Paper Towns by John Green

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightning, or win a Nobel Prize, or become the dictator of a small nation in the Pacific Islands, or contract terminal ear cancer, or spontaneously combust. But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman.

Quentin – or Q – is finishing his final year of high school, and everything is changing. Q is in love with Margo – always has been, ever since they were kids. But now Q is an average, invisible nerd, and Margo is cool, enigmatic and unattainable. Until she goes missing, and Q and his friends end up on a crazed, life-altering road trip to find her. A funny, poignant, endearing book that looks at what is really going on behind the rose-tinted view of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl.

Paper Towns is longlisted for the Silver Inky