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A Is For Alibi
Sue Grafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie
Kathryn Harkup

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Iacocca: An Autobiography
Lee Iacocca, William Novak

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1984

I, Alex Cross (Alex Cross, #16)
James Patterson, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

I Am a Cat
Natsume Sōseki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1906

I Am America
Stephen Colbert

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

I Am a Strange Loop
Douglas R. Hofstadter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

I Am a Taxi
Deborah Ellis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

I Am Charlotte Simmons
Tom Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

I Am Death (Robert Hunter, #7)
Chris Carter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
Alan Bradley

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
Maggie O'Farrell

Nonfiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2017

I Am J
Cris Beam

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

I Am Legend
Richard Matheson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

I Am Mordred
Nancy Springer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

I Am My Own Wife
Doug Wright

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2003

I Am Not Esther
Fleur Beale

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

I Am Not Starfire
Mariko Tamaki

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

I Am Not Your Negro
James Baldwin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Erika L. Sanchez

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

I Am Pilgrim
Terry Hayes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

I Am Princess X
Cherie Priest

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

I Am Regina
Sally M. Keehn

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

I Am Still Alive
Kate Alice Marshall

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

I Am the Cheese
Robert Cormier

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1977

I Am The Messenger
Markus Zusak

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

I Am Watching You
Teresa Driscoll

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

I and Thou
Martin Buber

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1923

I Await the Devil's Coming
Mary MacLane

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1902

I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond
Michael Oher

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

I Believe in a Thing Called Love
Maurene Goo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

iBoy
Kevin Brooks

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

I Called Him Necktie
Milena Michiko Flašar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

I Can Make This Promise
Christine Day

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
Michael Arceneaux

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1948

Ice
Anna Kavan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

Iceberg
Jennifer A. Nielsen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Iceberg (Dirk Pitt, #3)
Clive Cussler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Icebreaker
A. L. Graziadei

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Ice breaker
Hannah Grace

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Ice Candy Man
Bapsi Sidhwa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Ice Cold
Tess Gerritsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Ice Cold (Rizzoli & Isles, #8)
Tess Gerritsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Iced
Karen Marie Moning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Ice Dogs
Terry Lynn Johnson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Iced Out
Veronica Eden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Icefall
Matthew J. Kirby

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Icefields
Thomas Wharton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Ice Like Fire
Sara Raasch

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

Ice Station
Matthew Reilly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Ice Station Zebra
Alistair MacLean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

Ice Wolves (Elementals, #1)
Amie Kaufman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

I Choose to be Happy
Missy Jenkins, William Croyle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

I, Claudia
Mary McCoy

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

I Claudius
Robert Graves

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

I Contain Multitudes
Ed Yong

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Icy Sparks
Gwyn Hyman Rubio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Ida B
Katherine Hannigan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Idaho
Emily Ruskovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

I Dared to Call Him Father
Bilquis Sheikh, Richard H. Schneider

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1978

Idea Man
Paul Allen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Identical
Ellen Hopkins

Fiction | Poem | Published in 2013

Identity
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Idiot Brain
Dean Burnett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

I'd Know You Anywhere
Laura Lippman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Idol
Kristen Callihan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Idol, Burning
Rin Usami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

I Do Not Come to You by Chance
Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

I Don't Know How She Does It
Allison Pearson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Idoru
William Gibson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

I Dreamed of Africa (tie-in edition)
Kuki Gallmann

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1991

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
Ally Carter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Idylls of the King
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1859

I Even Funnier (I Funny, #2)
James Patterson, Chris Grabenstein

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
Noor Naga

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period
Gennifer Choldenko

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

If Beale Street Could Talk
James Baldwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor
Bruce Campbell

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

I Feel Bad About My Neck
Nora Ephron

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2006

I Fell in Love with Hope
Lancali

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

If He Hollers Let Him Go
Chester Himes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

If I Am Missing or Dead
Janine Latus

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer
O. J. Simpson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

If I Die Tonight
Alison Gaylin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

If I Ever Get Out of Here
Eric Gansworth

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

If I Grow Up
Todd Strasser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

If I Had Your Face
Frances Cha

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

If I Never Met You
Mhairi McFarlane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

If I Run
Terri Blackstock

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

If I Stay
Gayle Forman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

If I Was Your Girl
Meredith Russo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

If I Were You
Lynn Austin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
Jon Mcgregor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Italo Calvino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

If Only I Could Tell You
Hannah Beckerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

If Only I Had Told Her
Laura Nowlin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

If Only It Were True
Marc Levy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

If Only They Could Talk (All Creatures Great and Small, #1)
James Herriot

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1970