History Literature / AnAbundanceOfKatherines

** Also played straight: [[spoiler: While visiting the tampon factory, Colin meets an attractive girl named Katherine - but he's already decided he's fallen in love with Lindsey.]]

* RoadMovie: Well, a road book actually.

* ShoutOut: A John Green book where [[Literature/PaperTowns the main character makes numbered lists]] and [[LookingForAlaska is on an extended road trip launched by love?]]

* ShoutOut: A John Green book where [[Literature/PaperTowns the main character makes numbered lists]] and [[LookingForAlaska is on an extended road trip launched by love?]] [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Nope, doesn't remind me of anything at all!]]
* ShownTheirWork: Literally, as the Hardcover Edition features an appendix where John Green (with the help of a Ph.D mathematician!) actually works out Colin's love formulas.

* ShoutOut: A John Green book where [[PaperTowns the main character makes numbered lists]] and [[LookingForAlaska is on an extended road trip launched by love?]] [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Nope, doesn't remind me of anything at all!]]

* GoshHornet: Making a [[MakesSenseInContext feral pig hunting trip]] even worse.

** Also played straight: [[spoiler: While visiting the tampon factory, Colin meets an attractive girl named Katherine - but he's already decided he's fallen in love with Lindsay.]]

* [[GoodParents Good Parent]]: Hollis, Lindsay's mom.

* [[spoiler: OddNameOut : Out of all the girlfriends that Colin's ever had so far , Lindsay winds up being the only one (and the first) who is not called Katherine at the end of the book.]]

* UnusualEuphemism: Fug, an obvious stand-in for a certain word. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Lindsay and explained by Colin, in-universe.

* FootnoteFever: The book contains a large number of footnotes, usually containing strange-but-true facts that are irrelevant to the story [[note]]but [[RuleOfCool still cool]].[[/note]]

* FirstGirlWins: Played with. [[spoiler: We see Kathering XIX. We see Katherine I. About halfway through the book, it's revealed that they are one and the same.]] On a normal timeline of the story, it is subverted because [[spoiler: Katherine XIX]] dumps Colin, but since some of the events are revealed out of order it has a zig-zagged effect.

* FirstGirlWins: Played with. [[spoiler: We see Kathering XIX. We see Katherine I. About halfway through the book, it's revealed that they are one and the same.]] On a normal timeline of the story, it is subverted because [[spoiler: Katherine XIX]] dumps Colin, but since some of the events are revealed out of order it has a stranger effect.

* FirstGirlWinds: Played with. [[spoiler: We see Kathering XIX. We see Katherine I. About halfway through the book, it's revealed that they are one and the same.]] On a normal timeline of the story, it is subverted because [[spoiler: Katherine XIX]] dumps Colin, but since some of the events are revealed out of order it has a stranger effect.

* [[spoiler: NotSoDifferent : Colin realises that he is a Dumper as well after he phones Katherine the Third to recall their brief relationship, who tells him that ''he dumped her''. Prior to the phone conversation, Colin had spent most of the book angsting over the fact that he was a Dumpee.]]

* [[spoiler: NotSoDifferent : Colin realises that he is a Dumper as well after he phones Katherine the Third to recall their brief relationship, who tells him that ''he dumped her''. Prior to the phone conversation, Colin had spent most of the book [[Wangst angsting]] over the fact that he was a Dumpee.]]

* [[spoiler: OddOneOut : Out of all the girlfriends that Colin's ever had so far , Lindsay winds up being the only one (and the first) who is not called Katherine at the end of the book.]]

* [[spoiler: OddOneOut : Out of all the girlfriends that Colin's ever had so far , Lindsay winds up being the only one (and the first) who is not called Katherine.]]

* WhenSheSmiles: Lindsey. So very much.

* FootnoteFever: The book contains a large number of footnotes, usually containing strange-but-true facts that are irrelevant to the story [[note]]but still cool[[/note]].

* [[GoodParents Good Parent]]: Hollis
* GoshHornet: Making a feral pig hunting trip even worse.

* HomeschooledKids: Colin. Until first grade. Hassan, until high school.

* RoadMovie: Well a road book actually.

* TranslationConvention: Averted. Dialogue is in Arabic and German at times.

* UnusualEuphemism: Fug

Colin's [[BlackBestFriend Middle-Eastern Best Friend]], Hassan, talks him into going on a road trip to take his mind off the pain of losing yet another Katherine. They end up in a small town known as Gutshot, Tennessee, and quickly find themselves at the home of a woman who runs a textile factory which manufactures tampon strings (which is the main source of income for the town). She has a daughter named Lindsey, who is smart and funny and has "a smile that could stop wars and cure cancer," but (1) Colin is definitely not interested and (2) Lindsey already has a boyfriend (named Colin) [[hottip:*:Colin is fond of numbered lists in the middle of sentences]]. Colin and Hassan quickly become friends with Lindsey and start having all sorts of strange adventures.

* FootnoteFever: The book contains a large number of footnotes, usually containing strange-but-true facts that are irrelevant to the story [[hottip:*:but still cool]].

* GeekyTurnOn: Sort of. Colin's "type" is "not physical but linguistic". He likes Katherines. No nicknames, alternative spellings.

''An Abundance of Katherines'' is a young adult novel written by JohnGreen. It tells the story of Colin, a recent high school graduate whose girlfriend Katherine has just dumped him. This is made even more traumatic because Colin has dated no fewer than ''19'' girls named Katherine, all of whom dumped him [[spoiler: except for Katherine the Third]].

[[hottip:*:''An Abundance of Katherines'' was a 2007 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book. When author John Green received news of this, he proceeded to do his happy dance. This footage can be found on Youtube.]]

* WritersCannotDoMath: The author had someone else come up with the mathematical formulas in the book, but a few mistakes still slipped through.