The Midnight Library: A GMA Book Club Pick - Paperback

by Matt Haig (Author)

The Midnight Library – Paperback by Matt Haig is a bestselling contemporary fiction novel about regret, possibility, second chances, and discovering what makes life meaningful. It was selected as a Good Morning America Book Club Pick and won the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction.

The story follows Nora Seed, who finds herself inside a mysterious library located between life and death. Every book on its shelves contains a different version of the life she might have lived if she had made another choice.

With the help of the Midnight Library, Nora explores alternate lives shaped by different careers, relationships, ambitions, and decisions. She experiences possibilities that include becoming a glaciologist, pursuing long-held dreams, and changing important moments from her past.

As Nora moves through these different realities, she must decide whether any imagined life is truly better than her own. Matt Haig blends speculative fiction, emotional storytelling, and philosophical reflection to explore regret, personal fulfillment, hope, and the value of an ordinary life.

Thought-provoking and accessible, The Midnight Library is well suited to readers of contemporary fiction, uplifting literary novels, book-club selections, and stories about alternate lives and second chances.

Book Highlights

• Written by Matt Haig
• Paperback contemporary fiction novel
• Follows main character Nora Seed
• Features a magical library containing alternate lives
• Explores regret, choices, hope, and personal fulfillment
• Blends literary fiction, speculative fiction, and fantasy
• Good Morning America Book Club Pick
• Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction
• #1 New York Times bestseller
• Suitable for book clubs and adult-fiction readers
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: May 9, 2023
• Pages: 304
• ISBN-13: 9780525559498

Author Biography

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.