Despite their dark subject matters, Green's books are filled with witty lines and scenes that will make even the most teary-eyed readers burst out laughing — especially Paper Towns, his 2008 novel.

This Walt Whitman book has a major Paper Towns role, as Quentin thinks that Margot intentionally left it as a clue on how to find her. She highlighted sections of the work's most famous poem ...

“Paper Towns,” the teen-targeting drama that opens Friday, has a lot in common with the last film adaptation of another John Green bestseller, “The Fault In Our Stars.” Like that ...

and getting such great lines as “If there’s a tuba there, it’s not a party.” Green wrote the book Paper Towns as sort of a takedown of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl stock character ...

In Paper Towns, he manages to spin a quirky high school graduation and road trip drama together with a sort of detective story into a highly literary exploration of identity and place. He ...