Rediscover the bright new literary lights of years past with this retrospective of previous Discover Great New Writers selections.
Winter 1996
- Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett
- Audrey Hepburn's Neck by Alan Brown
- Veronica by Nicholas Christopher
- The Last Hotel for Women by Vicki Covington
- The Pillow Boy of the Lady Onogoro by Alison Fell
- Dreams of the Centaur by Montserrat Fontes
- What the Deaf Mute Heard by G. D. Gearino
- Dreamhouse by Alison Habens
- Dry Fire by Catherine Lewis
- Zenzele by J. Nozipo Maraire
- Disappearance: A Map by Sheila Nickerson
- Sweet Mystery: A Book of Remembering by Judith Hillman Paterson
- The Wonder Book of the Air by Cynthia Shearer
- Slow Dancing on Dinosaur Bones by Lana Witt
- Give Us a Kiss by Daniel Woodrell
- Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers by Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Spring 1996
- St. Burl's Obituary by Daniel Akst
- The White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty
- Roustabout by Michelle Chalfoun
- Touched by Scott Campbell
- The Ivory Crocodile by Eileen Drew
- Dance Real Slow by Michael Grant Jaffe
- Geography of the Heart by Fenton Johnson
- Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp
- The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester
- A Congress of Wonders by Ed McClanahan
- Lies of the Saints by Erin McGraw
- Tumbling by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
- I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn
- The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris
- Playing the Bones by Louise Redd
- The Distance from the Heart of Things by Ashley Warlick
- Last Days of the Dog-Men by Brad Watson
Summer 1996
- Cheaters and Other Stories by Dean Albarelli
- Sister by A. Manette Ansay
- Acts of Revision by Martyn Bedford
- The Book of Mercy by Kathleen Cambor
- The Journal of Antonio Montoya by Rick Collignon
- Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies by Tom De Haven
- Drown by Junto Diaz
- My Favorite War by Christopher John Farley
- Follow Me by Paul Griner
- An Island Out of Time by Tom Horton
- What the Scarecrow Said by Stewart David Ikeda
- Biggest Elvis by P. F. Kluge
- The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken
- Hope's Cadillac by Patricia Page
- The Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
- The Bride Wore Red by Robbie Clipper Sethi
- The Paper Wife by Linda Spalding
- Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
- Shipwrecks by Akira Yoshimura
- The Frequency of Souls by Mary Kay Zuravleff
Fall 1996
- After by Melvin Jules Bukiet
- Blue Italian by Rita Ciresi
- Bound Feet and Western Dress by Pang-Mei Nastasha Chang
- Pig by Andrew Cowan
- A Mapmaker's Dream by James Cowan
- Music in a Foreign Language by Andrew Crumey
- Memories of My Ghost Brother by Heinz Insu Finkl
- Same Place, Same Things by Tim Gautreaux
- Flickering Shadows by Kwadwo Agymah Kamau
- Original Color by Hugh Kennedy
- Out West by Fred G. Leebron
- Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
- The Death of Friends by Michael Nava
- Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast by Bill Richardson
- Crazy for Trying by Joni Rodgers
- God's Country Club by Gail Donahue Storey
- The Insult by Rupert Thomson
- A Brother's Blood by Michael C. White
- Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood by Binjamin Wilkomirski
- God Head by Scott Zwiren
