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.

This week, we’re celebrating some exciting new movie news with a fashion inspiration post based on a recent YA bestseller. Here’s Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor and Park!

Book cover via Amazon

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Inside Cover

Eleanor and Park is a stand-alone Young Adult romance that was published in February 2013.

The novel follows the story of its two titular characters, Eleanor Douglas and Park Sheridan, two 16-year-olds growing up in 1986 Omaha, Nebraska who are just trying to get through high school. Both shy loners guarded against the abrasiveness of the outside world and anxious for the day they grow up and get out of their hometown, the two end up sharing a bus seat, and grow to share a love of comic books and culture, mix tapes and more. Soon, a romance is blooming in the back of the bus… but first loves are always more difficult than you bargained for.

Eleanor and Park was the first Young Adult novel, and the second novel overall, published by breakout author Rainbow Rowell, who shot to fame last year as a new voice of the YA book scene with her dual publications of E&P and Fangirl (which already inspired its own “Looks from Books” post just this past February!).

A Fashionable Literacy

Eleanor and Park spent twelve weeks on the bestseller list after its publication, and has been awarded several notable titles, including Goodreads’ “Best YA Novel of 2013,” as well as an Honor book for the 2014 Printz Award.