Paper Towns

From the #1 bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars

Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery
#1 New York Times Bestseller
USA Today Bestseller
Publishers Weekly Bestseller
Now a major motion picture  

 

When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night—dressed like a ninja and plotting an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows her. Margo’s always planned extravagantly, and, until now, she’s always planned solo. After a lifetime of loving Margo from afar, things are finally looking up for Q . . . until day breaks and she has vanished. Always an enigma, Margo has now become a mystery. But there are clues. And they’re for Q.

Printz Medalist John Green returns with the trademark brilliant wit and heart-stopping emotional honesty that have inspired a new generation of readers.

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Published Sep 22, 2009

305 pages

Average rating: 7.03

350 RATINGS

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abookwanderer
Oct 09, 2025
8/10 stars
Another John Green novel that is hard to put down. Quentin and Margo, neighbors, were friends once upon a time in their younger days. In the last few weeks of their senior year, Margo shows up outside Q's window late one night inciting a journey of finding one's self and discovering people aren't always what you imagine them to be.
nicolemarievd
Jul 01, 2025
3/10 stars
I, and Margo, imagined a whole new world than what Quentin imagined. I think Quentin wanted to live a life HE imagined for himself with Margo. He saw Margo as someone HE viewed her as. He never really saw Margo. He never understood who she really was.
Tamanna
Jun 10, 2025
7/10 stars
Expected a better ending... At first it felt like some mystery book but at the end of confused me tbh
Haide
Jan 06, 2025
6/10 stars
I liked it but I was specting a little more.
The story is nice, is funny in the right moments, most of times intriguing, but at the end is lacking impact.
I was specting a different ending.
But anyway, I enjoyed reading this book. Specially the second part (the grass).
Barbara ~
Dec 11, 2024
6/10 stars
I read Fault in the Stars and thought I'd love this one. It wasn't my favorite. It wasn't as powerful as FIOS but I did appreciate the bond the three guys have.

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