John Green Books in Order

If you want his core YA novels: Looking for Alaska → Paper Towns → The Fault in Our Stars.
If you care most about mental health stories: Turtles All the Way Down → The Fault in Our Stars.
If you like road trips and offbeat humor: An Abundance of Katherines → Paper Towns.
If you are curious about his nonfiction: The Anthropocene Reviewed → Everything Is Tuberculosis.
If you want LGBTQ centered stories: Will Grayson, Will Grayson.

John Green was born in Indianapolis in 1977 and grew up mostly in Florida, the kid who loved books more than gym class. His family moved several times before settling in Orlando, where he went to middle and high school and started collecting the last words of famous people. (en.wikipedia.org)

As a teenager he left Florida for Indian Springs School, a small boarding school near Birmingham, Alabama, that would later inspire the setting of Looking for Alaska. At Indian Springs he found close friendships, elaborate pranks, and teachers who took his writing seriously. (en.wikipedia.org)

Green studied English and religious studies at Kenyon College in Ohio, graduating in 2000. After college he spent about six months as a student chaplain at a children's hospital, an experience that left him shaken by the grief and courage he saw in young patients and their families. (en.wikipedia.org)

That time in the hospital nudged him away from ministry and toward books. He moved to Chicago to work at the review magazine Booklist, where he read and wrote about hundreds of novels while drafting his own first book, Looking for Alaska, on the side. The novel was published in 2005 and won the Michael L Printz Award, announcing him as a major new voice in young adult fiction. (en.wikipedia.org)

Over the next several years he wrote An Abundance of Katherines, co-wrote the holiday collection Let It Snow, set a mystery in suburban Orlando with Paper Towns, and teamed up with David Levithan for the collaborative novel Will Grayson, Will Grayson. In 2012 he released The Fault in Our Stars, a love story about two teenagers with cancer that reached millions of readers and was adapted into a successful film. (en.wikipedia.org)

In parallel with the books, Green and his brother Hank were building an online community. Their Vlogbrothers video project, launched in 2007, grew into a sprawling conversation about books, science, and how to make the world suck less. From that community came educational shows like Crash Course, the annual fan-run fundraiser Project for Awesome, and eventually the creator convention VidCon. (en.wikipedia.org)

Green's later work turns more directly toward his own mental health and to nonfiction. Turtles All the Way Down follows a girl in Indianapolis living with obsessive compulsive disorder, a condition he has spoken about in his own life. The Anthropocene Reviewed collects essays that rate everything from Dr Pepper to sunsets on a five star scale, blending personal stories with history and science. (en.wikipedia.org)

Since the mid 2010s he has also become deeply involved in global health. Working with Partners In Health and the Nerdfighter community, he has helped raise tens of millions of dollars for maternal health care in Sierra Leone and for tuberculosis treatment around the world. His 2025 book Everything Is Tuberculosis braids the story of a young patient named Henry with the long, unfinished fight against the disease. (en.wikipedia.org)

Today Green lives in Indianapolis with his wife, art curator and video host Sarah Urist Green, their two children, Henry and Alice, and a small terrier named Fireball Wilson Roberts. He splits his time between writing, filming educational videos, advocating for fairer health systems, and cheering for the soccer teams he loves, still trying to tell stories that make people feel a little less alone. (en.wikipedia.org)