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In The Park
Gwen Harwood

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1961

In the Penal Colony
Franz Kafka

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1919

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
Gabor Maté

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

In the Shadow of Man
Jane Goodall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1971

In The Shadow Of The Banyan
Vaddey Ratner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

In the Shadow of War
Ben Okri

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1983

In the Skin of a Lion
Michael Ondaatje

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

In the Time of the Butterflies
Julia Alvarez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

In the Wild Light
Jeff Zentner

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

In the Woods
Tana French

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

In This Place (An American Lyric)
Amanda Gorman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

Intimacies
Katie Kitamura

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Intimate Apparel
Lynn Nottage

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2003

Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience
Gitta Sereny

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1974

Into the Beautiful North
Luis Alberto Urrea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart
James R. Doty

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Into the Water
Paula Hawkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Into the Wild
Erin Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

Into The Wild
Jon Krakauer

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1996

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Jon Krakauer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Introduction to Poetry
Billy Collins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1988

Intruder In The Dust
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

Inventing Elliot
Graham Gardner

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Invictus
William Ernest Henley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1889

Invisible
Christina Diaz Gonzalez

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City
Andrea Elliott

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Invisible Emmie
Terri Libenson

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Invisible Girl: A Novel
Lisa Jewell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

Invisible Monsters
Chuck Palahniuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Invisible Son
Kim Johnson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Caroline Criado Perez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Invitation to a Beheading
Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

Invitation To The Game
Monica Hughes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

In West Mills
De'Shawn Charles Winslow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Ion
Ed. John C. Gilbert, Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult

Ion
Plato

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult

Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting
Clare Pooley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

I, Pencil: My Family Tree as Told to Leonard E. Read
Leonard E. Read

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1958

Iphigenia in Aulis
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 410

Iqbal
Francesco D'Adamo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

I Regret Almost Everything
Keith Mcnally

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

I, Robot
Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

Iron Curtain Speech
Winston Churchill

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1946

Iron Flame
Rebecca Yarros

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Iron Gold
Pierce Brown

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Iron John
Robert Bly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

Iron Lake
William Kent Krueger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Ironweed
William Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Iron Widow
Xiran Jay Zhao

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Irresistible
Adam Alter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Isaac's Storm
Erik Larson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Is a River Alive?
Robert Macfarlane

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

I See the Boys of Summer
Dylan Thomas

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1939

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Mindy Kaling

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Nicholas Carr

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2008

Ishmael
Daniel Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

I Sing the Body Electric
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1855

I Sit and Look Out
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1860

I Sit and Sew
Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1988

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 the Blue Dolphins
Scott O'Dell

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1960

Isola: A Novel
Allegra Goodman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Is She Really Going Out with Him?
Sophie Cousens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

I Stand Here Ironing
Tillie Olsen

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1961

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 Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980
Lauren Tarshis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964
Lauren Tarshis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

I Survived the Joplin Tornado, 2011
Lauren Tarshis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944
Lauren Tarshis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906
Lauren Tarshis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

I Survived The Shark Attacks Of 1916
Lauren Tarshis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

It
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

It Ain't So Awful, Falafel
Firoozeh Dumas

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

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 Happened One Summer
Tessa Bailey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2012

I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem
Maryse Condé

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

I, Too
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1926

It's a Love Story
Annabel Monaghan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

It's Kind of a Funny Story
Ned Vizzini

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

It's Not All Downhill From Here
Terry McMillan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

It's Not Summer Without You
Jenny Han

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

It's Not the End of the World
Judy Blume

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1972

It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People
Ramani Durvasula

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

It Starts with Us
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

It's Your Ship
Captain D. Michael Abrashoff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

It won’t be a bullet
Danez Smith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

Ivanhoe
Walter Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1819

I've Been to the Mountaintop
Martin Luther King Jr.

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1968

Iveliz Explains It All
Andrea Beatriz Arango

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Ivy and Bean
Annie Barrows

Fiction | Novel | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 2010

Ivy Day in the Committee Room
James Joyce

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1914