Everything Is Tuberculosis

The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

By: John Green

Narrated by: John Green

John 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 infectious disease.

Tuberculosis has been entwined with hu­manity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.

In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. 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 advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequi­ties that allow this curable, preventable infec­tious disease to also be the deadliest, killing over a 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.

©2025 John Green (P)2025 Listening Library

Powerful, Heartbreaking, Informative, Inspiring, Hopeful.

This is an important book, a life-changing book. It made me care about TB, a disease I only thought about when I had my TB test before volunteering at a hospital in Indy years ago. This book will change how you look at illness, medicine, history, people. This book will change you. Thank you, John. John Green’s books moved me as a teenager, and he continues to change my mindset as an adult.

John Green does it again

If you were a fan of the Anthropocene Review then you will enjoy Green’s latest book. Green does an amazing job combining facts, real life narratives, and his own experiences into a moving and insightful book.

Art and Heart

I love how he brought art and heart to a book about science and policy.

It even happens in Canada, endemic in Russia

This very moving nonfiction account of one young man, his continent, and the disease that has always been there to depopulate and devastate which tried its very best to eliminate him. It is the rather global history of the disease itself and how politics to this very day has played too great a part in our failure to eradicate it. Please read this book in print, on screen, or listen to the audio!
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Informative & overwhelmingly moving

As a nurse in the United States, social determinants of health are incredibly important in patient outcomes. This book is eye opening and gives real, heartbreaking examples of this fact. Green’s writing is poetic, beautiful, and entirely human.

Phenomenal Listening

Incredibly insightful to a problem many would think was long gone. John writes and reads his book masterfully.

I never thought I would be so riveted by a book about tuberculosis.

John Green does it again…this book is informative, troubling, and beautiful. It gives me hope that there are people who care enough to fight injustice in a world increasingly unjust.

informative.

I love the way John Greene writes his nonfiction. He manages to find and capture a balance between fact, opinion, humor, and sensitivity of subject that keeps attention. I grew up watching him and his brother, and I'm incredibly grateful for all the knowledge they have given me. I wholeheartedly recommend Everything is Tuberculosis and The Anthropocene Reviewed to anybody that has the means to get their hands on a copy.

Why must we treat what are obviously systemic problems as failures of individual Morality?

That is the question this book tries to answer, and it does so which such grace and thoughtfulness and vigorous research. This is an incredible book that I would urge anyone to read, and I think every human on earth should read this, especially in the US. I hope one day we can look back at this book as another steppingstone to the day when tuberculosis is finally eradicated.

thank you John

John put a lot of work into this to make it so information dense I couldn't put it down. DFTBA