Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award

Given by Barnes & Noble

109 Works 196,566 Books 8,920 Reviews 4.0
Stages:
All, Winner (44), Finalist (65)
Categories:
All, Fiction (60), Non-Fiction (43), No Category (6)
Years:
All, 2023 (6), 2022 (6), 2020 (1), 2018 (6), 2017 (6), 2016 (6), 2015 (6), 2014 (6), 2013 (6), 2012 (6), 2011 (6), 2010 (6), 2009 (7), 2008 (6), 2007 (1), 2006 (6), 2005 (6), 2004 (6), 2003 (1), 2002 (1), 2001 (1), 1998 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1)
Announced:
October 2023: Winner2023 Recent

Winner 44

WorkCategoryYear
The Berry Pickers by Amanda PetersFiction2023
The Rabbit Hutch by Tess GuntyFiction2022
Golden Child by Claire AdamFiction2020
Only Killers and Thieves by Paul HowarthFiction2018
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese LaymonNon-Fiction2018
Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patrick CottrellFiction2017
Nomadland by Jessica BruderNon-Fiction2017
The Lightkeepers by Abby GeniFiction2016
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew DesmondNon-Fiction2016
In the Country: Stories by Mia AlvarFiction2015
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America by Jill LeovyNon-Fiction2015
All the Birds, Singing by Evie WyldFiction2014
Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West by Bryce AndrewsNon-Fiction2014
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony MarraFiction2013
Son of a Gun: A Memoir by Justin St. GermainNon-Fiction2013
The Orchardist by Amanda CoplinFiction2012
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl StrayedNon-Fiction2012
Untouchable by Scott O'ConnorFiction2011
Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China's Other Billion by Michael LevyNon-Fiction2011
The Disappeared by Kim EchlinFiction2010
The Autobiography of an Execution by David R. DowNon-Fiction2010
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick2009
Mathilda Savitch by Victor LodatoFiction2009
Columbine by Dave CullenNon-Fiction2009
The Crying Tree by Naseem Rakha2009
Sway by Zachary LazarFiction2008
The Well and the Mine by Gin PhillipsFiction2008
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction by David SheffNon-Fiction2008
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric WeinerNon-Fiction2008
Blue Sky July: A Mother's Story of Hope and Healing by Nia WynNon-Fiction2008
Then We Came to the End by Joshua FerrisFiction2007
Brief Encounters With Che Guevara: Stories by Ben FountainFiction2006
The Last Season by Eric BlehmNon-Fiction2006
Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma IwealaFiction2005
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer by Nathaniel FickNon-Fiction2005
Name All the Animals: A Memoir by Alison SmithNon-Fiction2004
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini2003
Brick Lane by Monica AliFiction2003
A Death in Texas: A Story of Race, Murder, and a Small Town's Struggle for Redemption by Dina Temple-Raston2002
The Shell Collector: Stories by Anthony DoerrFiction2002
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission by Hampton SidesNon-Fiction2001
The Inheritance by Indira Ganesan1998
The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCrackenFiction1996
Native Speaker by Chang-Rae LeeFiction1995

Finalist 65

WorkCategoryYear
Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-BrenyahFiction2023
Where There Was Fire by John Manuel AriasFiction2023
The East Indian by Brinda CharryFiction2023
Open Throat by Henry HokeFiction2023
In Memoriam by Alice WinnFiction2023
Trespasses by Louise KennedyFiction2022
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia NagamatsuFiction2022
Night of the Living Rez: Stories by Morgan TaltyFiction2022
All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam MathewsFiction2022
Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm by Laura WarrellFiction2022
A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen MirzaFiction2018
There There by Tommy OrangeFiction2018
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment by Shane BauerNon-Fiction2018
Educated: A Memoir by Tara WestoverNon-Fiction2018
The End We Start From by Megan HunterFiction2017
The Leavers by Lisa KoFiction2017
Down City: A Daughter's Story of Love, Memory, and Murder by Leah CarrollNon-Fiction2017
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. TwittyNon-Fiction2017
Homegoing by Yaa GyasiFiction2016
Shelter by Jung YunFiction2016
Lab Girl by Hope JahrenNon-Fiction2016
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick PhillipsNon-Fiction2016
The Turner House by Angela FlournoyFiction2015
The Unfortunates: A Novel by Sophie McManusFiction2015
Bettyville: A Memoir by George HodgmanNon-Fiction2015
Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis NuttNon-Fiction2015
The UnAmericans: Stories by Molly AntopolFiction2014
Elegy on Kinderklavier by Arna Bontemps HemenwayFiction2014
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin DoughtyNon-Fiction2014
Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island by Will HarlanNon-Fiction2014
We Need New Names by NoViolet BulawayoFiction2013
Bobcat and Other Stories by Rebecca LeeFiction2013
Wave by Sonali DeraniyagalaNon-Fiction2013
With or Without You: A Memoir by Domenica RutaNon-Fiction2013
The Snow Child by Eowyn IveyFiction2012
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson WalkerFiction2012
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine BooNon-Fiction2012
Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen IversenNon-Fiction2012
Volt: Stories by Alan HeathcockFiction2011
Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlanteFiction2011
Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War by Annia CiezadloNon-Fiction2011
[sic]: A Memoir by Joshua CodyNon-Fiction2011
Galveston by Nic PizzolattoFiction2010
Model Home by Eric PuchnerFiction2010
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha MukherjeeNon-Fiction2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootNon-Fiction2010
More of This World or Maybe Another (P.S.) by Barb JohnsonFiction2009
All the Living by C. E. MorganFiction2009
The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name by Toby LesterNon-Fiction2009
In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir by Neil WhiteNon-Fiction2009
The Book of Getting Even: A Novel by Benjamin TaylorFiction2008
Bliss by Zülfü LivaneliFiction2006
Firmin by Sam SavageFiction2006
The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries by Marilyn JohnsonNon-Fiction2006
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel MendelsohnNon-Fiction2006
Pigtopia by Kitty FitzgeraldFiction2005
Tenney's Landing: Stories by Catherine TudishFiction2005
The Dancing Girls of Lahore: Selling Love and Saving Dreams in Pakistan's Ancient Pleasure District by Louise BrownNon-Fiction2005
The Tricky Part: A boy's story of sexual trespass, a man's journey to forgiveness by Martin MoranNon-Fiction2005
Heaven Lake by John DaltonFiction2004
How the Light Gets In by M. J. HylandFiction2004
The Hamilton Case by Michelle de KretserFiction2004
Blue Blood by Edward ConlonNon-Fiction2004
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu MehtaNon-Fiction2004
The Things We Do to Make It Home: A Novel by Beverly Gologorsky1999

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