Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award
| Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Authors' debut books |
| Presented by | Barnes & Noble |
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
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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]| 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] | |
| 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]| 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 | Trespasses | 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] |
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