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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
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Expected 18 Mar 25John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest disease.
Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.
In 2019, John Green met Henry, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone while traveling with Partners in Health. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal and dynamic advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, treatable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing 1.5 million people every year.
In Everything is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry’s story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.
In 2019, John Green met Henry, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone while traveling with Partners in Health. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal and dynamic advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, treatable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing 1.5 million people every year.
In Everything is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry’s story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.
208 pages, Hardcover
Expected publication March 18, 2025
About the author
John Green
68 books309k followersLibrarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
John Green's first novel, Looking for Alaska, won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award presented by the American Library Association. His second novel, An Abundance of Katherines, was a 2007 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His next novel, Paper Towns, is a New York Times bestseller and won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best YA Mystery. In January 2012, his most recent novel, The Fault in Our Stars, was met with wide critical acclaim, unprecedented in Green's career. The praise included rave reviews in Time Magazine and The New York Times, on NPR, and from award-winning author Markus Zusak. The book also topped the New York Times Children's Paperback Bestseller list for several weeks. Green has also coauthored a book with David Levithan called Will Grayson, Will Grayson, published in 2010. The film rights for all his books, with the exception of Will Grayson Will Grayson, have been optioned to major Hollywood Studios.
In 2007, John and his brother Hank were the hosts of a popular internet blog, "Brotherhood 2.0," where they discussed their lives, books and current events every day for a year except for weekends and holidays. They still keep a video blog, now called "The Vlog Brothers," which can be found on the Nerdfighters website, or a direct link here.
John Green's first novel, Looking for Alaska, won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award presented by the American Library Association. His second novel, An Abundance of Katherines, was a 2007 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His next novel, Paper Towns, is a New York Times bestseller and won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best YA Mystery. In January 2012, his most recent novel, The Fault in Our Stars, was met with wide critical acclaim, unprecedented in Green's career. The praise included rave reviews in Time Magazine and The New York Times, on NPR, and from award-winning author Markus Zusak. The book also topped the New York Times Children's Paperback Bestseller list for several weeks. Green has also coauthored a book with David Levithan called Will Grayson, Will Grayson, published in 2010. The film rights for all his books, with the exception of Will Grayson Will Grayson, have been optioned to major Hollywood Studios.
In 2007, John and his brother Hank were the hosts of a popular internet blog, "Brotherhood 2.0," where they discussed their lives, books and current events every day for a year except for weekends and holidays. They still keep a video blog, now called "The Vlog Brothers," which can be found on the Nerdfighters website, or a direct link here.
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October 22, 2024If John Green writes it, I’m reading it.
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October 25, 2024I see John Green has finally written the book of his dreams
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October 22, 2024This is the most John Green thing I’ve ever seen.
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October 22, 2024John Green may be the only human on planet Earth who could convince me to read an entire book about tuberculosis, and certainly the only human who could convince me to pre-order a signed copy.
Highly anticipated non-fiction for 2025, and will likely end up on my favorites of the year list.
Highly anticipated non-fiction for 2025, and will likely end up on my favorites of the year list.
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October 29, 2024Yesterday, John was doing a livestream, signing copies of his book. While he was doing it, he was also talking to people in the chat. I asked him if he ever reads the reviews of his books here on Goodreads. He replied that he does, although he knows it's not the best thing for his mental health because the mean reviews stick with him much more than the good ones do.
I'm not a famous author, but I can imagine that one of the most difficult parts of the job is resisting the temptation to look up your name on Google every day and then spend hours spiraling into bad thoughts because of the mean things people say (anonymously) about you on the internet.
John, I know you're probably never going to read this, but on the off chance that your intrusive thoughts won today and you find yourself reading reviews of your books, I just want to let you know that your books kept me company through many dark moments in my life. I am incredibly grateful to be alive at the same time as you and to experience your amazing projects like Crash Course, Vlogbrothers, and Dear Hank and John (or, as you prefer to think of it: Dear John and Hank). Now, stop doomscrolling and go do something that makes you feel happy to be alive—you deserve it.
DFTBA!
I'm not a famous author, but I can imagine that one of the most difficult parts of the job is resisting the temptation to look up your name on Google every day and then spend hours spiraling into bad thoughts because of the mean things people say (anonymously) about you on the internet.
John, I know you're probably never going to read this, but on the off chance that your intrusive thoughts won today and you find yourself reading reviews of your books, I just want to let you know that your books kept me company through many dark moments in my life. I am incredibly grateful to be alive at the same time as you and to experience your amazing projects like Crash Course, Vlogbrothers, and Dear Hank and John (or, as you prefer to think of it: Dear John and Hank). Now, stop doomscrolling and go do something that makes you feel happy to be alive—you deserve it.
DFTBA!
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October 22, 2024Frankly, John, I would read your grocery lists.
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October 24, 2024wait this is going to eat
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October 22, 2024Wake up, babes—a new John Green book is here!
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October 22, 2024I am unreasonably excited for this
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October 22, 2024only john green could make me so excited for a book about tuberculosis and absolutely certain that i will be crying tears of hope and have a restored faith in humanity by the end of it
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October 22, 2024more hyped for this than i would normally be about a book with “tuberculosis” in the title
October 25, 2024
never rated a book preemptively before in my life but the oppurtunity to be the first rating was too good to pass up.
i am foaming at the mouth for this release
i am foaming at the mouth for this release
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October 24, 2024MILV (Man I Love Vlogbrothers)
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October 23, 2024I could not be more excited!
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October 30, 2024PREORDERED!!! YAYYYY!!!!
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October 25, 2024catch me getting obsessed over tuberculosis
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October 25, 2024only for john green would i even consider reading a book about tuberculosis but i am sure he will somehow make me love every minute of it
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November 15, 2024SAVE ME NEW JOHN GREEN BOOK SAVE MEEEEE
November 22, 2024
I am stupidly excited about this, it's John Green !!
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December 1, 2024I was really hoping that the next book.John Green writes would have been a young adult novel.I wasn't a big fan of his first adult book.I'll still read this one I just prefer his young adult books.
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