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I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone
Nina Simone, Stephen Cleary

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1991

IQ
Joe Ide

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Iqbal
Francesco D'Adamo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

Iracema
José de Alencar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1865

Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope
Shirin Ebadi, Azadeh Moaveni

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Ireland
Frank Delaney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections
Nora Ephron

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Irena's Children
Tilar J. Mazzeo

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2016

Irène (Camille Verhœven, #1)
Pierre Lemaitre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Irene Iddesleigh
Amanda McKittrick Ros

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1897

I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
Rigoberta Menchu

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1983

Iris Kelly Doesn't Date
Ashley Herring Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

I, Robot
Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

Iron Flame
Rebecca Yarros

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Iron Gold
Pierce Brown

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Iron Heart
Nina Varela

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

Iron House
John Hart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Iron John
Robert Bly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

Iron Kissed
Patricia Briggs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Iron Lake
William Kent Krueger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Ironside
Holly Black

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

Iron Thunder: The Battle Between the Monitor & the Merrimac
Avi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Ironweed
William Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Iron Widow
Xiran Jay Zhao

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Irrational Exuberance
Robert J. Shiller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Irresistible
Adam Alter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Irrungen, Wirrungen
Theodor Fontane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1887

Isaac Campion
Janni Howker

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1986

Isaac's Storm
Erik Larson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Isabel Feeney, Star Reporter
Beth Fantaskey

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Is a River Alive?
Robert Macfarlane

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

I See You
Clare Mackintosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

I See You've Called in Dead
John Kenney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

I Shall Not Hate
Izzeldin Abuelaish

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Ishi in Two Worlds
Theodora Kroeber

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1961

Ishi, Last of His Tribe
Theodora Kroeber

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1961

Ishmael
Daniel Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

I Sing the Body Electric! & Other Stories
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 1998

Isis Unveiled
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1877

Isla and the Happily Ever After
Stephanie Perkins

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Island
Aldous Huxley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

Island Beneath the Sea
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Island of a Thousand Mirrors
Nayomi Munaweera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Island of Glass
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Island of Silence
Lisa McMann

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Island of the Blue Dolphins
Scott O'Dell

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1960

Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
Joan Druett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Island Queen
Vanessa Riley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Island Sequined Love Nun
Christopher Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Islands in the Stream
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
Cal Flyn

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Islands, the Universe, Home
Gretel Ehrlich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

Island: The Complete Stories
Alistair MacLeod

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1998

Isle of the Dead
Roger Zelazny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

Isn't It Bromantic?
Lyssa Kay Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Is Paris Burning?
Larry Collins, Dominique Lapierre

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1965

Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations
Avi Shlaim

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
Noa Tishby

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Israel on the Appomattox
Melvin Patrick Ely

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2004

Istanbul: Memories and the City
Orhan Pamuk

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Istanbul Passage
Joseph Kanon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities
Stanley Fish

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1980

Is This Anything?
Jerry Seinfeld

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

I Still Dream About You
Fannie Flagg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

I Suck at Girls
Justin Halpern

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005
Lauren Tarshis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

I Survived the American Revolution, 1776
Lauren Tarshis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

I Survived the Attack of the Grizzlies, 1967 (I Survived, #17)
Lauren Tarshis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001: The Graphic Novel (I Survived Graphic Novels #4)
Lauren Tarshis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

I Survived the Attacks of September 11th, 2001 (I Survived, #6)
Lauren Tarshis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii, AD 79: The Graphic Novel (I Survived Graphic Novels #10)
Lauren Tarshis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980
Lauren Tarshis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871: The Graphic Novel (I Survived Graphic Novels #7)
Lauren Tarshis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

I Survived the Hindenburg Disaster, 1937
Lauren Tarshis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944
Lauren Tarshis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

I Survived The Shark Attacks Of 1916
Lauren Tarshis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

I Swear
Lane Davis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

It
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

It Ain't Me, Babe
Tillie Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

It Ain't So Awful, Falafel
Firoozeh Dumas

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Italian Neighbors
Tim Parks

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1985

It All Comes Back to You
Beth Duke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

I taste a liquor never brewed
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult

It Can't Happen Here
Sinclair Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
Mark Wolynn

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

It Had to Be You
Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

It Happened One Autumn
Lisa Kleypas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

It Happened One Summer
Tessa Bailey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame
Brené Brown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865 (Dear America)
Joyce Hansen

Fiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 1997

I, Tina
Tina Turner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1986

I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem
Maryse Condé

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

It Only Happens in the Movies
Holly Bourne

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

I Too Had a Love Story
Ravinder Singh

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

I, Too, Sing America
Catherine Clinton

Nonfiction | Poetry Collection | YA | Published in 2022

It's a Love Story
Annabel Monaghan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

It's Always the Husband
Michele Campbell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

It's an Aardvark-Eat-Turtle World
Paula Danziger

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 1986

It's Easier Than You Think: The Buddhist Way to Happiness
Sylvia Boorstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995