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Books by John Green mentioned on podcasts
John Green's literary career, spanning young adult fiction, adult debuts, and nonfiction, was featured prominently on People I (Mostly) Admire and The Book Review. On People I (Mostly) Admire, host Steve Levitt engaged John Green in retrospective discussions about his debut novel, 'Looking for Alaska', and the massive cultural phenomenon that 'The Fault in Our Stars' became after starting out as a young adult novel about a girl living with cancer. Green shared a humorous drafting story about the latter involving the trolley problem and his fictional Dutch author. Steve Levitt and John Green also delved into Green's work on his later book, 'Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection', discussing how a previous podcast conversation influenced Green to halt a novel in progress and dedicate himself instead to chronicling humanity's deadliest disease. Additionally, MJ Franklin previewed Green's adult fiction debut, 'Hollywood, Ending', on The Book Review, noting the exciting shift from his celebrated history of writing acclaimed young adult fiction.
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The Fault in Our Stars
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green is an acclaimed young adult novel that follows two teenagers coping with terminal cancer diagnoses who fall in love while navigating the painful realities of mortality.
Discussed“He's probably best known for his uber bestselling novel, The Fall in Our Stars, which was adapted into a blockbuster film.”
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Turtles All the Way Down
Turtles All the Way Down is a young adult novel by John Green that explores themes of anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder through a fictionalized context.
Discussed“uh particularly the childhood vaccines, there never was, as you learned from turtles all the way down, never a a viable study on these.”
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Everything Is Tuberculosis
Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green is a comprehensive non-fiction work exploring the history, science, and ongoing persistence of one of humanity's deadliest infectious diseases.
Discussed“I think in everything is tuberculosis, the book I wrote most recently, I said that for me, writing is like the the child's pool game, Marco Polo.”
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Looking for Alaska
Looking for Alaska by John Green is a coming-of-age young adult novel centered on a teenager attending boarding school and navigating grief, friendship, and first love.
Discussed“can you take me back to your first book it's called Looking for Alaska what were you doing at the time”
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Paper Towns
Paper Towns by John Green is a young adult contemporary novel that follows a high school senior on a mysterious quest to find his missing neighbor and childhood crush.
Discussed“I had to do it once I wrote a screenplay adaptation of my book Paper Towns and so I had to reread Paper Towns once in 2010 and it was excruciating once you can't change it”
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Hollywood, Ending
Hollywood, Ending by John Green is a contemporary novel centering on two young actors who find themselves navigating the intense pressures of sudden fame and survival.
Discussed“In the past few years, he's published two non-fiction books, but now he is back with a new novel, Hollywood Ending, about two young actors on the brink of fame.”
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The Anthropocene Reviewed
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green is a collection of personal essays adapted from the author's podcast, in which he reviews different facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale.
Discussed“I've secretly been a fan of John Green for a while but when I stumbled onto his latest book The anthropocene reviewed I was shocked to discover that it was non-fiction actually meant for adults”
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