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The Infinite Game
Simon Sinek

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Infinite Moment of Us
Lauren Myracle

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Infinite Sea
Rick Yancey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Infinite (The Leap Cycle #1)
Patience Agbabi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

The Infinities
John Banville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media
Brooke Gladstone, Josh Neufeld

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
James Gleick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Informationist (Vanessa Michael Munroe, #1)
Taylor Stevens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Information Officer
Mark Mills

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Informer
Liam O'Flaherty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

The Informers
Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Inhabited Woman
Gioconda Belli

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Inheritance
Louisa May Alcott

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2018

The Inheritance Games
Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

The Inheritance of Loss
Kiran Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
Zoraida Córdova

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Inheritors
William Golding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)
P.G. Wodehouse

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2011

The Initiation (Filthy Rich Americans, #1)
Nikki Sloane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Ink Black Heart
Robert Galbraith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Inmate
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Inn at Rose Harbor
Debbie Macomber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Inn at the Edge of the World
Alice Thomas Ellis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Inner Circle
Brad Meltzer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Inner Ring
C.S. Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Innkeeper's Song
Peter S. Beagle

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

The Innocence of Father Brown
G. K. Chesterton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1911

The Innocent
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Innocent Mage
Karen Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Innocent Man
John Grisham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Innocents
Michael Crummey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Innocents Abroad
Mark Twain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1869

The Innocent Wife
Amy Lloyd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Innocent (Will Robie, #1)
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Innocent (Will Robie Series (1))
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Innovators
Walter Isaacson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014

The Inquisition
Taran Matharu

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

The Inquisitor’s Tale
Adam Gidwitz

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

The Institute
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Insulted and Humiliated
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Integral Trees (The State, #2)
Larry Niven

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1949

The Interestings
Meg Wolitzer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle
Francisco Goldman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

The Interior Life
Katherine Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The International Bank of Bob
Bob Harris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Interpretation of Cultures
Clifford Geertz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1973

The Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1899

The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf
Ambelin Kwaymullina

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Intimacy Experiment
Rosie Danan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Intuitionist
Colson Whitehead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Invaders
John Flanagan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

The Invasion of the Tearling
Erika Johansen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Brian Selznick

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

The Invention of Love
Tom Stoppard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1998

The Invention of Morel
Adolfo Bioy Casares

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1940

The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
Andrea Wulf

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

The Invention of Solitude
Paul Auster

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Invention of Sound
Chuck Palahniuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Invention of the Jewish People
Shlomo Sand

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Invention of Truth: A Novel
Marta Morazzoni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Invention of Wings
Sue Monk Kidd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Inverted World
Christopher Priest

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Investigator
John Sandford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Invisible Bridge
Julie Orringer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance
Russell Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Invisible Husband of Frick Island
Colleen Oakley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
Meghan O'Rourke

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V. E. Schwab

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1897

The Invisible Woman
Erika Robuck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Invitation
Vi Keeland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Invited
Jennifer McMahon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Irish Americans: A History
Jay P. Dolan

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Iron Daughter
Julie Kagawa

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

The Iron Dream
Norman Spinrad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Iron Duke (Iron Seas, #1)
Meljean Brook

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Iron Flower
Laurie Forest

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

The Iron Giant
Ted Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1968

The Iron Heel
Jack London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1908

The Iron Heel & Other Stories
Jack London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Iron King (The Accursed Kings, #1)
Maurice Druon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Iron King (The Iron Fey, #1)
Julie Kagawa

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

The Iron Knight
Julie Kagawa

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

The Iron Queen (The Iron Fey, #3)
Julie Kagawa

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Iron Ring
Lloyd Alexander

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1968

The Iron Trial
Holly Black, Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014