Looking For Alaska

by John Green (2005):

We are stretching it a bit with this one, where Alaska here does not refer to the place, but to a girl. Alaska

Young, no less. Way before the very popular The Fault in Our Stars, John Green wrote Looking for Alaska.

His first novel, published in 2005, is a story told through teenager Miles Halter’s eyes as he enrols in a boarding school to gain a deeper perspective on life – and as it turns out, also love. He is tired of his boring life and hopes that this new place will provide him with a much-needed thrill boost. But when the drama comes fast and furious, he knows that life is not only more eventful here, but that his will never be the same again.