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2007

  • 2007-01-08 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 8, 2007 · John, 4 named (playful) — John lists Shakespearean titles (Infinite Jest, The Dogs of War, Brave New World, In Cold Blood) and Bible titles (East of Eden, Song of Solomon), jokingly adding Rich Dad, Poor Dad. (00:01:56)
    1 Infinite Jest · 2 The Dogs of War · 3 Brave New World · 4 In Cold Blood

  • 2007-01-08 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 8, 2007 · John, 3 named (playful) — John lists Shakespearean titles (Infinite Jest, The Dogs of War, Brave New World, In Cold Blood) and Bible titles (East of Eden, Song of Solomon), jokingly adding Rich Dad, Poor Dad. (00:01:56)
    1 East of Eden · 2 Song of Solomon · 3 Rich Dad Poor Dad

  • 2007-01-08 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 8, 2007 · John, 2 named — John's first book-club suggestion: either What Is the What by Dave Eggers or We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families by Philip Gourevitch. (00:02:34)
    1 Dave Eggers + What Is the What · 2 Philip Gourevitch + We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

  • 2007-02-09 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 9, 2007 · John, 4 named (joke) — John declines to say what Paper Towns is about, answering with a declared 'long series of lies': a 17th-century Japanese orphanage, an origami championship, Hamlet, teenage Emily Dickinson and more. (00:01:52)
    1 Hamlet (play) · 2 Emily Dickinson · 3 Weight Watchers “you eat the exact number of points you're supposed to eat” · 4 Faulkner's Nobel Prize acceptance speech “the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded”

  • 2007-04-30 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 30: Hellos from Los Angeles · video description, 7 named —
    1 M. T. Anderson · 2 Sonya Sones · 3 T Cooper · 4 Julie Strauss-Gabel · 5 Coe Booth · 6 Dana Reinhardt · 7 Cecil Castellucci

  • 2007-04-30 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 30: Hellos from Los Angeles · John, 5 named — Presenter Jacqueline Woodson introduced the five young adult finalists: The Rules of Survival, Tyrell, Octavian Nothing, An Abundance of Katherines and Justin Case. (00:01:02)
    1 The Rules of Survival · 2 Tyrell · 3 The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing · 4 An Abundance of Katherines · 5 Justin Case

  • 2007-05-01 · May 1st: Neil Gaiman in Helena · Hank, 3 named — Hank opens with Neil Gaiman, whom he calls a New York Times best-selling, Hugo- and Nebula-winning 'nerdfighter guy', saying hi to John after Hank waited in a very long line. (00:00:12)
    1 The New York Times · 2 Hugo Award · 3 Nebula Award

  • 2007-05-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 2: Book Banning · John, 6 named — John asks Bartlesville Mid-High School whether it will also ban Bridget Jones's Diary, The Color Purple, No Exit, Brideshead Revisited, Angels in America and The Picture of Dorian Gray. (00:01:38)
    1 Bridget Jones's Diary · 2 The Color Purple · 3 No Exit · 4 Brideshead Revisited · 5 Angels in America · 6 The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • 2007-06-27 · June 26: The American Library Association Parties · John, 4 named — John praises all the Printz speeches: Markus Zusak, Tobin (M. T.) Anderson, Gene Yang and Sonya Hartnett were wonderful. (00:02:28)
    1 Markus Zusak · 2 M. T. Anderson · 3 Gene Luen Yang · 4 Sonya Hartnett

  • 2007-07-19 · July 19: A Day in the Life of a Writer (Who Has No Friends) · John, 2 named — John recalls a video from a couple of months ago showing him, Scott Westerfeld and Maureen Johnson writing together in a hotel room; this is its friendless follow-up. (00:00:10)
    1 Scott Westerfeld · 2 Maureen Johnson

  • 2007-07-31 · July 31: HP, Secret Siblings, and Books · John, 2 named — Part three: two books John has been reading (Chabon, Cooper), both obeying the 'in your pants' rule (00:01:23)
    1 The Yiddish Policemen's Union · 2 The Golden Rule

  • 2007-10-16 · October 16th: John's Library Pwns · John, 5 named — John tours his shelves: poetry (Cummings, Shakespeare, Dante, the Norton Anthology, Dorothy Parker), reference, religions, family, languages, social sciences, screenwriting and his author copies. (00:00:42)
    1 E. E. Cummings · 2 William Shakespeare · 3 Dante Alighieri · 4 The Norton Anthology of Poetry · 5 Dorothy Parker

  • 2007-10-22 · October 22nd: The Anniversary of Young Earth Creationism · John, 2 named — John announces he is also working on another book, Let It Snow, with his friends Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle. (00:01:32)
    1 Maureen Johnson · 2 Lauren Myracle

  • 2007-12-10 · Dec. 10: MY BOOK IS GONNA BE A MOVIE!!! (someday) · John, 2 named — John says he has always wanted to write a screenplay, thinks it would be fun to spend time with Hassan, Lindsey and the other characters, and, like many authors, wants creative control over the film of his book. (00:02:11)
    1 Hassan Harbish · 2 Lindsey Lee Wells “Lindsay”

2008

  • 2008-01-30 · I Am Not A Pornographer · John, 3 named — John tells those who say teens lack critical sophistication to stop condescending: readers of Animal Farm or Huck Finn don't take them literally (Godot, he jokes, doesn't help). (00:02:48)
    1 Animal Farm · 2 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · 3 Waiting for Godot

  • 2008-04-21 · Belated Book-tacular Questions · John, 2 named (joke) — Belated Question Tuesday: rapid answers to book questions (Paper Towns, favorite books, authors, poets, last words, Looking for Alaska ban, Catcher, Hamlet) (00:00:53)
    1 E. Lockhart · 2 Libba Bray

  • 2008-07-01 · Live from LAX · John, 2 named — Signing Looking for Alaska and An Abundance of Katherines, John met one sweet-looking old lady who loved the first half of Looking for Alaska but said the second half fell apart. (00:01:12)
    1 Looking for Alaska (novel) · 2 An Abundance of Katherines

  • 2008-07-08 · Hank Tried to Kill Me With a Hammer · John, 2 named — John jokes his own books are the best inspiration, then says that once you finish a book 'they' want the pale basement-dwelling writer to become a selling machine, though he only wants to stay home, make videos, eat Peeps and hang out with Willy. (00:01:12)
    1 Peeps · 2 Willy

  • 2008-07-22 · OMFG CATCHER IN THE RYE!!! · John, 3 named — John says Catcher is Salinger's most famous work, but he also published Franny and Zooey, Nine Stories and a book holding Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction. (00:00:00)
    1 Franny and Zooey · 2 Nine Stories · 3 Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

  • 2008-07-22 · OMFG CATCHER IN THE RYE!!! · John, 2 named (joke) — Reading schedule (first half by next Tuesday) and things to watch: unlikable Holden, the red hunting cap, the two Holdens (00:02:14)
    1 Lisa Donovan · 2 Smosh

  • 2008-07-30 · Audiobooks and 8 8 08 · John, 4 named — Because the day coincides with the Harry Potter conference Terminus, John says special guests will come: Secret Brother Adam, Secret Sister Rosianna, some of the Five Awesome Girls and Guys, and a surprise guest. (00:00:25)
    1 Adam · 2 Rosianna Halse Rojas · 3 Five Awesome Girls · 4 Five Awesome Guys

  • 2008-08-26 · The Catcher in the Rye, Part 2 · John, 3 named — Spoiler joke; the second-half topics John had planned (innocence vs experience, the red hunting cap, the ducks, the museum, the carousel) (00:00:00)
    1 Central Park · 2 American Museum of Natural History · 3 Phoebe Caulfield

  • 2008-09-04 · Paper Towns Tour Dates! · John, 12 named — John announces the Paper Towns tour stops from October 17 to 30: Boston, Indianapolis, Columbus, Atlanta, Miami, Orlando, Chicago suburbs and city, Phoenix, Seattle, San Francisco, and a Nerdfighter Halloween party in Los Angeles. (00:01:12)
    1 New York City · 2 Boston · 3 Indianapolis · 4 Columbus, Ohio · 5 Atlanta · 6 Miami · 7 Orlando, Florida · 8 Chicago (city) · 9 Phoenix, Arizona · 10 Seattle · 11 San Francisco · 12 Los Angeles

  • 2008-09-23 · Paper Towns and Touring Question Tuesday · John, 4 named — Paper Towns out in 22 days; John stressed, the puff; Question Tuesday: release date October 16 (00:00:00)
    1 Dallas · 2 Washington, DC · 3 Tucson, Arizona · 4 Tempe, Arizona

  • 2008-09-23 · Paper Towns and Touring Question Tuesday · John, 29 named — The cities the tour is definitely going to, recited fast; events free, few tickets (00:01:41)
    1 New York City · 2 Boston · 3 Indianapolis · 4 Columbus, Ohio · 5 Atlanta · 6 Orlando, Florida · 7 Miami · 8 Naperville, Illinois · 9 Chicago (city) · 10 Phoenix, Arizona · 11 Seattle · 12 San Francisco · 13 Los Angeles · 14 Plano, Texas · 15 Oklahoma City · 16 St. Louis · 17 Louisville, Kentucky · 18 Knoxville, Tennessee · 19 Gadsden, Alabama · 20 Newport News, Virginia · 21 Charlottesville, Virginia · 22 Lancaster, Pennsylvania · 23 Westport, Connecticut · 24 Pittsburgh · 25 Ann Arbor, Michigan · 26 Racine, Wisconsin · 27 Ames, Iowa · 28 Kansas City, Missouri · 29 Minneapolis–Saint Paul “the Twin Cities”

  • 2008-09-25 · Obama llama Duck · Hank, 4 named — Hank says he and John, still following the presidential campaigns, are both taking part in YA for Obama, where authors for young people write why they are voting for Obama. (00:02:41)
    1 Maureen Johnson · 2 Judy Blume · 3 Libba Bray · 4 Cory Doctorow

  • 2008-10-17 · Vital Status Report from NYC · John, 5 named — John reports from the Paper Towns release party with Liane from the Five Awesome Girls, his agent Jodi, Hank's wife Katherine, and Alex and Charlie from London. (00:00:00)
    1 Liane Graham “Leigh-Anne” · 2 Jodi Reamer “Jodie” · 3 Katherine Green “Catherine” · 4 Alex Day · 5 Charlie McDonnell

  • 2008-10-21 · Travel Tips, Delivered Hoarsely · John, 4 named — Later this week (week of 20 October 2008) John will be in Atlanta, where the show starts at 6, not 6:30 (people should probably come early), then Miami, Orlando and Naperville. (00:01:02)
    1 Atlanta · 2 Miami · 3 Orlando, Florida · 4 Naperville, Illinois

  • 2008-10-22 · Punish Hank? Save Hank? YOU DECIDE. · John, 4 named — Vero Beach High School nerdfighters gave John every item Lacey, Ben, Q and Radar pick up at their first BP stop in Paper Towns, including Nerds; he says it is no spoiler. (00:01:24)
    1 Lacey Pemberton · 2 Ben Starling · 3 Quentin Jacobsen · 4 Radar

  • 2008-10-22 · Punish Hank? Save Hank? YOU DECIDE. · John, 3 named — John hopes to see nerdfighters tonight in Miami, tomorrow in Orlando or on Friday in Naperville, Illinois. (00:03:43)
    1 Miami · 2 Orlando, Florida · 3 Naperville, Illinois

2009

  • 2009-02-10 · Paper Towns Tastic Question Tuesday · John, 4 named — John says Paper Towns is about Margo Roth Spiegelman, her next-door neighbour Q, the state of Florida and Walt Whitman. (00:00:00)
    1 Margo Roth Spiegelman · 2 Quentin Jacobsen · 3 Florida · 4 Walt Whitman

  • 2009-02-10 · Paper Towns Tastic Question Tuesday · John, 2 named — The Paper Towns movie rights were acquired by Mr. Mudd and Mandate, the people behind Juno. (00:00:00)
    1 Mr. Mudd · 2 Mandate Pictures

  • 2009-04-28 · 10 Book Reviews in 4 Minutes · Hank, 9 named (1 unnamed item) — Lost camera cord, ten quick reviews: Les Misérables, Hyperion, Le Guin's Powers trilogy (00:00:00)
    1 Les Misérables · 2 Hyperion · 3 Annals of the Western Shore “Powers Trilogy” · … · 5 InterWorld · 6 The Ringworld Throne · 7 The Truth · 8 Sorcery and Cecilia · 9 The Bermudez Triangle · 10 This Is Not Tom

  • 2009-04-28 · 10 Book Reviews in 4 Minutes · Hank, 3 named — Hank says John, bestselling author of Paper Towns, Looking for Alaska and An Abundance of Katherines, is writing another book, This Is Not Tom, released through weekly riddles. (00:02:38)
    1 Paper Towns · 2 Looking for Alaska (novel) · 3 An Abundance of Katherines

  • 2009-07-22 · Truth or Fail with John! Famous Authors Edition · John, 2 named — Truth or Fail literary edition: rules; Tennessee Williams bottle cap vs Edna St. Vincent Millay died a virgin (00:00:00)
    1 Tennessee Williams · 2 Edna St. Vincent Millay

  • 2009-07-26 · Volunteering (In Your Pants) · John, 9 named (playful) — The 'in your pants' rule, found with Maureen Johnson: book titles plus 'in your pants' (00:00:37)
    1 The Key to the Golden Firebird · 2 Everything That Rises Must Converge · 3 The Forgotten Man · 4 The Man Who Ate Everything · 5 The Sun Also Rises · 6 A Spot of Bother · 7 The Neverending Story · 8 Rabbit at Rest · 9 Funny Little Monkey

  • 2009-08-21 · Truth or Fail: John Green Books · John, 2 named — Truth or Fail, John Green books edition: rules, unicorn-head gags; last words of John Sedgwick vs Emily Dickinson (00:00:29)
    1 John Sedgwick · 2 Emily Dickinson

  • 2009-09-01 · I AM COMPUTER MAN!!! · Hank, 3 named — Studio versions of Mules Are So Half-Ass and the Demolition Derby song; new books: Bicycle Diaries, HotForWords' book, Geektastic (00:00:47)
    1 Bicycle Diaries · 2 Marina Orlova “Hot for Words' book” · 3 Geektastic

  • 2009-09-08 · My Puppy's SECRET SHAME (and Paper Towns) · John, 2 named — To celebrate, John will give away one Paper Towns paperback a day for 14 days to his favourite 10-word comment on YouTube or the Ning. (00:01:36)
    1 YouTube · 2 Nerdfighter Ning

  • 2009-09-08 · My Puppy's SECRET SHAME (and Paper Towns) · John, 2 named — John says the Paper Towns movie rights were acquired by Mr. Mudd and Mandate (makers of Juno); he wrote the first screenplay draft and is starting the first big revision. (00:02:08)
    1 Mr. Mudd · 2 Mandate Pictures

  • 2009-09-23 · Where's Margo! A Nerdfighter Event! · Hank, 12 named (playful, 1 unnamed item) — The song lists places where Margo was photographed, from Hawaii, Pisa and Disneyland to Kyoto, '19th century Croatia' and Florence. (00:02:15)
    1 Hawaii · 2 Pisa · 3 Disneyland · 4 Washington, DC · 5 Israel · 6 Hong Kong · 7 Skullbone, Tennessee · 8 Hollywood · 9 Kyoto · 10 Croatia · … · 12 Switzerland · 13 Florence

  • 2009-10-20 · The Bella Twins Like Paper Towns · John, 3 named — John announces that Paper Towns won the Teens' Top Ten vote, beating great books like The Hunger Games, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks and the last Twilight book. (00:00:00)
    1 The Hunger Games (book series) · 2 The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks · 3 Twilight

2010

  • 2010-02-03 · Win The Awesomest Prizes EVAR! · Hank, 3 named (playful) — Hank says the goal is $105,000, enough for three cargo planes to be named Ron, Harry and Hermione, and asks viewers at least to check out the prize list. (00:03:00)
    1 Ron Weasley · 2 Harry Potter (character, “Harry Potter”) · 3 Hermione Granger

  • 2010-02-10 · HOW TO GET AN AGENT · Maureen Johnson, 3 named — Relaying her agent, Maureen says not to claim your book will be a big movie or the next Twilight, Harry Potter or Wimpy Kid: it is presumptuous and seems arrogant; agents want a clear letter about the story. (00:02:31)
    1 Twilight · 2 Harry Potter (book series) · 3 Diary of a Wimpy Kid

  • 2010-03-10 · New Tour! New Book! (Remember Books?) Your Q's A'ed! · John, 8 named — John will be in Indianapolis on March 15 talking about vlogging, then on tour in April in Chicago, Boulder, Austin, New York City, Madison (Connecticut), LA and San Francisco. (00:00:29)
    1 Indianapolis · 2 Chicago (city) · 3 Boulder, Colorado · 4 Austin, Texas · 5 New York City · 6 Madison, Connecticut · 7 Los Angeles “LA” · 8 San Francisco

  • 2010-05-14 · Advice on First Kisses, Stalkers, College Majors, and More · John, 2 named — John says his co-author David Levithan is on tour in Australia and New Zealand right now. (00:01:53)
    1 Australia · 2 New Zealand

  • 2010-06-11 · Mmmm....PARTS · John, 4 named — John's new website, JohnGreenBooks.com, lists forthcoming Nerdfighter gatherings and other events, in places like Washington, D.C., Munich, Edinburgh and London. (00:02:17)
    1 Washington, DC · 2 Munich · 3 Edinburgh · 4 London

  • 2010-06-25 · Book Nerd PARADISE · John, 5 named — John gets to meet authors he likes: Nina LaCour, the authors of Beautiful Creatures, Lauren Oliver, Maryrose Wood and Diana Peterfreund. (00:00:00)
    1 Nina LaCour · 2 Beautiful Creatures · 3 Lauren Oliver · 4 Maryrose Wood · 5 Diana Peterfreund

  • 2010-08-16 · Lust and Folly in London and Edinburgh · John, 3 named — With his secret sister Rosianna, John went to an East End basement club to read while three musicians, including Tom Milsom and Alex Day, played. (00:01:12)
    1 Ed Blann “Ed Plant” · 2 Tom Milsom · 3 Alex Day

  • 2010-09-20 · Life Is Like Pizza · John, 3 named (1 unnamed item) — John says we all want to be on the inside of our communities (Ireland, the US, a clique, Nerdfighteria), and whether insiders need outsiders is a hard question Ulysses explores. (00:01:39)
    1 Ireland · 2 United States · … · 4 Nerdfighteria

  • 2010-11-01 · Consider the Lemming · John, 2 named — November 1: NaNoWriMo begins; John does NAFADOYBIMSCOM instead; viewers' 'you should be my teacher' comments (00:00:00)
    1 quark · 2 The Catcher in the Rye

  • 2010-12-13 · 8 Things I Love · John, 7 named (1 unnamed item) — Thing 1: Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins, a Nerdfighter John met at LeakyCon (00:00:15)
    1 Anna and the French Kiss · 2 Karen Kavett · 3 The Beckoning of Lovely · … · 5 Charlie McDonnell · 6 Willy “white dog” · 7 Vi Hart · 8 Napoleon

2011

  • 2011-02-28 · Harry Baals & Dick Trickle: The Funniest Names in History · John, 2 named — John says Eileen (Ilene) Cooper is the reason he is an author; she is an author herself, of books like Sam I Am and The Golden Rule. (00:00:00)
    1 Sam I Am · 2 The Golden Rule

  • 2011-06-06 · Men Running on Tanks and the Truth about Book Editors · John, 2 named — John notes that The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises were edited by the same man. (00:03:29)
    1 The Great Gatsby · 2 The Sun Also Rises

  • 2011-07-08 · Kill the Dollar Bill! · John, 2 named — John thanks Nerdfighters for continuing to make The Fault in Our Stars a bestseller on Amazon and Barnes & Noble: 'you're made of awesome'. (00:02:32)
    1 Amazon · 2 Barnes & Noble

  • 2011-07-18 · Gatsby's American Dream: Reading The Great Gatsby Critically, Chapter 1 · John, 3 named — John says Gatsby's essential trait, shared by later romantic leads like Edward Cullen and Miles Halter, is an extraordinary gift for hope: the creepy belief that getting their dream will make them happy. (00:01:56)
    1 Edward Cullen · 2 The Notebook · 3 Miles Halter

  • 2011-07-27 · 150,000 Autographs · John, 4 named — John announces that all pre-orders of The Fault in Our Stars, wherever buyers live (the US, the UK, Canada, Malaysia), will be signed, and promises to get it done. (00:02:45)
    1 United States “the US” · 2 United Kingdom “the UK” · 3 Canada · 4 Malaysia

  • 2011-08-26 · Will He Kiss You? Am I a Muggle? It's Question Friday. · John, 2 named — John says all pre-orders of The Fault in Our Stars will be signed, wherever ordered (Amazon UK, England, Canada); the whole first printing is being signed, but only pre-orders are guaranteed. (00:01:21)
    1 England · 2 Canada

  • 2011-08-31 · How to Become An Adult · John, 3 named — John says Booklist colleague Ilene Cooper, author of 20+ children's books, agreed over lunch at the Cheesecake Factory that his vague boarding-school novel idea sounded great. (00:02:03)
    1 The Golden Rule · 2 John F. Kennedy “JFK” · 3 Angel in My Pocket

  • 2011-09-16 · Narrowly Avoiding Arrest: Some Airport Insanity · John, 4 named — John tells Hank he has just been greeted by Josh Lewis, Holly Black, Cassie Clare and Maureen Johnson. (00:00:02)
    1 Josh Lewis · 2 Holly Black · 3 Cassandra Clare · 4 Maureen Johnson

  • 2011-10-19 · Question Wed — THE COVER OF THE FAULT IN OUR STARS! · John, 4 named — The cover was designed by Rodrigo Corral, John's favourite book designer, who designed the covers of Oscar Wao, Super Sad True Love Story, The Glass Castle and The Marriage Plot; John is grateful and in love with it. (00:00:30)
    1 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao · 2 Super Sad True Love Story · 3 The Glass Castle · 4 The Marriage Plot

  • 2011-12-05 · 5 Worst Typos of History · John, 3 named — John notes the book's back cover carries quotes from Markus Zusak, Jodi Picoult and E. Lockhart; Zusak calls it John Green at his best. (00:00:12)
    1 Markus Zusak · 2 Jodi Picoult · 3 E. Lockhart

  • 2011-12-09 · Puppies and The Tour de Nerdfighting 2012 · John, 16 named — In one take John lists the stops: Boston, New York, Washington DC, Raleigh, Atlanta, Birmingham, New Orleans, Houston, Austin, Albuquerque, Tempe, Santa Monica, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Vancouver. (00:00:00)
    1 Boston · 2 New York City · 3 Washington, DC · 4 Raleigh, North Carolina · 5 Atlanta · 6 Birmingham, Alabama · 7 New Orleans · 8 Houston, Texas · 9 Austin, Texas · 10 Albuquerque, New Mexico · 11 Tempe, Arizona · 12 Santa Monica, California · 13 San Francisco · 14 Portland, Oregon · 15 Seattle · 16 Vancouver

  • 2011-12-09 · Puppies and The Tour de Nerdfighting 2012 · John, 2 named — John says they are working with some of the best independent bookstores in the world, from Politics and Prose to Powell's, and want to support them. (00:01:15)
    1 Politics and Prose · 2 Powell's Books

  • 2011-12-19 · Sharpie Face and Little Hank: The Project for Awesome's Aftermath · John, 5 named — Tour de Nerdfighting updates are in the doobly-doo: shows in Vancouver, Boston, New York, Portland and Raleigh are sold out, but tickets remain in many cities. (00:01:56)
    1 Vancouver · 2 Boston · 3 New York City · 4 Portland, Oregon · 5 Raleigh, North Carolina

2012

  • 2012-01-10 · The Fault in Our Stars · John, 7 named — John says Tour de Nerdfighting tickets remain only near New Orleans, Houston, Austin, Phoenix, Albuquerque, Seattle and San Francisco, with ticket info in the description. (00:02:33)
    1 New Orleans · 2 Houston, Texas · 3 Austin, Texas · 4 Phoenix, Arizona · 5 Albuquerque, New Mexico · 6 Seattle · 7 San Francisco

  • 2012-01-31 · How It Felt · John, 2 named — John says the three weeks were like the internet became IRL: fun, clever, crowded, good to be a nerd, with talk of Sherlock and Doctor Who and singing of songs about particle physics. (00:00:01)
    1 Sherlock · 2 Doctor Who

  • 2012-02-14 · Things I Can Do · John, 2 named — 2: reading 50 books in 2012; recommends The Art of Fielding and Jennifer Smith's The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight (00:00:29)
    1 The Art of Fielding · 2 The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

  • 2012-06-05 · The Dangling Rope of Terror: It's Question Tuesday · John, 2 named (joke) — Casting nerdfighters in a Fault in Our Stars movie: John will have no say (00:02:41)
    1 Jennifer Lopez · 2 Hugh Grant

  • 2012-06-12 · Chris Colfer, John Green, Mob Wives, and Jeffrey Eugenides: Thoughts from Places Book Expo · John, 3 named — John says at BEA the world treats books the way it usually treats iPads: a mad dash for advance copies, a staircase devoted to Cassandra Clare, banners for Libba Bray's new book. (00:00:29)
    1 Cassandra Clare · 2 Libba Bray · 3 The Fault in Our Stars

  • 2012-06-12 · Chris Colfer, John Green, Mob Wives, and Jeffrey Eugenides: Thoughts from Places Book Expo · John, 3 named — John gave speeches, one alongside Lois Lowry, Kadir Nelson and Golden Globe winner Chris Colfer, whom he found extraordinarily nice, generous and quick-witted. (00:00:58)
    1 Lois Lowry · 2 Kadir Nelson · 3 Chris Colfer

  • 2012-06-12 · Chris Colfer, John Green, Mob Wives, and Jeffrey Eugenides: Thoughts from Places Book Expo · John, 6 named — After dinner John ended up at a skyscraper-top party with Chris Colfer, Tony Danza, John Hodgman, SNL cast members, reality-TV housewives, a mob wife, and writer Darin Strauss. (00:01:56)
    1 Tony Danza · 2 John Hodgman · 3 Saturday Night Live “SNL” · 4 The Real Housewives · 5 Mob Wives · 6 Darin Strauss

  • 2012-09-18 · Existential Airport Anxiety · John, 3 named — Recalling Montag's line about walls yelling at him, John says we literally live in a world of shouty walls, and his phone holds billions of voices on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook. (00:01:01)
    1 Twitter · 2 Tumblr · 3 Facebook

  • 2012-09-18 · Existential Airport Anxiety · John, 2 named — John says this is not a call to prefer Beethoven to the Mountain Goats, noting Bradbury wrote in science fiction, a genre not traditionally associated with high-culture ideas. (00:02:00)
    1 Ludwig van Beethoven · 2 The Mountain Goats

  • 2012-11-13 · I Was a Child Poet. And a Bad One. · John, 2 named — John announces that Amazon.com named The Fault in Our Stars one of the ten best books of 2012 overall, not just for teenagers, right behind Dave Eggers and ahead of Junot Díaz. (00:00:13)
    1 Dave Eggers · 2 Junot Díaz

  • 2012-11-13 · I Was a Child Poet. And a Bad One. · John, 2 named — John is greatly honored and psyched to share a room with manuscripts like A Wrinkle in Time and Peter Rabbit. (00:03:19)
    1 A Wrinkle in Time · 2 The Tale of Peter Rabbit

  • 2012-11-20 · Great at Being Terrible: The Florence Foster Jenkins Story · John, 3 named (playful) — They will try to put on Carnegie Hall's greatest show, though with Richard Pryor, Andy Kaufman and Billie Holiday as competition they aim only to beat Jenkins. (00:02:01)
    1 Richard Pryor · 2 Andy Kaufman · 3 Billie Holiday

  • 2012-11-27 · Nerdfighter Book Recommendations: A Gift Giving Guide for Nerdfightastic Readers · John, 24 named — Recommendations: The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber (Swoodilypooper fans), Behind the Beautiful Forevers (world-suck fighters) (00:00:29)
    1 The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber · 2 Behind the Beautiful Forevers · 3 Sula · 4 Mansfield Park · 5 Persuasion · 6 The Blood of the Lamb · 7 Uglies “Ugly Series” · 8 Matched “Match series” · 9 Divergent · 10 Telegraph Avenue · 11 Bossypants · 12 The Magicians · 13 Harry, A History · 14 The Art of Fielding · 15 The Book Thief · 16 Wolf Hall · 17 The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing · 18 The Emperor of All Maladies · 19 The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks · 20 Everybody Sees the Ants · 21 If I Stay · 22 To Say Nothing of the Dog · 23 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes · 24 P. D. James

  • 2012-11-27 · Nerdfighter Book Recommendations: A Gift Giving Guide for Nerdfightastic Readers · John, 4 named — John says no gift has lasted as long as books, showing Ship Breaker from Hank, The Human Stain from Sarah early in their dating, Microserfs from Dad (Christmas 1997) and Where the Red Fern Grows from Mom (age 10). (00:03:24)
    1 Ship Breaker · 2 The Human Stain · 3 Microserfs “Microsurfs” · 4 Where the Red Fern Grows

  • 2012-12-04 · Time for AWESOME · John, 4 named — John says Time Magazine has just named The Fault in Our Stars first on its list of the top ten novels of 2012, ahead of Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith, Junot Diaz and J.K. Rowling, and he is overwhelmed. (00:00:00)
    1 Hilary Mantel · 2 Zadie Smith · 3 Junot Díaz · 4 J. K. Rowling

2013

2014

  • 2014-01-28 · Question Tuesday! TFIOS Movie Trailer, Penguin Knees, and Backflips · John, 9 named (joke) — Casting US presidents as TFIOS film characters (00:02:13)
    1 Barack Obama · 2 Thomas Jefferson · 3 Millard Fillmore · 4 James K. Polk · 5 Andrew Johnson · 6 Ulysses S. Grant · 7 Jimmy Carter · 8 Martin Van Buren · 9 Ronald Reagan

  • 2014-01-28 · Question Tuesday! TFIOS Movie Trailer, Penguin Knees, and Backflips · John, 5 named (joke) — Asked which US presidents should play TFIOS film characters, John casts the whole film, e.g. Obama as Gus, Jefferson as Hazel, Andrew Johnson as Van Houten, Carter as Patrick. (00:02:27)
    1 Augustus Waters · 2 Hazel Grace Lancaster · 3 Peter Van Houten · 4 Isaac (character, “The Fault in Our Stars”) · 5 Patrick (character, “The Fault in Our Stars”)

  • 2014-01-31 · In Depth Viewing of the TFiOS Trailer · Hank, 3 named — Hank lists TFIOS landmarks in the trailer: the Anne Frank House, a bridge where John once stared at viewers, the Literal Heart of Jesus and the 'vaguely paedophilic swing'. (00:03:12)
    1 Anne Frank House · 2 Literal Heart of Jesus · 3 vaguely pedophilic swing set

  • 2014-02-18 · 18 Great Books You Probably Haven't Read · John, 19 named — 18 recommended books: sports, conjoined twins, funny books, YA, picture books, classics, political prisoners, the Carter Family (00:00:23)
    1 This Bloody Mary Is the Last Thing I Own · 2 One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal · 3 Round Ireland with a Fridge · 4 Playing the Moldovans at Tennis · 5 The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green · 6 Thirsty · 7 Boy Proof · 8 Fly on the Wall · 9 The Untelling · 10 The Golden Rule · 11 Show Way · 12 The Enormous Room · 13 Regarding the Pain of Others · 14 Death Comes for the Archbishop · 15 This Blinding Absence of Light · 16 Kendra · 17 The Optimist's Daughter · 18 Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music · 19 The Last Summer of Reason

  • 2014-03-28 · New Album, New Channels, New Fabric, New Internet Thing! · Hank, 3 named — Hank, who loves personal book recommendations, proposes Reviewsday Tuesday: every Tuesday people photograph a book and review it on Instagram, Tumblr or Twitter. (00:03:18)
    1 Instagram · 2 Tumblr · 3 Twitter

  • 2014-04-08 · I Don't Even Know · John, 3 named — John says next month (May 2014) he goes on a brief tour with Nat Wolff, Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort, who play Isaac, Hazel and Gus in the TFIOS movie. (00:00:01)
    1 Nat Wolff · 2 Shailene Woodley · 3 Ansel Elgort

  • 2014-04-08 · I Don't Even Know · John, 3 named — John says next month (May 2014) he goes on a brief tour with Nat Wolff, Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort, who play Isaac, Hazel and Gus in the TFIOS movie. (00:00:04)
    1 Isaac (character, “The Fault in Our Stars”) · 2 Hazel Grace Lancaster · 3 Augustus Waters

  • 2014-04-15 · Walking the Red Carpet: Thoughts from Los Angeles · John, 3 named — Before going on stage for book events, John reminds himself of his many readings attended by zero to three people and gives thanks for Brotherhood 2.0, Nerdfighteria and Hank. (00:00:46)
    1 Brotherhood 2.0 · 2 Nerdfighteria · 3 Hank Green

  • 2014-04-15 · Walking the Red Carpet: Thoughts from Los Angeles · John, 2 named — John says the red carpet, shared with Jonah Hill and Grumpy Cat, was overwhelming: the screaming and cameras left him and Nat unable to 'even'. (00:02:10)
    1 Jonah Hill · 2 Grumpy Cat

  • 2014-04-29 · Influence, Airports, and the Nerdfighter Book Club · John, 4 named — John calls it an unearned honor: he can name several thousand more influential people who did not make the Time 100, such as Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Laverne Cox and Ai Weiwei. (00:00:26)
    1 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf · 2 Laverne Cox · 3 Ai Weiwei · 4 François Hollande

  • 2014-04-29 · Influence, Airports, and the Nerdfighter Book Club · John, 2 named (playful) — Time names John one of the 100 most influential people; an unearned honour, more influential people, the party, the teen whisperer label (00:00:51)
    1 Vladimir Putin · 2 Kim Il Sung

  • 2014-05-06 · TFIOS Movie Madness, Incongruent, and Headless Hotel People · John, 3 named — Starting today John tours with Shailene, Ansel and Nat; it is Fox's free tour, he has no idea what will happen, and doors open at 5 with the show around 6:30. (00:02:23)
    1 Shailene Woodley · 2 Ansel Elgort · 3 Nat Wolff

  • 2014-05-06 · TFIOS Movie Madness, Incongruent, and Headless Hotel People · John, 9 named — John lists the tour stops: Miami's Dolphin Mall today, Cleveland's Tower City Center Wednesday, Nashville's War Memorial Auditorium Thursday, and Dallas's South Side Ballroom at Gilley's on Friday, May 9. (00:02:36)
    1 Miami · 2 Dolphin Mall · 3 Cleveland · 4 Tower City Center · 5 Nashville · 6 War Memorial Auditorium (Nashville) · 7 Tennessee Performing Arts Center · 8 Dallas · 9 Gilley's Dallas

  • 2014-05-12 · Perfect Puff and Endless Interviews: Touring and Hollywood Press Junkets · John, 3 named — John tells Hank he has just finished Fox's tour for the TFIOS film with Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort and Nat Wolff. (00:00:08)
    1 Shailene Woodley · 2 Ansel Elgort · 3 Nat Wolff

  • 2014-05-20 · Deserving · John, 2 named — John recommends two books he really likes: Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour and The Great Greene Heist by Varian Johnson, both excellent. (00:03:30)
    1 Everything Leads to You · 2 The Great Greene Heist

  • 2014-05-30 · Nerdfighteria Census 2014 Results! · Hank, 5 named — Hank announces The Night Before Our Stars: US-only screenings (not everywhere, not Missoula) on June 5, the day before release, then a livestream with John, Nat Wolff, Ansel Elgort, Shailene Woodley and Josh Boone. (00:03:21)
    1 John Green · 2 Nat Wolff · 3 Ansel Elgort · 4 Shailene Woodley · 5 Josh Boone

  • 2014-06-03 · The Fault in Our Stars Movie Premiere · video description, 2 named —
    1 Ansel Elgort · 2 Sam Trammell

  • 2014-06-06 · Thoughts from the TFiOS Premiere! · Hank, 2 named — Hank kept seeing hidden systems on display in New York: a Uniqlo escalator with a side window showing its workings, and the Museum of Modern Art Design store. (00:02:14)
    1 Uniqlo · 2 Museum of Modern Art

  • 2014-06-06 · Thoughts from the TFiOS Premiere! · Hank, 2 named — Hank admits feeling overwhelmed: afraid of missing opportunities, of not making sense to the New Yorker or the Wall Street Journal, and worried about all the external attention. (00:03:05)
    1 The New Yorker · 2 The Wall Street Journal

  • 2014-11-04 · Mustaches and Movies: Day One of Paper Towns · John, 2 named — John shows his own trailer with Hollywood lights, says he loves being an executive producer, jokes he is available for the new Divergent movie, and says he misses Shailene and Ansel. (00:02:32)
    1 Shailene Woodley · 2 Ansel Elgort

  • 2014-11-17 · Combines and Movie Magic: Pizzamas Day 6 · John, 3 named — John: most of his time on set is spent listening to Nat, Justice and Austin joke between takes, watching the monitors and hearing post-take discussions of size and lighting. (00:01:04)
    1 Nat Wolff · 2 Justice Smith · 3 Austin Abrams

  • 2014-11-21 · The Sleepiest Sleepyhead in Sleeptown · John, 3 named — John: the Fox lot has a statue of Napoleon Dynamite and murals of The Simpsons and Star Wars, and joining that company is pretty wonderful. (00:02:42)
    1 Napoleon Dynamite · 2 The Simpsons · 3 Star Wars

2015

  • 2015-03-10 · Travel Tips (and Paper Towns Movie Updates) · John, 2 named — John announces that Scott Neustadter and Mike Weber, who wrote The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns, will write the Looking for Alaska script. (00:01:09)
    1 Scott Neustadter · 2 Michael H. Weber

  • 2015-05-26 · Sixteen Parts · John, 2 named — The Paper Towns film comes out in about 56 days in the US, at different times elsewhere; John will travel to support the release, at least to Brazil and the UK and probably other places. (00:03:08)
    1 Brazil · 2 United Kingdom

  • 2015-06-08 · Monday Bonus Video! · John, 3 named — Next week (week of 15 June 2015) John tours Europe with his wife and friends: a sold-out Berlin event on Tuesday June 16, meeting people outside a Paris bookstore Wednesday, London on Thursday (place and time to be determined). (00:00:11)
    1 Berlin · 2 Paris · 3 London

  • 2015-06-08 · Monday Bonus Video! · John, 2 named — John, Nat and Cara will tour the US in July, visiting the states with the most votes at papertownsmovie.com/tour, where one Tumblr like or reblog counts as one vote, until June 15. (00:01:10)
    1 Nat Wolff · 2 Cara Delevingne

  • 2015-06-08 · Monday Bonus Video! · John, 2 named (playful) — John admits he is rooting for Indiana and Montana but will accept any other outcome. (00:01:32)
    1 Indiana · 2 Montana

  • 2015-06-30 · Some News · John, 3 named — John says he, Cara Delevingne, Nat Wolff and Halston Sage will tour the US before the Paper Towns film comes out, in the states that won a Tumblr vote: Ohio, Texas and Indiana. (00:00:41)
    1 Cara Delevingne · 2 Nat Wolff · 3 Halston Sage

  • 2015-06-30 · Some News · John, 3 named — John says he, Cara Delevingne, Nat Wolff and Halston Sage will tour the US before the Paper Towns film comes out, in the states that won a Tumblr vote: Ohio, Texas and Indiana. (00:00:47)
    1 Ohio · 2 Texas · 3 Indiana

  • 2015-06-30 · Some News · John, 3 named — The tour stops are Indianapolis on July 14th, Columbus, Ohio on July 15th and Dallas, Texas on July 16th; all events are free. (00:01:06)
    1 Indianapolis · 2 Columbus, Ohio · 3 Dallas

  • 2015-06-30 · Some News · John, 2 named — Weber and Neustadter, screenwriters of the TFIOS and Paper Towns films, have written a Looking for Alaska script, and Becca Thomas, director of Electric Children, has been hired to direct, so the film will probably happen. (00:02:58)
    1 Michael H. Weber · 2 Scott Neustadter

  • 2015-07-14 · On Exhaustion · John, 3 named — John will be in Indianapolis the next day for the start of the Paper Towns tour with Nat, Cara, Akilah Hughes and Nerdfighters, then Columbus and Dallas; events are free, details in the doobly-doo. (00:00:45)
    1 Indianapolis · 2 Columbus, Ohio · 3 Dallas

  • 2015-07-14 · On Exhaustion · John, 4 named — John will be in Indianapolis the next day for the start of the Paper Towns tour with Nat, Cara, Akilah Hughes and Nerdfighters, then Columbus and Dallas; events are free, details in the doobly-doo. (00:00:50)
    1 Nat Wolff · 2 Cara Delevingne · 3 Akilah Hughes · 4 Nerdfighteria “Nerdfighters”

  • 2015-07-21 · PAPER TOWNS IS HERE AND JOHN IS A BALL OF ANXIETY · John, 2 named — John says the movie comes out Friday, July 24th, with a special screening on Thursday at many theaters around the US and Canada. (00:00:52)
    1 United States “the US” · 2 Canada

  • 2015-07-21 · PAPER TOWNS IS HERE AND JOHN IS A BALL OF ANXIETY · John, 2 named — Correcting himself, John says the movie is already out in Brazil, Australia and elsewhere, critics have seen it and reviews are great; Variety said it was better than The Fault in Our Stars. (00:01:27)
    1 Brazil · 2 Australia

  • 2015-07-28 · Paper Towns, Agloe, and Touring: Thoughts from (Many) Places · John, 2 named — In a very hot Dallas John met hosts Gabby and Allison from Just Between Us, heard Saint Motel and met an awesome crowd, then flew to LA. (00:03:13)
    1 Gaby Dunn “Gabby” · 2 Allison Raskin

  • 2015-08-18 · The Cold War of Nerdfighteria · John, 3 named — Voiceover recommendations: Between the World and Me, The Bail Trap, a NYT article on a 14-year-old in solitary, a puppy GIF (00:00:14)
    1 Between the World and Me · 2 The Bail Trap · 3 New York Times article about a 14-year-old boy in solitary confinement

  • 2015-10-30 · Feeling Thankful in Portland · Hank, 3 named — Hank says the Welcome to Night Vale creators' book just came out and debuted at number four on the NYT list, number four because Sparks, Rowling and Grisham had new books. (00:00:26)
    1 Nicholas Sparks · 2 J. K. Rowling · 3 John Grisham

  • 2015-10-30 · Feeling Thankful in Portland · Hank, 2 named — Hank says the Welcome to Night Vale creators' book just came out and debuted at number four on the NYT list, number four because Sparks, Rowling and Grisham had new books. (00:00:31)
    1 Joseph Fink · 2 Jeffrey Cranor

  • 2015-12-01 · John's Book Giving Guide for the Holidays! · John, 2 named — Recommended to everyone: Between the World and Me; The White Boy Shuffle (00:00:19)
    1 Between the World and Me · 2 The White Boy Shuffle

  • 2015-12-01 · John's Book Giving Guide for the Holidays! · John, 2 named — For readers who think they hate classics, John recommends Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop and Alice Walker's The Color Purple as captivating and moving despite being taught in schools. (00:00:42)
    1 Death Comes for the Archbishop · 2 The Color Purple

  • 2015-12-01 · John's Book Giving Guide for the Holidays! · John, 2 named — Classics for classic-haters; graphic novels (Are You My Mother?, City of Clowns); the Beauty From Ashes flask gag (00:00:52)
    1 Are You My Mother? · 2 City of Clowns

  • 2015-12-01 · John's Book Giving Guide for the Holidays! · John, 2 named — For science-fiction fans John recommends Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber, set in a world colonized by Caribbean people; he has just started her story collection Falling in Love with Hominids. (00:01:59)
    1 Midnight Robber · 2 Falling in Love with Hominids

  • 2015-12-01 · John's Book Giving Guide for the Holidays! · John, 2 named — On art and being an artist, John and Sarah both love Rachel Kushner's The Flamethrowers and Patti Smith's Just Kids. (00:02:11)
    1 The Flamethrowers · 2 Just Kids

  • 2015-12-01 · John's Book Giving Guide for the Holidays! · John, 2 named — For poetry John recommends Mary Oliver's A Thousand Mornings and Louise Glück's Faithful and Virtuous Night (unsure how to say her name): precise, profound, never pretentious. (00:02:41)
    1 A Thousand Mornings · 2 Faithful and Virtuous Night

  • 2015-12-01 · John's Book Giving Guide for the Holidays! · John, 2 named — Admitting he read little YA this year (2015), John recommends Emma Mills's (elmify) First and Then and Jason Reynolds's The Boy in the Black Suit. (00:02:55)
    1 First and Then · 2 The Boy in the Black Suit

  • 2015-12-01 · John's Book Giving Guide for the Holidays! · John, 4 named — For a new generation of YA readers John recommends four books over ten years old: Valiant, Ball Don't Lie, The Truth About Forever and Speak, and likes bundling different kinds of books as gifts. (00:03:11)
    1 Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie · 2 Ball Don't Lie · 3 The Truth About Forever · 4 Speak

  • 2015-12-01 · John's Book Giving Guide for the Holidays! · John, 2 named — John's son's two favorite books this year (2015) were Last Stop on Market Street (Christian Robinson and Matt de la Peña) and Marla Frazee's Boot and Shoe. (00:03:34)
    1 Last Stop on Market Street · 2 Boot and Shoe

2016

  • 2016-04-12 · On the Banning of Looking for Alaska · John, 3 named — John says Looking for Alaska beat some of his favorite books on the list, like Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan and Fun Home by Alison Bechdel. (00:00:34)
    1 Two Boys Kissing · 2 Fun Home · 3 Bible

  • 2016-04-12 · On the Banning of Looking for Alaska · John, 2 named — John says teenagers are critically engaged, thoughtful readers: they don't read Looking for Alaska and decide to have oral sex, or The Outsiders and join a gang, or Divergent and jump onto trains. (00:01:53)
    1 The Outsiders · 2 Divergent

  • 2016-08-30 · My Body Is a Broken Temple · John, 3 named — John says in the almost five years since The Fault in Our Stars, Crash Course, The Art Assignment, Alice and some movies happened, but he has not published a new book. (00:02:26)
    1 Crash Course · 2 The Art Assignment · 3 Alice Green

  • 2016-09-20 · Failing to Follow Up The Fault in Our Stars · John, 2 named — John says writing had become miserable, and as he gave more time to Crash Course and The Art Assignment he realized he has amazing work he is lucky to do. (00:02:19)
    1 Crash Course · 2 The Art Assignment

  • 2016-11-15 · Good News/Bad News: A Pizzamas Video in Nine Slices · John, 2 named — At 15 John wrote a sincere, terrible English paper arguing there could never be another great work of fiction since Dostoevsky was dead; months later Song of Solomon and Angels in America made him retract it. (00:02:25)
    1 Song of Solomon · 2 Angels in America

  • 2016-12-06 · Exactly Like the Human Sternum · John, 12 named — Part three, the xiphoid process: John's holiday book roundup of twelve books (00:01:27)
    1 The Underground Railroad · 2 Moonglow · 3 What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours · 4 Stories of Your Life and Others · 5 Binti · 6 An Ember in the Ashes · 7 The Raven Cycle · 8 The Sun Is Also a Star · 9 Buffering · 10 I Contain Multitudes · 11 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind · 12 Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal

2017

  • 2017-06-27 · UNBOXING · John, 3 named — Each publisher has its own ISBN prefix: 0-06 is HarperCollins, 0-316 Little, Brown, and 1-224 the University of Chicago Press. (00:01:48)
    1 HarperCollins · 2 Little, Brown and Company · 3 University of Chicago Press

  • 2017-06-27 · UNBOXING · John, 2 named — Turtles All the Way Down has two ISBNs, one for signed books; bookstores, Target and Amazon will all have signed copies, and ordering that ISBN gives the best chance of a signature at no extra cost. (00:02:16)
    1 Target Corporation · 2 Amazon

  • 2017-09-07 · I Love and Apologize to (Insert Location Here): Surprise Thursday Bonus Video! · John, 18 named — John lists the tour's 19 stops in one take, from New York through the South, Midwest and Northwest to two San Francisco Bay Area shows and Los Angeles, including Hank's high school auditorium in Orlando. (00:00:28)
    1 New York City · 2 Washington, DC · 3 Charlotte, North Carolina · 4 Asheville, North Carolina · 5 Atlanta · 6 Orlando, Florida · 7 Nashville · 8 Cincinnati · 9 Indianapolis · 10 St. Louis · 11 Chicago (city) · 12 Minneapolis · 13 Missoula, Montana · 14 Spokane, Washington · 15 Bellingham, Washington · 16 Portland, Oregon · 17 San Francisco Bay Area · 18 Los Angeles

  • 2017-09-12 · How Will the World End? Why Even Get Out of Bed? It's Question Tuesday. · John, 3 named — John says the Turtles tour shows in Bellingham, Chicago and Atlanta are sold out, sorry it happened so fast. (00:01:47)
    1 Bellingham, Washington · 2 Chicago (city) · 3 Atlanta

  • 2017-10-03 · Let's Talk about Books · John, 3 named — Instead of summarising, John recommends three poetry books by quoting a line from each: Nicole Sealey's Ordinary Beasts, Kaveh Akbar's Calling a Wolf a Wolf and Clint Smith's Counting Descent. (00:01:36)
    1 Ordinary Beasts · 2 Calling a Wolf a Wolf · 3 Counting Descent

  • 2017-10-03 · Let's Talk about Books · John, 3 named — John looks forward to unread books out this month (October 2017), Okorafor's Akata Warrior, Lockhart's Genuine Fraud and Stiefvater's All the Crooked Saints, so his tour reading is sorted. (00:02:56)
    1 Akata Warrior · 2 Genuine Fraud · 3 All the Crooked Saints

  • 2017-10-10 · Turtles All the Way Down!!! A Reunion Video · John, 5 named — On Tuesday, October 10, 2017, from a New York City hotel floor, John announces Turtles All the Way Down is out in the US, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and several other countries. (00:00:08)
    1 United States “the US” · 2 United Kingdom “the UK” · 3 Ireland · 4 Australia · 5 New Zealand

  • 2017-12-22 · Christmas Questions Answered (With Katherine and Hank) · Hank, 12 named — Turtles All the Way Down was named a best book of the year by twelve outlets including The New York Times, Time, NPR and Booklist, and is in bookstores. (00:01:49)
    1 The New York Times · 2 The Wall Street Journal · 3 Entertainment Weekly · 4 Time · 5 NPR · 6 BuzzFeed · 7 Amazon · 8 Barnes & Noble · 9 The Onion · 10 The A.V. Club · 11 Publishers Weekly · 12 Booklist

2018

2019

  • 2019-01-22 · Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle's Let It Snow · John, 6 named — John reports that Netflix has cast a starry ensemble for its Let It Snow adaptation: Kiernan Shipka, Shameik Moore, Mitchell Hope, Odeya Rush, Anna Akana and Joan Cusack. (00:00:00)
    1 Kiernan Shipka · 2 Shameik Moore · 3 Mitchell Hope · 4 Odeya Rush · 5 Anna Akana · 6 Joan Cusack

  • 2019-05-07 · How I Read and Why · John, 2 named — John began his writing career as a book reviewer, reviewing hundreds of books for Booklist from 2000 to 2005, from YA novels and picture books to boxing, early Islamic history and conjoined twins. (00:00:20)
    1 young adult literature · 2 conjoined twins

  • 2019-05-07 · How I Read and Why · John, 3 named — John has also reviewed great books for the New York Times Book Review, including Eleanor & Park, The Book Thief and The Hunger Games. (00:00:29)
    1 Eleanor & Park · 2 The Book Thief · 3 The Hunger Games (book series)

  • 2019-06-11 · Why I Haven't Written a New Book · John, 2 named — John is grateful that Turtles All the Way Down was generously received by critics and readers, with reviews in places like The New York Times and The Guardian. (00:00:56)
    1 The New York Times · 2 The Guardian

  • 2019-08-13 · How I (barely) Passed 11th Grade English · John, 2 named — John notes the brothers will be on tour this weekend in Madison, Wisconsin and Minneapolis, Minnesota, with ticket links in the description. (00:00:00)
    1 Madison · 2 Minneapolis

  • 2019-08-13 · How I (barely) Passed 11th Grade English · John, 2 named — With an incomplete in 11th grade English, John had to read two books over the summer and write papers on them: Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye. (00:01:27)
    1 Twelfth Night · 2 The Bluest Eye

  • 2019-10-08 · Looking for Alaska (...with Alaska) · John, 6 named — The series also comes out on BBC3 in the UK and in Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and many other places; more info in the doobly-doo. (00:00:29)
    1 BBC Three “BBC3” · 2 United Kingdom “UK” · 3 Canada · 4 Europe · 5 Australia · 6 New Zealand

  • 2019-10-15 · I'm Having a Lot of Feelings · John, 2 named — John has just seen Netflix's adaptation of Let It Snow, the book he wrote with Lauren Myracle and Maureen Johnson about 11 years ago, and finds it sweet, heartwarming and lovely. (00:00:58)
    1 Lauren Myracle · 2 Maureen Johnson

  • 2019-11-05 · Letting It Snow with Kiernan Shipka, Shameik Moore, Anna Akana, and Blogbrother John Green · video description, 5 named — The description says John poses real nerdfighters' questions to Isabela Merced, Kiernan Shipka, Shameik Moore, Odeya Rush, Jacob Batalon and the rest of the Let It Snow cast.
    1 Isabela Merced · 2 Kiernan Shipka · 3 Shameik Moore · 4 Odeya Rush · 5 Jacob Batalon

  • 2019-12-20 · Reading the First Chapter of A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor · Hank, 3 named — Hank invites viewers to see live Dear Hank and John, live Anthropocene Reviewed and other weirdnesses with John in St. Petersburg, Raleigh and Atlanta in early January; tickets are in the description. (00:03:47)
    1 St. Petersburg, Florida · 2 Raleigh, North Carolina · 3 Atlanta

2020

  • 2020-02-18 · wintry mix · John, 5 named — John explains the pathetic fallacy: ascribing human emotions to the non-human, often to reflect characters' inner lives, as in Keats's weeping cloud or Shakespeare's threatening clouds in Julius Caesar. (00:00:00)
    1 John Keats · 2 Ode on Melancholy · 3 William Shakespeare · 4 Julius Caesar (play) · 5 Emily Dickinson

  • 2020-02-28 · I'M FINE EVERYTHING IS FINE · video description, 3 named — The description says signed pre-orders are available only in US stores (Amazon, BN.com, BAM).
    1 Amazon · 2 Barnes & Noble “BN.com” · 3 Books-A-Million “BAM”

  • 2020-06-12 · Fed to the Rules · Hank, 3 named — Hank announces an all-digital book tour, so everyone can come: ticketed events July 6 with John, July 8 with Ashley Ford, July 9 with Roman Mars and July 10 with Cory Doctorow, with local bookstores. (00:03:28)
    1 Ashley C. Ford · 2 Roman Mars · 3 Cory Doctorow

  • 2020-07-07 · You're a Rock Star · John, 3 named — Fiction is a way out of himself: John sees even spouse, children and brother in his own context, but Robin, Maya and Andy aren't his anything, and seeing through their eyes is magic. (00:01:53)
    1 Robin (character, “A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor”) · 2 Maya · 3 Andy Skampt

  • 2020-07-10 · What a Concept!! · Hank, 6 named — Where ideas come from matters to Hank, as a weekly video maker and as a person, because almost everything is an idea: justice, America, money, borders, political parties, businesses. (00:00:29)
    1 justice · 2 United States “America” · 3 money · 4 border · 5 political party · 6 business

2021

  • 2021-01-12 · My 2021 Vision Board · John, 3 named — Under 'read books, not tweets', John says reading Annie Dillard, Terry Tempest Williams or even Paul Farmer's upsetting book on Sierra Leone and Ebola leaves him informed and engaged, without Twitter's panicky dopamine rush. (00:02:43)
    1 Annie Dillard · 2 Terry Tempest Williams · 3 Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds

  • 2021-02-09 · Lesser Known YouTube Channels I Love · John, 7 named — Signing 250,000 times for the book; greeting; the channels John watches rarely trend; DoctorBenjyFM (00:00:20)
    1 DoctorBenjyFM · 2 Curious Tangents · 3 Soph's Notes · 4 This Glorious Clockwork · 5 Karen Puzzles · 6 Rosianna Halse Rojas · 7 It's Radish Time

  • 2021-05-18 · Saying What I've Needed to Say to Hank for a While · John, 4 named — The tour continues tonight with Radiolab co-host Latif Nasser and Sarah Urist Green, Wednesday with Hank and Sarah, Saturday with Ashley C. Ford and Sarah; tickets in the description. (00:02:21)
    1 Latif Nasser · 2 Sarah Urist Green · 3 Hank Green · 4 Ashley C. Ford

  • 2021-05-25 · The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated · video description, 4 named — The video continues a tradition from 2008, when John read Paper Towns' first chapter; the brothers have since read first chapters of seven books; for this one John and Rosianna asked Meitar Almog to make art.
    1 Paper Towns · 2 An Absolutely Remarkable Thing · 3 The Fault in Our Stars · 4 Will Grayson, Will Grayson

  • 2021-09-28 · 11 Great Books You Probably Haven't Read · John, 11 named — Pizzamas in six days; fiction: Ann Swinfen, Paul Beatty's Tuff, Miracle's Boys (00:00:16)
    1 The Bookseller's Tale · 2 Tuff · 3 Miracle's Boys · 4 The Black Death · 5 Epidemics and Society · 6 The Disordered Cosmos · 7 Phosphorescence · 8 All Together Now · 9 Upstream: Selected Essays · 10 Pilgrim Bell · 11 How to Cook and Eat in Chinese

  • 2021-10-19 · Cat Names: The Authoritative Guide · John, 6 named — Punny names and writers' cats: Poe, Plath, Shaw, Le Guin, Lessing, Twain (00:02:04)
    1 Edgar Allan Poe · 2 Sylvia Plath · 3 George Bernard Shaw · 4 Ursula K. Le Guin · 5 Doris Lessing · 6 Mark Twain

  • 2021-10-19 · Cat Names: The Authoritative Guide · John, 2 named — John calls punny names like Holden Clawfield or Catnip Everdeen high risk, high reward: eye-rolly if they miss, brilliant if just right. (00:02:08)
    1 Holden Caulfield · 2 Katniss Everdeen

2022

  • 2022-05-03 · My Religion and My Banned Books · John, 2 named — John says his books, especially Looking for Alaska and Turtles All the Way Down, have lately been removed from US libraries and schools for purported obscenity. (00:00:00)
    1 Looking for Alaska (novel) · 2 Turtles All the Way Down

  • 2022-05-03 · My Religion and My Banned Books · John, 4 named — John says he kind of understands book banning: books threaten power structures that want marginalized people, by race, sexuality, gender identity or mental illness, seen as less than fully human. (00:02:39)
    1 racism “race” · 2 human sexuality · 3 gender identity · 4 mental disorder

  • 2022-05-24 · Hello! Meet Daisy! · John, 4 named — Earlier adaptations of John's books and the 'John Green multiverse' (00:01:49)
    1 The Fault in Our Stars (film) · 2 Looking for Alaska (miniseries) · 3 Paper Towns (film) · 4 Let It Snow (film)

  • 2022-08-23 · Flin Flon: One Book's Unlikely Survival · John, 2 named — Tracy from the Turtles shoot, Flin Flon's name, John's rule on strange out-of-print books, and the book's arrival as COVID hits (00:00:10)
    1 I, Robot (film) · 2 Hot Tub Time Machine

  • 2022-08-23 · Flin Flon: One Book's Unlikely Survival · John, 2 named — John has never heard of A. S. M. Hutchinson or Gertrude Atherton, though they wrote the best-selling American novels of 1922 and 1923. (00:00:58)
    1 A. S. M. Hutchinson · 2 Gertrude Atherton

  • 2022-11-22 · John's 2022 Gift Guide · John, 6 named — Books as gifts: nonfiction, a novel, a romance, YA and essay collections (00:00:49)
    1 The Song of the Cell · 2 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow · 3 Corinne · 4 All My Rage · 5 The Source of Self-Regard · 6 Mantel Pieces

  • 2022-12-20 · The Best Books Get Better · John, 2 named — John describes Parable of the Sower: a young black woman narrates a future America of collapsing systems, a demagogue president, climate havoc and a substance abuse epidemic, things that feel just a little contemporary. (00:01:50)
    1 climate change · 2 substance abuse

2023

  • 2023-11-28 · John's (Mostly Book) Holiday Gift Recommendations · John, 12 named — Yearly holiday book roundup: Not the End of the World, I Have Some Questions for You, start of The Black Angels (00:00:19)
    1 Not the End of the World · 2 I Have Some Questions for You · 3 The Black Angels · 4 Hank's Cancer Socks · 5 Leslie Fcking Jones · 6 This Boy · 7 Toussaint L'Ouverture: The Fight for Haiti's Freedom · 8 Invincible Microbe “this book about tuberculosis” · 9 Viridian Sun Bath Box · 10 Hidden Potential · 11 An Immense World · 12* Awesome Coffee Club

2024

  • 2024-02-06 · The Truth of How Books Become Movies · John, 2 named — John says most optioned books never become movies: An Abundance of Katherines was optioned and never made, and Paper Towns was optioned three times first. (00:00:29)
    1 An Abundance of Katherines · 2 Paper Towns

  • 2024-02-06 · The Truth of How Books Become Movies · John, 3 named — John calls the Turtles movie truly brilliant: about class, friendship, free will and mental illness, raw and honest without feeling sensationalized. (00:03:00)
    1 social class · 2 free will · 3 mental disorder

  • 2024-05-03 · Everything Wrong with Turtles All the Way Down · Hank, 3 named — Hank says the film is on Max; in the US Max can be had through the Play Store, the App Store, Amazon Prime or Max.com. (00:02:58)
    1 Google Play · 2 App Store · 3 Amazon Prime

  • 2024-05-03 · Everything Wrong with Turtles All the Way Down · Hank, 12 named — Hank tells viewers to finish the film, then use the Max subscription to watch a long list of other shows, from The Sopranos to Deadwood. (00:03:04)
    1 The Sopranos · 2 A Song of Ice and Fire “Game of Thrones” · 3 Friends · 4 Barbie (film) · 5 Conan O'Brien Must Go · 6 Rick and Morty · 7 The Boondocks · 8 NBA playoffs · 9 Last Week Tonight with John Oliver · 10 Euphoria · 11 Property Brothers · 12 Deadwood

  • 2024-09-03 · Which is Correct? — or – ? · John, 3 named — John loves dashes (hyphens, en dashes and em dashes), though not as much as Emily Dickinson loved them. (00:00:07)
    1 hyphen · 2 en dash · 3 em dash

  • 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis · John, 2 named — John says the book is not a young adult novel like The Fault in Our Stars or Turtles All the Way Down; it is not the opposite of his previous work, but it is different. (00:00:10)
    1 The Fault in Our Stars · 2 Turtles All the Way Down

  • 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis · John, 2 named — John says TB shaped our geography, giving us towns like Colorado Springs and Asheville, North Carolina, and profoundly shaped our history. (00:02:05)
    1 Colorado Springs, Colorado · 2 Asheville, North Carolina

  • 2024-12-10 · On Writing · John, 3 named — Rereading, John sees the book continues 20 years of his work, extending his fascination with illness: cancer in The Fault in Our Stars, OCD in Turtles All the Way Down, plagues in The Anthropocene Reviewed. (00:00:38)
    1 The Fault in Our Stars · 2 Turtles All the Way Down · 3 The Anthropocene Reviewed (book)

  • 2024-12-10 · On Writing · John, 3 named — Rereading, John sees the book continues 20 years of his work, extending his fascination with illness: cancer in The Fault in Our Stars, OCD in Turtles All the Way Down, plagues in The Anthropocene Reviewed. (00:02:49)
    1 cancer · 2 obsessive-compulsive disorder “OCD” · 3 infectious disease

2025

  • 2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS · John, 3 named — John says the book got starred reviews from Booklist, SLJ and Kirkus. (00:09:56)
    1 Booklist · 2 School Library Journal “SLJ” · 3 Kirkus Reviews

  • 2025-10-07 · Luck vs. Work vs. Skill vs. Privilege · John, 3 named — John says structural advantages (race, class, gender identity, health) are not random luck but weighted dice, mostly weighted his way, a major reason for his success and easy to be blind to. (00:00:29)
    1 race (human categorization) · 2 social class · 3 gender identity

  • 2025-10-07 · Luck vs. Work vs. Skill vs. Privilege · John, 2 named — John loves reading science fiction and fantasy but cannot write it; it does not play to his skill set. (00:01:27)
    1 science fiction · 2 fantasy

  • 2025-10-07 · Luck vs. Work vs. Skill vs. Privilege · John, 2 named — John does not think The Fault in Our Stars was the best book of 2012, citing Mary Oliver's A Thousand Mornings and Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers; it won a lottery of timing and chance. (00:03:45)
    1 Mary Oliver + A Thousand Mornings · 2 Katherine Boo + Behind the Beautiful Forevers

  • 2025-12-16 · John Green's Brother · John, 3 named — Though honoured to share a list with Beloved, The Color Purple and The Handmaid's Tale, John wishes people would let librarians and teachers do the jobs they trained to do. (00:01:27)
    1 Beloved · 2 The Color Purple · 3 The Handmaid's Tale

2026

  • 2026-03-31 · I've Been Keeping a Secret… · John, 2 named — John asks viewers to pre-order the signed edition at hollywoodendingbook.com soon; signed copies are available in the US and Canada. (00:03:24)
    1 United States “U.S.” · 2 Canada

  • 2026-07-14 · On the Road Again · John, 20 named — Hollywood, Ending tour announced: tickets and the full list of stops (00:00:00)
    1 Toronto · 2 New York City · 3 Birmingham, Alabama · 4 Washington, DC · 5 Winston-Salem, North Carolina · 6 Portland, Maine · 7 Pittsburgh · 8 Gainesville, Florida · 9 Nashville · 10 Madison · 11 Indianapolis · 12 Chicago (city) · 13 Saint Paul, Minnesota · 14 Kansas City, Missouri · 15 Tulsa, Oklahoma · 16 Tucson, Arizona · 17 Boise · 18 Salt Lake City · 19 San Diego · 20 Los Angeles

  • 2026-08-18 · My Nemeses · John, 7 named — John announces special guests on the Hollywood, Ending tour: Lily King in Portland, Maine, Sarah Urist Green in Birmingham, Clint Smith in DC, Suleika Jaouad in New York, Hank in San Diego, Sharon McMahon and Brandon Sanderson. (00:01:56)
    1 Lily King · 2 Sarah Urist Green · 3 Clint Smith · 4 Suleika Jaouad “Suleikha Juwad” · 5 Hank Green · 6 Sharon McMahon · 7 Brandon Sanderson

  • 2026-10-13 · My Lungs Are on the Outside of the Body · John, 4 named — Having been from Maine to Florida to Idaho to Southern California in the last month, John says the best city in North America by a country mile is Indianapolis, where all his people are. (00:03:19)
    1 Maine · 2 Florida · 3 Idaho · 4 Southern California