The Anthropocene Reviewed is a deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 internationally bestselling author John Green. Here John shares the books he both discovered and reread during the pandemic.

I’d never written nonfiction before my new book The Anthropocene Reviewed, and while researching, I certainly came across many wonderful books I’d never read before. But I also returned to old favorites, and I discovered that while the books had not changed, I had, which made some of them feel newly alive to me. Here are some of the books I reread amid the pandemic that felt vital and new when viewed through the lens of our strange historical moment.