At an Alabama boarding school, Miles Halter falls in with the magnetic, self-destructive Alaska Young and must reckon with grief and meaning after tragedy.
Books mentioned in Looking for Alaska (8)
The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez: “Gabriel García Márquez. The General in His Labyrinth. Absolutely one of my favorites... Beautiful last words, if you ask me: 'How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!'”
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner: “I was reading The Sound and the Fury, which I was supposed to have read in mid-February.”
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville: “He lay on the top bunk, reading for his English class. Moby-Dick.”
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton: “immersed in the miserably uninteresting fictional world of Ethan Frome”
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: “In Le Petit Prince, what is the significance of the rose?... Had I read The Little Prince in English or French, I suspect this question might have been quite easy.”
The Final Days by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein: “reading The Final Days, a book about Richard Nixon and Watergate.”
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost: “"Miles as in 'to go before I sleep'?" he asked me... "It's a Robert Frost poem. You've never read him?"”
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë: “Muting Decapitation would be like reading only every other word of Jane Eyre.”
Books that mention Looking for Alaska (1)
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green: “Her Encyclopedia came out just a few months before my first novel, Looking for Alaska.”