John Green's Book Recommendations

"Stayed up WAY too late last night because I could not put down the brilliant survival story I AM STILL ALIVE by @kmarshallarts. Oh my God. What a book."

"I reread to ease my anxiety."

"@DaveMarshall12 I have so many essayists I love. To name a few books: Eula Biss's On Immunity; Rebecca Solnit's Field Guide to Getting Lost, Aleksander Hemon's Book of My Lives, Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, Mary Oliver's Upstream, and Thomas Berry's The Great Work."

"@DaveMarshall12 I have so many essayists I love. To name a few books: Eula Biss's On Immunity; Rebecca Solnit's Field Guide to Getting Lost, Aleksander Hemon's Book of My Lives, Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, Mary Oliver's Upstream, and Thomas Berry's The Great Work."

"@DaveMarshall12 I have so many essayists I love. To name a few books: Eula Biss's On Immunity; Rebecca Solnit's Field Guide to Getting Lost, Aleksander Hemon's Book of My Lives, Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, Mary Oliver's Upstream, and Thomas Berry's The Great Work."

"@DaveMarshall12 I have so many essayists I love. To name a few books: Eula Biss's On Immunity; Rebecca Solnit's Field Guide to Getting Lost, Aleksander Hemon's Book of My Lives, Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, Mary Oliver's Upstream, and Thomas Berry's The Great Work."

"Secondly, Markus Zusak's extraordinary novel Bridge of Clay, which I suspect I'll reread many times. It's a sprawling, challenging, and endlessly rewarding book. But it also has the raw and real and unironized emotion that courses through all of Zusak's books. I'm in awe of him."

"I've read two big books over Thanksgiving, both of which I am pleased to recommend. First, @ca_london's Black Wings Beating, which is an epic fantasy about falconry with a queer protagonist, and also a world so richly imagined that you truly feel like you live within it. So good."

"In semi-related news, I thought Scott Westerfeld's new book from the Uglies universe, IMPOSTERS, was fascinating and incisive--as his books always are. Plus, it's unputdownable."

"His stories still astonish me with their precision and their power."

"Brilliant."

"[To quote the book,] I have always used words to try to convince the world that I am worth something."

"A history book that reads like a thriller."

"Follows a handful of refugees over the course of many years living in Dadaab refugee camp."

"A thriller in which the hero in peril is us."

"My favorite boxing book ever."

"By far the best nonfiction book ever written about conjoined twins."

"One of the funniest things I've ever read."

"Excellent."

"Great coming of age novel."

"One of the best novels of the past decade."

"Surprisingly brilliant vampire novel."

"Haunting and beautiful story of this outcast girl."

"Brilliant feminist reworking of Kafka's metamorphosis."

"Great."

"Captures the precariousness of working-class life."

"Has been huge to us in talking to Henry about imagining how other people are feeling."

"I don't know why this isn't famous."

"Hugely influential."

"Maybe the most important novel about American religion."

"A little intense, but it's really really good."

"[The author's] first book."

"[The author's first book] is more famous. I like this one just as much."

"The best book by one of the best 20th Century writers."

"[The author's] brilliant second novel."

"Captures the true boundlessness of love and the absolute heartbreak of loss."

"[These] books meant so, so much to me when I was a kid--and still do."

"I love this book so much."

"Shows how 1832 annd 2020 are not so different."

"[Gets] better every time I read [it]."

"[Gets] better every time I read [it]."

"I really need poetry right now, like [this] beautiful book."

"Gives language to the overwhelming anxiety I'm feeling."

"I truly believe will be remembered as a classic of our time."

"Might be my favorite [book by this author]."

"Tender and generous to the reader."

"A poetic meditation on loss that took me right back to those last days of adolescence."

"Genuinely changed the way I think about the role art plays in human life."

"Just brilliant."

"Inspired an early vlog brothers video."

"About a bookstore owner who lives in a country overtaken by extremists who believe that art is evil."

"@Connellybooks I love that book so so so much."

"Fascinating."