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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

Ingram: A Novel
Louis C.K.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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 Pieces
Sally Field

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

In Praise of Darkness
Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1969

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

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

Insomnia
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

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

Intercepts
T. J. Payne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

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

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 Veins of the Drowning
Kalie Cassidy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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

Inventing Human Rights: A History
Lynn Hunt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

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