The Fault in Our Stars

By: John Green

Narrated by: Kate Rudd, John Green, Laura Grafton

The beloved, #1 global bestseller by John Green, author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and Turtles All the Way Down

“John Green is one of the best writers alive.”—E. Lockhart, #1 bestselling author of We Were Liars

“The greatest romance story of this decade.″—Entertainment Weekly

#1 New York Times Bestseller • #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller • #1 USA Today Bestseller • #1 International Bestseller

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.

From John Green, #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and Turtles All the Way Down, The Fault in Our Stars is insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw. It brilliantly explores the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.

©2012 John Green (P)2022 Listening Library

Critic reviews

“Damn near genius . . . The Fault in Our Stars is a love story, one of the most genuine and moving ones in recent American fiction, but it’s also an existential tragedy of tremendous intelligence and courage and sadness.”—Lev Grossman, TIME Magazine

“This is a book that breaks your heart—not by wearing it down, but by making it bigger until it bursts.”—The Atlantic

“A story about two incandescent kids who will live a long time in the minds of the readers who come to know them.”—People

Probably in the top 5 books you will ever read.

I came to know about John Green through his brother. I live with a beyond amazing, unique young adult that is passionate about science. He is beyond brilliant with an understanding of the universe that is beyond... Hazel reminded me so much of my son and how blessed I am to be his mom. I made him perfectly imperfect and I will love him forever, no matter what. This book, although my kiddo isn't sick or dying, helped me come to terms with the grief and guilt I have for the challenges he experiences. thank you

Honest, raw, moving

This is the first John Green book I’ve read and did so after hearing his accolades. While he did have several unique metaphors and quotes to ponder, I feel the treasure of this book is its raw portrayal of a one of life’s tragedies (death) and it’s most precious gift (love). It is honest and provides stoic reflections on these subjects - comfort in realism as opposed to overt positive thinking or fairytale endings that often don’t come to pass. I also felt like it gave some accurate insights into the feelings of living with cancer that those who have not had the disease or helped someone through it may not have understood.

So engaging you might not notice it's Literature

John Green pulls off the coup of giving us important literature in a story so delightfully engaging that the fact that we are reading something capital I important in no way subtracts from how thoroughly we are taken in and pulled along by the breathtaking thrill of the plot and characters.

I loved this book. It made me laugh, it made me grin, it warmed my heart, it made me cry, and it kept me from sleep.

Not my usual genre

If you want to feel every emotion our human bodies can handle in an 8 hour listen then this book is for you. Every character, all of their feelings, all of their hardships so vividly cast on the listener. This book might have the most grasp out of any other book I've listened to. I highly recommend this to anyone, it is an emotional book and might not be for our in public places.

Great story, great narration!

Reaaly great story I enjoyed listening. Narrator also very good. I really teccommend listening this book!

made me cry

john green, you made me cry, and i love it, I am rooting for Hank too, you both are amazing

Wow!!!!!!

My 14 year old daughter told my I had to read this book so I did and was blown away. This is no teen novel. Everyone should read it.

Amazing book

Definitely read sad stuff happens at the end but good book to read and it is so relatable even if you don’t have cancer

A Classic

This is one of the books that when I am old and in a home will be labeled as a classic. Maybe it will even get one of those adaptations with the white cover and the title in red writing. You know the ones with the pictures on Like every page.
While there are problematic things that have me on the fence, SPOILER: the kissing scene, this book is amazing. John Green is an amazing author and educator.
Performance wise I would have loved it to be narrorated by Mr. Green himself, however the narrator didn't do to bad, there were parts that she sounded a bit to close to siri and it would through me off for a second but over all a great reader.

song of achilles sadder

i just dont thibk i liked hazel bc she reminds me of tumblr era pixie cut “shes not like other girls” and also it dodnt make me cry the song of achilles sadder‼️‼️