Last year, after posting my Sonderbooks Stand-outs, I did a series on Stand-out Authors, and I’m going to do it again. I will highlight people whose books are Sonderbooks Stand-outs this year, and not for the first time.
This year, there was only one author who appeared more than once — and she appeared four times! Last year,
Juliet Marillier had a total of six Sonderbooks Stand-outs to her name. This year, she has ten!
I already featured her earlier books, so let’s just look at the four I read this year.
She had #2 and #3 in Fiction with further books in the Sevenwaters series, The Seer of Sevenwaters and Flame of Sevenwaters. (I couldn’t really decide which one was better, so I just put them in order!)
In Teen Fiction, she had #5, Raven 
Flight, the sequel to last year’s Sonderbooks Stand-out, Shadowfell.
After reading those, I decided it was high time I catch up on the books she’d written before I discovered her. Now, lately I spend most of my reading time reading books written in the current year. But Juliet Marillier’s Heart’s Blood was well worth making an exception for, and ended up #6 in Fiction.
So not only did Juliet Marillier end up with the most Sonderbooks Stand-outs this year, she’s got twice as many total as the person with the next most.
I definitely need to start calling her one of my favorite authors. And I’ll be seeking out more of her backlist this year, so I have a feeling her name is going to be prominent among 2014 Sonderbooks Stand-outs as well.
Which of her backlist should I read next? Please let me know in the comments!