From the Bookshelf of 2025 Reading Challenge…

The Midnight Library

Matt Haig

Start date: June 1, 2021

Finish date: June 30, 2021

Discussion: October 2025 Group Read

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Oct 21, 2020 Barbara rated it really liked it

Shelves: england, 2020-read, contemporary-fiction

This is the story of Nora, a thirty-something woman, living in a dull English town. Nora finds herself in desperate straits, and has lost the will to live. She starts to regret choices she’s made in her life –not pursuing a graduate degree in Philosophy, quitting a rock band, dumping her fiancé before the wedding, and walking away from competitive swimming despite her potential to go to the Olympics, among others.

Then the Midnight Library enters the story. It is run by her former school librari ...more

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Nov 23, 2020 Laura rated it really liked it

Shelves: library-book

The beginning of the book is quite bleak and I wasn't sure 2020 me should continue reading, but the meat of the book was really fascinating and the ending more hopeful. It explores the multiverse concept through our protagonist, Nora Seed. She ends up in the titular Midnight Library and finds her childhood librarian Mrs. Elm there waiting to help Nora find the right book that will lead her to the life she is meant to live.

Trigger warning: suicidal ideation

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Mar 10, 2021 Sara rated it really liked it

Shelves: popsugar-reading-challenge-2021

3.5

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Sep 07, 2021 Cindy Curry rated it liked it

Shelves: fiction, fantasy, magic-realism

I was very excited to read The Midnight Library written by Matt Haig. As I began the novel, I realized that Nora is depressed and plans to end her life. She is wrecked by guilt and continually asks herself “what if?” What if she had not cancelled her wedding two days before the event? What would've happened if she'd stuck with the band her brother and she had started rather than bailing? What if she had stuck with competitive swimming? So many regrets.
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Jan 01, 2021 Jennifer Lynn rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Perfect book for the New Year!

Loved that this had little glimpses of Its a Wonderful Life which is one of my favorite movies. Highly recommend this beautifully written story!

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Jan 08, 2023 Erin rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy, book-or-ebook

This was not *all* I hoped it would be… but it was close. Like balm for a saddened soul, The Midnight Library teaches you that it’s ok to make choices, that not every fork in the road is the one that got away. Life is life, and the best we can do is live it. That’s what resonated with me.

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Apr 24, 2021 Elizabeth rated it really liked it

Enjoyed this book. Feel good read for me (suicide apart). I like a sliding doors/ what if scenario and as a former philosophy major, I appreciated those bits as well

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