He won the 2006 Printz Award for his debut novel, Looking for Alaska, and his fourth solo novel, The Fault in Our Stars, debuted at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list in January 2012.
Ia memenangkan Printz Award pada tahun 2006 atas novel pertamanya, Looking for Alaska, dan novel terbarunya, The Fault in Our Stars, masuk posisi pertama di daftar The New York Times Best Seller pada Januari 2012.