John Green
John Green is a bestselling author known for young adult novels like "The Fault in Our Stars" and "Looking for Alaska." He is also a prominent YouTuber, creating educational content with his brother Hank. Based on his recommendations, he appreciates diverse voices and stories that explore complex themes of identity, loss, and connection.
Written by John Green
Books Recommended by John Green 53
I Am Still Alive
"Stayed up WAY too late last night because I could not put down the brilliant survival story I AM STILL ALIVE by @kmarshallarts. Oh my God. What a book."
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Upstream
"@DaveMarshall12 I have so many essayists I love. To name a few books: Eula Biss's On Immunity; Rebecca Solnit's Field Guide to Getting Lost, Aleksander Hemon's Book of My Lives, Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, Mary Oliver's Upstream, and Thomas Berry's The Great Work."
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Bad Feminist
"@DaveMarshall12 I have so many essayists I love. To name a few books: Eula Biss's On Immunity; Rebecca Solnit's Field Guide to Getting Lost, Aleksander Hemon's Book of My Lives, Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, Mary Oliver's Upstream, and Thomas Berry's The Great Work."
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The Book of My Lives
"@DaveMarshall12 I have so many essayists I love. To name a few books: Eula Biss's On Immunity; Rebecca Solnit's Field Guide to Getting Lost, Aleksander Hemon's Book of My Lives, Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, Mary Oliver's Upstream, and Thomas Berry's The Great Work."
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A Field Guide to Getting Lost
"@DaveMarshall12 I have so many essayists I love. To name a few books: Eula Biss's On Immunity; Rebecca Solnit's Field Guide to Getting Lost, Aleksander Hemon's Book of My Lives, Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, Mary Oliver's Upstream, and Thomas Berry's The Great Work."
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Bridge of Clay
"Secondly, Markus Zusak's extraordinary novel Bridge of Clay, which I suspect I'll reread many times. It's a sprawling, challenging, and endlessly rewarding book. But it also has the raw and real and unironized emotion that courses through all of Zusak's books. I'm in awe of him."
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Black Wings Beating
"I've read two big books over Thanksgiving, both of which I am pleased to recommend. First, @ca_london's Black Wings Beating, which is an epic fantasy about falconry with a queer protagonist, and also a world so richly imagined that you truly feel like you live within it. So good."
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"In semi-related news, I thought Scott Westerfeld's new book from the Uglies universe, IMPOSTERS, was fascinating and incisive--as his books always are. Plus, it's unputdownable."
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The King Is Always Above the People
"His stories still astonish me with their precision and their power."
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Calling a Wolf a Wolf
"Brilliant."
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Counting Descent
"[To quote the book,] I have always used words to try to convince the world that I am worth something."
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City of Light, City of Poison
"A history book that reads like a thriller."
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City of Thorns
"Follows a handful of refugees over the course of many years living in Dadaab refugee camp."
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The Water Will Come
"A thriller in which the hero in peril is us."
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This Bloody Mary Is The Last Thing I Own
"My favorite boxing book ever."
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One of Us
"By far the best nonfiction book ever written about conjoined twins."
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Round Ireland with a Fridge
"One of the funniest things I've ever read."
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Playing the Moldovans at Tennis
"Excellent."
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The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green
"Great coming of age novel."
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The Pox Party
"One of the best novels of the past decade."
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Thirsty
"Surprisingly brilliant vampire novel."
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Boy Proof
"Haunting and beautiful story of this outcast girl."
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Fly on the Wall
"Brilliant feminist reworking of Kafka's metamorphosis."
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Leaving Atlanta
"Great."
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The Untelling
"Captures the precariousness of working-class life."
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The Golden Rule
"Has been huge to us in talking to Henry about imagining how other people are feeling."
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The Enormous Room
"I don't know why this isn't famous."
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Regarding the Pain of Others
"Hugely influential."
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
"Maybe the most important novel about American religion."
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This Blinding Absence of Light
"A little intense, but it's really really good."
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Tyrell
"[The author's] first book."
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Kendra
"[The author's first book] is more famous. I like this one just as much."
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The Optimist's Daughter
"The best book by one of the best 20th Century writers."
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A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
"[The author's] brilliant second novel."
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My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me
"Captures the true boundlessness of love and the absolute heartbreak of loss."
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Anastasia Krupnik (9 books)
"[These] books meant so, so much to me when I was a kid--and still do."
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Why Fish Don't Exist
"I love this book so much."
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The Cholera Years
"Shows how 1832 annd 2020 are not so different."
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Sula
"[Gets] better every time I read [it]."
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The General in His Labyrinth
"[Gets] better every time I read [it]."
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Ordinary Beast
"I really need poetry right now, like [this] beautiful book."
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Space Struck
"Gives language to the overwhelming anxiety I'm feeling."
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The Hate U Give
"I truly believe will be remembered as a classic of our time."
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The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
"Might be my favorite [book by this author]."
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"Tender and generous to the reader."
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We Are Okay
"A poetic meditation on loss that took me right back to those last days of adolescence."
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Piecing Me Together
"Genuinely changed the way I think about the role art plays in human life."
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Little Fires Everywhere
"Just brilliant."
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Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?
"Inspired an early vlog brothers video."
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The Last Summer of Reason
"About a bookstore owner who lives in a country overtaken by extremists who believe that art is evil."
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
"@Connellybooks I love that book so so so much."
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Immune
"Fascinating."
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