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Matt Haig Author Read Alikes April 2021 |
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If you enjoy reading books by Matt Haig, try these authors whose titles are also accessible through Digital Library of Illinois (Overdrive and Libby apps) and Hoopla |
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The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano
by Donna Freitas
A woman who never wanted to be a mother reconnects with her estranged husband in the wake of unexpected news and is challenged to reevaluate herself in an unanticipated role.
Scheduled release date: April 6, 2021 - place holds on physical copy now.
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Oona Out of Order
by Margarita Montimore
A young woman destined to wake up on her birthday to a random year in her life struggles through an out-of-order existence to reconcile her inner youth with the realities of shifting external identities, appearances and period norms.
Available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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The Two Lives of Lydia Bird
by Josie Silver
A woman grieving the loss of her fiancé finds herself swapping back and forth between parallel lives, including one in which her first love has survived and another involving a new person who is asking her to move on.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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4 3 2 1
by Paul Auster
A single child born in 1947 experiences four parallel lifetimes poignantly marked by shifting family fortunes, athletic pursuits, friendships, sex, intellectual passions, and the same intriguing woman.
Available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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Or What You Will
by Jo Walton
A fictional hero who has assumed the roles of gods, warriors, scholars, and lovers in award-winning novels discovers that his author is dying and orchestrates a daring plan to catapult writer and character into immortality.
Available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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Here and Now and Then
by Mike Chen
Stranded for eighteen years since the 1990s, time-traveling agent Kin Stewart, suffering from memory loss, has started a new life, but when rescuers from the year 2142 finally arrive, he must choose between his current family and the one he left behind in the future.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby and Hoopla.
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Reincarnation Blues
by Michael Poore
A man who has been reincarnated nearly ten thousand times, living lives in regions from ancient India and Renaissance Italy to outer space and the modern world, searches for the secret to immortality so that he can be with his beloved, the incarnation of Death.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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The Glitch
by Elisabeth Cohen
A high-profile, TED-talking, power-posing Silicon Valley CEO and mother of two finds her over-scheduled life turned upside-down by the baffling appearance of a woman claiming to be a younger version of herself.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
by Andrew Sean Greer
To alleviate her suffocating depression after the death of her twin brother and the break-up with her long-time lover, Greta Wells embarks on a radical psychiatric treatment that has an unexpected side effect.
Available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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The Invisible Library
by Genevieve Cogman
An undercover librarian who works for an occult organization that collects books from different realities must determine what happened to a particularly dangerous book that has been stolen and becomes mired in a mystery infused with peril and conflicting clues.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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I Almost Forgot About You
by Terry McMillan
Dr. Georgia Young's wonderful life--great friends, family, and successful career--aren't enough to keep her from feeling stuck and restless. When she decides to make some major changes in her life, quitting her job as an optometrist, and moving house, she finds herself on a wild journey that may or may not include a second chance at love.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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The Sight of You
by Holly Miller
Unable to help falling in love with a woman who offers him a second chance, a man who secretly experiences dreams about the future makes a difficult choice in the face of a daunting premonition about their future together.
Physical copy available only.
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The Bone Clocks
by David Mitchell
Interweaves six narratives spanning the period between 1984 and the 2030s to chronicle a secret war between a cult of soul-decanters and a small group of vigilantes who would take them down. By the award-winning author of Cloud Atlas.
Available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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Paper Girls. 1
by Brian K Vaughan
Supernatural mysteries and suburban drama collide in the early hours after the Halloween of 1988 for four twelve-year-old newspaper delivery girls.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby and Hoopla.
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Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson
The award-winning author of Behind the Scenes at the Museum follows the experiences of a woman who after being born on a snowy night in 1910 repeated dies and reincarnates into the same life to correct missteps and ultimately save the world.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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Unholy Land
by Lavie Tidhar
Pulp fiction author Lior Tirosh returns to his homeland in East Africa to find his childhood friend dead and Tirosh the main suspect.
Available on Hoopla.
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A Long Way Down
by Nick Hornby
Meeting on New Year's Eve on the roof of Topper's House, a London destination infamous as a last stop for suicidal people, a talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother share stories about their circumstances and decisions.
Available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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Go, Went, Gone
by Jenny Erpenbeck
After his wife dies, a retired classics professor encounters a group of African refugees on a hunger strike and becomes involved with their lives and their limited prospects for the future.
Available on Overdrive/ Libby and Hoopla.
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
by Victoria Schwab
Making a Faustian bargain to live forever but never be remembered, a woman from early 18th-century France endures unacknowledged centuries before meeting a man who remembers her name.
Waitlist - place holds on physical copy or on Overdrive/ Libby now.
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