Rediscover the bright new literary lights of years past with this retrospective of previous Discover Great New Writers selections.
Fall 2003
- A Blade of Grass by Lewis DeSoto
- The Student Conductor by Robert Ford
- Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village by Sarah Erdman
- Dakhmeh by Naveed Noori
- Brick Lane by Monica Ali
- The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
- Cookoff: Recipe Fever in America by Amy Sutherland
- Where No Gods Came by Sheila O'Connor
- How to Breathe Underwater: Stories by Julie Orringer
- Timoleon Vieta Come Home: A Sentimental Journey by Dan Rhodes
- Code Name Ginger: The Story Behind Segway and Dean Kamen's Quest to Invent a New World by Steve Kemper
- An Hour in Paradise: Stories by Joan Leegant
- Parasites Like Us by Adam Johnson
- Out by Natsuo Kirino, Stephen Snyder (Translator)
- The Language of Blood: A Memoir by Jane Jeong Trenka
Summer 2003
- Schopenhauer's Telescope by Gerard Donovan
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- The Verb "To Bird": Sightings of an Avid Birder by Peter Cashwell
- The Secret Life of Cowboys by Tom Groneberg
- On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction by Karl Iagnemma
- A Palestine Affair by Jonathan Wilson
- In the Shadow of Memory by Floyd Skloot
- The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox by Jennifer Carrell
- Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor
- Stillness and Other Stories by Courtney Angela Brkic
- The Speckled People by Hugo Hamilton
- Beauty Before Comfort by Allison Glock
- Approximately Heaven by James Whorton
- Men and Other Mammals by Jim Keeble
- Mountains of the Mind by Robert MacFarlane
- Baghdad Express: A Gulf War Memoir by Joel Turnipseed
- King of Odessa by Robert A. Rosenstone
- After Moses by Karen Mockler
- The Laws of Evening by Mary Yukari Waters
- The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius Who Discovered a New History of the Earth by Alan Cutler
- Lucas by Kevin Brooks
Spring 2003
- Our Father Who Art in a Tree by Judy Pascoe, Kate Medina (Editor)
- Gilgamesh by Joan London
- In Search of Zarathustra: The First Prophet and the Ideas That Changed the World by Paul Kriwaczek
- A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
- Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath by Kate Moses
- The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
- The House on Beartown Road: A Memoir of Learning and Forgetting by Elizabeth Cohen
- The Life You Save May Be Your Own by Paul Elie
- The Newsboys' Lodging House, or, the Confessions of William James by Jon Boorstin
- Crawfish Dreams by Nancy Rawles
- Lily Dale: The True Story of the Town That Talks to the Dead by Christine Wicker
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
- Duende: A Journey Into The Heart Of Flamenco by Jason Webster
- Green Grass Grace by Shawn McBride
- Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories from a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman
- The Long Ball: The Summer of '75 -- Spaceman, Catfish, Charlie Hustle, and the Greatest World Series Ever Played by Tom Adelman
- Marching Home: To War and Back with the Men of One American Town by Kevin Coyne
- The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco by Marilyn Chase
- Some of the Parts by T. Cooper
- Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey by Rachel Simon
Winter 2003
- Friday Nights at Honeybee's by Andrea Smith, Susan Kamil (Editor)
- The Sewing Circles of Herat by Christina Lamb
- The Country under My Skin by Gioconda Belli, Giocanda Belli, Kristina Cordero (Translator)
- The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya, Jamey Gambrell (Translator)
- The Angel with One Hundred Wings by Daniel Horch
- A Sideways Look at Time by Jay Griffiths
- The Devil That Danced on the Water by Aminatta Forna
- Beginner's Luck by Laura Pedersen
- Mister Posterior and the Genius Child by Emily Jenkins
- The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken by Terry Teachout
- The Frozen-Water Trade by Gavin Weightman
- Mr. Lincoln's Wars by Adam Braver
- This Is Cuba by Ben Corbett
- Great White Fathers by John Taliaferro
