A #1 New York Times Best Seller! A Michael L. Printz Honor Book A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Young Adult Book Winner of the Indies Choice, Young Adult Book of the Year Amazon's Best Teen and Young Adult Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Book of the Year An NPR Best Book of the Year "Funny, hopeful, foulmouthed, sexy, and tear-jerking, this winning romance will captivate teen and adult readers alike." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Rowell keeps things surprising, and the solution maintains the novel's delicate balance of light and dark." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "The pure, fear-laced, yet steadily maturing relationship Eleanor and Park develop is urgent and breathtaking and, of course, heartbreaking, too." -- Booklist (starred review) "An honest, heart-wrenching portrayal of imperfect but unforgettable love." -- The Horn Book (winner of The Horn Book Award for fiction) "Rowell's humor, tenderness, and sense of detail are extraordinary." --Curtis Sittenfeld for The New Yorker " Eleanor & Park is a breathless, achingly good read about love and outsiders." --Stephanie Perkins, New York Times bestselling author of Anna and the French Kiss and Lola and the Boy Next Door "Sweet, gritty, and affecting .
Rainbow Rowell has written an unforgettable story about two misfits in love. This debut will find its way into your heart and stay there." --Courtney Summers, author of This Is Not a Test and Cracked Up to Be "In her rare and surprising exploration of young misfit love, Rowell shows us the beauty in the broken." --Stewart Lewis, author of You Have Seven Messages " Eleanor & Park reminded me not just what it's like to be young and in love with a girl, but also what it's like to be young and in love with a book." -- John Green, The New York Times Book Review "Rowell's writing swings from profane to profound, but it's always real and always raw." -- Petra Mayer for NPR Books.