Books Recommended by John Green
The Last Summer of Reason
Tahar Djaout
Source: "About a bookstore owner who lives in a country overtaken by extremists who believe that art is evil." - John Green
Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?
Mark Zwonitzer
Source: "Inspired an early vlog brothers video." - John Green
The Optimist's Daughter
Eudora Welty
Source: "The best book by one of the best 20th Century writers." - John Green
Kendra
Coe Booth
Source: "[The author's first book] is more famous. I like this one just as much." - John Green
This Blinding Absence of Light
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Source: "A little intense, but it's really really good." - John Green
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather
Source: "Maybe the most important novel about American religion." - John Green
Regarding the Pain of Others
Susan Sontag
Source: "Hugely influential." - John Green
The Enormous Room
E. E. Cummings
Source: "I don't know why this isn't famous." - John Green
Show Way
Jacqueline Woodson
Source: "One of my all-time favorite picture books." - John Green
The Golden Rule
Ilene Cooper
Source: "Has been huge to us in talking to Henry about imagining how other people are feeling." - John Green
The Untelling
Tayari Jones
Source: "Captures the precariousness of working-class life." - John Green
Fly on the Wall
E. Lockhart
Source: "Brilliant feminist reworking of Kafka's metamorphosis." - John Green
Boy Proof
Cecil Castellucci
Source: "Haunting and beautiful story of this outcast girl." - John Green
Thirsty
M.T. Anderson
Source: "Surprisingly brilliant vampire novel." - John Green
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I
M.T. Anderson
Source: "One of the best novels of the past decade." - John Green
The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green
Joshua Braff
Source: "Great coming of age novel." - John Green
Round Ireland with a Fridge
Tony Hawks
Source: "One of the funniest things I've ever read." - John Green
One of Us
Alice Domurat Dreger
Source: "By far the best nonfiction book ever written about conjoined twins." - John Green
This Bloody Mary Is The Last Thing I Own
Jonathan Rendall
Source: "My favorite boxing book ever." - John Green
The Man Who Couldn't Stop
David Adam
Source: "A good place to start [to learn more about obsessive-compulsive disorder]." - John Green
The Water Will Come
Jeff Goodell
Source: "A thriller in which the hero in peril is us." - John Green
City of Thorns
Ben Rawlence
Source: "Follows a handful of refugees over the course of many years living in Dadaab refugee camp." - John Green
City of Light, City of Poison
Holly Tucker
Source: "A history book that reads like a thriller." - John Green
Counting Descent
Clint Smith
Source: "[To quote the book,] I have always used words to try to convince the world that I am worth something." - John Green
The King Is Always Above the People
Daniel Alarcón
Source: "His stories still astonish me with their precision and their power." - John Green
Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng
Source: "Just brilliant." - John Green
