Books by Letter I

Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles.

Mo and his daughter, Meggie, have the ability to bring storybook characters to life just by reading aloud.

After the death of his wife and daughter, Spanish lord Louis is turned into a vampire by Lestat de Lioncourt. To keep Louis by his side, Lestat converts a plague-ridden girl.

An autobiography in which Maya Angelou recounts the story of her life up to the birth of her son.

The book tells the story of the murder of the Clutter family, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Clutter and their two teenage children, Kenyon and Nancy, and the events that lead the killers to murder.

An English U.N. negotiator becomes stranded in the tropics with a mad scientist who makes half-human beasts.

Seven young outcasts in Derry, Maine, are about to face their worst nightmare -- an ancient, shape-shifting evil that emerges from the sewer every 27 years to prey on the town's children.

Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light and thus becomes invisible.

Montcrieff decides to take the name Earnest when visiting Cecily. Things start to go awry when they end up together in the country and their deceptions are discovered.

Several of the stories feature the character of Dr. Calvin, chief robopsychologist at U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc., the major manufacturer of robots.

At the poem's beginning, Dante is lost in a dark wood both literally and spiritually. He meets the soul of his poetic idol, the Roman poet Virgil, who agrees to guide him through Hell.

The novel was originally supposed to be Palahniuk's first novel to be published, but it was rejected by the publisher for being too disturbing.