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The Iron Druid Chronicles
The Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne: completed urban fantasy series (Hounded, 2011, to Scourged) about 2100-year-old druid Atticus O'Sullivan, his talking Irish wolfhound Oberon, and gods of many pantheons in modern Arizona.
The Iron Flood
The Iron Flood (Железный поток) is Alexander Serafimovich's 1924 novel about the 1918 Taman Army's 500-km march through the Caucasus, led by Kozhukh, modeled on Kovtyukh; a founding Soviet Civil War classic.
The Iron Man (novel)
The Iron Man: A Story in Five Nights (also The Iron Giant in the US) is a 1968 children's science-fiction novel by Ted Hughes about a metal giant, the boy Hogarth, and a space dragon.
The Iron Theater
The Iron Theater (რკინის თეატრი) is a 1981 historical novel by Georgian writer Otar Chiladze about two families in Batumi under the Russian Empire, which won the Rustaveli Prize in 1983.
The Iroquois Book of Rites
The Iroquois Book of Rites is Horatio Hale's 1883 edition of Iroquois ritual texts, known as the Ancient Rites of the Condoling Council, used to mourn chiefs and install successors.
The Irregular at Magic High School (魔法科高校の劣等生)
The Irregular at Magic High School (魔法科高校の劣等生) is Tsutomu Satou's Dengeki Bunko light novel series about siblings Tatsuya and Miyuki Shiba at a magic high school; 33 main volumes plus sequels, over 30 million copies, and a large anime and game franchise.
The Island of Crimea
The Island of Crimea (Остров Крым) is an alternate-history novel by Vasily Aksyonov imagining Crimea as an island that escaped Soviet rule, written 1977–1979 and published in 1981.
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996 film)
The Island of Dr. Moreau is a 1996 science fiction horror film, based on the H.G. Wells novel, directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Marlon Brando.
The Issa Valley
The Issa Valley (Dolina Issy) is a 1955 novel by the Polish Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz about a boy's coming of age on his grandparents' estate in rural Lithuania.
The Ister
The Ister (Der Ister) is a fragmentary river hymn by the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin, written on the Danube and left unfinished; Martin Heidegger lectured on it in 1942.
The Italian
The Italian; or, The Confessional of the Black Penitents is a Gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe, published in 1796 and set in Naples, whose villain is the monk Schedoni.
The Izu Dancer
The Izu Dancer (伊豆の踊り子) is a 1926 novella by Yasunari Kawabata about a student on a walking tour of the Izu Peninsula who falls in with traveling performers.
The Jaunt
The Jaunt is a 1981 Stephen King science fiction horror short story, first in The Twilight Zone Magazine and collected in Skeleton Crew (1985), about teleportation to Mars that drives conscious travelers insane.
The Jder Brothers
The Jder Brothers (Frații Jderi) is a three-volume historical novel by Romanian writer Mihail Sadoveanu, published between 1935 and 1942, set in the Moldavia of Stephen the Great.
The Jew of Malta
The Jew of Malta is a tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, written around 1589 to 1590, in which the merchant Barabas takes revenge for his dispossession in Malta.
The Jew's Beech
The Jew's Beech (Die Judenbuche) is an 1842 crime novella by the German writer Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, her literary breakthrough, based on a real murder case in mountainous Westphalia.
The Jewish War
The Jewish War (Hebrew: מלחמת היהודים) is a seven-book history of the Judean revolt against Rome, written in the 70s CE by Flavius Josephus and covering the fall of Jerusalem in 70 and Masada in 74.
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides is a 1785 travel journal by James Boswell recording his 1773 tour with Samuel Johnson through highland Scotland and the western islands.
The Journal of Amiel
The Journal of Amiel (Journal intime) is the private diary of Swiss professor Henri-Frédéric Amiel, kept for over 40 years and totaling about 17,000 manuscript pages.
The Journals of Sarab Affan
The Journals of Sarab Affan (يوميات سراب عفان) is the final novel of Palestinian writer Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, a love story told through alternating journal entries.
The Journey of Ibn Fattouma
The Journey of Ibn Fattouma (رحلة ابن فطومة) is a 1983 allegorical novel by Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz about a traveler seeking the perfect land of Gebel.
The Joy Luck Club (novel)
The Joy Luck Club (喜福会) is Amy Tan's 1989 debut novel from Putnam: sixteen interlocking stories of four Chinese immigrant mothers, their American-born daughters, and their San Francisco mahjong club.
The Joy of Snowflakes
"The Joy of Snowflakes" (雪花的快乐) is a 1924 free-verse poem by the Chinese poet Xu Zhimo, published in 1925 and collected in The Poems of Zhimo.
The Joy of the Poor
The Joy of the Poor (Hebrew: Simḥat ʿAniyim) is the second poetry collection by Hebrew poet Nathan Alterman, published in Mandatory Palestine in 1941 and regarded as one of the peaks of his work.
The Joyful Cry of the Partridge
The Joyful Cry of the Partridge (O alegre canto da perdiz) is a 2008 novel by Mozambican writer Paulina Chiziane, following three generations of women from colonization to independence.
The Joys of Motherhood
The Joys of Motherhood is a 1979 novel by the Nigerian writer Buchi Emecheta, following Nnu Ego, an Igbo woman whose motherhood in colonial Lagos brings poverty and loss.
The Judgment
The Judgment (Das Urteil) is Kafka's short story of Georg Bendemann, condemned by his father to drowning; written in one night, 22-23 September 1912, published 1913 in Arkadia, his breakthrough work.
The Jungle
The Jungle (1906) is Upton Sinclair's muckraking novel of Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkus in Chicago's stockyards; its meatpacking exposé spurred the 1906 Pure Food and Drug and Meat Inspection Acts.
The Jungle Book
The Jungle Book (1894) is Rudyard Kipling's collection of seven stories with poems, mostly set in India, including the Mowgli tales, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, The White Seal, and Toomai of the Elephants, with an 1895 sequel.
The Justice of Kings
The Justice of Kings (2022) is Richard Swan's debut epic fantasy, first of the Empire of the Wolf trilogy from Orbit, following Emperor's Justice Konrad Vonvalt and clerk-narrator Helena Sedanka through a murder mystery and imperial conspiracy in the Sovan Empire.