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Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award

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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