Specials: Skills and Books in The Sims 4

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In The Sims 4 it's all very convenient for your Sim to get new items. Need books? Just click your bookcase and buy new books! The menu is filtered by several categories:

• Show all
• Children's
• Fantasy
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry
• Romance
• Sci-Fi
• Mystery
• Skill
• Emotional

So in The Sims 4 base game there are a whole lot of new skills we didn't have in previous games! The ones we already had in The Sims 3 are:

• Charisma
• Cooking
• Fishing
• Fitness (Athletic)
• Gardening
• Guitar
• Handiness
• Logic
• Painting
• Writing

The new base game skills are:

• Comedy
• Gourmet Cooking
• Mischief
• Mixology (was added in TS3 Late Night)
• Piano (was added in TS3 Late Night)
• Programming
• Rocket Science
• Video Gaming
• Violin (was added with TS3 store content)

I didn't have time to write all the books down, but I did take some time to write down all the skill books I could find. Here they are.

• Charisma Skill
• Charisma Volume 1: Diplimacy For Dummies - §75
• Charisma Volume 2: The Science Of Diplomacy - §150
• Charisma Volume 3: The Art Of Diplomacy - §250
• Comedy Skill
• Comedy Volume 1: Get The Jokes - §75
• Comedy Volume 2: Grab The Mic - §150
• Comedy Volume 3: Show Them The Pain - §250
• Cooking Skill
• Cooking Volume 1: Let's Cook! - §75
• Cooking Volume 2: Let's Keep Cooking! - §150
• Cooking Volume 3: I'm Here To Cook - §250
• Fishing Skill
• Fishing Volume 1: Getting Hooked - §75
• Fishing Volume 2: Tackles And Techniques - §150
• Fishing Volume 3: See The Fish, Be The Fish - §250
• Fitness Skill
• Fitness Volume 1: Put Down The Milkshake - §75
• Fitness Volume 2: Be World's Strongest - §150
• Fitness Volume 3: Pressing Steel - §250
• Gardening Skill
• Gardening Volume 1: Water, Light and Dirt - §75
• Gardening Volume 2: Getting Your Thumbs Green - §150
• Gardening Volume 3: Strange And Forbidden Plant Genetics - §250
• Gourmet Cooking Skill
• Gourmet Cooking Volume 1: Make Food Fancy - §75
• Gourmet Cooking Volume 2: Presentation Is King - §150
• Gourmet Cooking Volume 3: Can You Eat That? - §250
• Guitar Skill
• Guitar Volume 1: Intro To Rocking - §75
• Guitar Volume 2: The Classical Sauce - §150
• Guitar Volume 3: Furious Finger Techniques - §250
• Handiness Skill
• Handiness Volume 1: Try Not To Die - §75
• Handiness Volume 2: Sparks Are Nature's Kisses - §150
• Handiness Volume 3: Upgrading The Soul - §250
• Logic Skill
• Logic Volume 1: An Introduction To Reason - §75
• Logic Volume 2: The Reason To Reason - §150
• Logic Volume 3: The Problem With Paradoxes - §250
• Mischief Skill
• Mischief Volume 1: What's Funny, What's Illegal? - §75
• Mischief Volume 2: What's Illegal, What's Frowned Upon? - §150
• Mischief Volume 3: The Long Con - §250
• Mixology Skill
• Mixology Volume 1: Beverage Basics - §75
• Mixology Volume 2: A Twist Of Lime - §150
• Mixology Volume 3: The Mixologist's Bible - §250
• Painting Skill
• Painting Volume 1: The Fundamentals Of Painting - §75
• Painting Volume 2: The History Of Painting - §150
• Painting Volume 3: The Painting Of Painting - §250
• Piano Skill
• Piano Volume 1: It's Pretty Black And White - §75
• Piano Volume 2: Sharps, Flats, And Naturals - §150
• Piano Volume 3: Concertos, Minutes, And Sonatas - §250
• Programming Skill
• Programming Volume 1: Turn It Off And On Again - §75
• Programming Volume 2: Maintaining Healthy Semicolons - §150
• Programming Volume 3: Learn To Talk Robot - §250
• Rocket Science Skill
• Rocket Science Volume 1: So You Want To Be A Rocket Scientist - §75
• Rocket Science Volume 2: The Nuts And Bolts Of Constructing Your Spacecraft - §150
• Rocket Science Volume 3: Counting Down To Launch - §250
• Video Gaming Skill
• Video Gaming Volume 1: Trolling For Noobs - §75
• Video Gaming Volume 2: The Official Guide To Gaming - §150
• Video Gaming Volume 3: The Game Of Life - §250
• Violin Skill
• Violin Volume 1: Basic Violinin' - §75
• Violin Volume 2: Classic Techniques - §150
• Violin Volume 3: Horsehair High Jinks - §250
• Writing Skill
• Writing Volume 1: The Conjugation Conundrum - §75
• Writing Volume 2: The Importance Of Punctuation - §150
• Writing Volume 3: Let's Get Weird - §250

There were also a couple of books with (I think) collections of recipes and stuff like that. So they're also skill books, but more like how in The Sims 3 we would usually buy recipes and sheet music separately. And now those are bundled into bigger books. Most of them are expensive too!

• Baker's Dozen 13 Fabulous Flour-Filled Recipes - §2500
• How To Be A Successful Socialite - §2500
• Mmm! What's That Smell? - §2500
• Shaken Or Stirred: 400 Pretentious Drinks - §150

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