In The Midnight Train, from the world of The Midnight Library, what if you had the chance to re-live the most meaningful moments in your life, to see what kind of person you really were.
Yay LitStackers! Get ready to add another title to your “TBR” list! The Midnight Train by Matt Haig is in presale and generating serious buzz. This novel from Viking | Penguin Random House set for publication May 26, 2026, has early readers buzzing. It’s a novel in The Midnight Library series. We’re showing you what’s on the book cover, the publisher’s official description and the early reviews that suggest this book is one you want to pre-order today. Here we go!
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About The Midnight Train
When your life flashes before your eyes, where would you stop?
No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there. The chance to re-live the moments that meant most. To see what kind of person you really were.
For Wilbur his best days were with Maggie, the love of his life. On his honeymoon in Venice.
Before he gave it all away.
He wishes he could go back and live differently. But to do so risks everything . . .
A magical, time-travelling love story, from the world of The Midnight Library.
The Midnight Library is the #1 Viking Penguin backlist fiction title, with more than 4 million copies sold in the U.S. and more than 10 million around the world. And readers are still coming to the book. Set in the same Midnight World, The Midnight Train is a way for us to build upon and continue this success.
The Midnight Train plays to Haig’s strengths as a writer with its down-to-earth, emotionally complex characters and elements of fantasy. Off the page, Haig’s active online presence keeps his work in the conversation with an interactive, engaged audience that constantly generates content in response to his posts and books. Celebrity fans include Dolly Parton, Meghan Markle, Jodi Picoult, Jameela Jamil, Benedict Cumberbatch, Alice Hoffman, Kristin Hannah, Deborah Harkness, Stephen Fry, January Jones, Emma Roberts, and Millie Bobbie Brown.
The Midnight Train is a hopeful, inspirational story. We live in tumultuous times, and the market for feel-good books is strong. Matt Haig brings his trademark warmth and empathy to a beautiful love story interspersed with life lessons for us all.
Praise for The Midnight Train
The Midnight Train is “A tender, heartwarming novel, it reminds us that these individual moments we live all add up to a life. And in that life, we have regrets, we have things we take for granted, we have magical memories we wish to live in on a loop.—Court Zierk, author, Goodreads
When a Matt Haig book starts you off with tears in chapter 1, you know you’re in for an emotional rollercoaster of a book. The Midnight Library focused on the endless directions and possibilities, where The Midnight Train is more reflective on the life we’ve already lived.—Liza Armstrong, Goodreads
Gosh what a great story about how all the moments of life – big and small – make us who we are. Matt Haig took us back to the world of The Midnight Library and did an amazing job imparting nuggets of wisdom about living life well. Great premise, well thought out middle, and a beautiful wrap up.—Maggie Siler, Goodreads
About Matt Haig, Author of The Midnight Train
Matt Haig is the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the novels The Midnight Library, The Life Impossible, and How to Stop Time, along with four other novels, the acclaimed memoirs Reasons to Stay Alive and Notes on a Nervous Planet, and several award-winning children’s books. His work has been published in fifty territories across the world.
You can connect with Matt Haig on his website, and on Instagram.
Source: Publisher
Publisher: Viking | Penguin Random House
ISBN Hardcover 9780593833377
Pub Date May 26, 2026
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