John Green Recommended Books

"[The author's] brilliant second novel." - John Green (Source)

"Captures the true boundlessness of love and the absolute heartbreak of loss." - John 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 (Source)

"I love this book so much." - John Green (Source)

"Shows how 1832 annd 2020 are not so different." - John Green (Source)

"[Gets] better every time I read [it]." - John Green (Source)

"[Gets] better every time I read [it]." - John Green (Source)

"I reread to ease my anxiety." - John Green (Source)

"I really need poetry right now, like [this] beautiful book." - John Green (Source)

"Gives language to the overwhelming anxiety I'm feeling." - John Green (Source)

"I truly believe will be remembered as a classic of our time." - John Green (Source)

"Might be my favorite [book by this author]." - John Green (Source)

"Tender and generous to the reader." - John Green (Source)

"A poetic meditation on loss that took me right back to those last days of adolescence." - John Green (Source)

"Genuinely changed the way I think about the role art plays in human life." - John Green (Source)

"Just brilliant." - John Green (Source)

"His stories still astonish me with their precision and their power." - John Green (Source)

"Brilliant." - John Green (Source)

"[To quote the book,] I have always used words to try to convince the world that I am worth something." - John Green (Source)

"A history book that reads like a thriller." - John Green (Source)

"Follows a handful of refugees over the course of many years living in Dadaab refugee camp." - John Green (Source)

"A thriller in which the hero in peril is us." - John Green (Source)

"A good place to start [to learn more about obsessive-compulsive disorder]." - John Green (Source)

"My favorite boxing book ever." - John Green (Source)

"By far the best nonfiction book ever written about conjoined twins." - John Green (Source)

"One of the funniest things I've ever read." - John Green (Source)

"Excellent." - John Green (Source)

"Great coming of age novel." - John Green (Source)

"One of the best novels of the past decade." - John Green (Source)

"Surprisingly brilliant vampire novel." - John Green (Source)

"Haunting and beautiful story of this outcast girl." - John Green (Source)

"Brilliant feminist reworking of Kafka's metamorphosis." - John Green (Source)

"Great." - John Green (Source)

"Captures the precariousness of working-class life." - John Green (Source)

"Has been huge to us in talking to Henry about imagining how other people are feeling." - John Green (Source)

"One of my all-time favorite picture books." - John Green (Source)

"I don't know why this isn't famous." - John Green (Source)

"Hugely influential." - John Green (Source)

"Maybe the most important novel about American religion." - John Green (Source)

"A little intense, but it's really really good." - John Green (Source)

"[The author's] first book." - John Green (Source)

"[The author's first book] is more famous. I like this one just as much." - John Green (Source)

"The best book by one of the best 20th Century writers." - John Green (Source)

"Inspired an early vlog brothers video." - John Green (Source)

"About a bookstore owner who lives in a country overtaken by extremists who believe that art is evil." - John Green (Source)

"Fascinating." - John Green (Source)