Rediscover the bright new literary lights of years past with this retrospective of previous Discover Great New Writers selections.
Fall 2005
- Across the Savage Sea by Maud Fontenoy
- The Dancing Girls of Lahore by Louise Brown
- Dangerous Doses by Katherine Eban
- Death and the Sun by Edward Lewine
- The Devil's Teeth by Susan Casey
- Entanglements by Tora Johnson
- The First Verse by Barry McCrea
- The Gift of Valor by Michael M. Phillips
- The Hill Road by Patrick O'Keeffe
- The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
- Incendiary by Chris Cleave
- Johnny Mad Dog by Emmanuel Dongala
- The Lady and the Panda by Vicki Constantine Croke
- Little Chapel on the River by Gwendolyn Bounds
- Man Camp by Adrienne Brodeur
- Margarettown by Gabrielle Zevin
- The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
- Oh The Glory of It All by Sean Wilsey
- Tenney's Landing by Catherine Tudish
- The Tricky Part by Martin Moran
- You Poor Monster by Michael Kun
Summer 2005
- The Red Carpet by Lavanya Sankaran
- Small Island by Andrea Levy
- Descent by Brad Matsen
- A Month of Sundays by Julie Mars
- Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
- In the Shadows of the Sun by Alexander Parsons
- Sowbelly by Monte Burke
- On American Soil by Jack Hamann
- The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
- The Education of Arnold Hitler by Marc Estrin
- Sweetness & Light by Hattie Ellis
- Robbing the Bees by Holly Bishop
- The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw
- A Long Stay in a Distant Land by Chieh Chieng
- The Transformation by Catherine Chidgey
- A Factory of Cunning by Philippa Stockley
- Metropolis by Elizabeth Gaffney
- Misfortune by Wesley Stace
- Towelhead by Alicia Erian
- Looking for Alaska by John Green
Spring 2004
- A Brush with Darkness by Lisa Fittipaldi
- Calamity & Other Stories by Daphne Kalotay
- Drive Like Hell by Dallas Hudgens
- The Family Tree by Carole Cadwalladr
- Fool's Tale by Nicole Galland
- Let's Do by Rebecca Meacham
- The Life She's Chosen by Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum
- The Lost German Slave Girl by John Bailey
- My Father's Rifle by Hiner Saleem
- The Rock Orchard by Paula Wall
- Smashed by Koren Zailckas
- Snobs by Julian Fellowes
- The Society of Others by William Nicholson
Holiday 2005
- Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
- A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
- Cotton by Christopher Wilson
- The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall
- Infidelities by Josip Novakovich
- The Jungle Law by Victoria Vinton
- Kung Fu High School by Ryan Gattis
- Marly & Me by John Grogan
- Minaret by Leila Aboulela
- One Bullet Away by Nathaniel C. Fick
- Passion by Jude Morgan
- Pigtopia by Kelly Fitzgerald
- The River of Doubt by Candice Millard
- The Summer of Ordinary Ways by Nicole Lea Helget
- The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer
- What the Stones Remember by Patrick Lane
