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A Is For Alibi
Sue Grafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

I, Alex Cross
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

I Am America
Stephen Colbert

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

I Am a Taxi
Deborah Ellis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

I Am Charlotte Simmons
Tom Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
Alan Bradley

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

I Am J
Cris Beam

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

I Am Legend
Richard Matheson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

I Am Mordred
Nancy Springer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

I Am My Own Wife
Doug Wright

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2003

I Am Not Esther
Fleur Beale

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

I Am Not Your Negro
James Baldwin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Erika L. Sanchez

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

I Am Pilgrim
Terry Hayes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

I Am Princess X
Cherie Priest

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

I Am Regina
Sally M. Keehn

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

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 Watching You
Teresa Driscoll

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

I and Thou
Martin Buber, Transl. Walter Kaufmann

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1923

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

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

iBoy
Kevin Brooks

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

I Can Make This Promise
Christine Day

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1948

Iceberg
Jennifer A. Nielsen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Icebreaker
A. L. Graziadei

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Ice breaker
Hannah Grace

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Ice Candy Man
Bapsi Sidhwa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Ice Cold
Tess Gerritsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Iced
Karen Marie Moning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Iced Out
Veronica Eden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Icefall
Matthew J. Kirby

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Ice Like Fire
Sara Raasch

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

Ice Station
Matthew Reilly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

I Choose to be Happy
Missy Jenkins, William Croyle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

I, Claudia
Mary McCoy

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

I Claudius
Robert Graves

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

I Contain Multitudes
Ed Yong

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Icy Sparks
Gwyn Hyman Rubio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Ida B
Katherine Hannigan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Idaho
Emily Ruskovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

I Dared to Call Him Father
Bilquis Sheikh, Richard H. Schneider

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1978

Identical
Ellen Hopkins

Fiction | Poem | Published in 2008

Identity
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Idiot Brain
Dean Burnett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

I'd Know You Anywhere
Laura Lippman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Idol
Kristen Callihan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

I Do Not Come to You by Chance
Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

I Don't Know How She Does It
Allison Pearson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Idoru
William Gibson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

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

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Idylls of the King
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1859

If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period
Gennifer Choldenko

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

If Beale Street Could Talk
James Baldwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

I Feel Bad About My Neck
Nora Ephron

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2006

I Fell in Love with Hope
Lancali

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

If He Hollers Let Him Go
Chester Himes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

If I Am Missing or Dead
Janine Latus

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer
O. J. Simpson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

If I Die Tonight
Alison Gaylin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

If I Ever Get Out of Here
Eric Gansworth

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

If I Grow Up
Todd Strasser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

If I Had Your Face
Frances Cha

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

If I Never Met You
Mhairi McFarlane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

If I Run
Terri Blackstock

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

If I Stay
Gayle Forman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

If I Was Your Girl
Meredith Russo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

If I Were You
Lisa Renee Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
Jon Mcgregor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

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

If Only It Were True
Marc Levy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

I For Isobel
Amy Witting

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1990

I Found You
Lisa Jewell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

If the Creek Don't Rise
Leah Weiss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

If the Oceans Were Ink
Carla Power

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

If There Be Thorns
V. C. Andrews

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1981

If the Shoe Fits
Julie Murphy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

If This Gets Out
Sophie Gonzales, Cale Dietrich

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

If This Is a Man
Primo Levi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1947

If Tomorrow Comes
Sidney Sheldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

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

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

If We Were Villains
M. L. Rio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

If You Ask Me
Betty White

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

If You Come Softly
Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

If You Could Be Mine
Sara Farizan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

If You Could See Me Now
Cecelia Ahern

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

If You Could See the Sun
Ann Liang

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2022

If You Find Me
Emily Murdoch

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

If You Only Knew
Kristan Higgins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

If You Stay
Courtney Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

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 Would Have Told Me
John Stamos

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Ignite Me
Tahereh Mafi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
Hugh MacLeod

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

I Hate Myselfie
Shane Dawson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

I Have Some Questions for You
Rebecca Makkai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

I Heard The Owl Call My Name
Margaret Craven

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967