Rediscover the bright new literary lights of years past with this retrospective of previous Discover Great New Writers selections.
Winter 2000
- Diamond Dogs by Alan Watt
- Beethoven's Hair by Russell Martin
- Glory Goes and Gets Some by Emily Carter
- Looking for Mary by Beverly Donofrio
- Drop by Mat Johnson
- An American Story by Debra J. Dickerson
- A Good House by Bonnie Burnard
- Motiba's Tattoos by Mira Kamdar
- Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
- Ostrich by Michael A. Thomas
- Rope Burns by F. X. Toole
- The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
- Several Deceptions by Jane Stevenson
- To the Elephant Graveyard by Tarquin Hall
- The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
- The Happiest Days by Cressida Connolly
- In the Snow Forest by Roy Parvin
- Worthy's Town by Sharon Rolens
- A Small Death in Lisbon by Robert Wilson
- The Family Orchard by Nomi Eve
Fall 2000
- Big Fish by Daniel Wallace
- The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
- Reservation Road by John Burnham Schwartz
- Canone Inverso by Paolo Maurensig
- First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung
- Travel Advisory by David Lida
- Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid
- Riding the East Wind by Otohiko Kaga, Ian Hideo Levy (trans.)
- Knick Knack Paddy Whack by Ardal O'Hanlon
- Moira's Crossing by Christina Shea
- Some Things That Stay by Sarah Willis
- The Suburbs of Heaven by Merle Drown
- Sugar by Bernice L. McFadden
- The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman
- Test Pattern by Marjorie Klein
- The Hallelujah Side by Rhoda Huffey
- The Realm of Secondhand Souls by Sandra Shea
- Frost on My Moustache by Tim Moore
- Yukon Alone by John Balzar
- Scar Vegas and Other Stories by Tom Paine
- Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
- Eating the Cheshire Cat by Helen Ellis
- Colors of the Mountain by Da Chen
- In the Gloaming by Alice Elliott Dark
- Black Girl in Paris by Shay Youngblood
- The Workshop by Tom Grimes (ed.)
Summer 2000
- Lord of the Barnyard by Tristan Egolf
- The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman by Bruce Robinson
- By the Shore by Galaxy Craze
- Slackjaw by Jim Knipfel
- Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
- Meely LaBauve by Ken Wells
- No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod
- American by Blood by Andrew Huebner
- Another Song About the King by Kathryn Stern
- The Banyan Tree by Christopher Nolan
- The Barbarians Are Coming by David Wong Louie
- Bodega Dreams by Ernesto Quiñonez
- A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss
- English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
- A Sort of Homecoming by Robert Cremins
- Good Peoples by Marcus Major
- House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
- Rain Line by Anne Whitney Pierce
- Second Hand by Michael Zadoorian
- The Sky Unwashed by Irene Zabytko
- The Sound of One Hand Clapping by Richard Flanagan
- After Lucy by Daniel Jones
- Dances with Luigi by Paul Paolicelli
- In the Fall by Jeffrey Lent
- Like Normal People by Karen E. Bender
- Motherland by Fern Schumer Chapman
- When Broken Glass Floats by Chanrithy Him
Spring 2000
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith
- Stern Men by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
- The Sooterkin by Tom Gilling
- Julie and Romeo by Jeanne Ray
- Chang and Eng by Darin Strauss
- The Sunday Tertulia by Lori Marie Carlson
- From Our House by Lee Martin
- Under the Skin by Michel Faber
- Iron Shoes by Molly Giles
- Money, Love by Brad Barkley
- The Perfect Elizabeth by Libby Schmais
- Quickening by Laura Catherine Brown
- Driving Mr. Albert by Michael Paterniti
- After Life by Rhian Ellis
- Damned If You Do by Gordon Houghton
- The Dark House by John Sedgwick
- Jim the Boy by Tony Earley
- Beyond the Sky and the Earth by Jamie Zeppa
- Trumpet by Jackie Kay
- In the Drink by Kate Christensen
- Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison
- The Blossom Festival by Lawrence Coates
