Hank Green Unveils Cover, Preorder For Sophomore Novel ‘A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor’

Hank Green’s authorial journey has seemingly just begun.

The YouTube luminary, who released his debut novel — An Absolutely Remarkable Thing — in Sept. 2018, is set to release a follow-up tome titled A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor on July 7, 2020. Green unveiled the book’s cover on his social channels today, as well as a preorder in the U.S. and the U.K. at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, IndieBound, and Waterstones.

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing followed a 23-year-old named April May, who stumbled upon a giant, mysterious sculpture amid the appearance of similar structures in dozens of cities across the globe. The first book followed April’s navigation of online fame, as a chronicler of the statues on her YouTube channel. In Foolish, the statues have disappeared as mysteriously as they arrived. And, according to a jacket description, the novel will follow the fallout amid April’s friend group, while a series of clues arrive that seemingly suggest to the group that she may still be alive.

Like its predecessor, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor will explore sweeping questions like how young people live online, as well as how to find comfort in an increasingly isolated world. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing debuted at No. 1 on The New York Times Best Sellers list in the ‘Hardcover Fiction’ category. In the category combining hardcover and ebook sales, however, it debuted at No. 2.

A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor is being published by Penguin imprint Dutton.

Green is perhaps best known for co-hosting the VlogBrothers YouTube channel with his brother, John Green, who is also a celebrated YA writer. The Green brothers are also the founders of VidCon, as well as a number of different YouTube channels and audio series — including, most recently, a YouTube channel about microscopic life titled Journey To The Microcosmos and a podcast titled SciShow Tangents.