Rediscover the bright new literary lights of years past with this retrospective of previous Discover Great New Writers selections.
April/May 1990
- Bedrock by Lisa Alther
- Room Temperature by Nicholson Baker
- The Book of Evidence by John Banville
- Pirate Jenny by April Bernard
- Dreaming of Samarkand by Martin Booth
- Buster Midnight's Cafe by Sandra Dallas
- A Cloud on Sand by Gabriella De Ferrari
- The Horse Latitudes by Robert Ferringo
- Falling Angels by Barbara Gowdy
- Break and Enter by Colin Harrison
- Walter Winchell by Michael Herr
- Reservations Recommended by Eric Kraft
- The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
- Then She Found Me by Elinor Lipman
- Lie to Me by David Martin
- The One True Story of the World by Lynne McFall
- Like Life by Lorrie Moore
- Skywater by Melinda Worth Popham
- Northern Edge by Barbara Quick
- The Last World by Christoph Ransmayr
- Stone Heart by Luanne Rice
- The Whole Truth by Anthony Robinson
- Beyond the Stars by David William Ross
- Clover by Dori Sanders
- Empire of Heaven by Linda Ching Sledge
- Stone City by Mitchell Smith
- In a Father's Place by Christopher Tilghman
- Homesick by Guy Vanderhaeghe
- Rush by Kim Wozencraft
June/July 1990
- To Catch the Sun by Fiona Bullen
- Spartina by John Casey
- The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway
- Once There Was a Farm by Virginia Bell Dabney
- The Picture Makers by Emily Ellison
- Coyote by Peter Gadol
- The Road to the City by Natalia Ginzburg
- In Defense of Judges by A. W. Gray
- Boone by Brooks Hansen, Nick Davis
- Walls of Blue Coquina by Sam Harrison
- Mother Earth Father Sky by Sue Harrison
- Chrysanthemum in the Snow by James Hickey
- The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
- Coming Home Crazy by Bill Holm
- Farlanburg Stories by Lisa Koger Silk Road by Jeanne Larsen
- Unheard Melodies by Warren Leamon
- To Speak for the Dead by Paul Levine
- Men Under Water by Ralph Lombreglia
- The Innocent by Ian McEwan
- Passage Home by Alison McLeay
- Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
- A Trail of Heart's Blood Wherever We Go by Robert Olmstead
- The Last Station by Jay Parini
- Another Present Era by Elaine Perry
- The Most Beautiful House in the World by Witold Rybczynski
- Prophecies by Helena Soister
- The Bone Orchard by Joseph Trigoboff
- Winning the City by Theodore Weesner
- A Sensible Life by Mary Wesley
September/October 1990
- A Relative Stranger by Charles Baxter
- The Telling Distance by Bruce Berger
- East Is East by T. Coraghessan Boyle
- The Best There Ever Was by John Ed Bradley
- Fade the Heat by Jay Brandon
- Brighten the Corner Where You Are by Fred Chappell
- Tender by Mark Childress
- A Scrambling After Circumstance by Margaret-Love Denman
- Bad Desire by Gary Devon
- Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
- Entered from the Sun by George Garrett
- The Apple-Green Triumph and Other Stories by Martha Lacy Hall
- That Time in Malomba by James Hamilton-Paterson
- North of Hope by Jon Hassler
- The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
- Other Women's Children by Perri Klass
- Disappearing Acts by Terry McMillan
- Lies of Silence by Brian Moore
- Playing the Dozens by William D. Pease
- Olivia and Jai by Rebecca Rymanb
- Near Canaan by Liese O'Halloran Schwarz
- The Lives of the Dead by Charlie Smith
- Landscape: Memory by Matthew Stadler
- In the Country of Hearts by John Stone
- The Animal Wife by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
- In the Blue Light of African Dreams by Paul Watkins
- Crazy Ladies by Michael Lee West
November/December 1990
- The Music of Chance by Paul Auster
- Professor Romeo by Anne Bernays
- Squandering the Blue by Kate Braverman
- Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt
- The Light Possessed by Alan Cheuse
- Napa by James Conaway
- The Gates of Paradise by Gwyneth Cravens
- A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
- Licorice by Abby Frucht
- To Dance with the White Dog by Terry Kay
- Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid
- Road Song by Natalie Kusz
- Ferris Beach by Jill McCorkle
- Spider by Patrick McGrath
- Traffic and Laughter by Ted Mooney
- A Stranger in the Kingdom by Howard Frank Mosher
- A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
- Things: A Story of the Sixties/A Man Asleep by Georges Perec
- A Hole in the World by Richard Rhodes
- Fire and Rain by Oswald Rivera
- Mile Zero by Thomas Sanchez
- Under the Gypsy Moon by Lawrence Thornton
- Ailure to Zigzag by Jane Vandenburgh
- The Indian Lawyer by James Welch
