Is there an audiobook of The Fault in Our Stars?

Yes. The Fault in Our Stars has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by John Green, Kate Rudd, and Laura Grafton.

How long is the The Fault in Our Stars audiobook?

The The Fault in Our Stars audiobook runs 7 hr 11 min.

Is The Fault in Our Stars on Kindle Unlimited?

No. The Fault in Our Stars was not included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on July 11, 2026.

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green book cover for the Book of the Day young adult book review

Our score

4.6/ 5

Outstanding

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EDITION PUBLISHEDJanuary 2012

Genres

Fiction Young Adult Contemporary

Themes

Mortality and the wish to leave a markLove as a form of paying close attentionThe limits of books and stories to fix real painHumor as a way of holding grief at arm's length

The Fault in Our Stars

Name: The Fault in Our Stars
Price: 9.99 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: John Green

John Green

John Green's The Fault in Our Stars follows Hazel Grace Lancaster, a teenager living with terminal cancer, through a love story with Augustus Waters that is funny and devastating in the same breath, told in prose sharp enough to survive its own sadness.

The Review

Our take

Hazel Grace narrates this book the way a smart, tired person tells you something true they've had a long time to think about: precise, funny at unexpected moments, allergic to self-pity even when self-pity would be justified. That voice is the whole engine. Green gives her a habit of noticing the absurd bureaucracy of illness, the support group platitudes, the oxygen tank she calls Philip, and lets the humor sit right next to the fact of her dying without ever using one to soften the other.

Augustus Waters walks into that support group circle with an unlit cigarette in his mouth, a metaphor he explains before anyone asks, and the courtship that follows is built almost entirely out of talk: books passed back and forth, a shared obsession with a reclusive novelist, long conversations that circle around what it means to matter after you're gone. Green trusts dialogue to carry the romance, and it works because Augustus and Hazel actually listen to each other, correct each other, needle each other. Their attraction reads as two specific minds finding each other, not a type meeting a type.

The trip to Amsterdam is where the book takes its biggest formal risk, sending two sick teenagers across an ocean to meet a writer neither of them should trust with their hope. What happens there recalibrates the whole story, not through a twist so much as a collision between what Hazel wants literature to give her and what it's actually able to give anyone. Green is a careful enough craftsman to let that disappointment register without curdling into cynicism, and the scene that follows in a museum garden is the tenderest thing in the book, a small unhurried moment that says more about wanting to be remembered than anything said aloud.

Green's sentences do something the premise makes almost impossible: they keep being playful. A running joke about a video game, a habit of trading favorite words, an infinity sign scrawled somewhere it shouldn't be. All of that keeps the book from turning into a straight tragedy, and readers who go in braced for nonstop devastation may be surprised by how much room there is to laugh before the ending arrives. When it does arrive, Green refuses easy comfort. He doesn't let a death organize itself into a lesson, and the eulogy that closes the book argues, gently but firmly, against tidy meaning-making altogether.

Why you should read

Readers who want grief handled with humor instead of solemnity
Fans of dialogue-driven romance between two sharply drawn narrators
Anyone drawn to stories that question what books and fame are actually for
Readers who prefer an ending that resists tidy comfort

What to expect

A first-person voice that is witty even at its most serious
A slow-built romance carried mostly through conversation
A pivotal trip abroad that reshapes the story's direction
An ending that earns its tears without manufacturing a moral

What lingers isn't the illness. It's the specific, stubborn insistence that a short life and a small book can still leave a mark on the world shaped exactly like a person, unrepeatable and irreplaceable, long after the person is gone.

Reviewed by Avery · How our reviews are written

Our verdict

4.6/ 5

Outstanding

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Is there an audiobook of The Fault in Our Stars?: Yes. The Fault in Our Stars has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by John Green, Kate Rudd, and Laura Grafton.
Listen to The Fault in Our Stars free with an Audible trial
We earn from qualifying Amazon purchases.
How long is the The Fault in Our Stars audiobook?: The The Fault in Our Stars audiobook runs 7 hr 11 min.
Is The Fault in Our Stars on Kindle Unlimited?: No. The Fault in Our Stars was not included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on July 11, 2026.
How much does The Fault in Our Stars cost?: On Amazon: Kindle $9.99, Paperback $6.79, Hardcover $10.47. Prices as of August 22, 2026 at 3:45 AM EDT and may change.

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Common questions

What is The Fault in Our Stars about?: Hazel Grace narrates this book the way a smart, tired person tells you something true they've had a long time to think about: precise, funny at unexpected moments, allergic to self-pity even when self-pity would be justified. That voice is the whole engine. Green gives her a habit of noticing the…
Is The Fault in Our Stars worth reading?: We scored The Fault in Our Stars 4.6 out of 5. John Green's The Fault in Our Stars follows Hazel Grace Lancaster, a teenager living with terminal cancer, through a love story with Augustus Waters that is funny and devastating in the same breath, told in prose sharp enough to survive its own sadness.