#89 in Romance
The Fault in Our Stars
- 318
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
- Film 2014 +1
- On screen
- Premio Bartolomé Hidalgo
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Our view
A love story that readers warn each other about: it is built to make you cry, and it succeeds. What lifts it above a simple weepie is its honesty about the fact that not every life ends happily, delivered in lines readers want to underline. It moves quickly and does not drag. Those who avoid stories of loss, or distrust books that go straight for the tear ducts, should know what they are choosing.
Worth knowing John Green signed every copy of the first printing, some 150,000 of them, after preorders took off. He drew on months as a student chaplain at a children’s hospital and on his friendship with Esther Earl, a young fan who died of cancer in 2010 and to whom the book is dedicated, though Hazel is not based on her. The title twists a line from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. It was filmed in 2014, and in India as Dil Bechara (2020).
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About the book
The Fault in Our Stars is a novel by John Green. It is his fourth solo novel, and sixth novel overall. It was published on January 10, 2012.
On screen
This book has been adapted for the screen 2 times — from 2014 to 2020.
Adaptation data: Wikidata · On screen →
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.9 across 3,571 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 96% of the weight and the score stays at 7.9 — the Romance average of 7.6 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.4 | 222 | 6% |
| Google Books | 9.0 | 94 | 3% |
| Hardcover | 7.8 | 3.3K | 91% |
Frequently asked
What age is The Fault in Our Stars for?
The Fault in Our Stars sits on the Young adult shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 13 and up. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 318 pages — shorter than 85% of the ranked books in Romance.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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