Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award
Barnes & Noble introduced the Discover Great New Writers Award in 1993 to celebrate the work of first-time American novelists featured in the stores' Discover program.

2003

Fiction:

First Place:  Brick Lane, by Monica Ali
Second Place:  What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal, by Zoe Heller
Third Place:  How to Breathe Underwater: Stories, by Julie Orringer

Nonfiction:
First Place:  A Sideways Look at Time, by Jay Griffiths
Second Place:  The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan, by Christina Lamb
Third Place:  In the Shadow of Memory, by Floyd Skloot

2002

Fiction:
First Place:  The Shell Collector: Stories, by Anthony Doerr
Second Place:  When the Emperor Was Divine, by Julie Otsuka
Third Place:  The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold

Honorable Mentions:
Sons of Heaven, by Terrence Cheng
Q Road, by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Life at These Speeds, by Jeremy Jackson
Nonfiction:
First Place:  A Death in Texas: A Story of Race, Murder and a Small Town's Struggle for Redemption, by Dina Temple-Raston
Second Place:  Diamond: A Journey to the Heart of an Obsession, by Matthew Hart
Third Place:  Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps, by Ted Kooser

2001

Fiction:
First Place: The Death of Vishnu, by Manil Suri
Second Place: Peace like a River, by Leif Enger
Third Place: Observatory Mansions, by Edward Carey

Nonfiction:
First Place: Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission, by Hampton Sides
Second Place: Seabiscuit : An American Legend, by Laura Hillenbrand
Third Place: River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, by Peter Hessler


2000

Girl with a Pearl Earring, by Tracy Chevalier


1999

The Pleasing Hour, by Lily King


1998

Rose's Garden, by Carrie Brown


1997

The Light of Falling Stars, by J. Robert Lennon


1996

The Giant's House, by Elizabeth McCracken


1995

Native Speaker, by Chang-rae Lee


1994

Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson


1993

A Place Where the Sea Remembers, by Sandra Benitez


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