Rediscover the bright new literary lights of years past with this retrospective of previous Discover Great New Writers selections.
Fall 2001
- Mosaic by Diane Armstrong
- Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
- Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
- Strip City by Lily Burana
- Arresting God in Kathmandu by Samrat Upadhyay
- Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold
- Fugitive Days by Bill Ayers
- The Earthquake Bird by Susanna Jones
- Peace like a River by Leif Enger
- Rowing to Latitude by Jill A. Fredston
- Pretty Is as Pretty Does by Alison Clement
- The Ash Garden by Dennis Bock
- Dangerous Beauty: Life and Death in Africa by Mark C. Ross
- The Captain's Wife by Douglas Kelley
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie, Ina Rilke (trans.)
- Trials of the Monkey by Matthew Chapman
- Silence in October by Jens Christian Grondahl
- Juno & Juliet by Julian Gough
- Stuffed by Patricia Volk
- Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards
- Last Year's River by Allen Morris Jones
Summer 2001
- Kissing in Manhattan by David Schickler
- The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
- Mauve by Simon Garfield
- Staircase of a Thousand Steps by Masha Hamilton
- The Nature of Water and Air by Regina McBride
- Heart of the Old Country by Tim McLoughlin
- Renovations by John Marchese
- White Swan, Black Swan by Adrienne Sharp
- The Muse Asylum by David Czuchlewski
- Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides
- Georgia Under Water by Heather Sellers
- The Salt Letters by Christine Balint
- Flight by Jose Skinner
- Edgewater Angels by Sandro Meallet
- The Carpenter's Pencil by Manuel Rivas, Jonathan Dunne (trans.)
- A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Baca
- Brothel by Alexa Albert
- The Columnist by Jeffrey Frank
- The Center of Things by Jenny McPhee
- Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
- Appointment with II Duce by Hozy Rossi
- American Chica by Marie Arana
Spring 2001
- Columbus Slaughters Braves by Mark Friedman
- The Unwanted by Kien Nguyen
- After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell
- Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
- A Student of Weather by Elizabeth Hay
- Unnatural Fire by Fidelis Morgan
- Talking in the Dark by Laura Glen Louis
- Martyrs' Crossing by Amy Wilentz
- Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey
- A Memoir of Misfortune by Su Xiaokang, Hung Chu
- Yellow by Don Lee
- The Love-Artist by Jane Alison
- The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thad Carhart
- Kit's Law by Donna Morrissey
- Worst Day of My Life, So Far by M. A. Harper
- The Immortal Class by Travis Hugh Culley
- Hollowpoint by Rob Reuland
- The Medic by Leo Litwak
- These Granite Islands by Sarah Stonich
- Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
Winter 2001
- The Aerialist by Richard Schmitt
- Articles of Faith by Elizabeth Oness
- The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
- Elizabeth by David Starkey
- Finding Fish by Antwone Q. Fisher, Mim E. Rivas
- From the Ground Up by Amy Stewart
- A Heart of Stone by Renate Dorrestein, Hester Velmans
- The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi
- The Ice Master by Jennifer Niven
- The Journey Home by Olaf Olafsson
- La Cucina by Lily Prior
- Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson
- The Old Limey by H. W. Crocker III
- The Persia Café by Melany Neilson
- Provinces of Night by William Gay
- River Town by Peter Hessler
- Robbers by Christopher Cook
- Shutterbabe by Deborah Copaken Kogan
