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If I Stay
Gayle Forman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

If I Survive You
Jonathan Escoffery

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2022

If It Bleeds
Stephen King

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2020

If It Makes You Happy
Julie Olivia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

If I Told Him, A Completed Portrait of Picasso
Gertrude Stein

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1924

If I Was Your Girl
Meredith Russo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Italo Calvino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

If Only I Had Told Her
Laura Nowlin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

I Found You
Lisa Jewell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

If Something Happens to Me
Alex Finlay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

If They Should Come for Us
Fatimah Asghar

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

If This Is a Man
Primo Levi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1947

I Funny: A Middle School Story
James Patterson, Chris Grabenstein

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

If We Must Die
Claude McKay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1919

If We Were Villains
M. L. Rio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

If You Come Softly
Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

If You Forget Me
Pablo Neruda

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1952

If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
Gregg Olsen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

If you were coming in the fall
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1890

Ignite Me
Tahereh Mafi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

I Go Back to May 1937
Sharon Olds

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2004

I Have A Dream Speech
Martin Luther King Jr.

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1973

I Have Lived a Thousand Years
Livia Bitton-Jackson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 1997

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
Harlan Ellison

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1967

I Have Some Questions for You
Rebecca Makkai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

I Hear America Singing
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1860

I heard a Fly buzz — when I died
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1896

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1864

I Heard The Owl Call My Name
Margaret Craven

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

I Hope This Finds You Well
Natalie Sue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

I Hunt Killers
Barry Lyga

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

I, Juan de Pareja
Elizabeth Borton De Treviño

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1965

Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
Héctor García, Francesc Miralles

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

I Kissed Shara Wheeler
Casey McQuiston

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

I Know This Much Is True
Wally Lamb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

I Know What You Did Last Summer
Lois Duncan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1973

I Know Who You Are: A Novel
Alice Feeney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1969

I Let You Go
Clare Mackintosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

I Like to See It Lap the Miles
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1891

I'll Be Gone in the Dark
Michelle McNamara

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

I'll Give You the Sun
Jandy Nelson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

I'll Have What She's Having
Chelsea Handler

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

Illness As Metaphor
Susan Sontag

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1978

Illuminae
Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Richard Bach

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

I look at the world
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2008

I Lost My Talk
Rita Joe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2007

I Love Yous are For White People
Lac Su

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Imagined Communities: Reflections On The Origin And Spread Of Nationalism
Benedict Anderson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

Imagining Argentina
Lawrence Thornton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Imago
Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

I, Medusa
Ayana Gray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Immigrants in Our Own Land
Jimmy Santiago Baca

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1977

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

Immortal Consequences
I. V. Marie

Fiction | Novel | YA | 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

Independent People
Halldor K Laxness

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

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 Education
Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1993

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