The Midnight Library: A GMA Book Club Pick - Matt Haig

The Midnight Library: A GMA Book Club Pick

By Matt Haig

  • Release Date: 2020-09-29
  • Genre: Fiction & Literature
Score: 4.5
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The #1 New York Times bestselling WORLDWIDE phenomenon

Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick | Independent (London) Ten Best Books of the Year

"A feel-good book guaranteed to lift your spirits."—The Washington Post

The dazzling reader-favorite about the choices that go into a life well lived, from the acclaimed author of How To Stop Time and The Comfort Book.

Don’t miss Matt Haig’s latest instant New York Times besteller, The Life Impossible, available now

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 blockbuster 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.

Reviews

  • And there I was…

    5
    By Juanbeom
    I am not much of a reviewer but I wanted to put something down for such a lovely read. Reading this book, as cliché as it may sound, sparked some change in the way I see life. My life. This book definitely made me realize that I truly do not know what I am doing with my life, but that it is okay not to know. Anyway, I don’t know where I was going with this, but I recommend you read this book. Find the time to sit and enjoy the beautifully painful and relatable and hopeful story it tells.

  • Midnight Library

    5
    By dalba12
    Such a good read. Mid way through it got so good I couldn’t put it down. First book club book and this was five stars. Never knew where Nora was going or what she was doing next!

  • Life Changing

    5
    By LAwomen
    Matt is an amazing author. This book will change your life - it changed mine 💕

  • Midnight library

    4
    By queezygyro
    Easy read

  • A quick meaningful read

    4
    By MikeyPod
    really enjoyed this book. It was an easy read, which was exactly what I needed. There were some powerful moments and several passages I highlighted along the way. At times, I wished the message had been delivered with a bit more subtlety; it might have landed more deeply if it hadn’t worked quite so hard to make its point. Still, I found it engaging and hard to put down. It gave me some meaningful perspective on regret and the importance of letting it go.

  • Makes me feel like I’m not along in depression.

    4
    By Freedasiy
    In Matt’s books are always an important lessons to be remembered. He has always been the author that made me feel that he really understands depression and that’s a comfort.

  • Easy read with a unique premise, but ultimately forgettable.

    3
    By filmguyryan
    At times the chapters felt redundant. The existential angle wasn’t fully realized. I was only moderately rooting for the main character. The story was okay. That’s about all I can say for it. It is an easy read and worth flipping the pages, but in the end it’ll be lost on the bookshelf and you won’t think much about it again.

  • Cool idea (see A Christmas Carol) but…

    2
    By cybrquack
    Reads more like a YA imo. And maybe like a first novel. At 182 pages it basically explores one layer of what could be a very complex and fascinating ride. To be what it wishes it was he’d have to take the (Christmas carol) concept and really blow it up. Nothing new here but a change of venue.

  • Enchanting

    5
    By gailllsueee
    In the beginning I didn’t quite get the concept. By the end I I was beyond enchanted.

  • Creative and thought-provoking

    4
    By Sabrina Alfin
    How do we live a life? And what might happen if we took a different path? These are the questions The Midnight Library attempts to answer. Engaging, humorous, and often uplifting, this is a magical story with great characters.

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