Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers program has announced the 22 titles on its spring 2017 list. The selection committee is comprised of B&N booksellers who "have been on the hunt to find the best and the brightest, the next great storyteller (fiction or nonfiction) that they can't stop talking about, the books that they can't wait to get into the hands of another reader." The spring 2017 B&N Discover Great New Writers titles are:
The Animators: A Novel by Kayla Ray Whitaker
The Bear and the Nightingale: A Novel by Katherine Arden
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui
City of Saints & Thieves by Natalie C. Anderson
Dead Letters by Caite Dolan-Leach
Desperation Road by Michael Farris Smith
Down City: A Daughter's Story of Love, Memory and Murder by Leah Carroll
Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag
The Gargoyle Hunters by John Freeman Gill
History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea by Melissa Fleming
Idaho: A Novel by Emily Ruskovich
Imagine Wanting Only This by Kristen Radtke
The Impossible Fortress by Jason Rekulak
Insomniac City by Bill Hayes
Marlena: A Novel by Julie Buntin
The Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Lindsey Lee Johnson
No One Is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts
Schadenfreude: A Love Story by Rebecca Schuman
Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patty Yumi Cottrell
Traveling with Ghosts: A Memoir by Shannon Leone Fowler
The Young Widower's Handbook: A Novel by Tom McAllister