John Green is the Michael L. Printz Award-winning author of Looking for Alaska and An Abundance of Katherines. When he was little, he wanted to be an earthworm scientist. (There is a word for such a person: oligochaetologist.) But he killed off his entire earthworm farm due to his general inability to care for pets. Later, he made a list of things he was good at. The list included "telling lies" and "sitting." So he became a writer.
Awards: Edgar (2009), Printz (2006) see all
Genres: Young Adult Fiction, Young Adult Romance, General Fiction
Novels
Looking for Alaska (2005)
An Abundance of Katherines (2006)
Paper Towns (2008)
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)
Turtles All the Way Down (2017)
An Abundance of Katherines (2006)
Paper Towns (2008)
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)
Turtles All the Way Down (2017)
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John Green recommends
One of Our Kind (2024)
Nicola Yoon
"With haunting and powerful prose, Nicola Yoon brilliantly imagines a world with much to tell us about our own."
Martyr! (2024)
Kaveh Akbar
"A brilliant and blisteringly alive novel about not just how we go on, but also why. Kaveh Akbar's first novel is so stunning, so wrenching, and so beautifully written that reading it for the first time, I kept forgetting to breathe. I will carry this story, and the people in it, with me for the rest of my life."
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (2022)
Gabrielle Zevin
"Utterly brilliant. In this sweeping, gorgeously written novel, Gabrielle Zevin charts the beauty, tenacity, and fragility of human love and creativity. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is one of the best books I've ever read."
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