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Idgah
Idgah (ईदगाह) is a 1933 Hindi short story by Munshi Premchand about four-year-old orphan Hamid, who buys tongs for his grandmother instead of toys at the Eid fair.
Idilio salvaje
Idilio salvaje is a long Spanish-language poem by the Mexican poet Manuel José Othón, composed in 1904–1905 and generally regarded as his most celebrated work.
Idiot plot
Idiot plot: a plot sustained only by supposedly competent characters acting stupidly; coined by James Blish, popularized by Roger Ebert's 1990 Narrow Margin review; distinct from the Idiot Ball and plot holes.
IDW Publishing
IDW Publishing (Idea and Design Works, LLC), founded 1999 in San Diego, is an American comic publisher known for licensed titles (Transformers, TMNT, Sonic, Godzilla) and creator-owned hits like 30 Days of Night, plus the Top Shelf and Artist's Editions imprints.
Idylls
The Idylls (Greek: Εἰδύλλια) are a collection of 31 short Greek poems attributed to the Hellenistic poet Theocritus of Syracuse, best known for pastoral poems of herdsmen in song contests.
Idylls of the King
Idylls of the King is a cycle of twelve narrative poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, published between 1859 and 1885, retelling the legend of King Arthur.
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies (Little, Brown, 2025) by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares, MIRI's founder and president, argues building superintelligent AI would kill everyone; a New York Times bestseller with divided reviews.
If Beale Street Could Talk
If Beale Street Could Talk is James Baldwin's 1974 novel about Tish, 19, whose fiancé Fonny is falsely accused of rape; Baldwin's only female-narrated novel, adapted by Barry Jenkins in 2018.
If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer
If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer is the 2007 Goldman family edition of O.J. Simpson's ghostwritten hypothetical murder account, originally canceled by HarperCollins in 2006 and republished after a bankruptcy court awarded the rights to Ron Goldman's family.
If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem
If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem (The Wild Palms) is Faulkner's 1939 novel of two interwoven narratives, lovers on the run in New Orleans and a convict on a flooded Mississippi, published against Faulkner's preferred Psalm 137 title.
If I Must Die
If I Must Die is a 2011 English-language poem by Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer, dedicated to his daughter Shymaa, asking survivors to tell his story and fly a white kite over Gaza; it went viral after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike on December 6, 2023.
If I Stay
If I Stay is a 2009 young adult novel by Gayle Forman. It follows 17-year-old cellist Mia Hall after her parents are killed in a car accident.
If It Bleeds
If It Bleeds is Stephen King's 2020 Scribner collection of four novellas: Mr. Harrigan's Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat, and the title story, a Holly Gibney sequel to The Outsider; three stories were quickly optioned for film.
If It's for My Daughter, I'd Even Defeat a Demon Lord
If It's for My Daughter, I'd Even Defeat a Demon Lord (うちの娘の為ならば、俺はもしかしたら魔王も倒せるかもしれない。) is a CHIROLU fantasy light novel about adventurer Dale adopting the devil girl Latina; web novel 2014-2017, nine Hobby Japan volumes, Hota manga, and a 2019 Maho Film anime.
If Not Higher
"If Not Higher" is a 1900 short story by Yiddish writer I. L. Peretz, in which a skeptic discovers a rabbi's secret acts of charity.
If on a winter's night a traveler
Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore (If on a winter's night a traveler) is Italo Calvino's 1979 metafictional novel: a second-person frame story about a Reader interrupted by ten unfinished novel openings, translated by William Weaver in 1981.
If the South Had Won the Civil War
If the South Had Won the Civil War is MacKinlay Kantor's 1961 alternate history novella, first in Look magazine (November 22, 1960). Grant dies May 12, 1863; the Confederacy wins, abolishes slavery, and the divided American nations reunify in the 1960s.
If There Be Thorns
If There Be Thorns, also published as Si Hubiera Espinas, is V.C. Andrews' 1981 third Dollanganger novel, in which Cathy and Chris live as married siblings until their disguised mother Corrine moves next door and corrupts son Bart; adapted as a 2015 Lifetime TV movie.
If There Be Thorns (film)
If There Be Thorns is a 2015 American made-for-television thriller directed by Nancy Savoca, adapted from V.C. Andrews's novel and starring Rachael Carpani, Jason Lewis, and Heather Graham.
If This Is a Man
If This Is a Man (Se questo è un uomo) is Primo Levi's 1947 memoir of Auschwitz-Monowitz, rejected by Einaudi, first printed by De Silva in 2,500 copies, and established by the 1958 Einaudi edition.
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (1985, Harper & Row) is Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond's circular-tale picture book that launched the If You Give... series, distinguished by its cause-and-effect chain, 45-million-copy series sales, and classroom use.
If—
If— is Rudyard Kipling's 1895–96 didactic poem, published in Rewards and Fairies (1910) after "Brother Square-Toes", inspired by Leander Starr Jameson: 32 lines, four octaves, one sentence of paternal advice ending "you'll be a Man, my son!".
Igbo novel
The Igbo novel is prose fiction associated with the Igbo people of southeastern Nigeria, beginning with Pita Nwana's Omenuko in 1933 and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart in 1958.
Ik Miyan Do Talwaran
Ik Miyan Do Talwaran (ਇਕ ਮਿਆਨ ਦੋ ਤਲਵਾਰਾਂ, "One Sheath, Two Swords") is a 1959 Punjabi historical novel by Nanak Singh that dramatizes the Ghadar Movement of 1914–1915.
İkinci Yeni
İkinci Yeni, or the Second New Movement, is a modernist poetry movement in Turkish literature that emerged in the mid-1950s against the plain language of Garip.
Il cinque maggio
Il cinque maggio is a civil ode by Alessandro Manzoni, composed in three days in July 1821 on news of Napoleon's death on Sant'Elena, commemorating the fallen emperor without ever naming him.
Il Fiore
Il Fiore is an anonymous medieval Italian poem in 232 sonnets that abridges the Roman de la Rose, probably composed around 1286 and possibly by Dante Alighieri.
Il giorno
Il giorno ("The Day") is a satirical poem by Italian poet Giuseppe Parini, first published from 1763, that mocks the idleness and vanity of the 18th-century Milanese aristocracy.
Il mondo al contrario
Il mondo al contrario (The World Upside Down) is Roberto Vannacci's 2023 self-published essay attacking political correctness, LGBTQ+ rights, immigration, and feminism; it sold roughly 240,000 copies, ranked fifth in Italy for 2023, drew an 11-month Army suspension, and launched his political career with the Lega and later Futuro Nazionale.
Il Novellino
Il Novellino is an anonymous Tuscan collection of about a hundred short tales from the late 13th century, the major Italian novella collection before Boccaccio's Decameron.