John Green Books: Ranked

This post will not include Turtles All The Way Down but will have a separate book review when it is read.

This post includes Will Grayson, Will Grayson, Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, The Fault In Our Stars, and Paper Towns.

This book is by my opinion the least enjoyable novel by John Green, it is visible that John Green tries a little too hard to make the novel special but fails at doing so.

Firstly, he portrays the main character Collin as a genius who is insecure about how long his "genius" would last because he didn't have a "eureka" moment yet.

Collin has also dated a Katherine nineteen times, technically eighteen because Katherine the First and Katherine the Nineteenth are the same person.

Collin and his only friend, Hassan Harbish, embark on a journey to a small town in Tennessee. They meet different people and are on a ten thousand dollar budget.

Collin and Hassan meet up with a bunch of people and suddenly there comes his eureka idea, the mathematics behind how long a relationship could last.

That is the idea behind the book and what makes the book unique.

There is a reason why John Green took a three-year hiatus from the book and the plot of Katherine was one of them.

I'm placing Will Grayson, Will Grayson as fourth not because I think it is a bad book, but just because it is a collaboration between John Green and David Levithan.

I have mixed feelings about collaboration between authors, if it is a good read, I would rank it higher but since there were the artistry and style of another author mixed in the novel.

I would settle it with a fourth rank, the book is a funny, light-hearted, comedic novel that is a relaxing read.

Will Grayson meets another Will Grayson in the novel, and their lives are then unfolded with co-incidences and just has the right amount of everything in the novel that makes it a good read.

But if the post was about novels of John Green based solely on the plot and not minding another collaborative work, then Will Grayson, Will Grayson would definitely in the top 2.

Paper Towns is the comeback novel of John Green after An Abundance Of Katherines and it is in the third position on this ranking list.

Every John Green novel has a special plot, Katherines was about dating nineteen Katherines of the same name, and Paper Towns is about fake places that map-makers place on their maps.

The good thing about the novel was that John Green wasn't reinforcing the idea in the plot the same way he did with Katherines. Another thing was that the idea didn't seem ridiculous at all.

There are enjoyable reads in the novel like the part where Margott and Q go on an adventure before she disappears and Q feels the need to find her.

The novel does have a questionable ending but everything else is pretty well-written for a John Green novel and it is definitely recommended over Katherines. It is recommended alongside Will Grayson.

It could've easily been the best book John Green had ever written about if part two of the novel was written simply, but John Green tries to search for a deeper meaning in the book but some readers may fail to understand.

In the novel, Pudge is obsessed with the last words of people, he also enrolls in a boarding to understand the perspective of life. In the school, he meets Alaska, he falls in love with her, and Alaska helps guide him through his inner labyrinth.

But when unexpected events unfold, Pudge is left to do this on his own.

This is probably the most teenage novel John Green has ever written and this novel also created controversy in school libraries.

It is one of those books that young adults and teenagers can read and relate to on a level that they can't on any other John Green novels.

Yes, not surprising, let me explain.

If the ranking depended solely on the plot, Will Grayson was supposed to be two, Looking For Alaska one, and The Fault In Our Stars at number three.

But this post depends on the maturity of the author's evolution, the fluidity of the novels, how interesting it was, the amount of effort visible from the writing of the author.

So, The Fault In Our Stars is placed at one because it was a simple story of two cancer-stricken teenagers meeting at one of the meetings and start having a relationship.

The special plot of the novel wasn't the synopsis, but The Imperial Affliction, a novel within a novel that Hazel and Augustus grew to love and even visited the author of the novel in Germany but things unfolded in a way that may leave you sweaty eyes.

The book is a realistic novel, only some could relate to it but everyone else who is eager to read it could understand it.

Looking for Alaska could've morphed into an amazing plot if it was handled the same way that John Green had handled The Fault In Our Stars.

In Stars, Green had become an experienced writer and didn't try to give the novel anymore moral than it deserved, he let the story flow. In a cheesy way to say it, he let the story write on its own, he was only the mechanism holding the pen.