Rediscover the bright new literary lights of years past with this retrospective of previous Discover Great New Writers selections.
Winter 1998
- Like a Hole in the Head by Jen Banbury
- The Boys of My Youth by Jo Ann Beard
- Was It Something I Said? by Valerie Block
- The Unspeakable by Charles Laird Calia
- Bringing Out the Dead by Joe Connelly
- Inheritance by Indira Ganesan
- Sleeping with Random Beasts by Karin Goodwin
- One Day as a Tiger by Anne Haverty
- Zabelle by Nancy Kricorian
- Why the Tree Loves the Ax by Jim Lewis
- Starting Out in the Evening by Brian Morton
- Eating Chinese Food Naked by Mei Ng
- Mercy Road by Dalia Pagani
- The Visitation by Sue Reidy
- Booth by David Robertson
- Lady Moses by Lucinda Roy
- Wickerby: An Urban Pastoral by Charles Siebert
- Strong for Potatoes by Cynthia Thayer
- Empire of the Ants by Bernard Werber
- Animal Husbandry by Laura Zigman
Spring 1998
- An Underachiever's Diary by Benjamin Anastas
- Once in a House on Fire by Andrea Ashworth
- Rose's Garden by Carrie Brown
- The Coast of Good Intentions by Michael Byers
- The Mermaids Singing by Lisa Carey
- Lambs of God by Marele Day
- Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai
- Kalimantaan by C. S. Godshalk
- The Baker by Paul Hond
- Africa Solo by Kevin Kertscher
- Our Sometime Sister by Norah Labiner
- Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
- Goodnight Nebraska by Tom McNeal
- The Farm She Was by Ann Mohin
- An Instance of the Fingerpost by lain Pears
- The Long Falling by Keith Ridgway
- At First I Hope for Rescue by Holley Rubinsky
- Portrait of Dr. Gachet: The Story of a Van Gogh Masterpiece by Cynthia Saltzman
- Blue Bossa by Bart Schneider
- Outside Passage: A Memoir of an Alaskan Childhood by Julia Scully
Summer 1998
- Koolaids by Rabih Alameddine
- The Extra Man by Jonathan Ames
- In Dark Water by Mermer Blakeslee
- Smack by Melvin Burgess
- Turnip Blues by Helen Campbell
- Farley's Jewel by Jon Ferguson
- Bombay Ice by Leslie Forbes
- Rebuilding the Indian by Fred Haefele
- Dog Days by Daniel Lyons
- The One Facing Us by Ronit Matalon
- Taming It Down by Kim McLarin
- The Snake Charmer by Sanjay Nigam
- My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki
- The Digital Hood: Stories by P. J. Rondinone
- The Odd Sea by Frederick Reiken
- Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
- Object of Your Love by Dorothy Speak
- Missing Women and Others by June Spence
Fall 1998
- Girl Rearing: A Memoir of a Girlhood Gone Astray by Marcia Aldrich
- Kiss Me, Judas by Will Christopher Baer
- Hunger by Lan Samantha Chang
- The Foreign Student by Susan Choi
- We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
- Like Never Before by Ehud Havazelet
- Semaphore by G. W. Hawkes
- Rocket Boys by Homer H. Hickam Jr.
- The Moaner's Bench by Mars Hill
- Divining Rod by Michael Knight
- Dogfight and Other Stories by Michael Knight
- The Ventriloquist's Tale by Pauline Melville
- The River Warren by Kent Meyers
- Cereus Blooms at Night by Shani Mootoo
- The French Mathematician by Tom Petsinis
- Secrets of the Talking Jaguar by Martin Prechtel
- Flora's Suitcase by Dalia Rabinovich
- After Silence: Rape & My Journey Back by Nancy Venable Raine
- Reservation Road by John Burnham Schwartz
- Beach Boy by Ardashir Vakil
- Big Fish by Daniel Wallace
