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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
USA TODAY BESTSELLER
NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER
THE WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER

In the vein of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Life After Life, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab’s genre-defying tour de force.

Recommended by Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple, NPR, Slate, and Oprah Magazine
#1 Library Reads PickOctober 2020
#1 Indie Next PickOctober 2020
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A “Best Of” Book From: Oprah Mag * CNN * Amazon * Amazon Editors * NPR * Goodreads * Bustle * PopSugar * BuzzFeed * Barnes & Noble * Kirkus Reviews * Lambda Literary * Nerdette * The Nerd Daily * Polygon * Library Reads * io9 * Smart Bitches Trashy Books * LiteraryHub * Medium * BookBub * The Mary Sue * Chicago Tribune * NY Daily News * SyFy Wire * Powells.com * Bookish * Book Riot * Library Reads Voter Favorite *

A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget.

France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever—and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.

Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.

But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.

Also by V. E. Schwab

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Published Apr 11, 2023

448 pages

Average rating: 7.67

5,067 RATINGS

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Community Reviews

Kristin Rose
Jun 24, 2025
2/10 stars
DNF @ 28%. I usually read 100 pages of a book in 2 hours. This took me 2 days to get through, and I had to TRUDGE. I was so bored, and didn’t feel connected to Addie at all. The beginning pulled me in but after that it was all downhill. It was just redundancy. I didn’t care about Henry, either. I don’t get the hype at all.
TwistedWreck
Nov 19, 2024
7/10 stars
A lovely taste of magical realism, a pleasant yet potent love story. It is, however, predictable from start to finish, despite the author’s fresh perspective on old ideas and tropes.
ltrteach
Aug 27, 2024
4/10 stars
I did not like this book at all, as I found it very difficult to care about the characters. There was so little backstory on Addie and Henry that I could never figure out why they made the wishes they did.
nightingale
May 09, 2024
10/10 stars
Absolutely beautiful book - cried like a baby at the end and want to know what happens next. Authors shouldn’t be allowed to write so beautifully.
Eneke Van Marle
Jul 16, 2025
10/10 stars
this book was great

although it was a little slow and not the style of book i normally read, i loved it. the writing was amazing and it was an easy read.

i ended up crying at the end cause the ending was beautiful.

would definitely read again

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