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
83,039 members
1,304 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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2
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
63,557 members
1,142 reviews
4
4 Members
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3
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
49,277 members
779 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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4
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
18,502 members
275 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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5
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
29,967 members
261 reviews
4
4 Members
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The Truth
by Terry Pratchett
9,394 members
97 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
37,416 members
336 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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8
The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
15,613 members
283 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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9
Emma
by Jane Austen
44,241 members
571 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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10
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
26,624 members
447 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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11
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
77,283 members
1,198 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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12
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
94,442 members
1,451 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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13
All Systems Red
by Martha Wells
8,511 members
491 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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14
Howl's Moving Castle
by Diana Wynne Jones
15,562 members
493 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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15
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
by Jules Verne
17,626 members
264 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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16
The Complete Maus
by Art Spiegelman
10,781 members
286 reviews
½ 4.5
3 Members
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17
Parable of the Sower
by Octavia E. Butler
11,592 members
318 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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18
Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
15,522 members
700 reviews
4
2 Members
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19
Going Postal
by Terry Pratchett
13,029 members
231 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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Stories of Your Life and Others
by Ted Chiang
6,477 members
274 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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21
The Subtle Knife
by Philip Pullman
27,324 members
376 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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The Hunger Games Trilogy
by Suzanne Collins
6,187 members
133 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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23
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
by Ransom Riggs
23,531 members
1,201 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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24
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
by Seth Grahame-Smith
12,232 members
476 reviews
3.2
3 Members
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25
The Norton Anthology of Poetry
by Margaret Ferguson
2,473 members
11 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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26
Hatchet
by Gary Paulsen
22,015 members
633 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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27
The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
12,142 members
526 reviews
½ 4.5
2 Members
ahef1963, Charon07
28
Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen
25,737 members
403 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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29
Persuasion
by Jane Austen
33,300 members
576 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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30
Uglies
by Scott Westerfeld
15,914 members
689 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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32
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
by Stephen Chbosky
24,318 members
812 reviews
4
3 Members
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33
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
32,753 members
560 reviews
4
3 Members
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34
Dawn
by Octavia E. Butler
4,265 members
154 reviews
4
3 Members
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35
Jurassic Park
by Michael Crichton
24,097 members
371 reviews
4
3 Members
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The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
22,632 members
369 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
24,255 members
856 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
3,592 members
294 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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40
The Magicians
by Lev Grossman
11,828 members
717 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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41
Neuromancer
by William Gibson
26,034 members
418 reviews
3.9
2 Members
hipdeep, Charon07
42
Ulysses
by James Joyce
27,500 members
377 reviews
4
2 Members
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44
The Lathe of Heaven
by Ursula K. Le Guin
7,784 members
228 reviews
4
2 Members
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46
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
2,572 members
33 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
ManWithAnAgenda, Charon07
48
Everything I Never Told You
by Celeste Ng
7,845 members
415 reviews
3.9
2 Members
ahef1963, Charon07
49
Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft
by Joe Hill
3,086 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
3,026 members
84 reviews
3.9
2 Members
ManWithAnAgenda, Charon07
52
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
52,461 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
3,774 members
156 reviews
4.1
Member
Charon07
55
Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman
11,466 members
97 reviews
4.1
2 Members
hipdeep, Charon07
56
Little Fires Everywhere
by Celeste Ng
11,892 members
435 reviews
4
2 Members
ManWithAnAgenda, Charon07
57
All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
8,118 members
133 reviews
4.1
2 Members
hipdeep, Charon07
58
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
by Randall Munroe
8,419 members
237 reviews
4.1
2 Members
hipdeep, Charon07
59
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
7,921 members
385 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
ManWithAnAgenda, Charon07
60
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
by Brian Selznick
11,031 members
685 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
ManWithAnAgenda, Charon07
61
Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison
12,602 members
138 reviews
4
2 Members
hipdeep, Charon07
62
Space Opera
by Catherynne M. Valente
1,516 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
2,285 members
109 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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65
The Windup Girl
by Paolo Bacigalupi
6,961 members
325 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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66
Pudd'nhead Wilson
by Mark Twain
3,502 members
55 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
hipdeep, Charon07
67
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
by Katherine Boo
5,022 members
308 reviews
4.1
2 Members
ahef1963, Charon07
68
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
9,879 members
402 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
hipdeep, Charon07
69
The Blood of the Lamb: A Novel
by Peter De Vries
348 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
41,590 members
1,070 reviews
4.2
2 Members
ahef1963, Charon07
72
Ringworld
by Larry Niven
11,019 members
213 reviews
3.8
2 Members
ManWithAnAgenda, Charon07
73
Divergent
by Veronica Roth
31,013 members
1,507 reviews
4
2 Members
ahef1963, Charon07
74
Round Ireland with a Fridge
by Tony Hawks
1,974 members
61 reviews
3.8
2 Members
hipdeep, Charon07
75
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
6,069 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
2,197 members
72 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
hipdeep, Charon07
77
To Say Nothing of the Dog
by Connie Willis
7,375 members
321 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
hipdeep, Charon07
79
The Hour of Our Death
by Philippe Ariès
826 members
5 reviews
4.2
Member
Charon07
80
The Emperor's New Clothes
by Hans Christian Andersen
1,730 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
2,213 members
62 reviews
4.1
2 Members
hipdeep, Charon07
83
Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
13,472 members
418 reviews
3.9
2 Members
ahef1963, Charon07
84
American Gods
by Neil Gaiman
35,005 members
965 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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85
Just Kids
by Patti Smith
6,655 members
268 reviews
4.1
2 Members
hipdeep, Charon07
86
Speak
by Laurie Halse Anderson
16,643 members
750 reviews
4.1
2 Members
ahef1963, Charon07
87
The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking)
by Katie Mack
905 members
32 reviews
4.2
Member
Charon07
88
The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
11,216 members
494 reviews
4
2 Members
ahef1963, Charon07
89
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari
16,444 members
462 reviews
4.1
2 Members
ahef1963, Charon07
90
Becoming
by Michelle Obama
11,319 members
396 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
ahef1963, Charon07
91
Eleanor and Park
by Rainbow Rowell
10,821 members
671 reviews
4.1
2 Members
ahef1963, Charon07
92
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin
9,666 members
339 reviews
4
2 Members
ahef1963, Charon07
93
The Thursday Murder Club
by Richard Osman
9,647 members
397 reviews
3.9
2 Members
ahef1963, Charon07
94
The Calculating Stars
by Mary Robinette Kowal
2,562 members
155 reviews
3.9
Member
Charon07
95
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
by Michael Chabon
11,220 members
446 reviews
3.8
2 Members
ahef1963, Charon07
96
Peeps
by Scott Westerfeld
3,109 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
2,064 members
51 reviews
3.8
Member
Charon07
100
We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria
by Wendy Pearlman
262 members
10 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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