What is the best John Green book?

Nine novels and essay collections plus one brand-new adult debut: tearjerkers that sold millions sit next to quieter early work and the nonfiction that surprised everyone. Rank the one you would press into a friend's hands first.

1. 1
   Looking for Alaska

   John Green's 2005 debut novel about a boarding-school student drawn to the enigmatic Alaska Young, winner of the Printz Award.
   1000pts
2. 2
   The Fault in Our Stars

   The 2012 bestseller about teenage cancer patients Hazel and Augustus, the book that made John Green a global phenomenon.
   882pts
3. 3
   An Abundance of Katherines

   A 2006 road-trip novel about a child prodigy who has been dumped by nineteen girls named Katherine and tries to mathematically predict love.
   600pts
4. 4
   Everything Is Tuberculosis

   A 2025 nonfiction book tracing the history and injustice of tuberculosis through the story of a young patient in Sierra Leone.
   448pts
5. 5
   Hollywood, Ending

   Green's first novel for adults, published by Dutton in September 2026, about two young actors whose lives unravel after they are cast in an Andy Warhol biopic.
   448pts
6. 6
   Turtles All the Way Down

   A 2017 novel following Aza Holmes, a teenager with OCD, as she investigates a missing billionaire alongside her best friend.
   353pts
7. 7
   Let It Snow

   A 2008 collection of three interlinked holiday romances written with Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle, adapted by Netflix in 2019.
   353pts
8. 8
   Will Grayson, Will Grayson

   A 2010 novel co-written with David Levithan about two Chicago teens who share a name and whose lives collide one night.
   353pts
9. 9
   Paper Towns

   A 2008 mystery about Quentin Jacobsen searching for his vanished neighbor Margo Roth Spiegelman, later adapted into a 2015 film.
   241pts
10. 10
    The Anthropocene Reviewed

    Green's 2021 nonfiction debut, a collection of essays rating facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale.
    240pts

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