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John Green's Next Novel Has A Release Date

This will be the first novel in six years (!!!) for the "Fault in Our Stars" author.
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YA fans, this is not a drill: Entertainment Weekly reports that John Green’s next novel will be hitting shelves Oct. 10.

Green is the author of hit young adult novels The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns, both of which have been made into films. His books have been hugely successful, selling more than 45 million copies worldwide and positioning him among the world’s top-earning authors according to Forbes lists in 2014, 2015 and 2016.

He shared news of the new book, called Turtles All the Way Down, with his 5.31 million followers on Twitter.

The book follows 16-year-old Aza Holmes, who copes with mental illness while investigating a missing fugitive billionaire.

In a statement per Publishers Weekly, Green said he’s been working on this new novel for “years” — and that it has a personal meaning to him. 

“This is my first attempt to write directly about the kind of mental illness that has affected my life since childhood, so while the story is fictional, it is also quite personal,” he said in a statement.

Dutton Books, the novel’s publisher, describes the story as one “about lifelong friendship, the intimacy of an unexpected reunion, ‘Star Wars’ fan fiction, and tuatara.”

Yeah, we had to look up “tuatara” too: They’re medium-sized reptiles native to New Zealand. Apparently, they’re the only surviving member of an order that dates back to the dinosaurs. Intriguing!

Here’s one being shown to then-Prime Minister of New Zealand John Key in 2012.

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Hannah Peters via Getty Images

Here’s Prince Harry greeting a tuatara that is 100 years old.

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Not to be outdone, Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall have also posed with one.

 

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No word on how tuatara will feel about their newfound fame come October.

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12 Banned Books Every Woman Should Read
Beloved -- Toni Morrison, 1987(01 of12)
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This 1987 novel won the Frederic G. Melcher Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for its stunning narrative of a mother haunted by her young child's death. It also contains violence, sexual content and discussions of bestiality. As recently as 2013, parents have tried to remove Belovedfrom high school reading lists.
The Handmaid’s Tale -- Margaret Atwood, 1985(02 of12)
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In a dystopian society ruled by the religious right, a woman is kept as a "handmaid" by a family in the ruling class in the hopes that she'll provide them with a child.The Handmaid's Tale was considered too "explicit" and anti-religious to be read in a Texas high school.
The Color Purple -- Alice Walker, 1982(03 of12)
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The Color Purple follows the lives of several African-American women in the 1930s South. Racism and sexism are key themes, and the novel's violent scenes have made it a target for censors -- even though the book won the Pulitzer Prize in 1983.
The Lovely Bones -- Alice Sebold, 2002(04 of12)
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After a teenage girl is raped and murdered, she watches from her own personal "heaven" as her friends, family and community come to terms with the tragedy. Parents at high schools in Connecticut and Massachusetts asked for the book's removal from libraries and reading lists due to its "frightening material."
Lady Chatterley's Lover -- D.H. Lawrence, 1928(05 of12)
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The story of a sexual relationship between an upper-class woman and a working-class man was considered too scandalous for many. The book was banned by U.S. Customs from 1929 to 1959, and the full text was not available in Britain until 1960.
Our Bodies, Ourselves -- Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, 1971(06 of12)
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Written by women for women and intended to provide the basis for a women's health course, the book covers health and sexuality topics like gender identity, birth control, sexual pleasure, menopause and childbirth. Pretty racy stuff in the early '70s. The book was challenged in West Virginia in 1977 “because someone thought it was pornographic, encouraged homosexuality and was filthy."
Their Eyes Were Watching God -- Zora Neale Hurston, 1937(07 of12)
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In Neale Hurston's novel, an African-American woman tells her tumultuous life story to a close friend. The book has been challenged due to "sexual explicitness."
The Awakening -- Kate Chopin, 1899(08 of12)
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The Awakening's main character is searching for a role outside of that prescribed by society -- a wife and mother. The novel was censored for its "immoral" storyline and sexual content, and called "poison" in one of many critical newspaper reviews.
Tropic Of Cancer -- Henry Miller, 1934(09 of12)
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First published in France in 1934, Tropic Of Cancer -- which follows a young struggling writer's sexual encounters -- wasn't distributed in the U.S. until 1961. Even then, more than 60 booksellers in 21 different states faced obscenity lawsuits for selling the novel. When the Supreme Court ruled in 1966 that the book was not obscene, Pennsylvania state Supreme Court justice Michael Musmanno dissented, writing: "Cancer is not a book. It is a cesspool, an open sewer, a pit of putrefaction, a slimy gathering of all that is rotten in the debris of human depravity."
Speak -- Laurie Halse Anderson, 1999(10 of12)
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This YA novel about the aftermath of a teen girl's rape is a New York Times Bestseller, but has nonetheless been challenged in Missouri schools for "glorification of drinking, cursing, and premarital sex."
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings -- Maya Angelou, 1969(11 of12)
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Angelou's biography and coming-of-age story features many of the trials of her young life including her rape as a child. Parents and schools have argued that the book contains too much profanity and encourages "deviant behavior."
The Well Of Loneliness -- Radclyffe Hall, 1928(12 of12)
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This novel about lesbian relationships in the 1920s was just too much for some. A British court found the novel obscene for alluding to "unnatural practices between women," and the book was challenged immediately after publication in the U.S.
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