A quick glance at this week’s New York Times list of best-selling YA titles will make one thing very, very clear: John Green’s books have been on there for a long, long time.
At number one is Paper Towns, which has remained on the list for an absolutely amazing 116 weeks! (And, being honest here, it’s one of his that I haven’t read, but I do have a handful of students currently carrying it around).
But even more awesome is the fact that both The Fault in Our Stars AND Looking for Alaska have charted for 130 consecutive weeks. I know a lot of people felt that after the movie had come out, the sales would decline, but here we are over a year later and it is STILL on the list.
November Notebook: A YA Lit Blog 
I am happy for this. I like John Green’s books.
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Awesome! Which of his novels is your favorite?
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Tough question, I hesitate between, obviously, The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns. Maybe I like TFIOS more.
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Nice! I have Paper Towns in my “To Read” stack for the summer. I read Looking for Alaska two years ago and loved it. John Green had made a point in one of his online talks, that you don’t have to like a character in order for him/her to be interesting. I think he really played around with that idea when he created Alaska. She is distinctly unlikeable on many occasions and even so, she’s a character with gravity to her.
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