Rave Reviews for John Green!
Funny, sweet, and unpredictable.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune on An Abundance of Katherines
Funny, fun, challengingly complex and entirely entertaining.
Kirkus Reviews, starred review of An Abundance of Katherines
Green follows his Printz-winning Looking for Alaska with another sharp, intelligent story. The laugh-out-loud humor ranges from delightfully sophomoric to subtly intellectual.
Booklist, starred review of An Abundance of Katherines
Laugh-out-loud funny... A coming-of-age American road trip that is at once a satire of and tribute to its many celebrated predecessors.
The Horn Book, starred review of An Abundance of Katherines
Enjoyable, witty, and even charming.
SLJ on An Abundance of Katherines
Funny... Poignant... Luminous.
Entertainment Weekly on The Fault in Our Stars
Green writes with empathy about some of the biggest questions there areWhy me? Why now? Why bother with love?producing a story about two incandescent kids who will live a long time in the minds of the readers who come to know them.
People, four out of four stars on The Fault in Our Stars
Damn near genius. TIME Magazine on The Fault in Our Stars
Remarkable... A pitch perfect, elegiac comedy.
USA Today, four out of four stars on The Fault in Our Stars
A smarter, edgier Love Story for the Net Generation.
Family Circle on The Fault in Our Stars
In its every aspect, this novel is a triumph.
Booklist, starred review of The Fault in Our Stars
... an achingly beautiful story about life and loss.
SLJ, starred review of The Fault in Our Stars
... razor-sharp characters brim with genuine intellect, humor and desire.
Kirkus Reviews, starred review of The Fault in Our Stars
... [an] acerbic comedy, sexy romance, and a lightly played, extended meditation on the big questions about life and death.
The Horn Book, starred review of The Fault in Our Stars
... this is [Greens] best work yet.
Publishers Weekly, starred review of The Fault in Our Stars
Greens much-anticipated novel is breathtaking in its ability to alternate between iridescent humor and raw tragedy.
VOYA, starred review of The Fault in Our Stars
Alive with sweet, self-deprecating humor... Like Phineas in John Knowles A Separate Peace, Green draws Alaska... lovingly, in self-loathing darkness as well as energetic light.
SLJ, starred review of Looking for Alaska
Miles is an articulate spokesperson for the legions of teens searching for life meaning.
BCCB, starred review of Looking for Alaska
What sings and soars in this gorgeously told tale is Greens mastery of language... Girls will cry and boys will find love, lust, loss and longing in Alaskas vanilla-and-cigarettes scent.
Kirkus Reviews, starred review of Looking for Alaska
Readers will only hope that this is not the last word from this promising new author.
Publishers Weekly on Looking for Alaska
Greens prose is astoundingfrom hilarious, hyperintellectual trash talk and shtick, to complex philosophizing, to devastating observation and truths. He nails itexactly how a thing feels, looks, affectspage after page.
SLJ, starred review of Paper Towns
Green ponders the interconnectedness of imagination and perception... he is not only clever and wonderfully witty but also deeply thoughtful and insightful.
Booklist, starred review of Paper Towns
Green knows what he does best and delivers once again with this satisfying, crowd-pleasing [book].
Kirkus Reviews on Paper Towns
[A] terrific high-energy tale of teen love, lust, intrigue, anger, pain, and friendship. Booklist, starred review of Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Complete with honest language, interesting characters, and a heartfelt, gritty edge, this quirky yet down-to-earth collaboration by two master YA storytellers will keep readers turning pages.
SLJ, starred review of Will Grayson, Will Grayson
An intellectually existential, electrically ebullient love story that brilliantly melds the ridiculous with the realistic.
Kirkus Reviews, starred review of Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Funny, rude and original.
New York Times Book Review on Will Grayson, Will Grayson
A comedy as delicious as any whipped up by the Bard.
Washington Post Book World on Let It Snow
There is plenty of physical humor for laugh-out-loud fun and enough dreamy romance to warm up those cold winter nights.
VOYA on Let It Snow
This is a great story illuminating the magic of the holidays and the strengths and weaknesses of friendships.
KLIATT on Let It Snow
The authors share an ironic, idiosyncratic sense of humor that helps bind their stories, each with a slightly different tone and take on love, into one interconnected volume brimming with romance and holiday spirit.
The Horn Book on Let It Snow
The John Green Collection
Looking for Alaska
An Abundance of Katherines
Paper Towns
The Fault in Our Stars
John Green
Table of Contents
looking for alaska
JOHN GREEN
Pages 1819 and 155: Excerpt from The General in His Labyrinth,
by Gabriel Garca Mrquez
Page 85: Poetry quote from As I Walked Out One Evening, by W. H. Auden
Page 89: Poetry quote from Not So Far as the Forest, by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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