Skip to main content
H
Henrico County Public Library
All Lists
General Recommendations
If You Liked the Midnight Library, Try...
Unpublished
Share
Readalikes for the Midnight Library by Matt Haig. All available to borrow from SCLS.
Updated September 30, 2024
S
Sussex County Library System (NJ)
A list cannot be published until it has at least four items.
List was unpublished.
List was published.
Drag items up and down to your preferred order then select the "Save Order" button.
Life after life : a novel
Atkinson, Kate.
Paper Book
What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
The husbands : a novel
Gramazio, Holly
Ebook
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * READ WITH JENNA'S APRIL BOOK CLUB PICK * The Husbands delights in asking: how do we navigate life, love, and choice in a world of never-ending options? ("A bottomless champagne flute of a novel --The Washington Post)
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
The impossible lives of Greta Wells
Greer, Andrew Sean.
Paper Book
From the critically acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller The Confessions of Max Tivoli comes The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells, a rapturously romantic story of a woman who finds herself transported to the "other lives" she might have lived. After the death of her beloved...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
Before the coffee gets cold : a novel
Kawaguchi, Toshikazu
Paper Book
*NOW AN LA TIMES BESTSELLER* *AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* The first book in the five million-copy bestselling magical realism series If you could go back in time, who would you want to meet? ...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
Maybe next time : a novel
Major, Cesca
Audiobook
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
Landline
Rowell, Rainbow.
Paper Book
#1New York Times bestselling author! ANew York TimesBest Seller!Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Fiction of 2014! An Indie Next Pick! FromNew York Times bestselling author ofEleanor & Park andFangirl, Rainbow Rowell, comes a...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
The two lives of Lydia Bird : a novel
Silver, Josie
Paper Book
Two lives. Two loves. One impossible choice. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reese's Book Club Pick One Day in December . . . "I read The Two Lives of Lydia Bird in a single sitting. What a...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
The storied life of A. J. Fikry
Zevin, Gabrielle.
Paper Book
A. J. Fikry's life is not at all what he expected it to be. His wife has died, his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history, and now his prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, has been stolen. Slowly but surely, he is isolating himself from all the people of Alice Island....
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
Your second life begins when you realize you only have one
Giordano, Raphaëlle
Paper Book
THE #1 FRENCH BESTSELLER MORE THAN 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE The feel-good #1 bestselling French novel about a woman whose mission to cure her "routine-itis" leads her to lasting joy and true fulfillment, for fans of The Alchemist and Hector and the...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
Oona out of order /
Montimore, Margarita,
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK AMAZON EDITORS' 20 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR PICK "With its countless epiphanies and surprises, Oona proves difficult to put down." --USA Today "By turns tragic and...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
Cassandra in reverse /
Smale, Holly
Audiobook
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
The brief history of the dead /
Brockmeier, Kevin.
Paper Book
"Remember me when I'm gone" just took on a whole new meaning. The City is inhabited by the recently departed, who reside there only as long as they remain in the memories of the living. Among the current residents of this afterlife are Luka Sims, who prints the only newspaper in the City, with news...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
The nine lives of Rose Napolitano
Freitas, Donna
Paper Book
"A powerful exploration of motherhood and feminism... this novel will have readers examining their own 'what-ifs.'" -- Jill Santopolo, New York Times bestselling author of Everything After "[An] inventive novel about love, loss, identity, and...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
The end of days /
Erpenbeck, Jenny,
Paper Book
The End of Days, by acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists essentially of five "books," each leading to a different death of an unnamed woman protagonist. How could it all have gone differently? the narrator asks in the intermezzos between. The first chapter begins with the death of...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
The versions of us /
Barnett, Laura,
Paper Book
In one moment, two lives will be changed forever . . . and forever . . . and forever. The one thing that's certain is they met on a Cambridge street by chance and felt a connection that would last a lifetime. But as for what happened next . . . They fell wildly...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
Maybe in another life :
Reid, Taylor Jenkins.
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo A People Magazine Pick * US Weekly "Must" Pick * Named "Best Book of the Summer" by Glamour * Good Housekeeping * USA TODAY * Cosmopolitan *...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
The post-birthday world
Shriver, Lionel.
Paper Book
"Complex and nervy, Shriver's clever meditation will intrigue anyone who has ever wondered how things might have turned out had they followed, or ignored, a life-changing impulse." -- People (Critic's Choice) This dazzling novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of the...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
The book of two ways : a novel
Picoult, Jodi
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the author of Small Great Things and A Spark of Light comes a "powerful" (The Washington Post) novel about the choices that alter the course of our lives. Look for Jodi Picoult's new novel, By Any Other Name, now...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
This time tomorrow
Straub, Emma.
Paper Book
The New York Times bestselling author of The Vacationers and All Adults Here combines her trademark charm and wit with a moving father-daughter story, and a playful twist on the idea of time travel. What if you could take a vacation to your past?
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
She wouldn't change a thing /
Adlakha, Sarah,
Paper Book
Sliding Doors meets Life After Life in Sarah Adlakha's story about a wife and mother who is given the chance to start over at the risk of losing everything she loves. A second chance is the last thing she wants. When thirty-nine year old Maria...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
You were there too
Oakley, Colleen
Paper Book
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER "A surprising and incredibly satisfying story of chance and fate."-New York Timesbestselling author Taylor Jenkins Reid "I read it in one long gulp and didn't want it to end."-New York Timesbestselling author Jill Santopolo
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
The book that matters most
Hood, Ann,
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorAva's twenty-five-year marriage has fallen apart, and her two grown children live outside of the country. For companionship, Ava joins a book group where each member presents the book that matters most to them, and rediscovers a mysterious book from her childhood &...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
The storied life of A. J. Fikry
Zevin, Gabrielle.
Paper Book
A. J. Fikry's life is not at all what he expected it to be. His wife has died, his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history, and now his prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, has been stolen. Slowly but surely, he is isolating himself from all the people of Alice Island....
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
One day in December :
Silver, Josie
Other
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Get ready to be swept up in a whirlwind romance. It absolutely charmed me."--Reese Witherspoon (A Reese's Book Club Pick) "The perfect book to get lost in . . . Josie Silver's characters sneak their way into your heart and stay."--Jill Santopolo...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
The five times I met myself /
Rubart, James L.
Paper Book
"If you think fiction can't change your life and challenge you to be a better person, you need to read The Five Times I Met Myself." --Andy Andrews, New York Times bestselling author of How Do You Kill 11 Million People, The Noticer & The Traveler's Gift What if you...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
4 3 2 1 /
Auster, Paul,
Paper Book
* * * Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize * * * Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Globe and Mail, Kirkus Reviews, Huffington Post, and The Spectator UK<...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
The second chance year /
Wiesner, Melissa,
Ebook
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
The man who saw everything /
Levy, Deborah.
Paper Book
Longlisted for the Booker Prize A New York Times Editor's Choice Named a Best Book of the Year By: The New York Times Book Review (Notable Books of the Year) * The New York Public Library * The Washington Post * Time.com * The...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
Come with me :
Schulman, Helen
Paper Book
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year, A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, A New York Post Best Book of the Week Recommended by Vogue, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Skimm, The BBC, Southern Living, Pure Wow, Hey Alma, Esquire, EW, Refinery 29, Bust,...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
This spells love :
Robb, Kate,
Ebook
GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK * "A romcom-meets-magic delight!"--Sarah Adams, New York Times bestselling author of Practice Makes Perfect A young woman tries to heal her heartbreak by casting a spell to erase her ex from her past, but she wakes up in...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
The (other) you : stories
Oates, Joyce Carol
Paper Book
A powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we'd chosen a different path, from a master of the short story In this stirring, reflective collection of short stories, Joyce Carol Oates ponders alternate destinies: the other lives we might have led if we'd made...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
The other me /
Jeng, Sarah Zachrich,
Paper Book
"Who hasn't wondered what alternate versions of their lives might look like?...As relatable as it is suspenseful cleverly exploring adulthood, identity, and shifting realities." --Margarita Montimore, USA Today bestselling author of Oona Out of Order ...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
The glitch :
Cohen, Elisabeth,
Paper Book
A fast, funny, deeply hilarious debut--The Glitch is the story of a high-profile, TED-talking, power-posing Silicon Valley CEO and mother of two who has it all under control, until a woman claiming to be a younger version of herself appears, causing a major glitch in her over-scheduled,...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
Quantum girl theory : a novel
Ryan, Erin Kate
Paper Book
Part detective novel, part ghost story, this brilliant debut asks a tantalizing question: What really happens when a girl goes missing? "A thrilling, many-faceted, gothic novel: Erin Kate Ryan's Quantum Girl Theory belongs in the same company as the work of...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
If, then :
Day, Kate Hope,
Paper Book
"A must-read--a gorgeous literary novel that asks us to imagine all the possible versions of ourselves that might exist."--J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of Saints for All Occasions The residents of a sleepy mountain town are...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
The magic of lemon drop pie
Linden, Rachel
Paper Book
Lolly Blanchard's life only seems to give her lemons. Ten years ago, after her mother's tragic death, she broke up with her first love and abandoned her dream of opening a restaurant. A decade later, she dutifully whips up her family diner's famous lemon meringue pies each morning while still pining...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
Constellations of Eve /
Rosewood, Abbigail Nguyen,
Paper Book
Eve is a reluctant mother; Eve is a famous phenomenon; Eve is a quiet country teacher. Liam is a successful artist; Liam is a scheming husband; Liam is a gentle partner. Pari is a leading scientific researcher; Pari is a recognized model; Pari is a picture of declining mental states. ...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
The story of Arthur Truluv :
Berg, Elizabeth
Paper Book
"I dare you to read this novel and not fall in love with Arthur Truluv. His story will make you laugh and cry, and will show you a love that never ends, and what it means to be truly human."--Fannie Flagg An emotionally powerful novel about three people who each lose the one they...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
The walk
Evans, Richard Paul.
Paper Book
What would you do if you lost everything--your job, your home, and the love of your life--all at the same time? When it happens to Seattle ad executive Alan Christoffersen, he's tempted by his darkest thoughts. Instead, he decides to take a walk. But not any ordinary walk. Taking with him only the...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
The brilliant life of Eudora Honeysett : a novel
Lyons, Annie
Paper Book
USA TODAY BESTSELLER! "One adorably British odd couple . . . Charming." -- People "An exquisitely poignant tale of life, friendship and facing death . . . heart-breaking yet ultimately uplifting . . Everyone should read this book." -- Ruth Hogan, author of ...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
The reading list :
Adams, Sara Nisha
Paper Book
NOW A LILLY'S LIBRARY PICK! "The most heartfelt read...a surprising delight of a novel."--Shondaland An unforgettable and heartwarming debut about how a chance encounter with a list of library books helps forge an unlikely friendship between two very different people in a London...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
The last chance library
Sampson, Freya
Paper Book
A Good Morning America Buzz Pick A Library Reads Pick June Jones emerges from her shell to fight for her beloved local library, and through the efforts and support of an eclectic group of library patrons, she discovers life-changing friendships along the way. ...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
What you are looking for is in the library :
Aoyama, Michiko,
Ebook
For fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, a charming, internationally bestselling Japanese novel about how the perfect book recommendation can change a readers' life. What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to...
Comment
Save
Cancel
Check Availability
Library staff! You can create and contribute to lists. Contact your catalog administrator or
log in here.