Seven books that take you places

Originally from Ballarat, Australia, Tobias Madden now resides in New York City with his husband, Daniel, and their Cavoodle, Ollie. Madden worked for ten years as a performer, touring Australia and New Zealand with musicals such as Mary Poppins, CATS, and Guys and Dolls. In 2019, he edited and published the Underdog anthology and co-wrote the cabaret show Siblingship. Madden’s debut novel, Anything But Fine, was published in 2021, and was awarded the Australian Association of Family Therapy’s Book Award for Older Readers, was shortlisted for the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year for Older Readers, was named one of Better Reading’s Top 50 Kids Books (2022), and was included on Bank Street College of Education’s list of Best Children’s Books of the Year (US, 2023). His second novel, Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell, was published in 2022 in Australia and 2023 in the US.

Madden's third YA novel, Wrong Answers Only, is out now in Australia and the US!

At The Nerd Daily the author tagged "seven books that will take you to extraordinary places," including:

Midnight Library by Matt Haig

If you’re not afraid of a good cry, you might also want to pick up this global bestseller. You’ll travel with Nora to the Midnight Library and, from there, to alternate lives all over the world as our protagonist tries to right her wrongs and find her perfect life. But is there such a thing? And does the Library have the answers?

Read about the other entries on the list.

The Midnight Library is among Mark Skinner's twenty-five best time travel books and twelve great novels set in a bookshop or library and Clare Mackintosh's top ten books with “What if?” moments.

--Marshal Zeringue