Looking for Alaska
John Green, 2005
A boy leaves Florida for an Alabama boarding school and falls in with a girl who makes every rule feel like a question worth breaking.
John Green
John Green writes about young people thinking hard about love, loss and who they are, and he does it with humor and real grief side by side. Start with «Looking for Alaska» if you want the boarding-school one, or «The Fault in Our Stars» if you want the one about two teenagers arguing with mortality and an unfinished book.
Feels like identity, love and death.
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John Green's debut was inspired by his own years at Indian Springs, a boarding school outside Birmingham, Alabama; it won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award.
The case for being seventeen and certain nothing can end you.
When adults say, “Teenagers think they are invincible” with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail. Books by John Green
The Fault in Our Stars
John Green, 2012
A witty, dying teenager meets a boy who refuses to be solemn, and together they argue with oblivion, love, and the author of an unfinished book.
Paper Towns
John Green, 2008
A boy who has loved the girl next door from afar gets one wild night with her—and then she vanishes, leaving clues meant for him.
Turtles All the Way Down
John Green, 2017
An observant voice dissect's the anxiety of modern youth, navigating the disconnect between internal obsession and external performance.
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
John Green, 2010
Two boys named Will Grayson—one guarded, one lonely—collide with Tiny Cooper, a force of nature staging a musical about his love life.
Everything Is Tuberculosis
John Green, 2025
John Green traces tuberculosis from sanatoriums to modern cures, asking why a disease we can treat still kills millions—and what our failure says about us.
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