Book Riot Readers' Favorite Writers of Color

	A	B
1	Toni Morisson	88
2	Octavia Butler	59
3	Junot Diaz	55
4	Zadie Smith	39
5	Sherman Alexie	37
6	Jhumpa Lahiri	29
7	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	27
8	N. K. Jemisin	27
9	Malinda Lo	26
10	Haruki Murakami	24
11	Zola Neale Hurston	21
12	Tayari Jones	20
13	Alice Walker	17
14	Amy Tan	16
15	Maya Angelou	16
16	Isabel Allende	15
17	Sandra Cisneros	15
18	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	14
19	Kazuo Ishiguro	14
20	Colson Whitehead	13
21	Jesmyn Ward	12
22	Khaled Hosseini	11
23	Langston Hughes	11
24	Sheri Booker	11
25	James Baldwin	10
26	Nnedi Okorafor	9
27	Salman Rushdie	9
28	Walter Mosely	9
29	Christopher Paul Curtis	8
30	Edwidge Danticat	8
31	Roxane Gay	8
32	Taiye Selasi	8
33	Bernice McFadden	7
34	James McBride	7
35	Percival Everett	7
36	Ruth Ozeki	7
37	Ralph Ellison	6
38	Richard Wright	6
39	Chinua Achebe	5
40	Cindy Pon	5
41	Edward P Jones	5
42	Helen Oyeyemi	5
43	Justin Torres	5
44	Louise Erdrich	5
45	Marie Lu	5
46	Rita Williams Garcia	5
47	Arundhati Roy	4
48	Benjamin Alire Saenz	4
49	Carlos Ruiz Zafon	4
50	Coe Booth	4
51	John Edgar Wideman	4
52	Kiese Laymon	4
53	Nalo Hopkinson	4
54	Ngugi wa Thiong'o	4
55	Alaya Dawn Johnson	3
56	Alexander Dumas	3
57	Amitav Ghosh	3
58	Aravind Adiga	3
59	Ben Okri	3
60	Betty Tucker	3
61	Chang-Rae Lee	3
62	Dagoberto Gilb	3
63	Gloria Anzaldua	3
64	Jacqueline Woodson	3
65	Julia Alvarez	3
66	Laura Esquivel	3
67	Lawrence Hill	3
68	Leonard Pitts	3
69	Malorie Blackman	3
70	Michael Ondaatje	3
71	Pearl Cleage	3
72	Roberto Bolaño	3
73	Saladin Ahmed	3
74	Sherri L Smith	3
75	Stephen L. Carter	3
76	Tananarive Due	3
77	Tao Lin	3
78	Teju Cole	3
79	Abraham Verghese	2
80	Alex Haley	2
81	Ana Castillo	2
82	Anchee Min	2
83	Andrea Levy	2
84	Anel I. Flores	2
85	Angela Johnson	2
86	Audre Lorde	2
87	August Wilson	2
88	Banana Yoshimoto	2
89	Bebe Moore Cambell	2
90	bell hooks	2
91	Charles Yu	2
92	Cherrie Moraga	2
93	Chitra Banarjee Divakaruni	2
94	David Anthony Durham	2
95	Eddie Huang	2
96	Ellen Oh	2
97	Grace Lin	2
98	Hari Kunzru	2
99	Jenny Han	2
100	Jorge Luis Borges	2