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John Green

(b.1977)

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

Series

Will Grayson, Will Grayson (with David Levithan)
1. Will Grayson, Will Grayson (2010)

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)

Collections

What You Wish For: A Book for Darfur (2011) (with others)

Non fiction show

Omnibus editions show

Books containing stories by John Green

Who Done It? (2013)
edited by
Jon Scieszka

Geektastic (2009)
Stories from the Nerd Herd
edited by
Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci

21 Proms (2007)
edited by
Daniel Ehrenhaft and David Levithan

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Awards

	2009 Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Novel : Paper Towns
	2006 Michael L. Printz Award : Looking for Alaska

Award nominations

	2007 Michael L. Printz Award (nominee) : An Abundance of Katherines
	2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Novel (nominee) : An Abundance of Katherines
	2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Novel (nominee) : Looking for Alaska

John Green recommends

I Am the Cage (2025)
Allison Sweet Grant
"A brilliant book about what we survive - and how. Visceral, wrenching, and beautiful, Grant's triumphant novel will stick with you."

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."

Ways to Make Sunshine (2020)
(Ryan Hart, book 1)
Renée Watson
"An important and deeply moving novel."

Imaginary Friend (2019)
Stephen Chbosky
"A haunting and thrilling novel pulsing with the radical empathy that makes Chbosky's work so special."

Dig (2019)
A S King
"One of the best YA writers working today."

The Astonishing Color of After (2018)
Emily X R Pan
"This brilliantly crafted novel portrays the vast spectrum of love and grief with heart-wrenching beauty and candor. A very special book."

Truly Devious (2018)
(Truly Devious, book 1)
Maureen Johnson
"An intricately plotted, compulsively readable novel that explores not only fascinating crimes but also the mysteries of anxiety, the creative process, contemporary fame, and so much else."

The Williamson Turn (2017)
P F Kluge
"P F Kluge is one of the great chronicles of human experience. Like Richard Russo and Philip Roth, his stories map the human heart without sentimentality or pretension."

The Hate U Give (2017)
(Carter Family , book 1)
Angie Thomas
"Angie Thomas has written a stunning, brilliant, gut-wrenching novel that will be remembered as a classic of our time."

Spontaneous (2016)
Aaron Starmer
"Aaron Starmer skilfully welds sharp humor, deep loss, and roaring escapades. Truly the smartest and funniest book about spontaneous combustion you will ever read."

Local Girl Swept Away (2016)
Ellen Wittlinger
"Ellen Wittlinger's Hard Love was one of the books that inspired me to write young adult novels."

We Were Liars (2014)
(We Were Liars, book 1)
E Lockhart
"Thrilling, beautiful, and blisteringly smart, We Were Liars is utterly unforgettable."

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011)
(Miss Peregrine's Children, book 1)
Ransom Riggs
"A tense, moving, and wondrously strange first novel. The photographs and text work together brilliantly to create an unforgettable story."

Pink (2009)
Lili Wilkinson
"Fun, razor-sharp, and moving."

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