Rediscover the bright new literary lights of years past with this retrospective of previous Discover Great New Writers selections.
Winter 1991
- Sweet Eyes by Jonis Agee
- Wet Work by Christopher Buckley
- Ivory Joe by Martyn Burke
- Family by J. California Cooper
- Body of Evidence by Patricia D. Cornwell
- The Raven's Bride by Elizabeth Crook
- Killer Diller by Clyde Edgerton
- Joey Dee Gets Wise by Louisa Ermelino
- Two Girls, Fat and Thin by Mary Gaitskill
- Into the Blue by Robert Goddard
- Something Blue by Ann Hood
- Old Dogs and Children by Robert Inman
- Ordinary Money by Louis B. Jones
- The Last Fine Time by Verlyn Klinkenborg
- My Traitor's Heart by Rian Malan
- A Change of Luck by Julia Markus
- Leaving Losapas by Roland Merullo
- A Dangerous Woman by Mary McGarry Morris
- The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck by Rory Nugent
- The Quincunx by Charles Palliser
- Gospel Hour by T.R. Pearson
- Cheerleaders Can't Afford to Be Nice by Susan Sullivan Saiter
- The Laughing Sutra by Mark Salzman
- Down by the River by Monte Schulz
- Aquaboogie by Susan Straight
- Calm at Sunset Calm at Dawn by Paul Watkins
- Festival for Three Thousand Maidens by Richard Wiley
April/May 1991
- Almighty Me by Robert Bausch
- The Planets by James Finney Boylan
- Donald Duk by Frank Chin
- Wilderness by Dennis Danvers
- Lady's Maid by Margaret Forster
- A Cure for Dreams by Kaye Gibbons
- The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
- Dixie Riggs by Sarah Gilbert
- Thicker than Water by Kathryn Harrison
- Damage by Josephine Hart
- The Pushcart Prize, XV edited by Bill Henderson
- Siro by David Ignatius
- Gojiro by Mark Jacobson
- Typical American by Gish Jen
- Resuscitation of a Hanged Man by Denis Johnson
- She and I by Eileen Lottman
- The Music Room by Dennis McFarland
- Rima in the Weeds by Deirdre McNamer
- Margaret in Hollywood by Darcy O'Brien
- How to Make an American Quilt by Whitney Otto
- Second Nature: A Gardener's Education by Michael Pollan
- Object Lessons by Anna Quindlen
- Flicker by Theodore Roszak
- The House Tibet by Georgia Savage
- Strange Fits of Passion by Anita Shreve
- Prophet of the Sandlots by Mark Winegardner
- Thief of Dreams by John Yount
June/July 1991
- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
- A Generation of Leaves by Robert S. Bloom
- Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd
- Saint Peter's Wolf by Michael Cadnum
- Jernigan by David Gates
- Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn
- The Fireman's Fair by Josephine Humphreys
- Rescuing Claire by Thomas Johnson
- Force of Gravity by R. S. Jones
- China Boy by Gus Lee
- Remember Me by Suzanne Lipsett
- True Crime by Michael Mewshaw
- Wall to Wall: From Beijing to Berlin by Rail by Mary Morris
- In the Center of the Nation by Dan O'Brien
- Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon by Jim Paul
- Los Gusanos by John Sayles
- Out of Time by Helen Schulman
- Pizza Face or, The Hero of Suburbia by Ken Siman
- SPILL by Les Standiford
- The Tangerine Tango Equation by Barry Targan
- Peter Doyle by John Vernon
- Perfect Timing by Philip Lee Williams
September/October 1991
- The Killing of the Saints by Alex Abella
- Joe by Larry Brown
- CARPOOL: A Novel of Suburban Frustration by Mary Cahill
- Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler
- Wild Apples by Lucinda Franks
- Biography by Celia Gittelson
- French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France by Richard Goodman
- The Distant Lands by Julian Green
- Praying for Sheetrock by Melissa Fay Greene
- Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line by Ben Hamper
- Payback: A Psycho Thriller by Philip Harper
- Talking Leaves: Contemporary Native American Short Stories edited by Craig Lesley
- A Woman's Eye edited by Sara Paretsky
- All-Bright Court by Connie Porter
- Mating by Norman Rush
- Making History by Carolyn See
- Why We Eat What We Eat by Raymond Sokolov
- The Sun Maiden by Erika Taylor
- The Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
- The South by Colin Toibin
- Copper Crown by Lane von Herzen
November/December 1991
- Saint Croix Notes by Noah Adams
- Airman Mortensen by Michael Blake
- Blue River by Ethan Canin
- Paradise by Elena Castedo
- The Sound of Writing edited by Alan Cheuse and Caroline Marshall
- How Boys See Girls by David Gilmour
- Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen
- Hug Dancing by Shelby Hearon
- Putting on the Ritz by Joe Keenan
- A German Requiem by Philip Kerr
- The Good News from North Haven by Michael L. Lindvall
- In Search of the Perfect Ravioli by Paul Mantee
- Disorderly Conduct: The VLS Fiction Reader edited by M. Mark
- Daughters by Paule Marshall
- Hopeful Monsters by Nicholas Mosley
- Language in the Blood by Kent Nelson
- Music of the Swamp by Lewis Nordan
- The Walls Around Us by David Owen
- Chasing the Dragon's Tail by Alan Rabinowitz
- Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa
- Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko
- Voices Louder than Words: A Second Collection edited by William Shore
