John Green

The latest John Green book that I finished 2 days ago was Looking for Alaska. This was a good read and captured teens and the way they think, talk and act. It was also written with humour which lightened the darker moments. The main character is a boy, Miles, who leaves the safety of home to go to boarding school leaving behind his fairly boring life to search for what he calls the "Great Perhaps". At school he makes new friends including  a funny, loud, emotional, smart, gorgeous girl who fascinates him and he falls in love with her. Until...can't say anymore as that would be a major spoiler. The first half of the novel is written as a BEFORE section and the second part as AFTER signifying a change of pace in the storytelling after a crucial moment in the story. 

Interestingly, during the week of July 29, 2012, Looking for Alaska broke into the New York Times best seller list at number ten in Children's Paperback, 385 weeks (more than 7 years) after it was released.
This is possibly because his hugely sixth novel, The Fault in our Stars, had been released and fans of that story started looking for other John Green novels to read which increased sales of all his books.