chair spotted by @naturalshocks] [ASiP]
- Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery by Henk Giele and Oliver Cassell [TBB]
- A Practical Approach to Planning Law by Victor Moore [SU]
- The Prehistory of Southern Africa by J Desmond Clark [SHSL]
- Proclaimed in Blood: True Crimes Solved by Forensic Scientists by Hugh Miller [US]
- The Provision of Mental Health Services in Britain: The Way Ahead by Hugh Freeman [Sherlocked]
- Psychiatry Today by David Stafford-Clark (Penguin) [SHSL]
- The Psychology of Study by C.A. Mace [SHSL]
- The Psychology of Play by S. Millar [SHSL]
- Psychotherapist by J. Kefford – There was a John Kefford who, as John Abbot, played Heller in Sherlock Holmes in New York and 1945 he played Jodri in the Sherlock Holmes film Dangerous Mission. I think the book is fake. [AWJ] [Sherlockology] [Sherlocked]
- Q&A Civil Liberties & Human Rights by Helen Fenwick [SHSL]
- Q&A Land Law (Questions and Answers) (2002-2003) by Martin Dixon [SHSL]
- Questions & Answers About British History by Peter Chrisp and Adam Cook [US]
- Reality of Management by Rosemary Stewart [SHSL]
- Remembering Our Childhood: How Memory Betrays Us by Karl Sabbagh [Sherlocked]
- The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy [TBB]
- Rumpole ??? by John Mortimer [SHSL]
- Ruth Ellis: The Last Woman to Be Hanged by Robert Hancock [TBB]
- The Science of Seeing by Ida Mann and Antoinette Pirie [SHSL]
- Searching the Scriptures – A Feminist Introduction by Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza [SHSL]
- The Second World War by Winston Churchill [Sherlocked]
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins [TBB]
- Signature Killers by Robert Keppel and William J Birnes [TBB]
- Sleepers: A True Story When Friendship Runs Deeper Than Blood by Lorenzo Carcaterra [ASiP] [TBB]
- The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope [SHSL]
- Social Cognition and Developmental Psychopathology by Carla Sharp and Peter Fonagy
- Specialties… (?) [TBB]
- Speed, Ecstasy, Ritalin: The Science of Amphetamines by Leslie Iversen [TBB]
- Structuralism in Literature: An Introduction by Robert Scholes [SHSL]
- Studies in Criminal Law (probably by Norval Morris, Colin Howard) [TRF]
- Stunned Mullets and Two-pot Screamers: A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms by G. A. Wilkes [TBB]
- Syphilis and Local Contagious Disorders by Berkeley Hill [TBB] (a book everyone would own!) [identified by notagarroter]
- Systema Naturae 250 – The Linnaean Ark by Andrew Polaszek [Sherlockology]
- Teleological Response of the Virus by Lavinia Smith spotted by Trillsabells (x) [TBB]
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë [SHSL]
- Ten Most Wanted by Peter Bleksley [TBB] [TRF]
- Ten Years Under The Earth by Norbert Casteret [SHSL]
- The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Twentieth Century Music by Paul Griffiths (Probably— it’s a T&H reference book about music.) [TBB]
- Terrorism: Inside a World Phenomenon by Barry Davies, 2003 edition. [THoB] [identified by thecutteralicia]
- The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan [SHSL]
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell [TBB]
- Training in Surgery: The essential curriculum for the MRCS by Matthew Gardiner and Neil Borley [SHSL]
- Trick or Treat (Point Horror) by Richie Tankersley Cusick [SHSL]
- Tricks of the Mind by Darren Brown [AWJ Setlock 4]
- True Crime by Martin Fido [TRF]
- The Unexplained Volume 3 by ?? and Volume ?? [SHSL]
- Vietnam, a History by Stanley Karnow [TBB]
- The Walkaway by Scott Phillips [SU] [identified by eldritch-horrors]
- Water and Life: The Unique Properties of H2O by eds. Ruth M. Lynden-Bell, Simon Conway Morris, et. al. [N] [eds. identified by cow-mow@tumblr.com]
- With Napoleon’s Guns: The Military Memoirs of an Officer of the First Empire by Jean-Nicolas-Auguste Noel and Rosemary Brindle [TBB]
- Witness Identification in Criminal Cases: Psychology and Practice by Rachel Wilcock and Ray Bull [SHSL]
- The Workhouse Donkey by John Arden Jeremy Brett starred in it. [Sherlocked]
- The ?? and the Public by Roger Maxwell [SHSL]
- ??? An American Tragedy??? Robert ?? and M?? E?? [SHSL]
- ? Crime [TRF]
- ??? de la langue française [SHSL]
- ??? Fires [Sherlocked]
- ? in Popular Science [TRF]
- ?? by John Braine [SHSL]
- John W. M. ?? [Sherlocked]
- ? Miller ? [SU]
- ?? by Richard Sale [Sherlocked]
- ?? by Jack Schaefer [SHSL]
- ?? by George Watson [Sherlocked]
- T??? Pharma??? [SHSL]
- ? Volumes 11, 12, and 50 [THoB]
- Why?? by A.R. ?? [SHSL]
Near Sherlock’s Trunk [in the Lounge in ASiP]
- Eagle: Adventure Survival Truth Magazine (June 1983) (title identified by professorfonz) [ASiP]
The Kitchen Table
- The Economist (January 30, 2010) [TBB]
- Evidence: Text and Materials by Gregory Durston [TBB]
- Guns & Ammo Magazine (December 1972) [TBB]
- HANSARD: Commons and Lords Hansard, the Official Report of Debates in Parliament Sixth Series (Commons), Volume 398 (Part 2) Written Answers (Commons) of 20 January 2003. [TBB]
- Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner by Henry Goddard [TRF] (links to Sherlockology entry)
Sherlock’s Curio Cabinet (behind his chair)
- The Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature (Volume I) by Charles Knight (Two prints from the book are framed on the shelf— a blue and yellow macaw and a carrier pigeon.)
Sherlock’s Desk
- Burke and Hare: The True Story of the Body Snatchers by Hugh Douglas [TGG] [spotted bynaturalshocks]
- A Dictionary of Biology by M. Abercrombie, C. J. Hickman, M. L. Johnson (early Penguin Reference edition) [TS03]
- Faust by Goethe in German, 1st edition [TSo3]
- The Lamplighter by Maria Susanna Cummins [TRF]
- Moriarty’s Police Law by W.J. Williams [TSo3]
- Operative Surgery (Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Surgery) by Greg R. McLatchie and David Leaper [TRF]
- Sixty Famous Trials Edited by Richard Huson [ASiP]
Sherlock’s Bookcase by the Music Stand
- ?? by Seamus Heaney [SHSL]
- ??? Soldier (of fortune? magazine) [SHSL]
- The Boer War by Thomas Pakenham [SHSL]
- Dictionnaire français (L) [SHSL]
- Encyclopedia (54) [SHSL]
- The Golden Ass by Apuleius [SHSL]
- Gun ?? (magazine) [SHSL]
- Hagar the Horrible: In a Fix by Dik Browne (October, 1991 issue) [SHSL] [identified by semioticsofdeduction]
- Hans Küng: His Work and His Way by Hermann Haring [SHSL]
- Stalk and Kill: The Sniper Experience by Adrian D. Gilbert
- Survival ?? (magazine)
The Lounge Floor
- Stuff (Magazine) October 2008 [P]
- New Scientist (Magazine) 19 April 2008; 03 January 2009; 10 January 2009 [P]
- Guns and Ammo (Magazine) December 1977 [Sherlockology]
The Coffee Table
- Dartmoor (Ordnance Survey Explorer Map) [PS]
- Winston Churchill (Very Interesting People) by Paul Addison [PS] (identified by kymethra)
Under John’s Lamp Table
- The New Encyclopaedia Britannica Vol 16. (Chicago to Death) + one other volume, illegible [TBB]
Sherlock’s Bedroom
- Leben und Zucht der Honigbiene – ein gemeinverständliches Lehrbuch über Behandlung der Bienen und über Tätigkeit, Nutzen und Anatomie der Biene by Oskar Krancher. (The bee print on the wall is from this book.)
In John’s Hands
- The Guardian, Wednesday 8th June 2011 (page 4, headline “Oxford Dons Deal No Confidence Blow to Willets over Reforms”) [THoB]
The Foyer (There are 2 book cases: one next to the lounge entrance to 221B, and another across from the kitchen entrance.)
- ? probably random volumes from an old encyclopedia. [HoB]
- Scarlet Feather by Maeve Binchy [ASiP] (I’m assuming that’s Mrs. Hudson’s!)
Taped to the Wall (over the fireplace)
- Politics of Modern South Asia by Subrata K. Mitra [TBB] (also visible in TBB’s library scene)
2. The Blind Banker (see also, 1. Books Visible at 221B)
Carriers’ Books
- A/Z London
- Blood’s a Rover by James Ellroy
- Boys and Girls (from a series) by Enid Blyton [PROBABLY] (spotted by professorfonz)
- Cases and Materials on Constitutional and Administrative Law by Brian Thompson and Michael Allen
- Globalisation and the Middle Classes in India by Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase
- Kickboxing Geishas: How Modern Japanese Women Are Changing Their Nation by Veronica Chambers
- The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
- Fermat’s Last Theorem by Simon Singh
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven Levitt and Stephan Dubner
- Lonely Planet Guide to Southeast Asia on a Shoestring by China Williams
- Miller’s Antiques Price Guide by Elizabeth Norfolk
- Miller’s Antiques Price Guide 2007 by Jonty Hearnden, Elizabeth Norfolk
- Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer, and Patriot by Anna Beer
- Le Corbusier by ?
- Lonely Planet Hong Kong Encounter
- Porcelain Through the Ages by George Savage
- Coutts & Co 1692-1992: The Portrait of a Private Bank by Edna Healey
- The Secrets of Codes by Paul Lunde
- Snow Blind by P.J. Tracy
- Transition by Iain Banks
- When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change by Mohamed El-Erian
Library
- Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asia’s Cities edited by Melissa Butcher and Selvaraj Velayutham
- Encyclopaedia Britannica Vol. 23 (Vase – Zygo)
- Expressions of Cambodia by Leakthina Chau-Pech Ollier and Tim Winter
- Immersed in Media by Cheryl Campanella Bracken and Paul Skalsk
- Investigative Journalism by Hugo de Burgh
- Journalism after September 11 by Stuart Allan and Barbie Zelizer
- The Journalistic Imagination by Richard Keeble and Sharon Wheeler
- ? Knowledge
- The Language of the News by Martin Conboy
- News Around the World by Pamela J. Shoemaker and Akiba A. Cohen
- News and Journalism in the UK 5th edition by Brian McNair
- Political Communication in Asia by Lars Willnat and Annette Aw
- Politics of Modern Asia by Subrata K. Mitra (also visible in TBB as an evidence photo in 221B)
- Sex Trafficking in South Asia: Telling Maya’s Story by Mary Crawford
- Vietnam’s Political Process: How Education Shapes Political Descision-Making by Casey Lucius
- Virtual Thailand: the Media and Cultural Politics in Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore by Glen Lewis
3. The Hounds of Baskerville
The CO’s office
- The Downing Street Years by Margaret Thatcher
- Hannibal: The Military Biography of Rome’s Greatest Enemy by Richard A. Gabriel
- History of the English Speaking Peoples Volumes I – IV by Winston Churchill
- Jane’s Defence Weekly
- Miller’s Antique Price Guide 1985 by Judith Miller
- Matisse His Art and his Textiles: The Fabric of Dreams by Hilary Spurling and Jack Flam
- Margaret Thatcher In Her Own Words by Macdonald Daly and Alexander George
- Margaret Thatcher Volume One: The Grocer’s Daughter by John Campbell
- My Early Life by Winston Churchill
- Our Own Times by Stephen King-Hall II
- The Path to Power by Margaret Thatcher
- Public General Acts and Measures Elizabeth II 1985, 1960
- Rommel by ?
- Sir Charles Dilke, A Victorian Tragedy by Roy Jenkins
- Statecraft by Margaret Thatcher
- There is No Alternative by Claire Belinski
- War Memoirs of David Lloyd George
- Winston Churchill by Robert Sencourt
- A Personal History by A.J.P. Taylor
4. The Reichenbach Fall (see also, 1. Books Visible at 221B)
St. Aldate’s
- Grimm’s Fairy Tales (links to Sherlockology entry)
- Poppy Love Faces the Music by Natasha May and Shelagh McNicholas
Yeah love it
love this list! 😀
not having pics of the books, i can’t know for sure, of course, but i have some titles that are possibilities for the “??” ones. hope this helps!
Harris, Thaddeus Mason. The natural history of the Bible or A description of all the quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles, and insects, trees, plants, flowers, gums, and precious stones, mentioned in the sacred scriptures: Collected from the best authorities, and alphabetically arranged. Chiswick Press. 1824. (ISBN-10: 1113209607)
Merton, Thomas. The New Man. Continuum. 2003. (ISBN-10: 0860123448)
Bird, Kay and Sherwin, Martin J. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Atlantic Books. 2009. (ASIN: B00CB5GS9O)
Davies, Terry F. A Case-Based Guide to Clinical Endocrinology (Contemporary Endocrinology). Humana Press. 2008. (ISBN-10: 1588298159)
and two more: these where titles are complete and i’m suggesting possible authors:
Spybey, Tony. Globalization and World Society. Polity. 1995. (ISBN-10: 0745611591)
Schole’s Textual Power: Literary Theory and the Teaching of English. Yale University Press. 1985. (ISBN-10: 0300033508)