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Irene Adler
Irene Adler, Irene Norton née Adler, 'the woman': American opera singer in Conan Doyle's 'A Scandal in Bohemia' (1891), the only woman to outwit Sherlock Holmes, holding a photograph of the King of Bohemia and marrying Godfrey Norton.
Iroha (いろは)
Iroha (いろは, iroha uta) is a Heian-period Japanese pangram poem using all 47 kana once each, traditionally attributed to Kūkai but actually composed late 10th to mid-11th century; its iroha order was Japan's standard kana ordering until Meiji.
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.
Iron Earth, Copper Sky
Iron Earth, Copper Sky (Yer Demir Gök Bakır) is a 1963 novel by Turkish writer Yaşar Kemal, the second volume of his trilogy The Other Face of the Mountain.
Iron Fist (character)
Iron Fist (Danny Rand) is a Marvel Comics superhero created by Roy Thomas and Gil Kane, debuting in Marvel Premiere #15 (1974); a chi-wielding martial artist of K'un-Lun, later also held by Orson Randall, Kwai Jun-Fan, and Lin Lie, and played on Netflix by Finn Jones.
Iron Flame
Iron Flame is the 2023 second novel in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean romantasy series, following Fourth Wing. It follows Violet Sorrengail's second year at Basgiath War College against the venin, sold about 585,000 US hardcovers in week one, and precedes Onyx Storm.
Iron Throne (A Song of Ice and Fire)
The Iron Throne, royal seat of the Seven Kingdoms in A Song of Ice and Fire (Aegon's Throne), forged from a thousand enemy swords by dragonflame in the Red Keep; metonym for Westerosi monarchy, famously dangerous and smaller on screen than in the books.
Irredeemable
Irredeemable is a 38-issue Boom! Studios superhero comic (2009-2012) by Mark Waid and Peter Krause in which the Superman-like Plutonian turns villain; companion series Incorruptible, Eisner and Harvey awards, Netflix film development.
Irupatham Noottandinte Ithihasam
Irupatham Noottandinte Ithihasam ("The Epic of the Twentieth Century") is a Malayalam khandakavyam, a sectional long poem, written by Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri and first published in the Mathrubhumi weekly in August 1952.
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?
DanMachi (ダンジョンに出会いを求めるのは間違っているだろうか), taglined Familia Myth, is Fujino Omori's GA Bunko light novel series since 2013 about adventurer Bell Cranel in Orario, with a J.C. Staff anime and 17 million copies sold.
Is This a Zombie? (これはゾンビですか?)
Is This a Zombie? (これはゾンビですか?, Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?) is a Japanese comedy light novel by Shinichi Kimura, illustrated by Kobuichi and Muririn, in Fujimi Fantasia Bunko, 18 volumes ending 2015, about zombie student Ayumu Aikawa; adapted into two Studio Deen anime seasons and a Yen Press English manga.
Isang Dipang Langit
Isang Dipang Langit, meaning "A Stretch of Sky," is a Tagalog poem by Amado V. Hernandez, written in prison in 1952 and known for its vision of freedom.
Isengard
Isengard (Angrenost) is Tolkien's circular Middle-earth fortress at the foot of the Misty Mountains, built by the Dúnedain, later held by Saruman and centered on the tower Orthanc, destroyed by the Ents in The Two Towers.
Isfahani style
The Isfahani style (sabk-e Esfahani) is a proposed alternative name for the Persian poetry of the Safavid and Mughal era, usually called the Indian style.
Ishmael (Moby-Dick)
Ishmael is the first-person narrator of Melville's Moby-Dick (1851), a young Pequod crew member who opens with "Call me Ishmael", vanishes for long stretches, and is debated as an unreliable narrator and Ahab's democratic foil.
Ishqnama (عشقنامه)
Ishqnama (عشقنامه, Book of Love) names several Persian and Urdu love poems: Wajid Ali Shah's 1849–50 Urdu verse autobiography in a unique illuminated Royal Collection manuscript, Hasan Dihlavi's 1301 Indo-Persian romance, and Ubayd Zakani's 14th-century Persian masnavi.
Isildur
Isildur is a fictional character in J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium: a Númenórean lord, elder son of Elendil, and joint king of Gondor who cut the One Ring from Sauron.
Iskandarnameh
Iskandarnameh, also Eskandar-nāma ("The Book of Alexander"), is the Persian Alexander romance, and most prominently the epic poem Nizami Ganjavi completed around 1200–1203 as the last of his Khamsa.
Island (Huxley novel)
Island (1962) is Aldous Huxley's final novel, a utopia set on the fictional Buddhist island of Pala, where journalist Will Farnaby is shipwrecked; it counterpoints Brave New World and ends with Pala's coup by Rendang.
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Island of the Blue Dolphins is Scott O'Dell's 1960 Newbery Medal-winning historical novel about Karana, a girl stranded alone on San Nicolas Island, based on the real Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island, isolated 18 years (1835–1853) before rescue.
Islands in the Stream (novel)
Islands in the Stream (1970) is Ernest Hemingway's posthumous three-part novel about painter Thomas Hudson on Bimini, in Cuba, and at sea in WWII, edited by Mary Hemingway, Charles Scribner Jr., and Carlos Baker.
Isshiki-san Wants to Know About Love
Isshiki-san Wants to Know About Love (一式さんは恋を知りたい。, Isshiki-san wa Koi o Shiritai) is a romantic comedy manga by Ayune Araragi, serialized in Monthly Shōnen Ace since 2020, rebooted from Rinna Keibu wa Kokyū ga Dekinai, with a Sakura Create TV anime premiering January 2027 and a Yen Press English release from October 2026.
Istanbul: Memories and the City
Istanbul: Memories and the City (Turkish: İstanbul: Hatıralar ve Şehir) is a 2003 memoir by Orhan Pamuk blending his childhood with a portrait of Istanbul's melancholy.
İstanbul'u Dinliyorum
İstanbul'u Dinliyorum, "I'm Listening to Istanbul," is a 1947 poem by Turkish poet Orhan Veli Kanık, known for describing Istanbul entirely through sound with eyes closed.
Isthmian Odes
The Isthmian Odes (Ἰσθμιονῖκαι) are a book of eight surviving victory odes by the Theban poet Pindar, composed in the fifth century BC for victors at the Isthmian Games held near Corinth in honor of Poseidon.
It Ends with Us
It Ends with Us, Colleen Hoover's 2016 Atria novel (also a 2024 Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni film), follows florist Lily Bloom's abusive relationship with neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid; a BookTok-driven bestseller about breaking the cycle of domestic violence.
It Starts with Us
It Starts with Us (Atria Books, October 18, 2022) is Colleen Hoover's sequel to It Ends with Us, told from Lily Bloom's and Atlas Corrigan's alternating perspectives, the most pre-ordered book in Simon & Schuster history.
It was a dark and stormy night
It was a dark and stormy night: the famous bad-writing opening of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1830 novel Paul Clifford, earlier printed by Washington Irving in 1809, spread by Snoopy in Peanuts, and honored by the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for worst opening sentences.
It's Nation Time
"It's Nation Time" is a phrase, poem, and 1972 album by American poet Amiri Baraka that became a rallying chant of the Black Nationalist movement in the early 1970s.
Italian chivalric poetry
Italian chivalric poetry is narrative verse, chiefly in ottava rima from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, recounting Carolingian, Arthurian, and Trojan knights, peaking with Boiardo and Ariosto.