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The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle
Francisco Goldman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

The Interior Life
Katherine Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The International Bank of Bob
Bob Harris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Interpretation of Cultures
Clifford Geertz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1973

The Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1899

The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf
Ambelin Kwaymullina

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Intimacy Experiment
Rosie Danan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Intruder
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Intuitionist
Colson Whitehead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Invaders
John Flanagan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

The Invasion of the Tearling
Erika Johansen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Brian Selznick

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

The Invention of Love
Tom Stoppard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1997

The Invention of Morel
Adolfo Bioy Casares

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1940

The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
Judith Flanders

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
Andrea Wulf

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

The Invention of Solitude
Paul Auster

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1982

The Invention of Sound
Chuck Palahniuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Invention of the Jewish People
Shlomo Sand

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Invention of Truth: A Novel
Marta Morazzoni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1910

The Invention of Wings
Sue Monk Kidd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Inverted World
Christopher Priest

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Investigator
John Sandford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Invisible Bridge
Julie Orringer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Invisible Coup
Peter Schweizer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

The Invisible Gorilla
Christopher Chabris, Daniel Simons

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance
Russell Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Invisible Husband of Frick Island
Colleen Oakley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
Meghan O'Rourke

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V. E. Schwab

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1897

The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality
Julie Sondra Decker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Invisible Woman
Claire Tomalin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1990

The Invitation
Vi Keeland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Invited
Jennifer McMahon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Ipcress File (Secret File, #1)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

The Irish Americans: A History
Jay P. Dolan

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Irish Goodbye
Heather Aimee O'Neill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Iron Daughter
Julie Kagawa

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

The Iron Dream
Norman Spinrad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

The Iron Duke (Iron Seas, #1)
Meljean Brook

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Iron Flower
Laurie Forest

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

The Iron Giant
Ted Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1968

The Iron Heel
Jack London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1908

The Iron Heel & Other Stories
Jack London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Iron King (The Accursed Kings, #1)
Maurice Druon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

The Iron King (The Iron Fey, #1)
Julie Kagawa

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

The Iron Knight
Julie Kagawa

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

The Iron Queen (The Iron Fey, #3)
Julie Kagawa

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Iron Ring
Lloyd Alexander

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1968

The Iron Trial
Holly Black, Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington
Jennet Conant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
Jim Wallis, Shane Claiborne

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Island
Adrian McKinty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Island at the Center of the World
Russell Shorto

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Island (Hidden Iceland, #2)
Ragnar Jónasson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Island of Adventure (Adventure, #1)
Enid Blyton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1944

The Island of Doctor Moreau
H. G. Wells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1896

The Island of Missing Trees
Elif Shafak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Island of Sea Women
Lisa See

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Island of the Day Before
Umberto Eco

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Island on Bird Street
Uri Orlev

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1981

The Islands at the End of the World
Austin Aslan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Isle of Pines
Henry Neville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1668

The Isle of the Lost
Melissa de la Cruz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Isle of Youth: Stories
Laura van den Berg

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2013

The Italian
Ann Radcliffe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1796

The Italians and the Holocaust
Susan Zuccotti

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

The It Girl
Ruth Ware

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The It Girl (It Girl, #1)

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

The Ivankiad: Or, The tale of the writer Voinovich's installation in his new apartment
Vladimir Voinovich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1976

The Ivies
Alexa Donne

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021