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The award-winning, genre-defining debut from #1 bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars
First drink
First prank
First friend
First girl
Last words
Miles “Pudge” Halter is abandoning his safe-okay, boring-life. Fascinated by the last words of famous people, Pudge leaves for boarding school to seek what a dying Rabelais called the “Great Perhaps.”
Pudge becomes encircled by friends whose lives are everything but safe and boring. Their nucleus is razor-sharp, sexy, and self-destructive Alaska, who has perfected the arts of pranking and... more
First drink
First prank
First friend
First girl
Last words
Miles “Pudge” Halter is abandoning his safe-okay, boring-life. Fascinated by the last words of famous people, Pudge leaves for boarding school to seek what a dying Rabelais called the “Great Perhaps.”
Pudge becomes encircled by friends whose lives are everything but safe and boring. Their nucleus is razor-sharp, sexy, and self-destructive Alaska, who has perfected the arts of pranking and... more
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- #35 in Controversial
- #52 in Dating
- #7 in Death
- #32 in Depression
- #80 in Drama
- #43 in Dramatic
- #23 in Dying
- #72 in Easy Reading
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- #71 in Existential
- #44 in Finding Yourself
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- #73 in GoT
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- #65 in Goodreads
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