In 2015, Paper Towns was adapted into a film starring Nat Wolff and Cara Delevingne. While the movie captures the spirit of the road trip, it cuts out much of the internal monologue that makes Q a relatable narrator. The preserves every single one of John Green’s witty, heartbreaking, and philosophical footnotes (literally—the book includes fake footnotes that are hilarious). The ebook allows you to linger over Whitman’s poetry and the suburban mythology that the movie rushes through.

Paper Towns is a masterclass in subverting the coming-of-age story. From the bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars and Looking for Alaska , this Edgar Award–winning novel follows Quentin “Q” Jacobsen on an all-night, high-stakes road trip to solve the mystery of the girl next door.

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★ “Green’s prose is dazzling, and the mystery unfolds with perfect tension. A brilliantly crafted meditation on love, perception, and the spaces between.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)