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The Immortal Thor

The Immortal Thor (2023–2025) is a 25-issue Marvel Comics series by Al Ewing, Martin Coccolo, and Alex Ross, a metatextual successor to Immortal Hulk ending with Thor's death and rebirth as Sigurd Jarlson in The Mortal Thor.

The Immortals of Meluha

The Immortals of Meluha (2010) is Amish Tripathi's debut novel, first of the Shiva Trilogy, reimagining Shiva as a mortal Tibetan tribal chief marked as the Neelkanth in a fictionalized Indus Valley empire; self-published after rejections, it became India's fastest-selling series.

The Importance of Living

The Importance of Living is a 1937 book of philosophy and essays by Chinese writer Lin Yutang, written in English to present Chinese life philosophy to Western readers.

The Impossible Fortune

The Impossible Fortune is Richard Osman's 2025 fifth Thursday Murder Club novel, published by Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, a #1 New York Times bestseller about a wedding, a car bomb, and a £350 million Bitcoin code.

The Improvisatore

The Improvisatore (Danish: Improvisatoren) is an 1835 novel by Hans Christian Andersen, set in Italy, which secured his breakthrough as a novelist in Denmark and abroad.

The Imta' wa-l-Mu'anasa

The Imta' wa-l-Mu'anasa (الإمتاع والمؤانسة, "Enjoyment and Conviviality") is a book of thirty-seven nights of conversations recorded by Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi with the vizier Ibn Sa'dan.

The Incal

The Incal (L'Incal) is a French science-fiction graphic novel by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius, serialized in Métal Hurlant from 1980 and collected in six albums 1981–1988, following detective John Difool and the artifact Incal.

The Indian in the Cupboard

The Indian in the Cupboard, Lynne Reid Banks' 1980 children's fantasy (UK figure name Little Bull), about boy Omri's magic cupboard bringing a plastic Iroquois, Little Bear, to life; five-book series, state awards, 1995 Frank Oz film, and later criticism over Native American stereotypes.

The Indians' Book

The Indians' Book is a 1907 anthology of Native American songs, stories, and artwork compiled by ethnomusicologist Natalie Curtis Burlin, with transcriptions from eighteen tribes that made her reputation.

The Infernal Devices

The Infernal Devices is Cassandra Clare's YA fantasy prequel trilogy to The Mortal Instruments: Clockwork Angel, Clockwork Prince, and Clockwork Princess, set in 1878 Victorian London following Downworlder Tessa Gray, Will Herondale, and Jem Carstairs.

The Infinite Sea

The Infinite Sea: 2014 Rick Yancey young adult novel, second of The 5th Wave trilogy, also Jeffrey A. Carver's 1996 Chaos Chronicles volume III and the 2023 Portuguese film Infinite Sea by Carlos Amaral.

The Infinity Gauntlet

The Infinity Gauntlet is Marvel's six-issue 1991 limited series by Jim Starlin, with art by George Pérez and Ron Lim, in which Thanos uses the Infinity Gems to erase half of all life; it inspired the MCU's Infinity War and Endgame.

The Infinity War

The Infinity War is Marvel's 1992 six-issue limited series by Jim Starlin and Ron Lim, the sequel to Infinity Gauntlet, in which Adam Warlock's evil side, the Magus, rebuilds the Infinity Gauntlet with doppelganger attacks, followed by Infinity Crusade.

The Inheritance Cycle

The Inheritance Cycle, also called the Eragon series, is Christopher Paolini's four-book young adult epic fantasy (Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance, 2002–2011) about Dragon Rider Eragon and Saphira overthrowing King Galbatorix, with over 40 million copies sold, a 2006 film, and a Disney+ adaptation in development.

The Inheritance of Loss

The Inheritance of Loss is a 2006 novel by Kiran Desai that won the Man Booker Prize, set between the Himalayan hills and New York restaurant kitchens.

The Ink Black Heart

The Ink Black Heart, sixth Cormoran Strike detective novel by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling), published August 30, 2022; follows Strike and Robin Ellacott investigating the murder of cartoonist Edie Ledwell and her online tormentor Anomie; adapted by the BBC in December 2024.

The Innocents Abroad

The Innocents Abroad is a humorous travel book by Mark Twain, published in 1869, recounting the 1867 Quaker City excursion to Europe and the Holy Land.

The Insulted and Humiliated

The Insulted and Humiliated (Униженные и оскорблённые, also translated Humiliated and Insulted) is a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in 1861 and his first after Siberian exile.

The Intelligentsia and the Revolution

The Intelligentsia and the Revolution (Интеллигенция и революция) is a January 1918 essay by the Russian Symbolist poet Alexander Blok, calling on the intelligentsia to listen to the music of the revolution.

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, is a 1789 autobiography by a formerly enslaved man who became a British abolitionist.

The Interior Castle

The Interior Castle, also known as Las Moradas, is a 1577 spiritual treatise by Spanish Carmelite reformer Teresa of Ávila, describing the soul's journey to union with God.

The Interpreters

The Interpreters is a 1965 novel by the Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka, his first, following five young Nigerian intellectuals who return home to Lagos after independence.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

The Invention of Hugo Cabret (L'Invention d'Hugo Cabret) is Brian Selznick's 2007 Scholastic novel in words and pictures about orphan Hugo, an automaton, and filmmaker Georges Melies; it won the 2008 Caldecott Medal and became Scorsese's film Hugo.

The Invention of Tradition

The Invention of Tradition is a 1983 Cambridge University Press volume edited by Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger arguing that many supposedly ancient practices were recently invented.

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is V.E. Schwab's 2020 Tor Books historical fantasy about Addie LaRue, cursed in 1714 with immortality and being forgotten, until Henry remembers her; NYT bestseller.

The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-Be Wife

The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-Be Wife (透明男と人間女~そのうち夫婦になるふたり~) is a Japanese romantic comedy manga by Iwatobineko about an invisible detective and his blind assistant, adapted into a 12-episode 2026 anime by Project No.9 directed by Mitsuho Seta.

The Invisibles

The Invisibles: Grant Morrison's 1994-2000 Vertigo comic series (59 issues, three volumes) about a secret cell led by King Mob battling the Archons of Outer Church; distinct from unrelated films and TV dramas of the same name.

The Iraqi Christ

The Iraqi Christ (المسيح العراقي) is a 2013 collection of fourteen short stories by Iraqi writer Hassan Blasim, translated by Jonathan Wright and published by Comma Press.

The Iraqi Nights

The Iraqi Nights is a poem by the Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail that reworks classical myth to write about a modern Iraq broken by war and exile.

The Iron Candlestick

The Iron Candlestick (Железният светилник) is a 1952 epic novel by Bulgarian writer Dimitar Talev, following the Glaushev family's struggle for Bulgarian churches and schools in Ottoman-era Macedonia.