If I loved The Midnight Library, what other books would I like?

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I would love some recommendations of books you have loved . I found The Midnight Library so thought provoking . I don’t mind if it’s fiction or non fiction. And it can be anything from total escapism to something more relevant to a mid 40s Mumsnetter….

Watching as I've just read the same book & loved it!

Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World by Laura Imai Messina.

The Names by Florence Knapp.

Honeybees and distant thunder by by Riku Onda

life after life. similar concept of different but same lives. also a good TV adaptation

The Five People You Meet in Heaven
We are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Girl Interupted

Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend. Fiction, and then first book in years that made me cry.

What You Are Looking For Is In The Library - Michiko Aoyama

and not just because it has library in the title!

thisoldcity I looked that up and now have added it to my list of books to buy in 2026. Thank you.

The first 15 lives of Harry August, has the same time traveller thought provoking vibes

Loved the midnight library,

Have you read The Rosie project?

Thanks so much everyone ! What a great list to take into 2026 and get me back into reading more regularly . @TreeWitch i haven’t read that one - will look it up .

+1 to Life After Life.

Possibly The Ministry of Time could suit.

How to stop time, also by Matt Haig. I love his writing style.

I really enjoyed The life impossible, also by Matt Haig. Much more so than the midnight library. My favourite books by him are still Humans and How to stop time.

Barbra Erskine books are thought provoking, well written and good reads.

I was recommended this book on here years ago and borrowed it from my library and found it so good dh got it for my birthday that year. Kane & Abel by Jeffrey Archer really thought provoking, this book changed my life in more ways than one.

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I have just read that and enjoyed it. I couldn't get on with The Midnight Library though. It is one of the very few books I couldn't be bothered to finish.

I loved the Midnight Library.

Midlife in Gretna Green funny, thought-provoking and sticks in your mind, I binged the whole series, but the first one is like a stand alone if you only want to read one.

The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods

The Blue Castle by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Ben Elton wrote one called Time after Time about time travellers trying to stop WW1 from happening which is v good and Stephen Fry "Making History" about a simar idea for WW2. Also agree with Life after Life. I liked ML..i use it when I'm teaching philosophy. I get my 6th form to identify a couple of points in their life where they could have chosen something else and write about what might have happened.
Also, film not book but I assume you know Sliding Doors?

Ive not read the midnight library but it sounds good.
The library of lost dollhouses is a good book looking into the past and different lives