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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 Great Molasses Flood, 1919
Lauren Tarshis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

I Survived the Hindenburg Disaster, 1937
Lauren Tarshis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

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 Should Have Been You: A Novel
Andrea Mara

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

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 Her
Mary Kubica

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

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 the Egg: How the Science of Egg Quality Can Help You Get Pregnant Naturally, Prevent Miscarriage, and Improve Your Odds in IVF
Rebecca Fett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

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

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1807

I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
Baek Sehee, Transl. Anton Hur

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

I Was Anastasia: A Novel
Ariel Lawhon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

I Was a Teenage Slasher
Stephen Graham Jones

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir
Malaka Gharib

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

I Will Always Write Back
Caitlin Alifirenka, Liz Welch, Martin Ganda

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2015

I Will Fight No More Forever
Chief Joseph

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1877

I Will Find You
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

I Will Put Chaos Into Fourteen Lines
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1949

I Will Save You
Matt de la Peña

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

I Will Teach You To Be Rich: No Guilt. No Excuses. No BS. Just a 6-Week Program That Works
Ramit Sethi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

I Write What I Like
Steve Biko

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1978

Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll

Fiction | Poem | Middle Grade | Published in 1871

J'Accuse
Émile Zola

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1898

Jackaby
William Ritter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Jacob Have I Loved
Katherine Paterson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1980

Jacob's Room
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

Jade City
Fonda Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Jade War
Fonda Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Jake Drake, Bully Buster
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Jake Drake, Know-It-All
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Jake, Reinvented
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Jamaica Inn
Daphne du Maurier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

James And The Giant Peach
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1961

James: A Novel
Percival Everett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1847

Japanese Gothic
Kylie Lee Baker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Jar of Hearts
Jennifer Hillier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Jasmine
Bharati Mukherjee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Jason and the Golden Fleece
Apollonius of Rhodes

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult

Jason's Gold
Will Hobbs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Jasper Jones
Craig Silvey

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

jasper texas 1998
Lucille Clifton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1998

Jaws
Peter Benchley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

Jayber Crow
Wendell Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Jazz
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Jazz Fantasia
Carl Sandburg

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1922

J.D. and the Great Barber Battle
J. Dillard

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot
Robert Olen Butler

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1996

Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone
Tae Keller

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
Wendy Mass

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
Bruce Coville

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Jerusalem
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1994

Jesse
Gary Soto

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1994

Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
Kristin Kobes Du Mez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Jesus and the Disinherited
Howard Thurman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1949

Jesus' Son
Denis Johnson

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1992

Jews Without Money
Michael Gold

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

Jitterbug Perfume
Tom Robbins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Joan Is Okay
Weike Wang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Joe Turner's Come and Gone
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1988

Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
Jack Gantos

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address
John F. Kennedy

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1961

Johnny Got His Gun
Dalton Trumbo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

Johnny Tremain
Esther Forbes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1943

John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs
Ian Leslie

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2025