The Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, formerly 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
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 +Award honorees, 1997–2019 Year Category Author Title Result 1995FictionNative Speaker1996FictionNonfiction1997Fiction2001Fiction2004FictionBrick LaneWhat Was She Thinking? How to Breath UnderwaterNonfictionIn the Shadow of Memory2005FictionBeasts of No NationPigtopiaTenney's LandingNonfictionOne Bullet Away2006FictionBrief Encounters with Che Guevara Bliss Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife Nonfiction2007FictionThen We Came to the EndLet the Northern Lights Erase Your NameNonfictionHere If You Need MeSoldier's Heart 2008FictionSwayNonfictionBeautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's AddictionBlue Sky July2009FictionMathilda SavitchMore of this World or Maybe AnotherAll the LivingNonfictionColumbineIn the Sanctuary of Outcasts2010FictionModel HomeGalvestonNonfiction2011FictionUntouchableTurn of MindVoltNonfictionKosher ChineseDay of Honey[sic]2012FictionNonfictionWild Behind the Beautiful ForeversFull Body Burden2013FictionWe Need New Names Bobcat and Other StoriesNonfictionSon of a GunWaveWith or Without You 2014FictionAll the Birds, SingingElegy on KinderklavierNonfictionBadluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the CrematoryUntamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island2015FictionIn the Country NonfictionGhettoside: A True Story of Murder in AmericaBettyvilleBecoming Nicole2016FictionHomegoingShelterNonfictionEvicted: Poverty and Profit in the American CityLab GirlBlood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America 2017FictionSorry to Disrupt the Peace NonfictionNomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century Down City: A Daughter's Story of Love, Memory and Murder 2018FictionOnly Killers and ThievesThere ThereNonfictionHeavy American PrisonEducated2019FictionLights All Night Long On Earth We're Briefly GorgeousNonfictionWhat Doesn't Kill You Makes You BlackerHow We Fight for Our LivesOrdinary Girls Trick Mirror
2022–present +Award honorees, 2022–presentYearAuthorTitleResult2022TrespassesHow High We Go in the DarkNight of the Living RezAll This Could Be DifferentSweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm2023Chain-Gang All-StarsWhere There Was FireOpen ThroatIn Memoriam2024Swift RiverMartyr!Pearly Everlasting888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers: A NovelPigletWhale Fall2025Maggie; Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a BarKaplan's PlotGreat Black Hope TiltLonely Crowds2026Seek Immediate ShelterWaiting on a Friend Upward Bound YesteryearLost Lambs
See also
Barnes & Noble Book of the Year Barnes & Noble Children's & Young Adult Book Awards
References