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Mary Monroe is a New York Times bestselling African-American fiction author. She is best known for her novel God Don't Like Ugly (originally published in fall 2000), and the series revolved around the characters first introduced in this book. 

Michael Connelly is the author of numerous novels, which have sold more than eighty-nine million copies worldwide. Connelly is a former newspaper reporter who has won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels. He is the executive producer of four television series: Bosch, Bosch: Legacy, The Lincoln Lawyer, and Ballard. 

Nicholas Sparks wrote one of his best-known stories, The Notebook, over a period of six months at age 28. It was published in 1996 and spent 56 weeks on the New York Times hardcover best-seller list, followed by another 54 weeks on the paperback list. Sparks has had a string of New York Times bestsellers. Along with his wife, he founded The Epiphany School in New Bern, North Carolina, and the Nicholas Sparks Foundation.

Nita Prose is a #1 New York Times bestselling author. A Good Morning America Book Club pick, The Maid won the Ned Kelly Award for International Crime Fiction, the Fingerprint Award for Debut Novel of the Year, the Anthony Award for Best First Novel, and the Barry Award for Best First Mystery. The Maid was also an Edgar Award finalist for Best Novel.

Nora Roberts is an American bestselling author of more than 300 novels. She has won numerous awards, including multiple Lifetime Achievement Awards, and has been inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. She also has an award named after her. She is considered a legend in the romance writing world.

Patricia Briggs is the #1 New York Times best selling author of the Mercy Thompson series. She has short stories in several anthologies, as well as a series of comic books and graphic novels based on her Mercy Thompson and Alpha and Omega series. She made the New York Times Best Seller List with her title's Silence Fallen and Burn Bright.

Patricia Cornwell is a contemporary American crime writer. Her novel Postmortem is the only novel ever to win the Edgar, Creasey, Anthony, and Macavity awards as well as the French Prix du Roman d'Adventure, in one year. Her books have sold more than 100 million copies. 

Raina Telgemeier is the adapter and illustrator of four Baby-sitters Club graphic novels, the co-author of X-Men: Misfits, which made the New York Times' Graphic Books Bestseller List, and the author and illustrator of Smile, which was recently named an Honor Book in the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards. 
 

Rebecca Yarros is the #1 New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of over twenty novels, including Fourth Wing and In the Likely Event, with multiple starred Publishers Weekly reviews and a Kirkus Best Book of the Year.  

Richard Osman is an author and television presenter. His novels, The Thursday Murder Club, The Man Who Died Twice, The Bullet That Missed, and The Last Devil to Die, were number one, million-copy international bestsellers as well as New York Times bestsellers. He lives in London with his wife, Ingrid, and Liesl the cat. 

Rick Riordan is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of over 20 novels for young readers. He is also the author of the multi-award-winning Tres Navarre mystery series for adults. He has won Edgar, Anthony, and Shamus Awards for his mystery novels.

Riley Sager is the pseudonym of Todd Ritter.  He is a New York Times bestselling author of nine novels, and his title Final Girls won the 2018 International Thriller Writers Awards

Robin Cook, M.D., is the author of more than forty books and is credited with creating the medical-thriller genre with his groundbreaking and wildly successful 1977 novel, Coma. His most recent bestsellers include Manner of Death, Night Shift, Viral, Genesis, Pandemic, and Charlatans. Cook divides his time between Florida, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.

Robyn Carr is a popular author of romance and women’s fiction. Eleven of her novels have earned the No. 1 spot on the New York Times bestsellers list. In 2016, she received the Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award from the Romance Writers of America. 

S. A. Cosby is a New York Times bestselling writer from southeastern Virginia. He is the author of All the Sinners Bleed, which was on more than forty Best of the Year lists, including Barack Obama's.  He has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anthony Award, ITW Thriller Award, Barry Award, Macavity Award, BCALA Award, and Audie Award.