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Everything Is Tuberculosis: John's nonfiction book about tuberculosis (2024)

project history · status: completed · last event: milestone (2025-07-01) · last mentioned: 2026-10-20

Everything Is Tuberculosis is John's nonfiction book about the history and presence of tuberculosis. He announced it in May 2024, and it came out on 18 March 2025 after starred reviews. It reached number one on the New York Times bestseller list and stayed on the list for at least 14 consecutive weeks.

Parts: John reads widely about tuberculosis and 19th-century illness (2022) · John: make a large-ish tuberculosis announcement within a week to 10 days, explaining his signing of 100,000 sheets (2024) · John asks viewers to pre-order and buy signed copies of Everything Is Tuberculosis (2024) · John: sign 100,000 copies of Everything Is Tuberculosis (2024) · John: give away a couple of Everything Is Tuberculosis advance copies to random commenters (2025) · Everything Is Tuberculosis book tour (2025) · John's 'everything is tuberculosis' bit: unlikely things shown to be tuberculosis (2026)

Told alongside: John: The Anthropocene Reviewed will not be his last book (2021)

About: Everything Is Tuberculosis

date event what video
2023-10-17 launched John knows there is no massive audience waiting for a new book about tuberculosis but doesn't care much: he writes about what he wants and is passionate about. My Next Book 00:03:16
2024-02-06 milestone With Hollywood not chasing The Anthropocene Reviewed or his forthcoming tuberculosis book, John says this may be his last time seeing hundreds of people make something wonderful together. (hedged) The Truth of How Books Become Movies 00:04:52
2024-02-16 milestone The digital download bundle has Hank's first stand-up set, exclusive podcasts, John and Hank's TikTok drafts and the first chapters of John's new book. How Much Does it Cost to be a Nerdfighter 00:05:34
2024-04-16 milestone In a channel comment, John says his next work is a nonfiction book about 19th-century human responses to tuberculosis, unlikely Hollywood material. I Already Got Paid creator comment
2024-05-28 announced John says he is writing a book about the history and presence of tuberculosis, which will come out next year (2025). A Midlife Crisis 00:02:26
2024-06-25 milestone John must finish his book so it can come out next year (2025), and that alone feels like too much work for his depressed brain. taking a break 00:00:58
2024-08-07 milestone Hank is beta-reading John's tuberculosis book: it goes deeper into TB and into John's relationship with it and people in Sierra Leone; being an early reader feels special. Dear Hank and John Livestream! 00:30:10
2024-09-03 milestone John has just completed what is hopefully the last big edit of his book about tuberculosis, which reminded him how much a dash contains. (hedged) Which is Correct? — or – ? 00:00:00
2024-10-22 announced John announces his new book, Everything Is Tuberculosis, out March 18 and available for pre-order now. My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis 00:00:03
2024-10-25 milestone Hank says he was lucky to read John's book Everything Is Tuberculosis early; it changed how he sees all illness, with fascinating histories and stories of present-day tragedies. I Don't Want them to Get Away With It… 00:04:05
2024-11-01 milestone Hank points to the description for P4A art, the Vlogbrothers grant and the New York Times article; John adds a link to pre-order his new book. Working Through a Crisis with My Brother 00:09:20
2024-12-02 milestone Hank says viewers can pre-order Everything Is Tuberculosis now and that he will link it in the description. John, You're Doing Great 00:02:33
2024-12-10 (happened 2024-12-09) milestone John has turned in first pass of Everything Is Tuberculosis last night (9 December 2024), after which he can no longer change the book. On Writing 00:00:21
2024-12-31 milestone Everything Is Tuberculosis comes out March 18, and signed copies are available for pre-order now. I Just Can't Do It Anymore 00:04:51
2025-01-07 milestone The description asks viewers to preorder Everything Is Tuberculosis. The Format but it hurts to stand up video description
2025-01-10 milestone Hank tells viewers that John's book Everything Is Tuberculosis got a starred review in Kirkus. SECRET PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT! 00:03:58
2025-02-18 milestone John says he is never far from despair and lately has been consumed by fear, making it hard to get out of bed and promote his new book Everything Is Tuberculosis, out a month from today. Gastrointestinal Hypermotility in Tuatara 00:01:57
2025-02-25 milestone John says the book got starred reviews from Booklist, SLJ and Kirkus. EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS 00:09:56
2025-03-04 milestone John says his new book Everything Is Tuberculosis comes out two weeks from today, and that the current catastrophe makes promoting it feel weird. The ANXIETY IS PALPABLE 00:00:50
2025-03-07 milestone Hank congratulates John on his book Everything Is Tuberculosis, out next week (week of 10 March 2025), and on its good reviews. How Social Security Fraud Actually Works 00:11:09
2025-03-11 milestone John says his book Everything Is Tuberculosis comes out next week (week of 17 March 2025) and is available for pre-order now, with signed copies wherever books are sold. Hank Green's Brother 00:00:04
2025-03-14 milestone Hank says John's book about tuberculosis is selling extremely well, with people pre-ordering it heavily. Probably the Luckiest Thing in my Life 00:03:38
2025-03-18 outcome John says his book Everything Is Tuberculosis comes out today and that he is backstage at CBS Mornings, appropriately nervous. ITS ALL HAPPENING 00:00:00
2025-03-21 milestone Hank jokes that the most important book in Dublin is John's new Everything Is Tuberculosis, which he also recently went to see. (playful) The Second Most Important Book in Dublin 00:00:29
2025-04-04 milestone Hank says John's book has just had its second week as number one on the New York Times bestseller list. Morality 00:07:49
2025-04-15 milestone John says he has traveled nonstop since Everything Is Tuberculosis came out: Maine today, London tomorrow, then Peru, which he calls the classic reverse Paddington. (playful) Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? 00:00:00
2025-04-22 milestone John says his book Everything Is Tuberculosis has spent four consecutive weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, a happy surprise. The Unimportant Things 00:00:29
2025-05-20 milestone John says Everything Is Tuberculosis has now been on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list for eight consecutive weeks. The Double 00:03:53
2025-06-03 looked back John says his two latest books, The Anthropocene Reviewed and Everything Is Tuberculosis, are nonfiction for adults and differ from his novels, not really being about romance, love or friendship. My Lies 00:01:21
2025-07-01 milestone John says Everything Is Tuberculosis has been on the New York Times bestseller list for 14 consecutive weeks, twice as long as The Anthropocene Reviewed, which astonishes him. What #1 New York Times Bestseller Actually Means 00:00:00
2026-03-24 looked back Today is World TB Day and the first anniversary of the publication of Everything Is Tuberculosis; to celebrate, John talks about things that are at least partly tuberculosis. How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis 00:00:00
2026-03-31 looked back John last published books in consecutive years in 2005 and 2006; now, 20 years later, Everything Is Tuberculosis came out last year (2025) and Hollywood, Ending comes out this year (2026). I've Been Keeping a Secret… 00:00:29
2026-10-20 looked back John says Everything Is Tuberculosis discusses the fatty cell wall but omits efflux pumps. Correcting a Mistake in Everything Is Tuberculosis · 50 x 50 Science 00:04:22

What is said about it

72 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).

  • 2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John: Replying to a viewer about a key driver of the US chest x-ray screening campaign, John says that person is in his book. — creator comment
  • 2024-09-03 · Which is Correct? — or – ? — John: In an example sentence from his tuberculosis book, John says tuberculosis, curable for nearly a century, still kills over 1.3 million people per year. — 00:00:29
  • 2024-10-01 · On Fame and Chappell Roan — John says he can use fame to write a book about tuberculosis, though no Saturday Night Live sketch will result, because it can help people and his deepest self wants to. — 00:04:15
  • 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — announcement: The description calls the book John's seventh, an exploration of the history and presence of our deadliest infectious disease. — video description
  • 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — announcement: 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
  • 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — John says five years ago he didn't know tuberculosis was still a thing; he thought of it as a disease of 19th-century Romantic poets, not a present-tense phenomenon. — 00:00:22
  • 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — announcement: John says the book is a science story of how TB came to be understood and cured, and a human story of why the cure has been so badly distributed, centred on one boy surviving drug-resistant TB. — 00:01:21
  • 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — John says the book is a significant departure in his writing but like his other books: a story of hope and grit in an unjust world, of why we go on and how we carry each other through, or don't. — 00:02:26
  • 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — John shows the cover and says he loves it; he has been lucky with covers but maybe never this lucky. — 00:02:40
  • 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — John says the book comes out just after the 20th anniversary of Looking for Alaska; told then he'd write nonfiction about TB, he'd first have been glad to still be writing, then surprised. (hypothetical, hedged) — 00:03:37
  • 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — John says he never imagined himself a nonfiction writer, but this was one of the most joyful and heartbreaking writing experiences of his life because it is a true story. — 00:03:59
  • 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — John says it is a short book but hopes it can matter in readers' lives and accelerate the movement to make tuberculosis history. (hedged) — 00:04:06
  • 2024-10-29 · If Hank and John Were God for 15 Minutes — John jokes that ending serious infectious diseases would be catastrophic for his new book, Everything Is Tuberculosis, which he would have to update fast. (playful) — 00:00:44
  • 2024-12-02 · John, You're Doing Great — Hank says John will not make a video tomorrow because he is finalizing the final draft of his book Everything Is Tuberculosis, and Hank is happy he is getting it done. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-12-02 · John, You're Doing Great — Hank tells John he knows he is stressed with a lot to do, but he is doing a good job, Hank is proud of him, and the book is very good and worth the work. — 00:02:33
  • 2024-12-10 · On Writing — John explains the publishing term first pass: the first time he sees his new book, Everything Is Tuberculosis, laid out as a book. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-12-10 · On Writing — John feels some grief because first pass is also last pass: he cannot change the book after it and must stop reading so others can start. — 00:00:09
  • 2024-12-10 · On Writing — John says the book is very different from Looking for Alaska or The Fault in Our Stars: nobody falls in love, and it is nonfiction rather than fiction. — 00:00:31
  • 2024-12-10 · On Writing — John says Everything Is Tuberculosis is written for right now, not forever; he hopes the title will someday be irrelevant, with people saying everything was tuberculosis. — 00:02:14
  • 2024-12-10 · On Writing — John: 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. — 00:02:39
  • 2024-12-10 · On Writing — John says whether he succeeds is not for him to decide: from now on the book belongs to its readers, who determine whether it is successful or useful. — 00:03:52
  • 2024-12-17 · About THAT Scene in Looking for Alaska — In a channel comment John says his new book Everything Is Tuberculosis describes a world far more obscene than Looking for Alaska but won't be banned because it has no sex. — creator comment
  • 2024-12-31 · I Just Can't Do It Anymore — John is signing 100,000 copies of Everything Is Tuberculosis: he signs tip-in sheets (about 45,000 are behind him) that a printer in Virginia binds into the books. — 00:00:03
  • 2024-12-31 · I Just Can't Do It Anymore — John: On Amazon the signed edition of Everything Is Tuberculosis currently costs $7 less than the unsigned one, so, John jokes, his signature is technically worth negative $7. (playful) — 00:03:05
  • 2025-01-03 · My 2025 Bingo Card — Hank tells John he is pretty much his best friend and so on that list, hopes his wrist is doing okay, and is excited for his book to come out. — 00:06:13
  • 2025-01-07 · The Format but it hurts to stand up — announcement: John says Everything Is Tuberculosis comes out in just over two months and its tour will be announced tomorrow. — 00:02:07
  • 2025-01-10 · SECRET PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT! — Hank: Kirkus, read by Hank, says the book tells Henry's story bit by bit alongside chapters on TB's history, and explores treatment costs and pharmaceutical industry practices. — 00:04:28
  • 2025-01-10 · SECRET PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT! — recommendation: Hank: Kirkus, read by Hank, praises the book as a highly readable, timely call to action that puts John's 'curious megaphone' to good use. — 00:04:28
  • 2025-01-10 · SECRET PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT! — ask: Hank asks viewers to buy the book at the book's website and check which tour stops still have tickets, as many have sold out. — 00:04:57
  • 2025-01-21 · Do Audiobooks Count As Reading? — announcement: The description says the Everything Is Tuberculosis audiobook, narrated by John, comes out with the print book on March 18. — video description
  • 2025-02-11 · What's at Stake — John says he knows almost nothing about most things, like helicopters or star distances, but knows a lot about TB and its medication from four years writing a book about it. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — The description thanks everyone who supported John and this work over the last four years; he is excited to finally share the book. — video description
  • 2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John says the book is about the cure, why it was not found until the 1950s, and why since then we have let over 150 million people die of TB. — 00:06:20
  • 2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — announcement: John says this was the first chapter of his new book Everything Is Tuberculosis, out March 18, with signed copies available for pre-order now. — 00:09:27
  • 2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John admits he is pretty nervous about the book coming out in three weeks, but says early reviews have been really good. — 00:09:27
  • 2025-03-04 · The ANXIETY IS PALPABLE — John says the book argues that tuberculosis has thrived through history along paths of injustice humans blazed, and traces how those forces made one particular boy sick in one place. — 00:01:37
  • 2025-03-04 · The ANXIETY IS PALPABLE — John says having a book come out is always stressful because it is the culmination of several years of his life and he wants people to like it and respond generously. — 00:02:05
  • 2025-03-11 · Hank Green's Brother — John says he has a job even more important than being the book's author: being Hank Green's brother. (playful) — 00:00:12
  • 2025-03-14 · Probably the Luckiest Thing in my Life — Hank says John dedicating a video to the launch the week before his long-worked-on book comes out is lovely and makes him feel very lucky. — 00:00:00
  • 2025-03-14 · Probably the Luckiest Thing in my Life — Hank says having John as his brother is a tremendous benefit, and everyone can have a bit of it through the vlogbrothers channel and the book. (playful) — 00:04:27
  • 2025-03-18 · ITS ALL HAPPENING — John: After his CBS Mornings appearance John thinks he did all right, but says only Elyse really knows, and that she always says he nailed it. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2025-03-18 · ITS ALL HAPPENING — Elyse Marshall: Elise tells John he nailed it and denies that she always says that. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2025-03-18 · ITS ALL HAPPENING — John next goes on Morning Joe, a different television program, and gets to be anxious again. — 00:00:24
  • 2025-03-18 · ITS ALL HAPPENING — John calls his release-day media tour an incredibly privileged way to publish, especially for a nonfiction book about tuberculosis. — 00:01:23
  • 2025-03-18 · ITS ALL HAPPENING — John says the book is close to his heart, he has worked hard on it for four years, and he is excited to share it with the world. — 00:01:23
  • 2025-03-18 · ITS ALL HAPPENING — announcement: John says the reviews have been good, with Kirkus calling the book a highly readable call to action that could not be more timely. — 00:01:52
  • 2025-03-18 · ITS ALL HAPPENING — John wishes the book were less timely: he never imagined publishing it while we suddenly and chaotically do so much to worsen the global TB crisis. — 00:01:52
  • 2025-03-18 · ITS ALL HAPPENING — John hopes someday to publish a version called Everything Was Tuberculosis, but confesses that day seems rather distant. (playful) — 00:02:21
  • 2025-03-18 · ITS ALL HAPPENING — John is grateful to publish a book that follows his passion: it is rare and fortunate when an audience follows an author from young adult fiction to nonfiction about TB. — 00:04:18
  • 2025-03-21 · The Second Most Important Book in Dublin — recommendation: The description recommends a linked video about John's book as really good. — video description
  • 2025-03-21 · The Second Most Important Book in Dublin — Hank congratulates John and thanks him for taking him and everyone on this journey to understand humanity: what we can be and do, and what we should not accept. — 00:00:55
  • 2025-03-25 · Taylor, Dr Pepper, and My Anxiety Strats: It's Question Tuesday — ask: The description asks viewers to order a signed copy of Everything Is Tuberculosis at everythingistb.com or wherever books are sold. — video description
  • 2025-04-04 · Morality — Hank says he has been thinking a lot about morality, maybe because of John's book or society at large, and his understanding of the word has been changing. (hedged) — 00:00:00
  • 2025-04-04 · Morality — Hank thanks John for helping him over the years to examine and grow his morality, including with his new book Everything Is Tuberculosis. — 00:07:49
  • 2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — John jokes that the only thing their viewers agree on is hating tuberculosis and other diseases of injustice; Schiff plugs John's book Everything Is Tuberculosis. (playful) — 00:13:09
  • 2025-04-22 · The Unimportant Things — John: Calling himself the tiredest boy in tired town, John says he has traveled 28 of the last 30 days and will travel 32 of the next 40; he got in from London last night and flies to Peru this morning. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2025-04-22 · The Unimportant Things — John says it is a privilege to spread the news that the world's deadliest infectious disease is preventable and curable. — 00:00:00
  • 2025-05-20 · The Double — John is extra excited this year (2025) because the race marks the end of his travel marathon. — 00:00:58
  • 2025-05-20 · The Double — John says he barely kept himself from mentioning the Indy 500 in Everything Is Tuberculosis, since it, like everything, connects to tuberculosis. (playful) — 00:00:58
  • 2025-05-20 · The Double — John thanks the book's supporters; meeting so many viewers in two months, he has preached that the world's deadliest infection is curable and eradicable. — 00:03:53
  • 2025-06-03 · My Lies — John: Since finishing Everything Is Tuberculosis John has been writing fiction; it may never come to anything and he will not promise it becomes a book, but the process has been thrilling. — 00:02:49
  • 2025-07-01 · What #1 New York Times Bestseller Actually Means — John says Everything Is Tuberculosis is a #1 bestseller because for its first couple of weeks it was the best-selling nonfiction book in the US by the Times' count. — 00:00:29
  • 2025-07-01 · What #1 New York Times Bestseller Actually Means — John says the new Hunger Games book came out the same day as his but did not compete, being fiction for kids while his is nonfiction for adults. — 00:00:58
  • 2025-07-01 · What #1 New York Times Bestseller Actually Means — John says the USA Today list, combining all books, better shows overall sales: Everything Is Tuberculosis is number 80 there but number 6 on the NYT nonfiction list. — 00:03:24
  • 2025-07-01 · What #1 New York Times Bestseller Actually Means — John: To be fair to the Times, John says only 5 of the 79 books ahead of his on USA Today would qualify for the nonfiction list, so here it is fairly accurate. — 00:03:24
  • 2025-07-01 · What #1 New York Times Bestseller Actually Means — John says Everything Is Tuberculosis is number two on the Independent Booksellers bestseller list, and thanks independent bookstores. — 00:03:53
  • 2025-07-29 · Dad and Daughter Play Dress to Impress — Alice Green: Alice already knew the TB facts: she hasn't read John's book but has heard it from him talking over the years. (playful) — 00:10:10
  • 2025-11-24 · Good Store Holiday Gift Guide LIVE with Hank and John — John tells Hank he has been traveling to Denmark and England; in Denmark he attended the Union Conference on Lung Health with Henry Reider, whom viewers know from Everything Is Tuberculosis. — 00:00:00
  • 2025-11-25 · Poverty Is Expensive — John recalls that Henry Reider inspired his interest in TB and that Henry's effort to survive multidrug-resistant tuberculosis is a through line in Everything Is Tuberculosis. — 00:00:00
  • 2026-07-28 · 'Are You John Green?' — John says that these days half the time he is recognized as Hank: in Philadelphia on the Everything Is Tuberculosis tour, someone shouted 'Hank Green' and he waved, happy to take credit. (playful) — 00:03:56
  • 2026-08-25 · The Great Thing about Infectious Disease — John: Researching Everything Is Tuberculosis, John read Gail Perkins's memoir The Baby's Cross: infected by raw milk at three, she spent over 13 years in a sanatorium and came home unaccustomed to touch. — 00:03:24
  • 2026-10-20 · Correcting a Mistake in Everything Is Tuberculosis · 50 x 50 Science — announcement: John says that in this video he corrects an important omission from his book Everything Is Tuberculosis. — 00:00:00