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The Book That Wouldn't Burn

The Library Trilogy #1

by Mark Lawrence

The Book That Wouldn't Burn by  Mark Lawrence X
The Book That Wouldn't Burn by  Mark Lawrence
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    May 2023, 576 pages

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    Mar 2024, 576 pages

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Books about Magical Libraries

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Mark Lawrence's fantasy novel The Book That Wouldn't Burn centers on an incredible library, where the knowledge of millennia is guarded by magical assistants and dangerous labyrinths. For book lovers, reading about magical libraries can have a special appeal—a place that, in the real world, already feels enchanted and full of possibility can literally be so in fantasy. Below are some other books with extraordinary enchanted libraries.

Cover image for The Midnight LibraryThe Midnight Library (2020): Matt Haig's novel explores the choices we make and the regrets that result through a magical library whose books contain all the alternate universes from every decision made over the course of a lifetime. In exploring this library, Nora also confronts herself and the life she's living in reality.

Cover image for The Library of the UnwrittenThe Library of the Unwritten (2019): As a writer myself, I find the premise of this book by A. J. Hackwith delightful—in hell, there exists the Library of the Unwritten, full of unfinished ...

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