Rediscover the bright new literary lights of years past with this retrospective of previous Discover Great New Writers selections.
Winter 1992
- The Wrecking Yard and Other Stories by Pinckney Benedict
- The Tax Inspector by Peter Carey
- Black Ice by Lorene Cary
- The Heart of the World by Nik Cohn
- Sugar Cage by Connie May Fowler
- Strong Motion by Jonathan Franzen
- Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia
- The Sunset Grill Chronicles by Philip Golabuk
- Lucy Boomer by Russell Hill
- The Cooter Farm by Matthew F. Jones
- The Sheriff of Nottingham by Richard Kluger
- Little Follies: The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences, & Observations of Peter Leroy (So Far) by Eric Kraft
- A Case of Curiosities by Allen Kurzweil
- Practical Demonkeeping by Christopher Moore
- The Before Columbus Foundation Fiction Anthology edited by Ishmael Reed, Kathryn Trueblood and Shawn Wong
- Daughters of the New World by Susan Richards Shreve
- This Way Madness Lies by Thomas William Simpson
- The Discovery of Light by J. P. Smith
- Crossing Antarctica by Will Steger and Jon Bowermaster
- To School Through the Fields by Alice Taylor
- Many Things Have Happened Since He Died by Elizabeth Dewberry Vaughn
- Final Heat by Philip Lee Williams
April/May 1992
- Prize Stories 1992: The 0. Henry Awards edited by William Abrahams
- Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
- A Stained White Radiance by James Lee Burke
- The Plagiarist by Benjamin Cheever
- The Run of the Country by Shane Connaughton
- Underworld by Peter Conrad
- Jumping Ship and Other Stories by Kelvin Christopher James
- In Search of Love and Beauty by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- The Shrine at Altamira by John L'Heureux
- Sun Dial Street by Marti Leimbach
- Paradise News by David Lodge
- Burden of Desire by Robert MacNeil
- All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
- Divining Blood by Maureen McCoy
- At Weddings and Wakes by Alice McDermott
- Bay of All Saints and Every Conceivable Sin by Ana Miranda
- Way Past Cool by Jess Mowry
- Pomona Queen by Kem Nunn
- My Life as a Whale by Dyan Sheldon
- Blue Glass by Sandra Tyler
- Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
- The Ones You Do by Daniel Woodrell
June/July 1992
- Strange Business by Rilla Askew
- The Snapper by Roddy Doyle
- Firedrake's Eye by Patricia Finney
- The Unquiet Earth by Denise Giardina
- Clairvoyant: The Imagined Life of Lucia Joyce by Alison Leslie Gold
- And Do Remember Me by Marita Golden
- The Long Night of White Chickens by Francisco Goldman
- Impossible Vacation by Spalding Gray
- The Impersonator by Diana Hammond
- Blue Bayou by Dick Lochte
- The Ascent by Jeff Long
- What the Dogs Have Taught Me by Merrill Markoe
- Homme Fatale by Paul Mayersberg
- Dreams of Long Lasting by Mark Medoff
- Motor City by Bill Morris
- The Famished Road by Ben Okri
- Flying in Place by Susan Palwick
- Second Son by Stephen Stark
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots by Susan Straight
- The Last Train North by Clifton L. Taulbert
- Saint Mudd by Steve Thayer
September/October 1992
- Leviathan by Paul Auster
- Before and After by Rosellen Brown
- Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card
- Beauty by Brian D'Amato
- Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
- No Man in the House by Cecil Foster
- Walking into the River by Lorian Hemingway
- Kill Hole by Jamake Highwater
- The Rules of Seduction by Daniel L. Magida
- Calling the Wind edited by Clarence Major
- Stella Landry by Robin McCorquodale
- To Sleep with Ghosts by G.F. Michelsen
- Lempriere's Dictionary by Lawrence Norfolk
- The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
- Steered by the Falling Stars by Daniel Spurr
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams
