{"id":18113,"date":"2013-02-19T22:40:38","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T02:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=18113"},"modified":"2013-02-19T23:08:09","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T03:08:09","slug":"stand-out-author-john-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=18113","title":{"rendered":"Stand-out Author: John Green"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>One of the lovely things about this being my 12th year of posting Sonderbooks Stand-outs<\/a>, my favorite books of my reading year, is that I can take the long view. I’m doing a series on Stand-out Authors<\/a> featuring people with a book on my 2012 Sonderbooks Stand-outs<\/a> who have appeared on my lists before.<\/p>\n

There were four authors with 5 Sonderbooks Stand-outs, and there are six with 3. But only one author has a total of 4 Sonderbooks Stand-outs: John Green.<\/p>\n

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\n(Here are David Levithan and John Green when I accosted them at the opening of the 2010 ALA Annual Conference Exhibits.)<\/p>\n

My son got me following John’s video blog years ago, but I may have been attracted to An Abundance of Katherines<\/em> by the mathematical symbols on the cover and the storyline that included a math genius. That was the year I didn’t get all my stand-outs reviewed, but An Abundance of Katherines<\/em> was #4 in Contemporary Teen Fiction on my 2007 Sonderbooks Stand-outs<\/a>.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Now, really I suppose I should say that John Green has 3.33 Sonderbooks Stand-outs (which is a cool number in itself). Because on my 2008 Sonderbooks Stand-outs<\/a>, he had 1.33 books make an appearance. Paper Towns<\/a><\/em> was #2 in Contemporary Teen Fiction, and Let It Snow<\/a><\/em> was #3. \"\"<\/a>Since he only wrote a third of Let It Snow<\/em>, the rest being written by Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle, you can see why I say he has 3.33 Stand-outs.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And then there was this year’s Sonderbooks Stand-out<\/a>, the truly outstanding The Fault in Our Stars<\/a><\/em>. This was #9 in Teen Fiction, but this time I didn’t separate out the Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Contemporary. The Fault in Our Stars<\/em> was, in fact, the only Contemporary Teen Novel to appear on my list this year, so that makes it #1 in its category.<\/p>\n

At the start of 2012, I got to hear John speak at ALA Midwinter Meeting in Dallas, and he’s a great speaker as well. I’m happy that he’s young — because the chances are good that he will write many more great books before he’s done. He never forgets to be Awesome!<\/p>\n

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