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
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