The Iliad
Achilles quits the fight over Briseis, Patroclus falls to Hector, and Troy burns toward its fate in Homer's war epic.
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The Illustrated Man
A tattooed drifter's moving pictures retell eighteen Bradbury stories of children, rockets, Mars and the last night of the world.
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The cells of a poor Black tobacco farmer revolutionized medicine, taken without her knowledge in 1951.
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The Immortalists
Four siblings visit a fortune teller in 1969 who tells each their death date, shaping how they live and love.
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The Immortals of Meluha
Tribal Shiva learns he is fabled Neelkanth prophesied to save Meluha.
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Jack and Algernon invent Ernest to court Gwendolen and Cecily until fiction collapses.
2,538-word summary · 11 min read
The Indian in the Cupboard
Omri learns a key turns plastic Little Bear into a live Iroquois man.
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The Indigo Spell
Sydney Sage hunts an aging witch, learns forbidden magic, and finally admits she loves Adrian, while the Alchemist tattoo on her cheek may be controlling her.
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The Infinite Sea
Cassie and Squad 53 wait out winter in a hotel while Ringer is retaken and learns the truth behind the 5th Wave.
2,985-word summary · 13 min read
The Inheritance Games
Avery Grambs inherits billions from a stranger and must live a year in Hawthorne House.
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The Inmate
A nurse takes a prison job and faces the ex who she helped convict for murder years ago.
2,060-word summary · 9 min read
The Innocent
A government hitman refuses one kill and must protect a teenage girl at the center of a cover-up.
2,403-word summary · 11 min read
The Institute
A kidnapped prodigy wakes in a Maine facility where gifted kids earn tokens in Front Half and vanish from Back Half.
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The Intelligent Investor
Graham's 1949 guide teaches Mr Market, margin of safety, and defensive versus enterprising plans for calm stock and bond investing.
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The Interestings
Meg Wolitzer follows Jules Jacobson from 1974 arts camp into middle age, as friendship with Ethan and Ash turns into envy, money gaps, marriage strain, and…
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret
A Paris station orphan tends clocks, steals parts, and wakes a drawing machine that points to filmmaker Georges Melies.
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The Invention of Wings
Sarah Grimke and enslaved Handful grow up bound in Charleston, then push toward freedom and abolition.
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Addie trades her soul for freedom in 1714 France and lives forgotten for 300 years, until a Brooklyn bookseller remembers her name.
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The Invisible Man
A scientist makes himself invisible and learns the price: no one can live outside the world. Wells turns a clever trick into a chase across Sussex.
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The Iron Daughter
Exiled with Ash after the scepter theft, Meghan hunts the Iron stronghold as iron magic wakes inside her.
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The Iron King
Meghan Chase follows her stolen brother into the Nevernever and bargains with a Winter prince to face the Iron King.
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The Iron Queen
Meghan faces the Iron King past while Ash pays a winter price.
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The Island of Doctor Moreau
Shipwrecked Prendick finds Doctor Moreau shaping beasts into men by pain on lost island.
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The Island of Missing Trees
A talking fig links 1970s Cyprus lovers Kostas and Defne with their grieving London daughter Ada years later.
3,172-word summary · 14 min read