Fallout: New Vegas skill books

Unique (and/or Quest) books
These books and their locations are related to quests are unique or both. You can find a total of 2 Quest books in New Vegas.

Skill books
Reading a skill book permanently raises the corresponding skill by three points (four if you've taken the Comprehension perk). There are 4-5 books for each skill. You can find a total of 54 skill books in New Vegas.

Skill magazines
Skill magazines temporarily raise the corresponding skill by ten points (twenty with Comprehension), but wear off after a while (longer with Retention). There are a total of 213 skill magazines in New Vegas. They are much more common than skill books. These skill magazines can only be used one skill-type at a time.

Skill magazines include:


 * Boxing Times(unarmed)
 * Fixin' Things(repair)
 * Future Weapons Today(energy weapons)
 * Lad's Life(survival)
 * ¡La Fantoma!(sneak)
 * Locksmith's Reader(lockpick)
 * Meeting People(speech)
 * Milsurp Review(guns)
 * Patriot's Cookbook (explosives)
 * Programmer's Digest(science)
 * Salesman Weekly(barter)
 * Tales of Chivalrie(meelee)
 * Today's Physician(medicine)
 * True Police Stories(critical)