Books Recommended by John Green
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You Are an Artist
Assignments to Spark Creation
Sarah Urist Green
Source: "Has been a real balm amid the fear, helping me to pay closer attention while making stuff for and with people I love." - John Green
1 recommenderThe 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
1 recommenderCity of Thorns
Ben Rawlence
Source: "Follows a handful of refugees over the course of many years living in Dadaab refugee camp." - John Green
1 recommenderAnastasia Krupnik (9 books)
Lois Lowry
Source: "[These] books meant so, so much to me when I was a kid--and still do." - John Green
1 recommenderThe Golden Rule
Ilene Cooper
Source: "Has been huge to us in talking to Henry about imagining how other people are feeling." - John Green
1 recommenderCounting 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
1 recommenderPiecing Me Together
Renée Watson
Source: "Genuinely changed the way I think about the role art plays in human life." - John Green
1 recommenderWe Are Okay
Nina LaCour
Source: "A poetic meditation on loss that took me right back to those last days of adolescence." - John Green
1 recommenderMy Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me
A Memoir
Jason B. Rosenthal
Source: "Captures the true boundlessness of love and the absolute heartbreak of loss." - John Green
1 recommenderThe Man Who Couldn't Stop
OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought
David Adam
Source: "A good place to start [to learn more about obsessive-compulsive disorder]." - John Green
1 recommenderThe Hate U Give
The Hate U Give, Book 1
Angie Thomas
Source: "I truly believe will be remembered as a classic of our time." - John Green
4 recommenders- 1 recommender
One of Us
Alice Domurat Dreger
Source: "By far the best nonfiction book ever written about conjoined twins." - John Green
1 recommenderThe King Is Always Above the People
Stories
Daniel Alarcón
Source: "His stories still astonish me with their precision and their power." - John Green
1 recommenderDeath Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather
Source: "Maybe the most important novel about American religion." - John Green
1 recommenderSpace Struck
Paige Lewis
Source: "Gives language to the overwhelming anxiety I'm feeling." - John Green
1 recommenderThe Optimist's Daughter
Eudora Welty
Source: "The best book by one of the best 20th Century writers." - John Green
1 recommenderFly on the Wall
How One Girl Saw Everything
E. Lockhart
Source: "Brilliant feminist reworking of Kafka's metamorphosis." - John Green
1 recommenderOrdinary Beast
Poems
Nicole Sealey
Source: "I really need poetry right now, like [this] beautiful book." - John Green
1 recommenderRound Ireland with a Fridge
Tony Hawks
Source: "One of the funniest things I've ever read." - John Green
1 recommender
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