Everything Is Tuberculosis
The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
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4.5 • 26 Ratings
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Publisher Description
#1 New York Times bestseller • #1 Washington Post bestseller • #1 Indie Bestseller • USA Today Bestseller
John Green, award-winning author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease.
AN ACCLAIMED BEST BOOK OF 2025: NPR, Scientific American, Science News, Booklist, BookPage, Chicago Sun-Times. Goodreads Readers’ Choice Nonfiction Winner.
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.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A curable disease kills over one million people every year, and John Green wants you to know why. While visiting a hospital in Sierra Leone, the Fault in Our Stars author met a boy named Henry, whose battle with tuberculosis became a catalyst for the writer’s deep dive into the disease’s history and ongoing devastation. What Green discovered was staggering: Despite being preventable and treatable, TB continues to thrive, not because of medical limitations but due to systemic inequality, corporate greed, and political neglect. Blending history, science, and personal narrative, Green’s vivid storytelling brings urgent attention to a disease long dismissed as a relic of the past. His ability to connect the human element with the systemic makes Everything Is Tuberculosis as compelling as it is unsettling. Alarming, deeply personal, and impossible to ignore, this read will open your eyes to a global health crisis that should have ended long ago.
Customer Reviews
A tour de force!
It is rare to read a book that so compassionately links information with real people. This book is a tour de force!
Everything is also injustice
Amazing book outlining a long history of this awful disease. I learned so much and am now compelled to learn more. I encourage everyone to read this and take action.