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In a Dark, Dark Wood

Ruth Ware · 2015

Writer Nora joins hen party Clare in glass house where a murder happens.

2,253-word summary · 10 min read

In Cold Blood

Truman Capote · 1966

Capote reconstructs the Clutter murders and the killers' flight in the book that invented true crime.

1,965-word summary · 9 min read

In Five Years

Rebecca Serle · 2020

Dannie sees herself with another man in 2025, then meets him as her best friend Bella's boyfriend. A sad, readable story about plans, friendship, and grief.

2,748-word summary · 12 min read

In the Woods

Tana French · 2007

A detective investigates a girl's murder in the woods where his own friends vanished twenty years earlier.

2,773-word summary · 12 min read

Inferno

Dan Brown · 2013

Dan Brown's Inferno retold: Robert Langdon wakes in Florence with lost memory, follows Dante's clues with Sienna Brooks from Palazzo Vecchio to Venice and…

2,395-word summary · 11 min read

Inkheart

Cornelia Funke · 2003

Bookbinder Mo reads characters alive and daughter Meggie is pulled into Capricorn's hunt for Inkheart.

2,910-word summary · 13 min read

Insurgent

Veronica Roth · 2012

Insurgent retold: Tris guilty after war, Erudite hunts Divergent, Amity talks, Candor serum.

1,951-word summary · 9 min read

Into the Water

Paula Hawkins · 2017

A drowning pool, eleven narrators, and sisters divided in Hawkins's murky second thriller.

2,598-word summary · 12 min read

Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer · 1996

Jon Krakauer traces Chris McCandless from Emory graduation to an abandoned bus on the Stampede Trail in 1992, asking what drove him to seek a spare life in…

2,526-word summary · 11 min read

Into Thin Air

Jon Krakauer · 1997

Krakauer's account of the 1996 Everest disaster: a guided summit push, a sudden storm, and the choices that left eight dead above 26,000 feet.

2,447-word summary · 11 min read

Iron Flame

Rebecca Yarros · 2023

Violet survives her first year at Basgiath and returns for war games, rebellion secrets, and a harder second year.

2,687-word summary · 12 min read