dialect in novels

[Douglas Bigham]

For current(ish) novels, "L.A. Confidential" by James Ellroy uses AAVEish stuff alot and a major plot line concerns racial politics, so it's interesting to see how the author constructed dialect.
Some others that I don't remember very well include:
Also, "A Man in Full" by Tom Wolfe
"Cotton Comes to Harlem" by Chester Himes
"Devil in a Blue Dress" by Walter Mosley
"Nigger Heaven" by Carl Van Vecten

Also, although not current, two MAJOR works should be kept in consideration:
"Pudd'nhead Wilson" by Mark Twian
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe
These two are great for dialect.

-dsb