Rediscover the bright new literary lights of years past with this retrospective of previous Discover Great New Writers selections.
Winter 1997
- Class Trip by Emmanuel Carrere
- Monkey King by Patricia Chao
- Where You Are by George Constable
- What Girls Learn by Karin Cook
- Memory Slips by Linda Katherine Cutting
- Castles Burning by Magda Denes
- Hallucinating Foucault by Patricia Duncker
- The Boy Who Went Away by Eli Gottlieb
- The Saskiad by Brian Hall
- As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem
- The Right Man for the Job by Mike Magnuson
- The Man in the Box by Thomas Moran
- The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte
- In the Season of the Daisies by Tom Phelan
- First, Body by Melanie Rae Thon
- Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven by Dawn Turner Trice
- Letting Loose the Hounds by Brady Udall
- Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
Spring 1997
- Caveman Politics by Jay Atkinson
- Down the Common by Ann Baer
- The Aardvark Is Ready for War by James W. Blinn
- Necessary Madness by Jenn Crowell
- The Secrets of a Fire King by Kim Edwards
- The Collector Collector by Tibor Fischer
- Mister Sandman by Barbara Gowdy
- Breathe Something Nice by Emily Hammond
- The Instructor by Ann Ireland
- Snake by Kate Jennings
- The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
- Comfort Woman by Nora Okja Keller
- A Long Way from St. Louie by Colleen J. McElroy
- Bright Angel Time by Martha McPhee
- Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller
- Normal by Lucia Nevai
- Equinox: Life, Love, and Birds of Prey by Dan O'Brien
- This Is the Place by Peter Rock
- The Story of Junk by Linda Yablonsky
- Soul Kiss by Shay Youngblood
Summer 1997
- Balling the Jack by Frank Baldwin
- A Crime in the Neighborhood by Suzanne Berne
- Time on My Hands by Peter Delacorte
- Talking to the Dead by Helen Dunmore
- Play for a Kingdom by Thomas Dyja
- Don't Erase Me by Carolyn Ferrell
- Wild Designs by Katie Fforde
- Unravelling by Elizabeth Graver
- The Book of Lazarus by Richard Grossman
- Round Rock by Michelle Huneven
- Publish & Perish: Three Tales of Tenure Terror by James Hynes
- The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade by Thomas Lynch
- The Hunger Moon by Suzanne Matson
- The Starlite Drive-in by Marjorie Reynolds
- Private Matters by Janna Malamud Smith
- Something Blue by Jean Christopher Spaugh
- Feeding Frenzy by Stuart Stevens
- I'll Be Home Late Tonight by Susan Thames
Fall 1997
- High Holiday Sutra by Allan Appel
- The Flamingo Rising by Larry Baker
- Boondocking by Tricia Bauer
- All Over But the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
- Flesh Wounds by Mick Cochrane
- Night Letters by Robert Dessaix
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
- Magdalena the Sinner by Lilian Faschinger
- Traces by Ida Fink
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
- Eggs for Young America by Katherine L. Hester
- Celibates & Other Lovers by Walter Keady
- Montenegro by Starling Lawrence
- The Light of Falling Stars by J. Robert Lennon
- The Lost Tribe by Edward Marriott
- Horace Afoot by Frederick Reuss
- A Blessing on the Moon by Joseph Skibell
- Deluge by Albertine Strong
- Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams
- Eureka Street by Robert McLiam Wilson
