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The Midnight Library

  • Matt Haig

4.02

49 ratings

Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?”

A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How To Stop Time.

Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?

In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig’s enchanting new novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.

Genres

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  • New York Times bestseller
  • New York Times reviewed
  • Fiction, science fiction, general
  • Fiction, fantasy, general
  • Future life
  • Fiction
  • Regret
  • Choice (Psychology)
  • Libraries
  • Decision making
  • Vie future
  • Romans, nouvelles
  • Choix (Psychologie)
  • Bibliothèques
  • Prise de décision
  • Literary
  • FICTION / Science Fiction / Time Travel
  • FICTION / Women
  • FICTION / Literary
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About the author

  • Matt Haig

    born 3 July 1975

    3.98

    102 ratings · 114 works

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    Ψυχογιός

    2021

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    Fayard/Mazarine

    05/01/2022

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    Domingo Yayınevi

    2021-06

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    Penguin Publishing Group

    2020

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    Canongate Books

    2020

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    HarperAvenue

    Sep 29, 2020

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    Wheeler Publishing Large Print

    Jan 27, 2021

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    Bolinda Audio

    Nov 17, 2020

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    Penguin Books

    2020-08-13

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    Bokförlaget Polaris

    2020

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    Bolinda Audio

    2020

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    Viking

    Sep 29, 2020

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    Canongate Books

    2020