Matt Haig is the author of the instant New York Times Bestseller The Comfort Book; two memoirs, Notes on a Nervous Planet and the internationally bestselling Reasons to Stay Alive; along with six novels, including How to Stop Time, and several award-winning children’s books. The Midnight Library, a number one New York Times Bestseller, is his latest novel and has sold more than six million copies world-wide. His work has been translated into more than forty languages.
An instant New York Times bestseller
Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick!
One of the LibraryReads 2020 Voter Favorites
Independent (London) One of Ten Best Books of the Year
Included in best-of-year and year-end roundups by The Washington
Post, Christian Science Monitor, New York Public Library, Amazon,
Boston Globe, PureWow, St. Louis Public Radio, She Reads,
Lit Hub, The Mary Sue, and more
“Whimsical.” —Washington Post, named one of the 15 Feel-Good Books
Guaranteed to Lift Your Spirits
"An absorbing but comfortable read...a vision of limitless
possibility, of new roads taken, of new lives lived, of a whole
different world available to us somehow, somewhere, might
be exactly what’s wanted in these troubled and troubling
times.” —The New York Times
“Charming...a celebration of the ordinary: ordinary revelations,
ordinary people, and the infinity of worlds seeded in ordinary
choices.” —The Guardian
“A brilliant premise and great fun.” —Daily Mail
"This book really makes you think all about our choices in life and
that big question of “Where would I be if I had made a different
choice?” It’s a book that definitely made me self-reflect." --
Millie Bobbie Brown actor and author of Nineteen Steps
"I can't describe how much his work means to me. So
necessary...[Matt Haig is] the king of empathy." —Jameela Jamil,
actor and host of I Weigh with Jameela Jamil
“A beautiful fable, an It’s a Wonderful Life for the modern age –
impossibly timely when we are all stuck in a world we wish could be
different.” —Jodi Picoult, author of My Sister's Keeper
“This brainy, captivating pleasure read feels like what you might
get if TV’s The Good Place collided with Where’d You Go,
Bernadette.” —People
“Thanks to the storytelling chops of writer Matt Haig, The
Midnight Library is an engaging read, full of gentle insights
and soothing wisdom… This is a book about shedding regret
by gaining perspective. It’s full of quirky plot lines, with
glimpses of opportunities and potential in unexpected places and
people.” —Psychology Today
“A charming book.” —Dolly Parton, award-winning
singer-songwriter
“Although I don’t read fiction as much as I used to—because I’m
always writing fiction—during these sad and difficult days in 2020
I broke that rule because I needed to escape into other people’s
fictional worlds. One of my favorite books of the year
was "The Midnight Library" by Matt Haig, a
powerful and uplifting story about regrets and the choices we
make.”—Alice Hoffman, author of Magic Lessons and Practical
Magic
“Clever, emotional and thought-inspiring.” —Jenny Colgan, author of
The Bookshop on the Corner
“Amazing and utterly beautiful, The Midnight Library is everything
you'd expect from the genius storyteller who is Matt
Haig.” —Joanna Cannon, author of The Trouble with Goats and
Sheep
“Nora’s life is burdened by regrets. Then she stumbles on a library
with books that enable her to test out the lives she could have
led, including as a glaciologist, Olympic swimmer, rock star,
and more. Her discoveries ultimately prove life-affirming in
Matt Haig’s dazzling fantasy.” —Christian Science Monitor
“Would we really make better choices if we could step back in time?
Matt Haig’s thought-provoking, uplifting new book, The Midnight
Library discusses just that, exploring our relationship with regret
and what really makes a perfect life.” —Harper's Bazaar (UK)
“British author Matt Haig is beloved in his home country, and he’s
a champion of mental health, which makes him a great person to
follow on Twitter. He’s best known for the novel How to Stop Time,
but he has a new novel just out on September 29 called The Midnight
Library, which sounds equally intriguing. In this library, Nora
Seed finds endless books which contain different versions of the
life she could have lived. This is a must-read for those of us
given to endless what ifs.” —BookRiot
“Haig is one of the most inspirational popular writers on mental
health of our age and, in his latest novel, he has taken a clever,
engaging concept and created a heart-warming story that offers
wisdom in the same deceptively simple way as Mitch Albom's best
tales.” —Independent (UK)
"Just beautiful . . . Such a gorgeous, gorgeous book.” —Fearne
Cotton, host of the BBC Radio 1 Chart Show
"A highly original, thought-provoking novel..." -- Independent
(London)
"[The Midnight Library] will follow in the bestselling footsteps of
Haig’s earlier books . . . Part Sliding
Doors, part-philosophical quest, this is a moving novel with a
powerful mental health message at its heart.” —Alice O’Keeffe, The
Bookseller
“Haig’s latest (after the nonfiction collection Notes on a Nervous
Planet, 2019) is a stunning contemporary story that explores the
choices that make up a life, and the regrets that can stifle it. A
compelling novel that will resonate with readers.” —Booklist
(starred review)
“Charming...[Matt Haig] will reward readers who take this book off
the shelf.” —Publisher's Weekly
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