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Easily the best book I’ve read this year.

Carey Mulligan on the audiobook is fantastic.

What an excellent read. I highly recommend this to any human who has ever felt regret, felt alive, or felt.

This could be my new favorite book.

Second read through and I am still loving this book!

Midnight Library

Regrets disappearing from the Book of Regrets

Death is the opposite of possibility

It was a good choice, it just wasn’t a desired outcome

Depressed fish

Never underestimate the big importance of small things

Tree of Life speech

Dunbar’s number: 150 people

Not wanting to die—polar bear

Fire poem — fire doesn’t have motivation, it just is. You have the power

There is no rejection, only redirection. –Ryan Bailey

It seems impossible to live without hurting people. (Well, in fairness, dying hurts people too.)

A pawn is a queen in waiting

Norah realizes she can be honest because people take away what they need from the interaction. “It’s not what you look at, it’s what you see.”

The prison is not the place but the perspective.

andleeg's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

eyu_'s review against another edition

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adventurous challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

owlfacewitch's review against another edition

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5.0

It is very difficult to recommend this to my neurodivergent friends especially when I say “ok, so in the first couple of chapters the main character kills herself” (that’s not a spoiler, it’s in the summary of the book) but I really do recommend it to anyone struggling with similar issues. A thing I wrote down in my journal after reading it “The Midnight Library takes you by the hand into the life you think you want, and helps you realize that you already want the life you have”. It isn’t a book about wanting to die, it’s a book about wanting to live.

oliwollie's review against another edition

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adventurous funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

mrerickeith's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

saragtaylorsversion's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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