"A sometimes heartbreaking, always illuminating, glimpse into how it feels to live with mental illness." - NPR
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New York Times Notable Book - A
New York Times Critics' Top Book of the Year
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Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year - A
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Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year - A
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#1 New York Times Bestseller - #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller - #1 International Bestseller
Featured on 60 Minutes, Fresh Air, Studio 360, Good Morning America, The TODAY Show
"A tender story about learning to cope when the world feels out of control." --People
"Green finds the language to describe the indescribable. . . . A must-read for those struggling with mental illness, or for their friends and family." --San Francisco Chronicle
"A powerful tale for teens (and adults) about anxiety, love and friendship." --The Los Angeles Times
"Wrenching and Revelatory." --The New York Times
"Tender, wise, and hopeful." --The Wall Street Journal
"A new modern classic." --The Guardian
"A thoughtful look at mental illness and a debilitating obsessive-compulsive disorder that doesn't ask but makes you feel the constant struggles of its main character.'" --USA Today
"Turtles delivers a lesson that we so desperately need right now: Yes, it is okay not to be okay.... John Green has crafted a dynamic novel that is deeply honest, sometimes painful, and always thoughtful." --Mashable
"Green does more than write about; he endeavours to write inside.... No matter where you are on the spiral--and we're all somewhere--Green's novel makes the trip, either up or down, a less solitary experience." --The Globe and Mail
"This novel is by far [Green's] most difficult to read. It's also his most astonishing. . . . So surprising and moving and true that I became completely unstrung. . . . One needn't be suffering like Aza to identify with it. One need only be human." --Jennifer Senior, The New York Times
"Green's most authentic and most ambitious work to date." --Bustle
"An existential teenage scream." --Vox
"Funny, clever, and populated with endearing characters." --Entertainment Weekly
"An incredibly powerful tale of the pain of mental illness, the pressures of youth, and coming of age when you feel like you're coming undone." --Shelf Awareness
"A richly rewarding read...the most mature of Green's work to date and deserving of all the accolades that are sure to come its way." --Booklist
"In an age where troubling events happen almost weekly, this deeply empathetic novel about learning to live with demons and love one's imperfect self is timely and important." --Publishers Weekly
"A deeply resonant and powerful novel that will inform and enlighten readers even as it breaks their hearts. A must-buy." --School Library Journal
Praise for John Green
- 50 million books in print worldwide -
#1 New York Times Bestseller
#1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller
#1 USA Today Bestseller
#1 International Bestseller
Michael L. Printz Award Winner
Michael L. Printz Honor Winner
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
TIME 100 Most Influential People
Forbes Celebrity 100
NPR's 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels
TIME Magazine's 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time
Critical acclaim for The Fault in Our Stars
"Damn near genius . . . The Fault in Our Stars is a love story, one of the most genuine and moving ones in recent American fiction, but it's also an existential tragedy of tremendous intelligence and courage and sadness." --Lev Grossman, TIME Magazine
"This is a book that breaks your heart--not by wearing it down, but by making it bigger until it bursts." --The Atlantic
"Remarkable . . . A pitch-perfect, elegiac comedy." --USA Today
"[Green's] voice is so compulsively readable that it defies categorization. You will be thankful for the little infinity you spend inside this book." --NPR.org
"John Green deftly mixes the profound and the quotidian in this tough, touching valentine to the human spirit." --The Washington Post
"[Green] shows us true love--two teenagers helping and accepting each other through the most humiliating physical and emotional ordeals--and it is far more romantic than any sunset on the beach." --New York Times Book Review
