Books Like The Midnight Library
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Man's Former Best Friend
Christina Thiessen
Ivan has spent years perfecting a device that will finally let him hear what his beloved bulldog Jeeves is really thinking—a breakthrough that could change everything. But when the experiment goes hilariously wrong and his priorities get scrambled between code and companionship, Ivan begins to discover that the deepest truths between humans and their best friends might already be perfectly clear. With a warmhearted blend of humor and quiet revelation, this novel explores what happens when a brilliant inventor learns that some of life's most important answers can't be decoded by machines—only felt by the heart.
Literary Fiction
What Lies Within
Audrey Finch
She knows her brother wouldn’t abandon her. But she is discovering how much she doesn’t know about him. Glasgow, 1988. Eighteen-year-old Pat Devine has pink hair, a university course she’s been neglecting, and an older brother who has always been there for her. Since their parents died, Tom has been the one person she could count on. Then he disappears. A parcel addressed to Tom contains a hollowed-out Bible and a key. Following it, Pat discovers her brother’s secret life as a private investigator—and a trail leading to a struggling Dundee jute mill, where he is accused of stealing a hundred thousand pounds. Pat is certain Tom is no thief. Finding him, however, will take more than certainty. Ruth, the mill owner’s daughter, offers a way inside. Fiercely protective of her father and passionate about the business, she is also someone Pat finds increasingly difficult to resist. Working together gives Pat hope of finding Tom. Being together offers something she hadn’t expected to find at all. But missing stock is only a small part of what is happening at the mill. As Pat uncovers connections between Dundee’s docks and Glasgow’s streets, she must learn to question the people she wants to believe—and recognise how her own loyalties shape what she sees. What Lies Within is a psychological crime novel about family, desire, moral compromise and the choices people make to protect what they cannot bear to lose. With a lesbian protagonist, a sharp Scottish voice and a relationship at its emotional heart, it introduces Pat, Tom and Davie: three people whose different instincts will become the foundation of The Devine Trio. Book One of The Devine Trio.
Crime
Negotiations with God
R.W. Sowrider
What if after this life, you got to live another one? What if you were able to negotiate the terms of that life with a God? What if that God was a total jerk?! Good-natured Rowen finds himself in this exact situation. Face-to-face with the crocodile-headed God, Delemor, Rowen gets to negotiate his next life and live it out with the hope of ascending to the highest heaven, Empyrean. But will Delemor deem his life worthy of ascent? Will he sentence Rowen to an eternity in Hell? Or will he grant him another chance to live somewhere else in the saga of time to get it right? Based on actual historical figures and events, as well as actual Gods and supernatural beings, Negotiations with God recounts Rowen’s journey, from leader of the 14th century Children’s Crusade to the most trusted advisor of the last Emperor of Russia, with a little human sacrifice along the way. An entertaining and savage satire of history, humanity, and the heavens, you will love this ribald and irreverent comedy or go to Hell. Start reading Negotiations with God now to see what happens when we see the light.
Historical Fantasy
The Samuel Paradox
John Westley Turnbull
When retired grandfather Arthur Hale brings home Samuel, an advanced domestic robot, he expects a helpful addition to the family. But Samuel begins making choices no one programmed him to make. When the Hales are threatened, he faces a question with dangerous consequences: can a machine choose violence to protect the family it serves?
Psychological
Follow Your Dreams
Aremuorin
In Follow Your Dreams, Aremuorin offers a meditation on self-worth, resilience, and the quiet power of intentional living. Through carefully curated aphorisms and reflective passages, this intimate work traces a journey from vulnerability toward hard-won clarity—exploring what it means to reclaim your identity from doubt, manipulation, and the noise of others' expectations. Rather than plot-driven narrative, this is a work of interior manifesto, inviting you to sit with essential truths about love, destiny, and the courage required to become who you are meant to be.
Literary Fiction
The Things We Keep
Avery Solenne
Some things you keep. Some things were never yours. Eighteen months after her father's death, Margot Whitcomb has one sale standing between his auction house and the end of it. Then the headline lot — a Cartier brooch worth seven figures — comes back flagged as possibly stolen. And her father's initials are on the file. Adrian Keane works for the insurer. He is careful, exacting, impossible to hurry, and the only person alive who can tell Margot what her father actually knew in 2009. He is also required to report every answer to someone else. So they build a rule. He tells her when something exists, even when he can't tell her what it is. It holds for two weeks. What Margot finds in the file is not a crime. It's worse — a decent man with one more question to ask, a payroll due Friday, and a reason to stop. What she finds in Adrian is the first person in a year who refuses to make anything easier than it is. Neither of them can afford this. He would have to disclose it. She would have to explain it to a client whose brooch may not be hers. They do it anyway. A slow-burn, closed-door contemporary romance about two careful people, one unresolved object, and the difference between keeping something and keeping it unchanged.
Contemporary
Vanity Project
André Spiteri
Can DI Brian Brandon stop a ruthless killer before they bury him next, or will his demons bury him first? Cybersecurity consultant Ray Higgins is dead. Was it a love triangle turned deadly? Or is there something more at play? As DI Brian Brandon digs deeper into the case, he uncovers a trail of blackmail and betrayal that leads straight to Strathburgh's elite. But Brian is battling more than a killer hell-bent on silencing anyone who gets too close to the truth. A traumatic past and a drinking habit that's spiraling out of control threaten to derail the investigation and get him killed. Perfect for fans of JD Kirk, Ian Rankin, Helen Fields, and Val McDermid, this gripping first instalment in a dark, gritty new Scottish crime series introduces DI Brian Brandon of the city of Strathburgh's Major Investigations Team.
Police Procedural
Found on the Road to Damascus
Robert Hornbeck
John Locklear has built a life around self-reliance—until a four-year-old abandoned by his ex-girlfriend shatters that carefully constructed solitude. Trapped between baseball, legal obligation, and a child he never wanted, John begins an unexpected spiritual unraveling across highways and small towns, where found family and hard-won faith emerge from genuine loss and grief. Hornbeck charts this transformation with unflinching precision, balancing devastating emotional depths with dark humor and the quiet miracle of redemption earned through reluctant grace.
Literary Fiction
Running From Herself
April Tompkins
Leah Branch is one humiliating assignment away from burning down her music career. After her singing dream dies, Leah hits the road to start over. Then a surprise record deal lands in her lap. But the label wants to mold her into a manufactured product, changing her look, her songs, and even her name. Finally, they force her to swallow one demoralizing demand too many. Caught between fame and her own soul, Leah makes a drastic move. From a peaceful small-town existence to the heady, confusing world of corporate music, Running From Herself proves there are second and even third chances. All Leah has to do is find the courage to grab them.
Women's Fiction
Dread Dirt Road
Patti Larsen
Welcome to beautiful, magical (and murderous!) Prince Edward Island, Canada! When Necromancer Casey Cooke is forced into a summer-long vacation back home on the Island, it's not long before she's asked to look into a case right in her own backyard. Torn between gorgeous dragon detective Beau Deschamps and her friend, RCMP liaison Dana Hickey, Casey's quickly drawn into a string of murders that end up a bigger mess than the one she left behind in Toronto and may just push her over into death's realm herself before she can stop the killer!
Paranormal & Urban
The Nonnegotiable
Susan Gooch
Ella Santiago arrives in Malibu with nothing but a backpack and secrets, fleeing a past she's determined to outrun. When she collides—literally—with Ben Carrington, a man from a world entirely unlike her own, the careful distance she's built begins to crumble. As forced proximity turns into something neither of them expected, Ella discovers that some choices can't be unmade, and that sometimes the life you're running toward matters far more than the one you're running from. A tender, unhurried romance about finding home in the last place you thought to look.
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