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Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs
Luis Elizondo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

Immortal
Sue Lynn Tan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

I'm Nobody! Who Are You?
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1891

Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
Vladimir Lenin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1916

Imperium in Imperio
Sutton E. Griggs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1899

Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2024

Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
Mae M. Ngai

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Austin Channing Brown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Iain Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

I Must Betray You
Ruta Sepetys

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

In A Dark Dark Wood
Ruth Ware

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development
Carol Gilligan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1982

In A Glass Grimmly
Adam Gidwitz

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

In A Grove
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1922

In a Holidaze
Christina Lauren

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale
Amitav Ghosh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

In an Instant
Suzanne Redfearn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

In Another Country
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1925

In a Station of the Metro
Ezra Pound

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1913

Incantation
Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Incarceron
Catherine Fisher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Incident
Countee Cullen

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1925

Incidents Around the House
Josh Malerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1861

In Cold Blood
Truman Capote

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1965

In Colorado My Father Scoured and Stacked Dishes
Eduardo C. Corral

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2012

In Country
Bobbie Ann Mason

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd
Ana Menéndez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Ind Aff
Fay Weldon

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1989

Indecent
Paula Vogel

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

In Defense Of A Liberal Education
Fareed Zakaria

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Independence Day
Richard Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Indian Camp
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1924

Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison
Lois Lenski

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1941

Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World
Jack Weatherford

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

Indian Horse
Richard Wagamese

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Indian Killer
Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
Delmore Schwartz

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1938

I Never Had It Made
Jackie Robinson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1972

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Joanne Greenberg (Hannah Green)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times
Monica Guzmán

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Inferno
Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Infinite Country
Patricia Engel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

In Five Years
Rebecca Serle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

In Flanders Fields
John McCrae

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1915

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert B. Cialdini

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

Inheritance
Christopher Paolini

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Inheritance
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
Dani Shapiro

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Inherit the Wind
Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1955

In His Steps
Charles Sheldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1896

Initiation
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1953

Ink Blood Sister Scribe
Emma Törzs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Inkheart
Cornelia Funke

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

Inkling
Kenneth Oppel

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss
Amy Bloom

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

In Memoriam
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1850

In Memoriam
Alice Winn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

In Memory of W. B. Yeats
Wystan Hugh Auden

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1939

In My Craft or Sullen Art
Dylan Thomas

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1934

In My Dreams I Hold A Knife
Ashley Winstead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
Irene Gut Opdyke, Jennifer Armstrong

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1992

In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
Sebastian Junger

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

Inner Excellence: Train Your Mind for Extraordinary Performance and the Best Possible Life
Jim Murphy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom
Yeonmi Park, Maryanne Vollers

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

In Praise of Darkness
Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1969

In Praise of Shadows
Jun’Ichirō Tanizaki, Transl. Edward G. Seidensticker, Transl. Thomas J. Harper

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1933

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
Alice Walker

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1983

In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio
Philippe Bourgois

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Inside Out And Back Again
Thanhha Lai

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

Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
Dusti Bowling

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Insomnia
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1951

Instructions for Dancing
Nicola Yoon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Instructions on Not Giving Up
Ada Limón

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

Insurgent
Veronica Roth

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Interior Chinatown
Charles Yu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Intermezzo
Sally Rooney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Internment
Samira Ahmed

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1999

Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

In the American Society
Gish Jen

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1986

In the Castle of My Skin
George Lamming

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried
Amy Hempel

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1983

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

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

In the Devil's Snare
Mary Beth Norton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

In the Distance
Hernan Diaz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

In the Dream House
Carmen Maria Machado

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

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 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 Lake of the Woods
Tim O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

In the Land of the Free
Edith Maude Eaton

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1912

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 Midst of Winter
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

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 Park
Maxine Kumin

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1989