Summary of the Midnight Library by Matt Haig

There is a library between life and death, and the shelves within that library go on forever. Every book gives you the opportunity to live a different life than you would have otherwise. To see how things would have turned out if you had made different decisions... Would you change anything if you could go back in time and undo your mistakes? The internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How to Stop Time returns with a stunning novel about all the choices that go into living a full life. There is a library somewhere beyond the edge of the universe that contains an infinite number of books, each one telling the story of another reality. One book tells the story of your current life, while another tells the story of the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have turned out, what if you could go to the library and find out for yourself? Would any of these other people's lives be truly better? In Matt Haig's enchanting new novel The Midnight Library, Nora Seed is faced with this decision. She must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place, as she faces the possibility of changing her life for a new one, pursuing a different career, undoing old breakups, and realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist.