Rediscover the bright new literary lights of years past with this retrospective of previous Discover Great New Writers selections.
Winter 1999
- Canone Inverso by Paolo Maurensig
- Chocolat by Joanne Harris
- The Country Life by Rachel Cusk
- Original Bliss by A. L. Kennedy
- The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden
- Esperanza's Box of Saints by María Amparo Escandón
- The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
- The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox
- The River Midnight by Lilian Nattel
- The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman by Bruce Robinson
- Louse by David Grand
- The Mitt Man by Mel Taylor
- Selene of the Spirits by Melissa Pritchard
- Things We Do to Make It Home by Beverly Gologorsky
- Lucky Man, Lucky Woman by Jack Driscoll
- Saviors by Paul Eggers
- The Electrical Field by Kerri Sakamoto
- The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
- Standing at the Scratch Line by Guy Johnson
- House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
Spring 1999
- City of Light by Lauren Belfer
- For the Relief of Unbearable Urges by Nathan Englander
- Fleur de Leigh's Life of Crime by Diane Leslie
- Otherwise Engaged by Suzanne Finnamore
- By the Shore by Galaxy Craze
- The Disappearance by Geneviève Jurgensen, Adriana Hunter (trans.)
- Trumpet by Jackie Kay
- Meeting Luciano by Anna Esaki-Smith
- Slackjaw by Jim Knipfel
- Lord of the Barnyard by Tristan Egolf
- Last Things by Jenny Offill
- Eleanor Rushing by Patty Friedmann
- My People's Waltz by Dale Ray Phillips
- Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith by Gina B. Nahai
- The Umbrella Country by Bino A. Realuyo
- The Hummingbird House by Patricia Henley
- Nathaniel's Nutmeg by Giles Milton
- The Loves of Judith by Meir Shalev
- In the Empire of Dreams by Dianne Highbridge
Summer 1999
- Beyond the Sky and the Earth by Jamie Zeppa
- Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
- In the Drink by Kate Christensen
- Green Alaska by Nancy Lord
- The Prisoner's Wife by asha bandele
- If Men Were Angels by Reed Karaim
- The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. by Sandra Gulland
- The True History of Paradise by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
- Zig Zag by Landon J. Napoleon
- My Date with Satan by Stacey Richter
- Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind by Ann B. Ross
- Foreign Brides by Elena Lappin
- A Stranger in the Earth by Marcel Theroux
- Alice Springs by Nikki Gemmell
- River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke
- A Matter of Time by Shashi Deshpande
- Three Dollars by Elliot Perlman
