Welcome to the latest edition of Looks from Books, which aims to prove that you can look smart, while still being book-smart, too. Fashion inspiration can be found between the pages of your favorite stories, on well-designed book covers, and in your favorite characters… if you read closely enough.

Many of you have been requesting a “Looks from Books” post for John Green’s ultra-popular novel The Fault in Our Stars, and I was more than happy to oblige… until I remembered that CF writer Monica created a TFiOS fashion post way back in 2012!

So, instead trying to reinvent the wheel, I decided to give a little more attention to another one of Green’s equally fantastic novels, which has recently been gaining some attention of its own: Paper Towns.

Cover via Amazon

Table of Contents

Inside Cover

Paper Towns is a young adult novel written by John Green. Published in 2008, it is the third YA book of his four solo novels that have attained widespread popularity. The other novels are Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, and, of course, The Fault in Our Stars.

The novel follows the story of Quentin Jacobsen, a graduating high school senior whose last few months of school are irrevocably altered after he is enlisted into committing a set of pranks by his unrequited crush and next door neighbor, Margo Roth Speigelman, who, subsequent to the shenanigans, disappears without a trace. While attempting to track her down and bring her back home, “Q” begins to realize that there was more to her than just the pretty, popular persona she perpetuated…

Paper Townsdebuted at #5 on the New York Times best-seller list, and was awarded the 2009 Edgar award for best Young Adult novel. In 2014, Green was included in Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People list, for his role in authoring several best-selling novels, as well as being a prolific YouTube blogger with his brother, Hank, on their VlogBrothers channel.