<p>I’ve read TFIOS, and look for alaska. Love both. What else should I read? </p>
<p>Paper Towns and Abundance of Katherines, in that order. </p>
<p>Edit: FWIW, Paper Towns was my favorite of his–I liked it better than TFiOS and it’s just a little above LfA.</p>
<p>Paper towns. you’ve already read the two best ones though. ABK was hard to finish for me because it is so full of footnotes and I get that it’s supposed to be a theme but it got annoying after the first few chapters.</p>
<p>I think I’m one of the few who actually likes Katherines. o.o I really like the footnotes and Colin Singleton’s interactions with Lindsey. I love the storyline for TFiOS, but I prefer Katherines. I have yet to read Looking for Alaska and Paper Towns.</p>
<p>Looking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars are definitely my favorites. I agree that you should read Paper Towns and Abundance of Katherines, and you should also read Will Grayson, Will Grayson. It’s really funny! I love all of John Green’s books though. :)</p>
<p>TFIOS and LfA are my favorites. Abundance of Katherines is pretty good, I like the math parts and stuff but it’s pretty slow and not as suspenseful and all like TFIOS and LfA. I need to read Paper Towns and Will Grayson, Will Grayson.</p>
<p>thanks guys! </p>
<p>John Green is not my favorite writer by any means, but the rest are right. Some others you might enjoy include Thirteen Reasons Why and Hate List, if you haven’t read them already.</p>
<p>I agree, Thirteen Reasons Why is a great book. It’s one of my favorites. @MissSuzyQ, what is Hate List about?</p>
<p>It’s a really intriguing book about a girl whose boyfriend took his gun to school and killed some students (and maybe a teacher—it’s been a while since I read it). It’s basically about how she must deal with the aftermath, but it’s a very interesting perspective from the girl who wrote the hate list with her boyfriend but never fathomed he would use it as a guide on who to kill.</p>
<p>Looking for Alaska was good.</p>
<p>Looking for Alaska was the only John Green book I mildly enjoyed - I thought TFiOS was garbage. (I’m no NYTimes Best Selling Author but still - I know how teenage girls talk - even the most intelligent and sophisticated don’t really come off like the protagonist did.) </p>
<p>@MissSuzyQ I loved those books. Especially Hate List, I think read that one like 3 times. Have you read ‘Nineteen Minutes’ by Jodi Piccoult? It has a similar plot. </p>
<p>No, but just by the title I can tell that it sounds up my alley. I agree with you, @preamble1776 . I like to think of myself as more intelligent than the majority of my peers (I think most CC users do), but there was no way that Hazel and Augustus are/were actual human beings. Also: their personalities are exactly the same. I still will be viewing the movie, but I will probably be rolling my eyes at their pretentiousness the whole time.</p>
<p>@MissSuzyQ - THANK YOU! Everyone fawns over TFiOS like it is a monumental literary classic - I just couldn’t identify nor sympathize with the pretentiousness of Hazel. </p>
<p>It seems John Green has a regular “format” for his novels. The protagonist always tends to be a teenage genius with some type of quirk.</p>
<p>Not a bad main character though.</p>
<p>Yeah, all his books are okay. They’re nothing special but what really got to me was Looking For Alaska. It was different and new; something I desperately needed a year ago. I remember the day I saw it on the Barnes & Noble bookshelf and I read it in the span of (give or take) 1 and a half hours. It was splendid. The Fault in Our Stars is okay. I didn’t get any deep emotional connection or anything with Hazel. It was a bit like murky, muddy water. You can feel the mud and the sediment in the water but you can’t really look through it to see to the bottom. With Looking For Alaska, there was a lot of dirt but I could get rid of it and see the basin. </p>