TARDIS library The Doctor ' s TARDIS contained an extensive library . It greatly varied in appearance . ( COMIC : " The Mark of Mandragora " , PROSE : " The Dimension Riders " , TV : " Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS " ) For a time , the TARDIS control room contained a library , ( TV : " Doctor Who " , COMIC : " Endgame " , AUDIO : " Storm Warning " ) but , even during that time , the Doctor had a separate library as well . ( PROSE : " War of the Daleks " , AUDIO : " The Man Who Wasn ' t There " ) The Master ' s TARDIS also contained a library . ( PROSE : " The Quantum Archangel " ) Appearance . At one point , the walls of the library were covered in dark roundel ed wood . ( AUDIO : " The Man Who Wasn ' t There " ) Anji Kapoor thought that the library was " like some sort of optical illusion , with shelves disappearing into the far distance " . ( PROSE : " Escape Velocity " ) History . Vicki Pallister used the library to research the United States of America . ( PROSE : " The Schoolboy ' s Story " ) Adric read every single book on mathematics in the entire library . ( AUDIO : " Zaltys " ) On one occasion , the Sixth Doctor visited the library to check his address book and find the location of Vertipax . ( PROSE : " The Deal " ) Ace once sorted through the library . ( AUDIO : " Genocide Machine " ) Bernice Summerfield once used the library to research the Shovoran dynasty . ( PROSE : " St Anthony ' s Fire " ) When Anji Kapoor went into the TARDIS for the first time , she glanced into the library and was astounded by its size and messiness . ( PROSE : " Escape Velocity " ) The Eighth Doctor and Charlotte Pollard once successfully sought out " " in the library ' s children ' s literature section . ( AUDIO : " The Man Who Wasn ' t There " ) When the Eighth Doctor , Lucie Miller , Susan , and Alex Campbell were attacked by a Blitzen fish during Christmas dinner inside the TARDIS , the library was among the rooms they were chased through . ( AUDIO : " Relative Dimensions " ) When the Eleventh Doctor crashed the TARDIS shortly after his regeneration , the swimming pool fell into the library . ( TV : " The Eleventh Hour " ) While on the run from time zombie s , Clara Oswald accidentally found the library and had a look through " The History of the Time War " . ( TV : " Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS " ) While talking to Bill , the Twelfth Doctor mentioned that the last time he went to the TARDIS library , Hattie was attacked by the 1986 " Bash Street Kids " annual . ( PROSE : " The Shining Man " ) Collection . The library ' s books included " Brave New World " , ( PROSE : " The Wheel of Ice " ) " Jane ' s Spaceships " , ( PROSE : " War of the Daleks " ) " Jane ' s Spacecraft of the Universe " , " " , " Parachuting " , " A - Z of Planets " , " VNR The Collection " , " Timeview " , " The Time Machine " , " Collected Works of Beatrix Potter " , " The Baker ' s Dozen " , " Corpse " , " Vegetarian Cook " , " Vanity Fair " , " " , " The Early Years " , a book on aerobics , ( PROSE : " The Deal " ) " Every Gallifreyan Child ' s Pop - Up Book of Nasty Creatures From Other Dimensions " , ( PROSE : " All - Consuming Fire " ) " Robinson Crusoe " , ( PROSE : " Heart of TARDIS " ) " Wisden Almanack " , ( PROSE : " Fear of the Dark " ) " War and Peace " , ( PROSE : " The Deal " , AUDIO : " Terror Firma " ) " The Wonderful Wizard of Oz " , " The I - Spy Book of British Birds " , " Can you forgive her ? " , " You Only Live Twice " , " Frankenstein " , ( AUDIO : " Storm Warning " , " Zagreus " ) " " , " The Little Book of Starships " , ( AUDIO : " The Man Who Wasn ' t There " ) , the only signed copy of " The Quarry " in the universe ( PROSE : " Keeping up with the Joneses " ) and a signed copy of " Reminiscences of the Peculiar " by George Litefoot . ( AUDIO : " The Carrionite Curse " ) Some of the library ' s history books included " A History of the Varaxil Hegemony " , ( AUDIO : " The Witch from the Well " ) " Histories of the Dalek Imperium " , ( PROSE : " Keeping up with the Joneses " ) " The History of the Time War " , ( TV : " Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS " ) " A Brief History of Time " , ( PROSE : " Fear of the Dark " ) and " Fashion Through the Ages " . ( PROSE : " The Deal " ) The Demonology and Witchcraft section contained books by an author named Rowling . ( AUDIO : " The Carrionite Curse " ) Books kept in the library which were of personal significance to the Doctor included a signed copy of " The Murder of Roger Ackroyd " gifted to him by Gemma and Samson Griffin ( AUDIO : " Terror Firma " , " Terror Firma " ) and his Five Hundred Year Diary . ( PROSE : " The Deal " , AUDIO : " The Young Lions " ) He had several books by writers such as Capek , Capote , ( AUDIO : " Zagreus " , PROSE : " The Blood Cell " ) Carroll , ( AUDIO : " Zagreus " ) and Shakespeare . ( PROSE : " The Deal " , " The Dimension Riders " ) The contents of the library were not limited to books . It also contained the liquid " Encyclopedia Gallifreya " ( TV : " Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS " ) and diskette s with the complete works of the 21st century environmentalist s . ( PROSE : " The Dimension Riders " ) The section of the library devoted to children ' s literature was " ridiculously small " . ( AUDIO : " The Man Who Wasn ' t There " ) Behind the scenes . The incomplete television story " Lost in the Dark Dimension " would have featured the TARDIS library for a significant portion of the story . Set in an alternate timeline where the Fourth Doctor never regenerated and the TARDIS was mostly destroyed , the library would have been the last fragment of the ship remaining , camouflaged as a small church .