Blue book may refer to:

Academia and education

  • Blue book exam, a type of school test in the US
  • Bluebook, a testing application by the College Board in the US
  • Blue and Brown Books, notes taken during lectures by Ludwig Wittgenstein 1933–1935
  • The Oceanic Languages, or the "blue book", a 2002 reference work about the Oceanic family of languages

Science and technology

  • Blue Book (CD standard), a compact disc media format
  • Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation, or the "blue book", about the programming language
  • Blue Book, one of the Coloured Book protocols for computer networks the UK in the 1970s
  • The blue book, the Java virtual machine specification
  • The Complexity of Boolean Functions, or the "blue book", by Ingo Wegener
  • WHO Blue Books, a series of World Health Organization books classifying tumors
  • Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry, or the "Blue Book", by IUPAC

Government

In the United Kingdom

  • British Blue Books, collections of diplomatic correspondence
  • United Kingdom National Accounts – The Blue Book, an annual report
  • Blue books, a synonym for the Colonial Annual Reports, a series of reports produced by HM Stationery Office for the Colonial Office (1887 to 1975)
  • Treachery of the Blue Books, or the Blue Books, a controversial 1847 British government report about education in Wales
  • Blue Book (Bryce and Toynbee book), a 1916 government report on the Armenian genocide

:*The Blue Book, Political Truth or Historical Fact, a 2009 documentary film about the report

  • Report on the Natives of South-West Africa and their Treatment by Germany, a 1918 report about German colonial atrocities and especially the Herero and Nama genocide <!-- please keep WP:REDLINK, there are many sources such as https://www.jstor.org/stable/4133916 and https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00940798.2022.2160263 -->

In the United States

  • Blue Book (FCC), Public Service Responsibility of Broadcast Licensees, a 1946 report
  • Blue Book (United States Marine Corps), documenting seniority of Marine Corps officers
  • Project Blue Book, a U.S. Air Force study on UFOs in the 1950s and 1960s
  • Project Blue Book (TV series), 2019
  • Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States, or the "Blue Book", a Revolutionary War drill manual
  • Blue Book, American name for one of the World War II Japanese naval codes
  • Official Manual State of Missouri, or the "Missouri Blue Book"
  • Oregon Blue Book, the official directory and fact book for Oregon
  • Tennessee Blue Book, the official government manual for Tennessee
  • Wisconsin Blue Book, a biennial publication of the Wisconsin's Legislative Reference Bureau

Elsewhere

  • Australian Blue Book, a national reference book 1942–1950
  • Traineeship scheme of the European Commission, or the Blue Book Traineeship
  • Diplomatic Bluebook of Japan, an annual report on Japan's foreign policy
  • Serbian Blue Book, a collection of diplomatic documents about events 29 June – 6 August 1914

Transportation

  • Aircraft bluebook, a value guide for used aircraft
  • Automobile Blue Book, a 1901–1929 series of road guides for American motorists
  • Kelley Blue Book, an American vehicle valuation and automotive research company

Other uses

  • Bluebook, a style guide for legal citation in the US
  • Blue Book (magazine) (1905–1975)
  • Blue Book (racing), a list of thoroughbred racehorses
  • Who's Who in Denver Society, or the Blue Book, originally by Louise Sneed Hill
  • The Blue Book of the John Birch Society, a transcript of the society's founding meeting
  • The Blue Book Network, a marketing, workflow software and print media company, publishing a directory of construction subcontractors and suppliers
  • Blue booking, a role-playing game term
  • Blaubuch ('Blue Book'), a list of culturally important sites in eastern Germany

See also

  • The Blue Pages (disambiguation)
  • Blue paper, a paper specification used by artists
  • Black Book (disambiguation)
  • Green Book (disambiguation)
  • Red Book (disambiguation)
  • Little Blue Books, a 20th century paperback book series
  • Big Blue Books, a 20th century paperback book series
  • The Wee Blue Book, a 2014 Scottish pro-independence publication
  • Ireland Blue Book, a 2023 Canadian comedy film