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Everything Is Tuberculosis
- Author
- John Green
- Narrator
- John Green
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 20 March 2025
- Run Time
- 5 hours 36 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Health, illness or addiction: social aspects, History: plagues, diseases, famines, Popular medicine and health: the human body, Social and cultural history, Popular science, History of science
- Rating
- 4.9 (17 reviews)
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What to expect
Brought to you by Penguin.
Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.
In 2019, John Green met Henry, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone while traveling with Partners in Health. 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 and dynamic advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, treatable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing 1.5 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.
© John Green 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025
Critics Review
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Earnest and empathetic
New York Times
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Everything Is Tuberculosis doesn’t so much tell you the story of tuberculosis, as much as it gently holds your hand and parts the curtains into one of the darkest, most bizarre, and frustrating series of decisions in world history with the other... A quintessential John Green book: one that grapples with the issue of mortality and our conflicting desires to both help and hurt one another, all within the backdrop of the coming of age of a young man
Slate
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Green uses the stories of real people to turn overwhelming problems into something personal and understandable.
The Associated Press
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This highly readable call to action could not be more timely
Kirkus, starred review
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Henry’s story is hopeful and heartbreaking; readers will be rooting for him and his family the whole way through
SLJ, starred review
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Green writes expertly of the illness’s history, causes (malnutrition, poverty, bad sanitation, etc.), and cure… Insightful and extremely well and clearly written, Everything Is Tuberculosis makes what might be inaccessible accessible
Booklist, starred review
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In these challenging times, the global health community is fortunate to count on Green and his inspiring advocacy
Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD, The Lancet
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A story of hope and tragedy that feels terribly relevant at a time when the global healthcare system is coming under attack.
The AV Club
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An exceptional combination of memoir, medical history and cultural analysis…. Memorably probes the intersections of medicine and human emotion
BookPage, starred review
User Reviews
Book 4.9
Narration 4.9
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5.0 5.0
The dangers of widespread belief that a disease has been eliminated and the tedious infuriating unnecessary barriers to doing so writ large. John Green brings his humanity and incisive anxiety to an important story we all think is a thing of the past.
CAD1 2026-06-29 -
5.0 4.0
Very interesting book looking at the history and current state to TB and how it's treated. Very easy listening, quite enjoyable narrative built to highlight the extent to which TB is a massive health issue.
ahbuggrit 2026-04-22 -
5.0 5.0
A snappy, moving, well-researched, and illuminating book on tuberculosis, which somehow is connected to everything from beauty standards and cowboy hats to deep social injustices and superstitions. It is a motivating read, and I'm certainly planning on integrating donations to Partners in Health and other TB charities into my yearly donations!
SedgeWren 2026-03-18 -
5.0 5.0
A ridiculously interesting book about medicine, social (in)justice, capitalism and human connection, love, grief and hope. Filled with interesting facts that help to move the narrative forward. Couldn't stop listening!
seltzer 2025-04-04
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5.0 5.0
Polo.
An essential book that does not shy away from the gruesome realities of disease and injustice, and yet is filled with hope.ReyEames 2025-03-22
Details
- Author
- John Green
- Narrator
- John Green
- Duration
- 5 hours 36 minutes
- Release Date
- 20 March 2025
- ISBN
- 9781529962475
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Genre
- Health, illness or addiction: social aspects, History: plagues, diseases, famines, Popular medicine and health: the human body, Social and cultural history, Popular science, History of science
- Rating
- 4.9(17 reviews)
- Narration
- 4.9(17 reviews)
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.In 2019, John Green met Henry, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone while traveling with Partners in Health. 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 and dynamic advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, treatable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing 1.5 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.© John Green 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025
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