The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
E. Lockhart
Elaborate pranks, secret societies and a sharp-witted narrator at an elite boarding school make this a natural follow-up for anyone who loved the Colonel's schemes.
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Books Like Looking for Alaska
If you loved Looking for Alaska by John Green
Readers love Looking for Alaska for its blend of boarding-school mischief and genuine heartache. Miles's search for the "Great Perhaps" captures the intensity of first friendships and first love, with witty banter, late-night philosophising and pranks sitting alongside serious questions about grief, guilt and how to keep living after loss. The book is funny and literary at once, built around a magnetic, unknowable girl and a narrator trying to make sense of her. Fans often want that same mix of humour, depth and emotional honesty.
Boarding school friendships
Grief and growing up
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
An introspective narrator falls in with charismatic older friends and confronts loss and trauma, capturing the same tender, confessional feel as Miles's story.
We Are Okay
Nina LaCour
A quiet, aching novel about a girl alone in an empty college dorm facing a loss she has avoided, ideal for readers moved by Alaska's reflective second half.
The enigmatic girl
Paper Towns
John Green
Green returns to a narrator obsessed with a mysterious girl, this time turning that fascination into a road-trip search that questions how we imagine the people we love.
Eleanor & Park
Rainbow Rowell
Two misfits fall slowly and intensely in love over comics and mixtapes, with the same raw honesty about first love that made Miles and Alaska unforgettable.
All the Bright Places
Jennifer Niven
A volatile, captivating boy and a grieving girl wander Indiana together, combining quirky romance with frank treatment of mental health, much like Alaska's darker currents.
Big questions, sharp dialogue
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Philosophical conversations and a deepening friendship between two teenage boys deliver the thoughtful, quotable dialogue fans relish in Green's writing.
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
The original disillusioned prep-school narrator, Holden Caulfield's restless voice is an obvious ancestor of Miles and his search for something real.
We Were Liars
E. Lockhart
A tight-knit group of teenagers, a summer of intensity and a narrator haunted by what happened create the same compulsive, emotional pull, best read knowing little.
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