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In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching
P.D. Ouspensky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1947

In Search of the Promised Land
John Hope Franklin, Loren Schweninger

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2005

In Search Of Us
Ava Dellaira

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Inside Divergent: The Initiate's World
Veronica Roth, Cecilia Bernard

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich
Joachim Fest

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Inside: Life Behind Bars in America
Michael G. Santos

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Inside Out
Maria V. Snyder

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2003

Inside Out And Back Again
Thanhha Lai

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Inside Rehab: The Surprising Truth About Addiction Treatment—and How to Get Help That Works
Anne M. Fletcher

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Inside Story
Martin Amis

Fiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Inside the Black Horse
Ray Berard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Inside the Criminal Mind
Stanton E. Samenow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

Inside the Crocodile
Trish Nicholson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Inside the Jihad: My Life with Al Qaeda
Omar Nasiri

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia
Robert Lacey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Inside the O'Briens
Lisa Genova

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Inside the Third Reich
Albert Speer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1969

Inside the Whale
George Orwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
Dusti Bowling

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Inspector Imanishi Investigates
Seichō Matsumoto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
Marty Cagan

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

Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
Rachel Held Evans

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Instant Karma
Marissa Meyer

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

In Stitches
Anthony Youn

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Instructions for a Heatwave
Maggie O'Farrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Instructions for Dancing
Nicola Yoon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

In Sunlight and in Shadow
Mark Helprin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Insurgent
Veronica Roth

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science Theology
William A. Dembski

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Intensity
Dean Koontz, Edward Gorman

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

Intentions
Oscar Wilde, Percival Pollard

Nonfiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1891

Intercepts
T. J. Payne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Interesting Times: The Play
Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Interior Castle
Teresa de Ávila

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1588

Interior Chinatown
Charles Yu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Internment
Samira Ahmed

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Interstellar Pig
William Sleator

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1984

Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

InterWorld
Neil Gaiman, Michael Reaves

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

In the After
Demitria Lunetta

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

In the Afterlight
Alexandra Bracken

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

In the American Grain
William Carlos Williams

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1925

In the Beauty of the Lilies
John Updike

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

In The Belly Of The Beast
Jack Abbott

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 1981

In the Bleak Midwinter (The Rev. Clare Fergusson & Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries #1)
Julia Spencer-Fleming

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

In the Blood
Jack Carr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

In the Café of Lost Youth
Patrick Modiano

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

In the Castle of My Skin
George Lamming

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

In the Clearing (Tracy Crosswhite, #3)
Robert Dugoni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

In the Company of the Courtesan
Sarah Dunant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

In the Country of Last Things
Paul Auster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

In the Country of Men
Hisham Matar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

In the Country of Others
Leïla Slimani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

In the Country We Love: My Family Divided
Diane Guerrero, Michelle Burford

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

In the Dark
Loreth Anne White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

In the Dark (DI Adam Fawley, #2)
Cara Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

In the Days of Rain: A Daughter, a Father, a Cult

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

In the Deep
Loreth Anne White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

In the Devil's Snare
Mary Beth Norton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

In the Devil's Territory
Kyle Minor

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2008

In the Distance
Hernan Diaz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

In the Ditch
Buchi Emecheta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy, #1)
Eugene Thacker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

In the Field of Fire
Jeanne Van Buren Dann, ed., Jack Dann, ed.

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1997

In the First Circle
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse
Joseph M. Marshall III

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

In the Garden of Beasts
Erik Larson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2011

In the Hand of the Goddess
Tamora Pierce

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1984

In the Heart of the Country
J. M. Coetzee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Nathaniel Philbrick

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2000

In the Heat of the Night
John Dudley Ball

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

In the Heights: Finding Home
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Jeremy McCarter

Nonfiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2021

In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown
Nathaniel Philbrick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

In the Kingdom of Ice
Hampton Sides

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

In the Lake of the Woods
Tim O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

In the Land of Pain
Alphonse Daudet

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1929

In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic
Valerian Albanov

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1917

In the Light of What We Know
Zia Haider Rahman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

In the Likely Event
Rebecca Yarros

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

In the Lives of Puppets
T. J. Klune

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

In the Mecca
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1968

In The Middle Of The Night
Robert Cormier

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1995

In the Midst of Winter
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

In the Miso Soup
Ryū Murakami, Ralph McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

In the Name of Salome
Julia Alvarez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)
Sarah Ruhl

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2009

In The Night Wood
Dale Bailey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Steven Levy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

In the Presence of my Enemies
Gracia Burnham

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003

In The Realm of a Dying Emperor
Norma Field

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
Gabor Maté

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy
G.A. Henty

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1887

In the Rogue Blood
James Carlos Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

In the Role of Brie Hutchens...
Nicole Melleby

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

In The Sanctuary of Outcasts
Neil White

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

In the Sea There are Crocodiles
Fabio Geda

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle
Madeleine Blais

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1995

In the Shadow Garden
Liz Parker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

In The Shadow of 10,000 Hills
Jennifer Haupt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018