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A Is For Alibi
Sue Grafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Iambicum Trimetrum
Edmund Spenser

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1580

I Am David
Anne Holm

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1963

I Am Legend
Richard Matheson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)
Patricia McCormick, Malala Yousafzai

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2014

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

I Am Not Your Negro
James Baldwin, Raoul Peck

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Erika L. Sanchez, Erika L. Sánchez

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
Nujood Ali, Linda Coverdale, Delphine Minoui

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

I Am Number Four
Pittacus Lore

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

I Am Offering This Poem
Jimmy Santiago Baca

Fiction | Poem | YA | Published in 1990

I Am Pilgrim
Terry Hayes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

I Am Prepared to Die
Nelson Mandela

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1964

I Am Still Alive
Kate Alice Marshall

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

I Am the Cheese
Robert Cormier

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1977

I Am The Messenger
Markus Zusak

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

I Am the People, the Mob
Carl Sandburg

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1916

I Am Watching You
Teresa Driscoll

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

I and Thou
Simon Ravenscroft, Martin Buber, Transl. Walter Kaufmann

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1923

I Ask My Mother to Sing
Li-Young Lee

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1986

I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond
Don Yaeger, Michael Oher

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

I Can Make This Promise
Christine Day, Christine Day

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

I Can Wade Grief
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1891

I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1948

Iceberg
Jennifer A. Nielsen, Clive Cussler

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Icebreaker
Hannah Grace, Hannah Grace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Ice Candy Man
Bapsi Sidhwa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Ice Planet Barbarians
Ruby Dixon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

I Cheerfully Refuse
Leif Enger

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2024

I Contain Multitudes
Ed Yong

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Identity
Julio Noboa

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1977

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
Ally Carter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

If—
Rudyard Kipling

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1910

If Beale Street Could Talk
James Baldwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?
James Baldwin

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1979

If Cats Disappeared from the World
Genki Kawamura, Eric Selland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

I Fell in Love with Hope
Lancali

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

I Felt a Cleaving in my Mind
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1890

I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1896

If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

If He Hollers Let Him Go
Hilton Als, Chester Himes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1929

If I Could Tell You
W. H. Auden

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1940

If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
Tim O'Brien

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1973

If I Ever Get Out of Here
Eric Gansworth

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

If I Had Your Face
Frances Cha

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

If I should die
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1891

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, Stephen King

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2020

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
William Weaver, Italo Calvino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

If Only I Had Told Her
Laura Nowlin

Fiction | Novel | YA | 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
Laura Park, 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, 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
Kerry A. Graves, 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
Theodore Sturgeon, 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
Roy Ringwald, John Marks, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

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
Francesc Miralles, Héctor García

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

I Kissed Shara Wheeler
Casey McQuiston

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

I Know What You Did Last Summer
Lois Duncan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1973

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'll Be Gone in the Dark
Michelle McNamara, Patton Oswalt, Gillian Flynn

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

I'll Give You the Sun
Jandy Nelson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Illness As Metaphor
Susan Sontag

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1978

Illuminae
Jay Kristoff, Amie Kaufman

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

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

I'm Nobody! Who Are You?
Rex Schneider, Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 1994

Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
Vladimir Lenin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1916

Imperium in Imperio
Sutton Elbert Griggs, Sutton E. Griggs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1899

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