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In a World Full of Zombies I'm the Only One Who Doesn't Get Attacked

In a World Full of Zombies I'm the Only One Who Doesn't Get Attacked (ゾンビのあふれた世界で俺だけが襲われない, Zom Ore) is a Japanese zombie apocalypse series by Rokuro Uraji: web novel 2013, Nox Novels light novel 2016, Chihiro Masuda manga 2021, TV anime delayed to January 2027 on AT-X.

In Death

In Death is Nora Roberts' futuristic police-procedural series written as J.D. Robb, starring NYPSD homicide lieutenant Eve Dallas and Roarke in mid-21st-century New York, running since Naked in Death (1995) at two books a year.

In Search of Lost Time

In Search of Lost Time, or À la recherche du temps perdu, is a seven-volume novel by Marcel Proust, published between 1913 and 1927 and famous for its madeleine episode.

Inheritance (Paolini novel)

Inheritance (2011) by Christopher Paolini is the fourth and final Inheritance Cycle novel, published by Knopf on November 8, 2011; it sold 489,500 copies on day one and concludes Eragon's battle against Galbatorix.

Invaders of the Rokujouma!? (六畳間の侵略者!?)

Invaders of the Rokujouma!? (六畳間の侵略者!?) is a Japanese light novel series by Takehaya and Poco, HJ Bunko, since 2009, about Koutarou Satomi defending cheap room 106 from a ghost, magical girl, subterranean, and alien princess; 12-episode 2014 anime by Silver Link.

Investiture of the Gods (封神演义)

Investiture of the Gods, also called Fengshen Yanyi, is a Ming dynasty Chinese novel in which Jiang Ziya appoints 365 gods after the fall of the Shang.

Iron Council

Iron Council (2004) is China Miéville's third Bas-Lag novel, set decades after Perdido Street Station and The Scar. It follows a stolen Perpetual Train of railroad workers, golemist Judah Low, and revolution in New Crobuzon; winner of the 2005 Arthur C. Clarke and Locus Awards.

Jack Reacher

Jack Reacher is Lee Child's fictional ex-US Army military police major, a 6 ft 5 in drifter with only a toothbrush, debuting in Killing Floor (1997); 31+ novels, films with Tom Cruise, and the hit Prime Video series with Alan Ritchson distinguish the franchise.

Jack Reacher (book series)

The Jack Reacher series is a sequence of thriller novels by Lee Child, begun with Killing Floor in 1997, about a former US Military Police major who drifts into crimes.

Jack Vance bibliography

Jack Vance bibliography: complete works of John Holbrook Vance (1916–2013), American SF and fantasy author of The Dying Earth, Demon Princes, Lyonesse; over 60 books, Hugo, Nebula, Edgar winner.

Jack-of-All-Trades, Party of None

Jack-of-All-Trades, Party of None (勇者パーティを追い出された器用貧乏) is a Japanese fantasy light novel by Itsuki Togami and Yuri Kisaragi, launched on Shōsetsuka ni Narō in 2021, published in print by Kodansha, adapted into a manga and a 12-episode 2026 anime by animation studio42, with a second season announced.

Jinsei Gyakuten (人生逆転)

Jinsei Gyakuten (人生逆転) is a Japanese light novel series by D, illustrated by hige-neko, published by KADOKAWA's Sneaker Bunko from November 2024; a Kakuyomu contest double winner about a falsely accused bullied student, with a manga adaptation by Eiku Ikaguchi.

Joseph and His Brothers

Joseph and His Brothers (Joseph und seine Brüder) is a four-novel cycle by Thomas Mann retelling the biblical Joseph story, published between 1933 and 1943.

Journey to the West

Journey to the West (西遊記, Xiyou ji), anonymous 1592 Ming novel attributed to Wu Cheng'en, retells Xuanzang's pilgrimage to India with Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Seng through 81 tribulations; one of the four classical Chinese masterpieces.

Judy Moody

Judy Moody: children's chapter book series by Megan McDonald, illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds, Candlewick Press, first book 2000; moody third-grader Judy, brother Stink spin-off, 17 titles, 2011 film.

Jules Verne bibliography

The Jules Verne bibliography records the works of the French novelist (1828–1905), whose Voyages extraordinaires series comprises roughly 62 to 65 novels, beginning with Cinq semaines en ballon in 1863.

Kadal Pura

Kadal Pura (கடல் புறா, "The Sea Pigeon") is a 1967 Tamil historical novel by Sandilyan, set in the reign of Veera Rajendra Chola and centered on Chola naval power.

Kakababu Samagra

Kakababu Samagra (কাকাবাবু সমগ্র) is a six-volume collected edition of the Kakababu mystery-adventure series by Bengali writer Sunil Gangopadhyay, published by Anand Publishers of Kolkata.

Karlsson-on-the-Roof

Karlsson-on-the-Roof (Karlsson på taket) is Astrid Lindgren's Swedish children's trilogy (1955–1968) about a chubby flying man living behind a Stockholm chimney. Famous in the former Soviet Union via Lungina's 1957 translation and the 1968 cartoon.

Katabasis (novel)

Katabasis is R.F. Kuang's sixth novel, a 2025 Harper Voyager dark academia fantasy in which Cambridge graduate students Alice Law and Peter Murdoch descend into the Eight Courts of Hell to retrieve their dead advisor's soul.

Kate Daniels (book series)

Kate Daniels is an urban fantasy series by the husband-and-wife team Ilona Andrews, set in post-Shift Atlanta where magic and technology alternate in waves; ten main novels (Magic Bites 2007 to Magic Triumphs 2018) plus Iron Covenant, Aurelia Ryder, and Wilmington Years spin-offs.

Killed Again, Mr. Detective?

Killed Again, Mr. Detective? (また殺されてしまったのですね、探偵様) is a KADOKAWA MF Bunko J mystery light novel series by Teniwoha with art by Riichu, in which high school detective Sakuya is killed each case and revives; a 12-episode TV anime aired in 2026.

Killing Floor (novel)

Killing Floor is a 1997 thriller novel by Lee Child, the first book in the Jack Reacher series, introducing the drifter Jack Reacher in Margrave, Georgia.

Knife of Dreams

Knife of Dreams is the eleventh Wheel of Time novel by Robert Jordan, published by Tor Books on October 11, 2005; his last completed volume, resolving Faile's captivity, Mat and Tuon, Elayne's war, and Egwene's capture before the Last Battle.

Kolumbowie

Kolumbowie (full title Kolumbowie. Rocznik 20) is a 1957 three-volume novel by Roman Bratny about young Home Army soldiers under occupation and in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944.

Kristin Lavransdatter

Kristin Lavransdatter is a three-volume historical novel by the Norwegian author Sigrid Undset, published 1920 to 1922 and set in 14th-century Norway, key to her 1928 Nobel Prize.

Kusunoki's Garden of Gods

Kusunoki's Garden of Gods (神の庭付き楠木邸, Kami no Niwatsuki Kusunoki-tei) is a Japanese light novel series by Enju and ox about Minato Kusunoki, whose spiritual power purifies a haunted country house that then attracts deities. Published by Dengeki no Shin Bungei from 2021, adapted into a manga and a 2026 Juvenage TV anime.

La Belle Sauvage

La Belle Sauvage (2017) is Philip Pullman's first Book of Dust novel, set a decade before His Dark Materials, in which Malcolm Polstead and Alice rescue baby Lyra by canoe through a flooded Thames.

Lancelot-Grail

The Lancelot-Grail, also called the Vulgate cycle or Prose Lancelot, is a vast Old French prose cycle of Arthurian romances composed about 1215 to 1235.

Leatherstocking Tales

The Leatherstocking Tales are five novels by James Fenimore Cooper (1823–1841) following frontiersman Natty Bumppo, also called Hawkeye, Deerslayer, Pathfinder, and Leatherstocking, across the eighteenth-century American frontier.