Who is Your favoite Novelist?

[goodcookinmama]

i collect books by afro americans i have quite a large collectoion so i will have to say
itstoo many good ones that i cant choose cause i take my reading just like my cookin serious so i like all of them well the one that i have anyway iam very careful in selecting my booksthey cost to much but i love em

[CooperSale]

I don't know if I have any favorites. I'm always trying to read something new, so I have a new favorite all the time. Right now it's maybe China Mieville. They guy writes some creepy stuff. Check out The Scar or Perdido Street Station.

[quirkygrrl]

I see there are some other Octavia Butler fans here. She is my favorite by far. I also like Zadie Smith and Walter Mosley.

[Auset32]

I have many, but here goes: Peter Abrahams,Ernest Gaines, Octavia Butler,Alice Walker,Margaret Walker,Maryse Conde',Gloria Naylor, Buchi Emecheta,Frank Yerby(from my young days)Toni Morrison(some of her works)

Though I have read tons of books I previously eschewed fiction. So far my favorites are Tony Morrison and Ralph Ellison.

[MadameX]

Originally Posted by Auset32

Margaret Walker,Toni Morrison

I read many of their works over the years.

[MadameX]

J.A. Rogers

[Celeste]

Must I choose just one? Only one? Impossible! Hmmmm...okay then, my favorite novelist (this month) is Rebecca Walker. But I reserve the right to change my "favorite" on a monthly basis.

[Corals]

Originally Posted by quirkygrrl

I see there are some other Octavia Butler fans here. She is my favorite by far. I also like Zadie Smith and Walter Mosley.

I also like Zadie Smith, Walter Mosley and of course Brandon Massey.

[402sista]

I can't just choose one. I am an avid reader and value all of my books as I do my children. But just to name a few Brenda Jackson, Octavia Butler, Tananarive Due, E Lynn Harris, L. A. Banks, Pearl Cleage, Lolita Files...the list could go on....