Authors whose first name starts with I, page 2 of 2

Iris Bolling has 49 books in the catalogue, published between 2008 and 2026. Once You've Touched The Heart and The Heart of Him date from 2008, followed by Look Into My Heart (2009), A Heart Divided (2010), A Lost Heart (2010) and The Heart (2011). Series include Heart, Gems & Gents, Brooks Family Values, A Lassiter Wedding, Dunning Trilogy, Nate Reigns, Night of Seduction and Society of Intellectual Beings. Teach Me (2012) and The Pendleton Rule (2013) are later titles, and Leopard (2026) is the newest.

Iris Cole is the author of a Victorian Romance series, with 10 books catalogued from 2020 to 2024. The Christmas Pauper (2020) is the first. The Lost Daughter and The Wretched Needle Worker appeared in 2021. The Pickpocket Orphans, The Stone Picker's Christmas Promise and The Workhouse Girl's Despair carry 2022 dates. Little Jack, The Widow's Hope and The Lost Mother's Christmas Miracle came out in 2024, and Cole is still publishing.

Iris Gower is the pen name of Iris Davies (1935-2010), a British novelist from Swansea, Wales. The seaport and the neighbouring Gower Peninsula, the source of the pseudonym, give the historical romances their setting. Social conditions and the lives of women recur as subjects, and three sagas carry the Gower name: Sweyn's Eye Saga, Cordwainers and Potter's. The 40 catalogued books run from Burn Bright Shadow (1975) to House of Shadows (2010), taking in Copper Kingdom and Proud Mary, both 1984.

Iris Johansen writes crime fiction, suspense and romance, and was born on April 7, 1938, in St. Louis, Missouri. The catalogue lists 120 books from Stormy Vows (1983) to Wait and See (2026), with the 1980s as the busiest decade. Eve Duncan, Kendra Michaels and Catherine Ling are the recurring characters, and facial reconstruction and women sculptors appear among the subject headings. Johansen's series also include Sedikhan, Wind Dancer, Clanad and Delaneys.

Iris Morland published 28 romance and women's fiction titles in six years, between 2017 and 2022. Song standards supply many of the names - Dream a Little Dream of Me, Someone to Watch Over Me, The Very Thought of You and Till There Was You, all 2017 - and the series are the Youngers, the Thorntons, Hazel Island, Heron's Landing, Flower Shop Sisters and Heir Affair. Never Let Me Go (2022) is the last catalogued title.

Philosophy and fiction sit side by side in Iris Murdoch's catalogue of 43 titles. The run opens with Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953), a study rather than a novel, and Under the Net follows. Good and evil, morality and the unconscious recur across the novels. Murdoch lived from 1919 to 1999, and collections such as Poems from an Attic continue to appear.

Iris Yamashita is a Japanese American screenwriter and novelist, born in Missouri, who studied engineering at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego and virtual reality at the University of Tokyo while writing fiction on the side. Clint Eastwood hired her to write Letters from Iwo Jima, the 2006 companion film to Flags of Our Fathers telling the Japanese side of that battle. Two novels are catalogued, both in the Cara Kennedy series: City Under One Roof (2023) and Village in the Dark (2024).

Irvine Welsh

24 books• 9 series

Irvine Welsh, born 27 September 1958, is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and filmmaker. The fiction is nearly always set in Scotland and portrays working-class life, including drug addiction, social alienation, lack of opportunity and boredom. Trainspotting (1993), the debut novel, was adapted into a film of the same name. The catalogue counts 24 books, among them The Acid House (1994), Filth (1998), Glue (2001) and Porno (2005), through Men In Love (2025). Trainspotting / Mark Renton and Terry Lawson are series.

Irving Stone (1903–1989), born Tennenbaum, was an American writer of biographical novels about artists, politicians and intellectuals. Lust for Life (1934), on the life of Vincent van Gogh, opens the catalogue, and The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961) takes up Michelangelo. Twenty-three books are catalogued, including Sailor on Horseback (1938), Clarence Darrow for the Defence (1949), Immortal Wife (1950), The President's Lady (1952) and Men to Match My Mountains (1956), at a median length of 417 pages.

Irving Wallace

35 books

Irving Wallace (1916-1990) was an American bestselling novelist and screenwriter whose books rest on heavy research, many of them with a sexual theme. The Chapman Report (1960) took up sex research, The Prize (1962) the Nobel Prize, and The Twenty-Seventh Wife (1961) Mormon polygamy. Wallace also wrote non-fiction on eccentrics, showmen and reference curiosities, including The Fabulous Showman (1959) on P. T. Barnum. Thirty-five titles run from 1955 to The Guest of Honor (1989).

Irwin Shaw

26 books• 1 series

Irwin Shaw (1913-1984) was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist and short-story writer whose books have sold more than 14 million copies. The Young Lions (1948) follows three soldiers through the Second World War and was filmed under the same title with Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift. Rich Man, Poor Man (1970) traces two brothers and a sister through the post-war decades and became a 1976 miniseries with Peter Strauss, Nick Nolte and Susan Blakely. The catalogue holds 26 titles, from Bury the Dead (1935) to Welcome to the City and Other Stories (2002), with short story collections making up much of the list.

Isaac Asimov

553 books• 31 series

Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer who also taught biochemistry at Boston University. Hard science fiction is the core of Asimov's reputation, and the Foundation series about a fallen space empire is the most famous work; Asimov ranked with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke as one of the "Big Three" of the genre. The output also covers mysteries, fantasy and popular science, with non-fiction lines such as How Did We Find Out and the Library of the Universe. Asimov wrote or edited more than 500 books. This catalogue opens with the story Marooned Off Vesta (1939) and names Asimov on 400 of the listed books.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

54 books• 1 series

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903-1991) was a Polish-born Jewish American novelist, short story writer and essayist who wrote in Yiddish and then translated his own work into English. Singer received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978 and stood among the leading figures of the Yiddish literary movement. This catalogue holds 54 titles dated 1950 to 2024, opening with The Family Moskat (1950) and taking in Satan in Goray (1955), Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories (1957), The Magician of Lublin (1959) and The Slave (1962). The newest entry is A Letter to Mama and Other Uncollected Stories (2024).

Isabel Allende

34 books• 4 series

Chilean-American writer Isabel Allende was born on 2 August 1942. The House of the Spirits (1982) and City of the Beasts (2002) are among Allende's commercially successful novels, and the work sometimes carries elements of magical realism. Allende has been described as the most widely read Spanish-language author in the world. Honours include induction into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004, Chile's National Literature Prize in 2010 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014. The listing runs from The House of the Spirits to Story Telling: A Writing Life (2026), with the series City Of The Beasts, Daughter Of Fortune and Perla.

Isabel Ashdown

11 books

Isabel Ashdown, born in 1970, is a British writer of contemporary fiction whose 11 catalogued books span 2009 to 2024. The earliest listed is Glasshopper (2009), followed by Hurry Up and Wait (2011) and Summer of '76 (2013). Later books include Little Sister (2018), Beautiful Liars (2019), Lake Child (2019), 33 Women (2020) and Homecoming (2022). Catalogue subjects include family secrets, sisters, best friends, class reunions, alcoholism, paternity and suspense. One Girl, One Summer (2024) is the newest title.

Isabel Cañas is a Mexican-American writer of speculative fiction. The catalogue lists 13 works from The Weight of a Thousand Needles (2019) to The House of Gardenias (2026). The Hacienda (2022) and A Land of Saints and Monsters (2021) are among them. Subject tags include haciendas in Mexico, suspense, occult and paranormal fiction, and thrillers. Cañas is still publishing.

Dragons and shapeshifting run through Isabel Cooper's catalogue, which the subject records place in Scotland and file under historical romance and fantasy romance. Cooper has 12 catalogued books published between 2011 and 2021, all credited to Cooper. Dawn of the Highland Dragon and Englefield are the two series filed under the name. The run opens with No Proper Lady (2011) and ends at Blood and Ember (2021), taking in Legend of the Highland Dragon (2013), Night of the Highland Dragon (2015) and Highland Dragon Master (2018).

Isabel Ibanez

6 books• 2 series

Isabel Ibanez is a Bolivian American author and illustrator whose young adult historical fantasy debut, Woven in Moonlight (2020), made the New York Times bestseller list. Six books are catalogued through 2026. Written in Starlight (2021) belongs to the Woven in Moonlight series, Together We Burn (2022) stands alone, and What the River Knows (2023) and Where the Library Hides (2024) form the Secrets of the Nile sequence. Magic, royal houses and young adult fantasy are the recurring subjects, and Graceless Heart is dated 2026.

Isabel Wilkerson

2 books

Isabel Wilkerson is an American journalist, born in 1961, and the first African-American woman to take a Pulitzer Prize for journalism. Two books carry Wilkerson's name. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents came out in 2020; The Warmth of Other Suns, subtitled The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, came out ten years earlier, and both run to around 559 pages. The career behind them took in the Howard University student newspaper, internships at the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post, the Chicago bureau chief post at The New York Times, and teaching at Emory, Princeton, Northwestern and Boston University. African American migration, race relations, social stratification and caste are the subjects.

Isabella Bassett writes cozy murder mysteries in three series: Old Bookstore Cozy Mysteries, Lady Caroline Murder Mysteries and Golden Age Telephone Gossips Mystery. Six of the titles play on a single word, Out Of Print, Incriminating Imprint, Murderous Misprint, Reckless Reprint, Suspicious Small Print and Blackmail Blueprint. Nineteen books are catalogued between 2021 and Call the Shots (2026), six of them dated 2021.

Isabella Maldonado writes police thrillers with women detectives at the front. Blood's Echo (2017) opens the Veranda Cruz series, and Nina Guerrera and Daniela Vega head the later ones. Drug trafficking and Phoenix appear among the subjects. Ten books are catalogued through Exit Wound in 2026, at 332 pages on median.

Isabella Starling is credited on 51 books from 2016 to 2025. His Brat and His Doll were the 2016 titles, and Breaking Belle and Collaring Cinderella followed in 2017. Series include Mafia Heirs, Gilded Cage, Elite of Eden Falls Prep, Kingpin's Property, Tyrant Dynasty, Lords of Wildwood and Psychos of Cinderfall Academy. Revenge Kiss Kill (2025) is the newest, and Bella J. shares credit on 1 book.

Isabelle Holland was an American author who wrote for both children and adults, living from 1920 to 2002. Holland produced gothic novels, adult mysteries and romantic thrillers alongside many children's and young adult books, among them The Man Without a Face (1972). The Claire Aldington mysteries, built around a woman priest, are her main detective series, with Maggie and Annie Lavin beside them. The catalogue records 54 titles between 1967 and 2010, with a median length of 208 pages.

Chasing Red (2017) is Isabelle Ronin's central work, a romance between a woman college student and a basketball player, and it has grown into a graphic novel adaptation with Chasing Red, Vol. 1 (2025). Always Red (2017) and Spitfire in Love (2019) complete the catalogue at 4 books, at a median 385 pages. Ronin remains actively publishing.

Isadora Brown has 15 catalogued books published between 2014 and 2023. The run opens with Death in Neverland (2014) and ends at Beyond the Void (2023). One series carries the Brown credit: Neverland. Other catalogued titles include Falling for the Devil (2014), Battlefield (2015), Killing by Captivation (2017), Poisonous Temptation (2017) and Bound to the Void (2022). Nothing new has been catalogued under the Brown name since 2023.

Isis Crawford writes culinary cozy mysteries, with the catering sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons solving murders in the Mystery With Recipes series. An earlier run follows Robin Light in Syracuse, New York, opening the catalogue with Chutes and Adders (1994), Twister (1995), In Plain Sight (1996), The Scent of Murder (1997), Vanishing Act (1998) and Endangered Species (1999). 30 titles are catalogued, reaching A Catered PTA Murder.

Twenty-five books stand under Isla Olsen, all dated between 2020 and 2023 and credited to Olsen alone. Titles dated 2020 include Fake It 'til You Make Out, Can't Get You Out of My Bed, Crazy Little Fling, Hopeless Bromantics, Mr. Big Shot, The King and Jai and Two Men and a Baby. Text Me Up (2023) is the newest entry. Love & Luck recurs as a character entry and heads the series list, which also holds Goode Life, Suits & Sevens, Royal & Reckless and Love on the Rocks. The catalogue records no subject headings or page counts.

Isobel Bird's 15 catalogued books all appeared in 2001 and 2002 and belong to the Circle of Three series. The books are young adult fiction about witches, Wicca and witchcraft, and friendship and magic are also recorded subjects. So Mote It Be (2001) is listed as the first title. Other 2001 titles include Merry Meet, Second Sight, Blue Moon, In the Dreaming, Making the Saint, Ring of Light, The Five Paths, The House of Winter and Through the Veil. Initiation (2002) is the last book, and the run is likely complete.

Isobelle Carmody

37 books• 8 series

Isobelle Carmody, born in 1958, is an Australian writer of science fiction, fantasy, children's literature and young adult fiction, and a recipient of the Aurealis Award for best children's fiction. The Obernewtyn Chronicles are the recorded character grouping, opening with Obernewtyn (1987), the earliest of the 37 books catalogued under the Carmody name; Comes the Night (2024) is the most recent. Little Fur, Kingdom of the Lost, Legendsong and Tales from the Tower also appear, with magic, elves, human-animal communication and extrasensory perception among the subjects.

Italo Calvino

28 books• 1 series

Italo Calvino was an Italian novelist and short story writer, and at the time of his death in 1985 the most translated contemporary Italian author. The Our Ancestors trilogy ran from 1952 to 1959. Cosmicomics, a collection of short stories, appeared in 1965; Invisible Cities came in 1972, and If on a winter's night a traveler in 1979. Calvino also assembled Italian Folktales (1956). The 28 catalogued titles begin with The Path to the Spiders' Nests (1947) and take in The Cloven Viscount, The Nonexistent Knight and Marcovaldo.

Ivan Doig

19 books• 5 series

Montana is Ivan Doig's territory: ranch life, teachers, fathers and sons, and the history of the American West. Doig's catalogue holds fiction and non-fiction alike, with the Two Medicine Country and Whistling Season books beside the Montana Trilogy, which runs English Creek (1984), Dancing at the Rascal Fair (1987) and Ride With Me, Mariah Montana (1990). Nineteen titles are catalogued, ending with Last Bus to Wisdom in 2015.

LitRPG is Ivan Kal's genre, built on game systems, levelling and empire-building. Rise of the Empire opens the catalogue with Olympus in 2014, and Tower of Power, Infinite Realm, Universe on Fire and Vae Victis follow. War and conquest supply most of the titles, Warpath, Onslaught, Conquest, What War Had Wrought. 33 books reach Vae Victis 3 in 2025, at a median of 245 pages.

Ivory Fields is credited with 192 books in this catalogue, all of them dated between 2022 and 2026. The listing is built from numbered installments gathered into series, among them Sweet Love, Forever Home, Nantucket Nights, Colonial Beach Nights, Cocoa Beach, Myrtle Beach, Reunited at Last, Newport Breeze, Folly Beach, Sunny Days, Xmas With You and Winter's Delight. The catalogue records no subject headings against these books, and the run continues.

Ivy Fox has 25 books catalogued from 2018 to 2026. Her Secret, The King and Archangels MC all date from 2018, and Revenge Reads Better is the 2026 entry. Series include Privileged of Pembroke High, Bad Influence, Winter Queen, Puckered Hearts and Rotten Love. Ivy Fox is still publishing.

Ivy Layne's catalogue of 26 books divides into five series: Scandals of the Bad Boy Billionaires, Hearts of Sawyers Bend, Alpha Billionaire Club, Untangled and Where Promises Lie. Billionaire heroes and courtship plots recur across the titles, from The Billionaire's Pet (2016) to Engaging the Billionaire (2017). Layne published The Courtship Maneuver and The Wedding Rescue in 2015 and remains active, with Fractured Promise arriving in 2026.

Ivy Nelson writes romance built around clubs, high stakes and power: Diamond Doms, Club Exposure, Club Solitaire Collections, Christmas at Club Solitaire, Sin City Suits, D.C. Power Games and No Limit. The catalogue holds 34 books from Power Desired (2018) to High Roller (2025), at an average gap of 0.2 years, and Nelson continues to publish. Readers looking up Ivy Nelson books in order find the Power titles first.

Ivy Pochoda writes suspense and urban fiction. The catalogue holds 8 books published between 2009 and 2025, from The Art of Disappearing (2009) to Ecstasy and Eerie Basin, both dated 2025. Subjects record magicians, missing persons, cults, communal living, ranch life and skid row, with New York City among the settings. Visitation Street (2013), Wonder Valley (2017), These Women (2020), Sing Her Down (2023) and Jackrabbit Skin (2024) fill the run. Pochoda is credited on all 8 titles, and the catalogue marks the work ongoing.

Ivy Smoak writes romance about young women, with revenge and foster-care backgrounds among the recurring subjects. Sixty-one catalogued books start in 2015 with A Christmas Wish, Addiction, City of Sin and Temptation, and reach Scarlett and Her Prince Charming (2026). Empire High, the Men of Manhattan, Secrets of Suburbia, Sweet Cravings, Made of Steel, Single Girl Rules and Scarlett are the series lines.

Iza Moreau has 15 books in the catalogue, dated 2012 to 2024, and the listed series are Elodie Fontaine Mysteries and Small Town. The News in Small Towns (2012) comes first, followed by Madness in Small Towns (2013), Secrets in Small Towns (2014) and Mysteries in Small Towns (2015). The XYZ Mysteries (2016), Swamp Girl (2018) and Ghost in the Piano (2019) come later, and Billy's Legacy (2024) is the newest. Moreau is still publishing.