📚 4 Books mentioned in "John Green's Reluctant Rocket Ship Ride | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 92" of People I (Mostly) Admire
Podcast: People I (Mostly) Admire
Episode: John Green's Reluctant Rocket Ship Ride | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 92
Published on April 6, 2023
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!
Looking for Alaska
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Can you take me back to your first book? It's called Looking for Alaska.
Podcast host Steve Levitt inquires about John Green's first book, to which Green mentions the title: *Looking for Alaska*.
The Anthropocene Reviewed
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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.
In this segment, podcast host Steve Levitt shares his admiration for John Green, revealing his surprise upon discovering that Green's latest work, *The Anthropocene Reviewed*, is a non-fiction book aimed at adult readers, differing from his previous writings.
I must have been living under a rock for the last year because I had been completely unaware of the book's existence despite the fact that it was a New York Times bestseller.
In this segment, podcast host Steve Levitt shares his surprise at being unaware of the book *The Anthropocene Reviewed*, which had recently become a New York Times bestseller.
So I moved to Germany recently and was in a German bookstore that had a tiny section of books in English: one shelf, maybe 30 total, and one of them was The Anthropocene Reviewed, your latest book released in 2021.
Podcast host Steve Levitt shares his experience of discovering John Green's book *The Anthropocene Reviewed* while visiting a small section of English books in a German bookstore.
The Fault in Our Stars
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I mean, there have been so many after 'The Fault in Our Stars.'
Steve Levitt notes that John Green has written several books following the release of *The Fault in Our Stars*, highlighting the author's ongoing contributions to literature.
He's the author of The Fault in Our Stars, which began as a novel for young adults and ended up a cultural phenomenon.
In this segment, podcast host Steve Levitt introduces his guest, John Green, highlighting his acclaimed book *The Fault in Our Stars*, which started as a young adult novel and evolved into a significant cultural landmark.
I remember highlighting those six words and control-xing and putting them in a new Word document, and that became 'The Fault in Our Stars.'
In this segment, John Green discusses the process of creating his book *The Fault in Our Stars*, recalling how he highlighted key phrases that inspired the title.
After I wrote 'The Fault in Our Stars,' I spent over a year working on a desert island novel, where these six young people were stranded on a desert island.
In the podcast, John Green discusses his experience after writing *The Fault in Our Stars*, stating that he spent over a year developing a novel set on a desert island, which ultimately did not come to fruition.
There is this real, meta experience where sometimes a sick kid will ask me what happens after the end of The Fault in Our Stars, and I'll have to say, like Peter Van Houten, 'I also don't know.'
In this segment, John Green reflects on his experiences with fans of his book *The Fault in Our Stars*, sharing how some young readers inquire about the fates of the characters after the story concludes.
There was this strange, meta experience as a result of writing The Fault in Our Stars.
In this segment, podcast guest John Green describes a unique metatextual experience he encountered while writing his book, *The Fault in Our Stars*.
I didn't, of course, imagine that I was going to be inundated with this level of fan mail and this amount of people asking me what happens after the end of the book, which is what the main character in The Fault in Our Stars wants to know from the author.
In this segment, podcast guest John Green shares his experiences with receiving an overwhelming amount of fan mail regarding his book *The Fault in Our Stars*, detailing the curiosity expressed by fans about the characters' futures.
I mean, I imagined that The Fault in Our Stars was going to be my least successful novel commercially, and so I imagined that kind of as a joke for the people who were really familiar with me and would get a lot of the subtle references between Manhattan and myself.
In this segment, podcast guest John Green reflects on his expectations for his book *The Fault in Our Stars*, stating that he initially believed it would be his least commercially successful work.
So one of the storylines in The Fault in Our Stars is this [____] author who hates his readers. Did you feel a lot of pressure not to be that [____] author?
In this segment, podcast host Steve Levitt discusses the book *The Fault in Our Stars*, focusing on the portrayal of an author within its storyline who has a strained relationship with his readers.
You've been cranking out books every year, every other year, and then after The Fault in Our Stars, there was a five-year gap before your next book, Turtles All the Way Down.
In this segment, podcast host Steve Levitt discusses *The Fault in Our Stars*, highlighting the five-year interval that followed its release before John Green published his next book, *Turtles All the Way Down*.
Hey, I went back and re-read The Fault in Our Stars last week. I had read it many years ago; my oldest girls were young teens when it came out, and I used to read lots of young adult novels to have something to talk about.
In this segment, podcast host Steve Levitt shares his experience of re-reading John Green's book *The Fault in Our Stars*, reflecting on how he used to read many young adult novels during the time his daughters were young teens.
So you said it wasn't your dream to write bestsellers, but then you made the mistake of writing The Fault in Our Stars, which turned out to be one of the biggest books of all time: Time Magazine's fiction book of 2012.
In this segment, podcast host Steve Levitt references John Green's book *The Fault in Our Stars*, noting its unexpected success and recognition as one of the most significant works of fiction in 2012 according to Time Magazine.
Turtles All the Way Down
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You've been cranking out books every year, every other year, and then after The Fault in Our Stars, there was a five-year gap before your next book, Turtles All the Way Down.
In this segment, podcast host Steve Levitt discusses how the author experienced a five-year gap in book releases following *The Fault in Our Stars*, specifically mentioning the book *Turtles All the Way Down*.