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The Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award is an annual literary prize presented by Barnes & Noble for author's debut books.

It was founded with the aim of recognizing and celebrating exceptional emerging authors who demonstrate outstanding talent and promise in their writing.

Honorees[edit]

Early versions of the award were presented as two awards, one for fiction and one for nonfiction, with second and third place recipients. More recent editions present a single award winner with a list of finalists.

1997-2019[edit]

Award honorees, 1997-2019
Year Category Author Title Result Ref
1995 Fiction Chang-rae Lee Native Speaker Won [1]
1996 Fiction Elizabeth McCracken The Giant's House Won [1]
Nonfiction Anthony Doerr The Shell Collector Won [1]
1997 Fiction J. Robert Lennon The Light of Falling Stars 1 [2]
2001 Fiction Manil Suri The Death of Vishnu 1 [3]
2004 Fiction Monica Ali Brick Lane 1 [4]
Zoë Heller What Was She Thinking? 2 [4]
Julie Orringer How to Breath Underwater 3 [4]
Nonfiction Jay Griffiths A Sideways Look at Time 1 [4]
Christina Lamb The Sewing Circles of Herat 2 [4]
Floyd Skloot In the Shadow of Memory 3 [4]
2005 Fiction Uzodinma Iweala Beasts of No Nation 1 [5][6]
Kitty Fitzgerald Pigtopia 2 [5][6]
Catherine Tudish Tenney's Landing 3 [5][6]
Nonfiction Nathaniel Fick One Bullet Away 1 [5][6]
Martin Moran The Tricky Part 2 [5][6]
Louise Brown The Dancing Girls of Lahore 3 [5][6]
2006 Fiction Ben Fountain Brief Encounters with Che Guevara 1 [7]
O. Z. Livaneli Bliss 2 [7]
Sam Savage Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife 3 [7]
Nonfiction Eric Blehm The Last Season 1 [7]
Daniel Mendelsohn The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million 2 [7]
Marilyn Johnson The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries 3 [7]
2007 Fiction Joshua Ferris Then We Came to the End 1 [8][9]
Matthew Eck The Farther Shore 2 [8]
Vendela Vida Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name 3 [8]
Nonfiction Kate Braestrup Here If You Need Me 1 [8][9]
Elizabeth Samet Soldier's Heart 2 [8]
Yaroslav Trofimov The Siege of Mecca 3 [8]
2008 Fiction Gin Phillips The Well and the Mine 1 [10][11]
Benjamin Taylor The Book of Getting Even 2 [10][11]
Zachary Lazar Sway 3 [10][11]
Nonfiction David Sheff Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction 1 [10][11]
Eric Weiner The Geography of Bliss 2 [10][11]
Nia Wyn Blue Sky July 3 [10][11]
2009 Fiction Victor Lodato Mathilda Savitch 1 [12][13]
Barbara Johnson More of this World or Maybe Another 2 [12][13]
C. E. Morgan All the Living 3 [12][13]
Nonfiction Dave Cullen Columbine 1 [12][13]
Toby Lester The Fourth Part of the World: The Epic Story of History's Greatest Map 2 [12][13]
Neil White In the Sanctuary of Outcasts 3 [12][13]
2010 Fiction Kim Echlin The Disappeared 1 [14][15]
Eric Puchner Model Home 2 [14][15]
Nic Pizzolatto Galveston 3 [14][15]
Nonfiction David R. Dow The Autobiography of an Execution 1 [14][15]
Rebecca Skloot The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2 [14][15]
Siddhartha Mukherjee The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer 3 [14][15]
2011 Fiction Scott O'Connor Untouchable 1 [16][17]
Alice LaPlante Turn of Mind 2 [16][17]
Alan Heathcock Volt 3 [16][17]
Nonfiction Michael Levy Kosher Chinese 1 [16][17]
Annia Ciezadlo Day of Honey 2 [16][17]
Joshua Cody [sic] 3 [16][17]
2012 Fiction Amanda Coplin The Orchardist 1 [18][19]
Karen Thompson Walker The Age of Miracles 2 [18][19]
Eowyn Ivey The Snow Child 3 [18][19]
Nonfiction Cheryl Strayed Wild 1 [18][19]
Katherine Boo Behind the Beautiful Forevers 2 [18][19]
Kristen Iversen Full Body Burden 3 [18][19]
2013 Fiction Anthony Marra A Constellation of Vital Phenomena 1 [20]
NoViolet Bulawayo We Need New Names 2 [20]
Rebecca Lee Bobcat and Other Stories 3 [20]
Nonfiction Justin St. Germain Son of a Gun 1 [20]
Sonali Deraniyagala Wave 2 [20]
Domenica Ruta With or Without You 3 [20]
2014 Fiction Evie Wyld All the Birds, Singing 1 [21][22]
Molly Antopol The UnAmericans 2 [21][22]
Arna Bontemps Hemenway Elegy on Kinderklavier 3 [21][22]
Nonfiction Bryce Andrews Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West 1 [21][22]
Caitlin Doughty Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory 2 [21][22]
Will Harlan Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island 3 [21][22]
2015 Fiction Mia Alvar In the Country 1 [23][24]
Angela Flournoy The Turner House 2 [23][24]
Sophie McManus The Unfortunates 3 [23][24]
Nonfiction Jill Leovy Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America 1 [23][24]
George Hodgman Bettyville 2 [23][24]
Amy Ellis Nutt Becoming Nicole 3 [23][24]
2016 Fiction Abby Geni The Lightkeepers 1 [25]
Yaa Gyasi Homegoing 2 [25]
Jung Yun Shelter 3 [25][26]
Nonfiction Matthew Desmond Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City 1 [25]
Hope Jahren Lab Girl 2 [25]
Patrick Phillips Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America 3 [25]
2017 Fiction Patty Yumi Cottrell Sorry to Disrupt the Peace 1 [27]
Megan Hunter The End We Start From 2 [27]
Lisa Ko The Leavers 3 [27]
Nonfiction Jessica Bruder Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century 1 [27]
Leah Carroll Down City: A Daughter's Story of Love, Memory and Murder 2 [27]
Michael Twitty The Cooking Gene: A Journey through African American Culinary History in the Old South 3 [27]
2018 Fiction Paul Howarth Only Killers and Thieves 1 [28][29][30]
Tommy Orange There There 2 [28][30]
Fatima Farheen Mirza A Place for Us 3 [28][30]
Nonfiction Kiese Laymon Heavy 1 [28][29][30]
Shane Bauer American Prison 2 [28][30]
Tara Westover Educated 3 [28][30]
2019 Fiction Claire Adam The Golden Child Won [31][32]
Lydia Fitzpatrick Lights All Night Long Shortlisted [32]
Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Shortlisted [32]
Regina Porter The Travelers Shortlisted [32]
Nonfiction Damon Young What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker Won [31][32]
Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Shortlisted [32]
Saeed Jones How We Fight for Our Lives Shortlisted [32]
Jaquira Díaz Ordinary Girls Shortlisted [32]
Jia Tolentino Trick Mirror Shortlisted [32]

2022-present[edit]

Award honorees, 2022-present
Year Author Title Result Ref.
2022 Tess Gunty The Rabbit Hutch Won [33]
John Manuel Arias Where There Was Fire Shortlisted [33]
Alice Winn In Memoriam Shortlisted [33]
Brinda Charry The East Indian Shortlisted [33]
Henry Hoke Open Throat Shortlisted [33]
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Chain-Gang All-Stars Shortlisted [33]
2023 Amanda Peters The Berry Pickers Won [33]
Louise Kennedy Tresspasses Shortlisted [33]
Sequoia Nagamatsu How High We Go in the Dark Shortlisted [33]
Morgan Talty Night of the Living Rez Shortlisted [33]
Sarah Thankam Mathews All This Could Be Different Shortlisted [33]
Laura Warrell Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm Shortlisted [33]
Donna Tartt The Secret History Shortlisted [33]

References[edit]

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