Eleanor & Park: A Novel

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Bono met his wife in high school, Park says.
So did Jerry Lee Lewis, Eleanor answers.
I'm not kidding, he says.
You should be, she says, we're 16.
What about Romeo and Juliet?
Shallow, confused, then dead.
I love you, Park says.
Wherefore art thou, Eleanor answers.
I'm not kidding, he says.
You should be.

Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits-smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. When Eleanor meets Park, you'll remember your own first love—and just how hard it pulled you under.

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Published Oct 29, 2024

336 pages

Average rating: 7.86

352 RATINGS

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Khris Sellin
Jul 05, 2024
8/10 stars
Cute, sweet, heartbreaking story. It has its flaws, but I zoomed through it like I haven't with any book in a very long time.
postcoffeepoop
Oct 21, 2025
8/10 stars
This was the first book ever to make me LITERALLY cry. I know people say that and I sometimes wonder “what do you really mean by cry, though?” Well, let me tell you, that I was CRYING. My lip was actually quivering and my eyes were blurry enough that I had to pause my reading before I could continue.
raeallic
Oct 09, 2025
10/10 stars
This book needs a trigger warning... Oof. Not only did it hold my heart in its hands, it systematically made me laugh then cry. By the end I was so besotted and broken by these two the ending though hopeful crushed me. This was my first read by Ms Rowell but I assure you it won't be my last!
abookwanderer
Oct 09, 2025
10/10 stars
Rainbow Rowell creates characters with a story to tell, and then she tells it with perfection.
Aluzrod
Jun 07, 2025
9/10 stars
I wish for a love like this built on simple intimacy. Park was such a gentleman and so patient. Eleanor, as beautiful as she was, didn’t even believe it herself. Highly recommend.

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