Rediscover the bright new literary lights of years past with this retrospective of previous Discover Great New Writers selections.
Winter 1994
- The Man Who Turned into Himself by David Ambrose
- Governor's Race by Michael Aron
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
- Here We Are in Paradise by Tony Earley
- When She Was Bad by Ron Faust
- Separation by Dan Franck
- Billy by Albert French
- The Caveman's Valentine by George Dawes Green
- Carnival of Saints by George Herman
- Obasan by Joy Kogawa
- Heart Conditions by Sara Lewis
- Red Azalea by Anchee Min
- Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
- Love, Stars, and All That by Kirin Narayan
- Getting Right with God by Lionel Newton
- The Soloist by Mark Salzman
- Hula by Lisa Shea
- Coffee Will Make You Black by April Sinclair
- Understand This by Jervey Tervalon
- Going Native by Stephen Wright
Spring 1994
- The Weekend by Peter Cameron
- Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
- Shark Dialogues by Kiana Davenport
- Headhunter by Timothy Findley
- The Rice Room by Ben Fong-Torres
- Stygo by Laura Hendrie
- Albatross by Deborah Scaling Kiley and Meg Noonan
- A Disturbance in One Place by Binnie Kirshenbaum
- The Ice Storm by Rick Moody
- Green Fires: Assault on Eden, a Novel of the Ecuadorian Rainforest by Mamie Mueller
- The Cage by Audrey Schulman
- The Old Man Who Read Love Stories by Luis Sepulveda
- The Magic Touch by Rachel Simon
- The Circus of the Earth and the Air by Brooke Stevens
- Pluto, Animal Lover by Laren Stover
- Light Sister, Dark Sister by Lee Walmsley
Summer 1994
- Sherman's March by Cynthia Bass
- Breakfast at the Victory: The Mysticism of Ordinary Experience by James P. Carse
- Rattlebone by Maxine Clair
- White Man's Grave by Richard Dooling
- Louisiana Power & Light by John Dufresne
- Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore
- A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
- The Sixteen Pleasures by Robert Hellenga
- The Lost Diaries of Frans Hals by Michael Kernan
- Some Girls by Kristin McCloy
- The Bird Artist by Howard Norman
- Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies by Tom Perrotta
- Therapy by Steven Schwartz
- Iced by Ray Shell
- Moon People by Sondra Shulman
- Singing Songs by Meg Tilly
- Away by Jane Urquhart
- Saudade by Katherine Vaz
- The Legend of Olivia Cosmos Montevideo by Constance Warloe
Fall 1994
- Face of an Angel by Denise Chavez
- Need by Lawrence David
- Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
- The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuna by Dagoberto Gilb
- Winter Birds by Jim Grimsley
- Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
- The Memories of Ana Calderon by Graciela Limon
- Face by Aimee E. Liu
- Halo by John Loveday
- Lunch by Karen Moline
- Bruised Hibiscus by Elizabeth Nunez
- Snow Angels by Stewart O'Nan
- Raising Lazarus by Robert Pensack, M.D., and Dwight Williams
- The Grass Dancer by Susan Power
- Rocking the Babies by Linda Raymond
- Shinju by Laura Joh Rowland
- What I Have Written by John A. Scott
- North of Montana by April Smith
- After Gregory by Austin Wright
- Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America by Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Baba: A Return to China upon My Father's Shoulders by Belle Yang
