Author
Matt Haig
Matt Haig writes contemporary and literary fiction. We've read and reviewed 5 of Matt Haig's books, including The Humans and Reasons to Stay Alive, each scored and written up in full, with a clear verdict on who it's for.
Reasons to Stay Alive
by Matt Haig
Matt Haig's Reasons to Stay Alive is a short, intimate account of coming through severe depression and anxiety — and, just as much, of building a life on the other side. It's honest about how bad it got and quietly insistent that things can change.
The Midnight Library
by Matt Haig
Matt Haig's The Midnight Library follows Nora Seed into a library between life and death, where every book on the shelf is the life she could have lived, a premise that turns regret itself into the plot.
The Life Impossible
by Matt Haig
Matt Haig follows The Midnight Library with a wilder, saltier novel: a seventy-two-year-old widow inherits a house in Ibiza, starts asking how her old friend drowned, and finds something in the water that offers her a second chance she is not at all sure she wants. Grief, regret, and stubborn hope, roughly in that order.
How to Stop Time
by Matt Haig
Matt Haig's Tom Hazard looks forty-one and was born in 1581, aging about a year for every fifteen that pass. Now he teaches history in an East London school to kids who have no idea he watched most of it. A four-century love story, a hunt for a lost daughter, and a persuasive argument for the ordinary afternoon.
The Humans
by Matt Haig
Matt Haig's alien-in-a-cardigan novel: something from a perfect, immortal planet takes over a Cambridge mathematician's body, intending to erase his work, and instead falls for his wife, his son, his dog, and peanut butter. Very funny for two hundred pages, then it turns and asks whether a human life is worth having.