9 best-selling coming of age books like Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

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Eleanor & Park

By: Rainbow Rowell

3.94

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

"Bono met his wife in high school," Park says. "So did Jerry Lee Lewis," Eleanor answers. "I'm …

"You look like a protagonist."

-Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

"You look like a protagonist."

-Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

"Goodbye. Just tonight. Not ever."

-Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

"Goodbye. Just tonight. Not ever."

-Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

If you liked the coming of age plot in Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green, David Levithan

1. Will Grayson, Will Grayson

By: John Green , David Levithan

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Will Grayson meets Will Grayson. One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two stranger… read more

Similar categories in John Green's Will Grayson, Will Grayson book and Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park

  • romance
  • teen
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"I'm not asexual. I'm arelationshipal."

-John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

"Some people have lives; some people have music."

-John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

"Random questions are the least random of all questions."

-John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

"All sorts of yayness floods my brain. Love is such a drug."

-John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

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2. Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)

By: Jojo Moyes

3.41

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life--steady boyfriend, close famil… read more

Similar categories in Jojo Moyes's Me Before You (Me Before You, #1) book and Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)

By: Suzanne Collins

4.34

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

Could you survive on your own in the wild, with every one out to make sure you don't live to see th… read more

Similar categories in Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) book and Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park

  • fiction
  • teen
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"Peeta,"

-Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)

"Katniss, the girl who was on fire!"

-Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)

"May the odds be ever in your favor!"

-Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)

"No. Now, shut up and eat your pears."

-Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)

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4. Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)

By: Stephenie Meyer

3.66

Format: 498 pages, Paperback

About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was … read more

Similar categories in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1) book and Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park

  • romance
  • fiction
  • teen
  • young adult
"Do I dazzle you?"

-Stephenie Meyer, Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)

"You are my life now."

-Stephenie Meyer, Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)

"My mom is part albino."

-Stephenie Meyer, Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)

"Go sit down and look pale."

-Stephenie Meyer, Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)

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5. Wonder (Wonder #1)

By: R.J. Palacio

3.95

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse. August (Auggie) P… read more

Similar categories in R.J. Palacio's Wonder (Wonder #1) book and Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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6. If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)

By: Gayle Forman

3.92

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In the blink of an eye everything changes. Seventeen ­year-old Mia has no memory of the accident; s… read more

Similar categories in Gayle Forman's If I Stay (If I Stay, #1) book and Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park

  • romance
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Mia,"

-Gayle Forman, If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)

"Fake it 'till you make it."

-Gayle Forman, If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)

"Dying is easy. Living is hard"

-Gayle Forman, If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)

"I do have a point to all this,"

-Gayle Forman, If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)

Cover of To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #1) by Jenny Han

7. To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #1)

By: Jenny Han

4.04

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is the story of Lara Jean, who has never openly admitted her crus… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Han's To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #1) book and Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park

  • romance
  • high school
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"It was over before I even had a chance."

-Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #1)

"I hate change more than almost anything."

-Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #1)

"It was the promise of maybe, maybe one day."

-Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #1)

"Firsts are best because they are beginnings."

-Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #1)

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8. Looking for Alaska

By: John Green

3.97

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big no… read more

Similar categories in John Green's Looking for Alaska book and Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park

  • romance
  • high school
  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die."

-John Green, Looking for Alaska

"We are greater than the sum of our parts."

-John Green, Looking for Alaska

"Have you really read all those books in your room?"

-John Green, Looking for Alaska

"I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to."

-John Green, Looking for Alaska

9. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

By: Becky Albertalli

3.88

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical… read more

Similar categories in Becky Albertalli's Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda book and Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park

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10. The Perks of Being a Wallflower

By: Stephen Chbosky

4.23

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

standing on the fringes of life... offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see wha… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower book and Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park

  • romance
  • teen
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
"We accept the love we think we deserve."

-Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

"And in that moment, I swear we were infinite."

-Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

"I would die for you. But I won't live for you."

-Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

"It’s much easier not to know things sometimes."

-Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Cover of The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1) by Angie Thomas

11. The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)

By: Angie Thomas

4.47

Format: 454 pages, Hardcover

An alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062498533 can be found here. Sixteen-year-old Starr Carte… read more

Similar categories in Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1) book and Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park

  • teen
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Hoedom is universal."

-Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)

"But I'm tired of them just assuming."

-Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)

"A’ight, so what do you think it means?"

-Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)

"You need Saturday to recover and Sunday to repent."

-Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)

12. The Selection (The Selection, #1)

By: Kiera Cass

4.07

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the lif… read more

Similar categories in Kiera Cass's The Selection (The Selection, #1) book and Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park

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13. The Fault in Our Stars

By: John Green

4.13

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been a… read more

Similar categories in John Green's The Fault in Our Stars book and Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park

  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The marks humans leave are too often scars."

-John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

"I've gotten really hot since you went blind."

-John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

"Some infinities are bigger than other infinities."

-John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

"Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you."

-John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

Cover of Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

14. Eleanor & Park

By: Rainbow Rowell

3.94

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

"Bono met his wife in high school," Park says. "So did Jerry Lee Lewis," Eleanor answers. "I'm … read more

Similar categories in Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park book and Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park

  • romance
  • high school
  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"You look like a protagonist."

-Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

"Goodbye. Just tonight. Not ever."

-Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

"His eyes missed her as much as the rest of him."

-Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

"He made her feel like more than the sum of her parts."

-Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

Cover of Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

15. Thirteen Reasons Why

By: Jay Asher

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

You can’t stop the future. You can’t rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret . . . is … read more

Similar categories in Jay Asher's Thirteen Reasons Why book and Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park

  • romance
  • high school
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"I’m sorry."

-Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

"Everything...affects everything"

-Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

"I can't. You can't rewrite the past."

-Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

"A lot of you cared, just not enough."

-Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

Cover of All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven, None

16. All the Bright Places

By: Jennifer Niven , None

4.12

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

The Fault in Our Stars meets Eleanor and Park in this exhilarating and heart-wrenching love story a… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Niven's All the Bright Places book and Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Is today a good day to die?"

-Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

"Never bullshit a bullshitter."

-Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

"People rarely bring flowers to a suicide."

-Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

"Because it's not a lie if it's how you feel."

-Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

Cover of Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon, None

17. Everything, Everything

By: Nicola Yoon , None

3.97

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

My disease is as rare as it is famous. It’s a form of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency, but basical… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Yoon's Everything, Everything book and Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park

  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"A photograph is a kind of time machine."

-Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

"My guilt is an ocean for me to drown in."

-Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

"Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it."

-Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

"You're not living if you're not regretting."

-Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

Cover of Paper Towns by John Green

18. Paper Towns

By: John Green

3.71

Format: 305 pages, Paperback

Who is the real Margo? Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurou… read more

Similar categories in John Green's Paper Towns book and Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park

  • romance
  • high school
  • teen
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Imagine others complexly."

-John Green, Paper Towns

"At least I carpe'd that one diem."

-John Green, Paper Towns

"I spy with my little eye a great story."

-John Green, Paper Towns

"Maybe all the strings inside him broke."

-John Green, Paper Towns

19. Turtles All the Way Down

By: John Green

4.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, … read more

Similar categories in John Green's Turtles All the Way Down book and Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park

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20. Divergent (Divergent, #1)

By: Veronica Roth

4.14

Format: 487 pages, Paperback

In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated … read more

Similar categories in Veronica Roth's Divergent (Divergent, #1) book and Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park

  • romance
  • teen
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Okay, okay."

-Veronica Roth, Divergent (Divergent, #1)

"Lies require commitment."

-Veronica Roth, Divergent (Divergent, #1)

"What is it with you today?"

-Veronica Roth, Divergent (Divergent, #1)

"Human reason can excuse any evil."

-Veronica Roth, Divergent (Divergent, #1)

Cover of An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

21. An Abundance of Katherines

By: John Green

3.51

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton’s type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes … read more

Similar categories in John Green's An Abundance of Katherines book and Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Je pense que j'taime"

-John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

"All hurt is brain hurt."

-John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

"I thought you hung the moon."

-John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

"The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible."

-John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

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John Green , David Levithan

3.70

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Jojo Moyes

3.41

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R.J. Palacio

3.95

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Gayle Forman

3.92

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Suzanne Collins

4.09

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Rainbow Rowell

3.95

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Gayle Forman

3.97

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E. Lockhart

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