The Fault in Our Stars
by John Green
"My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations."
Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green’s most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.
"Green’s best and most ambitious novel to date [...] a triumph." --Booklist, starred review
"A smartly crafted intellectual explosion of a romance." --Kirkus, starred review
"Green writes books for young adults, but his voice is so compulsively readable that it defies categorization. The Fault in Our Stars proves that the hype surrounding Green is not overblown." --NPR (National Public Radio)
"A pitch-perfect, elegiac comedy…it will linger long and hard in the minds of teens and former teens." --USA Today
"An achingly beautiful story." --SLJ, starred review
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And even though Hazel thinks that "cancer books suck," here are some other stories about terminal disease and grief (stories that don't suck)...
- Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, by Jesse Andrews
- My Sister's Keeper, by Jodi Picoult
- Before I Die, by Jenny Downham
- Deadline, by Chris Crutcher
- Never Eighteen, by Megan Bostic
- The Sky Is Everywhere, by Jandy Nelson
- A Walk to Remember, by Nicholas Sparks
- The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch [nonfiction]
- Radiate, by Marley Gibson
- How to Save a Life, by Sara Zarr
- My Beating Teenage Heart, by C.K. Kelly Martin