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If you like John Green...

 

Young adult author John Green has fans of all ages, all over the world. His novels, including "The Fault in our Stars" and "Looking for Alaska," have sold millions of copies. If you've enjoyed John Green's work, you might also like some of the following books:

 

 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. 

Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school, where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

 

 

 All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven.

When Theodore and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it's the beginning of an unlikely relationship, a journey to discover the "natural wonders" of the state of Indiana and two teens' desperate desire to heal and save one another.

 

 

 Don't Stop Now by Julie Halpern. 

Recent high school graduates Lil and Josh leave Illinois for Oregon, seeking Lil's sort-of friend Penny, who faked her own kidnapping to escape problems at home and an abusive boyfriend.

 

 

 Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell. 

Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits. They're smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts but brave and desperate enough to try.

 

 

 Everybody Sees the Ants by A.S. King. 

Burdened by his parents' bickering and a bully's attacks, 15-year-old Lucky Linderman begins dreaming of being with his grandfather, who went missing during the Vietnam War. During a visit to Arizona, his aunt and uncle and their beautiful neighbor help him find a new perspective.

 

 

 The Good Luck of Right Now by Matthew Quick. 

When his mother dies, 38-year-old Bartholomew Neil, who doesn't know how to be on his own, discovers a letter in his mother's underwear drawer that causes him to write a series of highly intimate letters to actor Richard Gere while embarking on a quest to find out where he belongs.

 

 

 Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews.

Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.

 

 

 Noggin by John Corey Whaley.

After he died at age 16, Travis Coates' head was removed and frozen for five years before being attached to another body. Now the old Travis and the new Travis must find a way to coexist while figuring out changes in his relationships.

 

 

 Winger by Andrew Smith. 

Two years younger than his classmates at a prestigious boarding school, 14-year-old Ryan Dean West grapples with living in the dorm for troublemakers, falling for his female best friend who thinks of him as just a kid, and playing wing on the rugby team with some of his frightening new classmates.

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