Vlogbrothers Book Recommendations

Description
Books recommended by the Vlogbrothers Hank and John Green from January 2007 to June 2025, compiled by nerdfighter & redditor silverbuckett. See https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SPoF0zmKU7vPZLP9h0l5o-Q1rcQ3_dqUxcD7X258QsU.
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
83,084 members
1,306 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
63,586 members
1,142 reviews
4
4 Members
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3
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
49,275 members
779 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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4
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
18,520 members
276 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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5
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
29,984 members
262 reviews
4
4 Members
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The Truth
by Terry Pratchett
9,396 members
97 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
37,439 members
336 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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8
The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
15,621 members
283 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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9
Emma
by Jane Austen
44,272 members
570 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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10
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
26,641 members
448 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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11
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
77,316 members
1,199 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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12
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
94,520 members
1,452 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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13
All Systems Red
by Martha Wells
8,529 members
492 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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Howl's Moving Castle
by Diana Wynne Jones
15,571 members
493 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth
by Jules Verne
17,636 members
264 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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16
The Complete Maus
by Art Spiegelman
10,787 members
286 reviews
½ 4.5
3 Members
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17
Parable of the Sower
by Octavia E. Butler
11,620 members
318 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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18
Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
15,522 members
701 reviews
4
2 Members
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Going Postal
by Terry Pratchett
13,036 members
231 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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Stories of Your Life and Others
by Ted Chiang
6,486 members
275 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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The Subtle Knife
by Philip Pullman
27,341 members
376 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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22
The Hunger Games Trilogy
by Suzanne Collins
6,192 members
133 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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23
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
by Ransom Riggs
23,554 members
1,200 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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24
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
by Seth Grahame-Smith
12,239 members
476 reviews
3.2
3 Members
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25
The Norton Anthology of Poetry
by Margaret Ferguson
2,475 members
11 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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26
Hatchet
by Gary Paulsen
22,025 members
633 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
12,149 members
526 reviews
½ 4.5
2 Members
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28
Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen
25,753 members
403 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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Persuasion
by Jane Austen
33,318 members
575 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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30
Uglies
by Scott Westerfeld
15,928 members
689 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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32
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
by Stephen Chbosky
24,338 members
813 reviews
4
3 Members
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33
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
32,784 members
560 reviews
4
3 Members
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34
Dawn
by Octavia E. Butler
4,270 members
155 reviews
4
3 Members
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35
Jurassic Park
by Michael Crichton
24,124 members
371 reviews
4
3 Members
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The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
22,650 members
370 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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37
The Enormous Room
by E. E. Cummings
1,669 members
29 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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38
The Name of the Wind
by Patrick Rothfuss
24,272 members
857 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
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Explanations
Charon07: Stands in for the whole Kingkiller Chronicle series
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Binti
by Nnedi Okorafor
3,597 members
294 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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40
The Magicians
by Lev Grossman
11,839 members
717 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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41
Neuromancer
by William Gibson
26,044 members
418 reviews
3.9
2 Members
hipdeep, Charon07
42
Ulysses
by James Joyce
27,523 members
377 reviews
4
2 Members
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44
The Lathe of Heaven
by Ursula K. Le Guin
7,798 members
229 reviews
4
2 Members
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46
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
2,574 members
33 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
ManWithAnAgenda, Charon07
48
Everything I Never Told You
by Celeste Ng
7,851 members
415 reviews
3.9
2 Members
ahef1963, Charon07
49
Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft
by Joe Hill
3,087 members
192 reviews
4
2 Members
ManWithAnAgenda, Charon07
Explanations
Charon07: Stands in for the Locke & Key series
51
She Who Became the Sun
by Shelley Parker-Chan
3,028 members
84 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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52
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
52,486 members
2,241 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
ahef1963, Charon07
53
Feed
by M. T. Anderson
5,625 members
444 reviews
3.8
2 Members
ManWithAnAgenda, Charon07
54
The Summer Book
by Tove Jansson
3,779 members
156 reviews
4.1
Member
Charon07
55
Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman
11,472 members
97 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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56
Little Fires Everywhere
by Celeste Ng
11,907 members
435 reviews
4
2 Members
ManWithAnAgenda, Charon07
57
All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
8,124 members
133 reviews
4.1
2 Members
hipdeep, Charon07
58
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
by Randall Munroe
8,433 members
237 reviews
4.1
2 Members
hipdeep, Charon07
59
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
7,930 members
385 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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60
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
by Brian Selznick
11,040 members
686 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
ManWithAnAgenda, Charon07
61
Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison
12,604 members
138 reviews
4
2 Members
hipdeep, Charon07
62
Space Opera
by Catherynne M. Valente
1,518 members
94 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
hipdeep, Charon07
63
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
by Octavia E. Butler
884 members
39 reviews
4.2
2 Members
hipdeep, Charon07
64
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama
by Alison Bechdel
2,284 members
109 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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65
The Windup Girl
by Paolo Bacigalupi
6,935 members
325 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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66
Pudd'nhead Wilson
by Mark Twain
3,504 members
55 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
hipdeep, Charon07
67
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
by Katherine Boo
5,023 members
308 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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68
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
9,886 members
402 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
hipdeep, Charon07
69
The Blood of the Lamb: A Novel
by Peter De Vries
349 members
7 reviews
4.2
2 Members
hipdeep, Charon07
70
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
by Jose Antonio Vargas
557 members
17 reviews
4.2
Member
Charon07
71
Charlotte's Web
by E. B. White
41,626 members
1,070 reviews
4.2
2 Members
ahef1963, Charon07
72
Ringworld
by Larry Niven
11,024 members
213 reviews
3.8
2 Members
ManWithAnAgenda, Charon07
73
Divergent
by Veronica Roth
31,037 members
1,507 reviews
4
2 Members
ahef1963, Charon07
74
Round Ireland with a Fridge
by Tony Hawks
1,975 members
61 reviews
3.8
2 Members
hipdeep, Charon07
75
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
6,071 members
217 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
ahef1963, Charon07
76
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
by Ed Yong
2,200 members
72 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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77
To Say Nothing of the Dog
by Connie Willis
7,382 members
322 reviews
4.1
2 Members
ahef1963, Charon07
78
The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet
by Jeff Jarvis
78 members
2 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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79
The Hour of Our Death
by Philippe Ariès
827 members
5 reviews
4.2
Member
Charon07
80
The Emperor's New Clothes
by Hans Christian Andersen
1,733 members
32 reviews
3.8
2 Members
ahef1963, Charon07
81
Mars Trilogy: Red Mars / Green Mars / Blue Mars
by Kim Stanley Robinson
105 members
1 review
3.8
2 Members
hipdeep, Charon07
82
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
by Ed Yong
2,215 members
62 reviews
4.1
2 Members
hipdeep, Charon07
83
Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
13,478 members
418 reviews
3.9
2 Members
ahef1963, Charon07
84
American Gods
by Neil Gaiman
35,017 members
965 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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85
Just Kids
by Patti Smith
6,658 members
268 reviews
4.1
2 Members
hipdeep, Charon07
86
Speak
by Laurie Halse Anderson
16,651 members
750 reviews
4.1
2 Members
ahef1963, Charon07
87
The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking)
by Katie Mack
904 members
32 reviews
4.2
Member
Charon07
88
The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
11,226 members
494 reviews
4
2 Members
ahef1963, Charon07
89
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari
16,463 members
463 reviews
4.1
2 Members
ahef1963, Charon07
90
Becoming
by Michelle Obama
11,328 members
396 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
ahef1963, Charon07
91
Eleanor and Park
by Rainbow Rowell
10,831 members
671 reviews
4.1
2 Members
ahef1963, Charon07
92
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin
9,684 members
338 reviews
4
2 Members
ahef1963, Charon07
93
The Thursday Murder Club
by Richard Osman
9,670 members
398 reviews
3.9
2 Members
ahef1963, Charon07
94
The Calculating Stars
by Mary Robinette Kowal
2,564 members
155 reviews
3.9
Member
Charon07
95
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
by Michael Chabon
11,226 members
446 reviews
3.8
2 Members
ahef1963, Charon07
96
Peeps
by Scott Westerfeld
3,112 members
127 reviews
3.9
2 Members
ahef1963, Charon07
97
Akata Witch
by Nnedi Okorafor
2,728 members
136 reviews
4
Member
Charon07
98
Akata Warrior
by Nnedi Okorafor
972 members
26 reviews
4.1
Member
Charon07
99
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
by Rebecca Solnit
2,065 members
51 reviews
3.8
Member
Charon07
100
We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria
by Wendy Pearlman
265 members
10 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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