MARCH 2026
 
Everything Is Tuberculosis:
The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
by John Green

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.
 
History of medicine, Social advocacy, Well researched, Inspiring
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green
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  Everything is Tuberculosis was the Goodreads Choice Award
  Winner for Non-Fiction in 2025. 
  Check out the other nominees! 
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Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves by Sophie Gilbert
No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson by Gardiner Harris
Are You Mad at Me?: How to Stop Focusing on What Others Think and Start Living for You by Meg Josephson
Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy by Mary Roach
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: National Book Award by Omar El Akkad
The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy by James Patterson
Abundance by Ezra Klein
Is a River Alive?: A Journey with Water by Robert MacFarlane
The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces by Seth Harp
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers by Caroline Fraser
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do about It by Cory Doctorow
You Didn't Hear This from Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip by Kelsey McKinney
The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life by Sahil Bloom
 
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