Lois Lowry's dystopian novel The Giver was first published in 1993.
The novel follows Jonas, a boy living in a seemingly peaceful community that has eliminated pain, war, and personal choice through strict social control. At the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas is selected to become the community's Receiver of Memory and begins learning the experiences that his society has suppressed.
The Giver appeared in 1993 and became one of Lowry's best-known works. Its publication date places it in the early 1990s wave of influential young-adult dystopian fiction, well before the later popularity of series such as The Hunger Games.
The year is sometimes confused with the dates of the novel's awards and adaptations. The Giver won the Newbery Medal in 1994, and a film adaptation was released in 2014. Those are later milestones, not the book's first-publication year.