2000 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2000.

Events

• February – The bookstore El Ateneo Grand Splendid takes over the Teatro Gran Splendid in Buenos Aires, converting it for use as retail space.
• February 13 – The final original Peanuts comic strip by Charles M. Schulz is published. Schulz died on February 12.
• March 14 – Stephen King's novella Riding the Bullet is published in e-book format only, as the world's first mass-market electronic book.
• September 26 – English politician and writer Jeffrey Archer is charged with perjury, and on the same day opens in the title role of his own courtroom drama, The Accused.
• December 15 – In a landmark censorship case, Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Canada (Minister of Justice), the Supreme Court of Canada rules that Canada Customs has no authority to make judgments on the permissibility of material being shipped to retailers, only to confiscate material specifically ruled by the courts to constitute an offence under the Canadian Criminal Code.

New books

Fiction

• Reed Arvin – The Will
• Margaret Atwood – The Blind Assassin
• Louis Auchincloss – Her Infinite Variety
• Trezza Azzopardi – The Hiding Place
• Iain M. Banks – Look to Windward
• Russell Banks – The Angel on the Roof
• Matt Beaumont – e
• Maeve Binchy – Scarlet Feather
• Raymond Benson – Doubleshot
• Ben Bova – Jupiter
• T. C. Boyle – A Friend of the Earth
• Dan Brown – Angels & Demons
• Jim Butcher – Storm Front
• Peter Carey – True History of the Kelly Gang
• Michael Chabon – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel
• Tom Clancy – The Bear and the Dragon
• Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark – Deck The Halls
• Miriam Cooke – Hayati, My Life
• Bernard Cornwell – Harlequin (also The Archer's Tale)
• Patricia Cornwell – The Last Precinct
• Mark Z. Danielewski – House of Leaves
• August Derleth – The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition
• K. Sello Duiker – Thirteen Cents
• Ken Follett – Code to Zero
• Jon Fosse – Morning and Evening (Morgon og kveld) (novella)
• David S. Garnett – Bikini Planet
• Amitav Ghosh – The Glass Palace
• Myla Goldberg – Bee Season
• Linda Grant – When I Lived in Modern Times
• John Grisham – The Brethren
• Mohsin Hamid – Moth Smoke
• Joanne Harris – Blackberry Wine
• Elisabeth Harvor – Excessive Joy Injures the Heart
• Joseph Heller – Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man
• Kazuo Ishiguro – When We Were Orphans
• Elfriede Jelinek – Greed
• Robert Jordan – Winter's Heart
• Barbara Kingsolver – Prodigal Summer
• Sophie Kinsella – The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic
• Andrus Kivirähk – Rehepapp ehk November (Old Barny or November)
• Joe R. Lansdale
• The Bottoms
• The Big Blow
• Robert Ludlum – The Prometheus Deception
• Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
• The Indwelling
• The Mark
• Colleen McCullough – Morgan's Run
• Alistair MacLeod – Island
• Barry N. Malzberg – In the Stone House
• Juliet Marillier – Son of the Shadows
• George R. R. Martin – A Storm of Swords
• Zakes Mda – The Heart of Redness
• Mikael Niemi – Popular Music from Vittula (Populärmusik frÃ¥n Vittula)
• Joyce Carol Oates – Blonde
• Kenzaburō Ōe (大江 健三郎) – The Changeling (取り替え子 (チェンジリング, Torikae ko [Chenjiringu])
• Daniel Olivas – The Courtship of María Rivera Peña
• Robert B. Parker – Hugger Mugger
• James Patterson – Roses are Red
• Rosamunde Pilcher – Winter Solstice
• Giuseppe Pontiggia – Nati due volte (Born Twice)
• Terry Pratchett – The Truth
• Mario Puzo – OmertÃÂ
• Jean Raspail – Le Roi au-delà de la mer
• Kathy Reichs – Deadly Decisions
• Philip Roth – The Human Stain
• Peter Ruber editor – Arkham's Masters of Horror
• Marjane Satrapi – Persepolis (graphic novel, first part)
• Jean-Jacques Schuhl – Ingrid Caven
• Christina Schwarz – Drowning Ruth
• Helen Simpson – Hey Yeah Right Get A Life
• Michael Slade – Hangman
• Gillian Slovo – Red Dust
• Zadie Smith – White Teeth
• Muriel Spark – Aiding and Abetting
• Michael Stackpole
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• Domenico Starnone – Via Gemito
• Danielle Steel
• The House On Hope Street
• Journey
• Kathy Tyers – Balance Point
• Andrew Vachss – Dead and Gone
• Mario Vargas Llosa – The Feast of the Goat (La fiesta del chivo)
• Chris Ware – Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth (graphic novel)
• Edmund White – The Married Man

Children and young people

• Lloyd Alexander – The Cat Who Wished to Be a Man
• David Almond – Counting Stars
• Margaret Beames – Oliver in the Garden
• Kirsten Boie – Wir Kinder aus dem Möwenweg (first in the Kinder aus dem Möwenweg series)
• Lauren Child
• Beware of the Storybook Wolves
• I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato
• Deborah Ellis – The Breadwinner (also Parvana, first in the Breadwinner series of four books)
• Mem Fox – Harriet, You'll Drive Me Wild!
• Cornelia Funke – The Thief Lord
• Jamila Gavin – Coram Boy
• Anthony Horowitz – Stormbreaker
• Hwang Sun-mi – The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly (마당을 나온 암탉, Sakyejul)
• Shirley Isherwood – Flora the Frog
• Gordon Korman – No More Dead Dogs
• Jim Murphy – BLIZZARD! The Storm That Changed America
• Beverley Naidoo – The Other Side of Truth
• Jerry Pinkney – Aesop's Fables
• Philip Pullman – The Amber Spyglass
• J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Lemony Snicket
• The Wide Window
• The Miserable Mill
• The Austere Academy
• Jacqueline Wilson – Vicky Angel

Drama

• David Auburn – Proof
• Timothy Findley – Elizabeth Rex
• Tanika Gupta – The Waiting Room
• Dusty Hughes – Helpless
• Joe Penhall – Blue/Orange

Poetry

• Anne Carson – Men in the Off Hours
• Paul Celan – Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan (translated by Heather McHugh and Nikolai Popov)
• Fanny Howe – Fanny Howe: Selected Poems
• Pierre Labrie – À tout hasard
• Grazyna Miller – Sull'onda del respiro (On the Wave of Breath)
• Owen Sheers – The Blue Book
• Dejan Stojanović
• Znak i njegova deca (The Sign and Its Children)
• Oblik (The Shape)
• Tvoritelj (The Creator)
• Krugovanje (Circling), 3rd ed.

Non-fiction

• Peter Ackroyd – London: A Biography
• Martin Amis – Experience
• The Beatles Anthology
• Mark Buchanan – Ubiquity: The Science of History
• Michael Burleigh – The Third Reich: A New History
• Christian Cannuyer – '
• John Colapinto – '
• Mary Craig – Blessings
• Gerina Dunwich – Your Magickal Cat: Feline Magick, Lore, and Worship
• Dave Eggers – A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
• Charles Foster – Stardust and Shadows: Canadians in Early Hollywood
• John Bellamy Foster – Marx's Ecology
• Aileen Fox – Aileen: a Pioneering Archaeologist (autobiography)
• Malcolm Gladwell – '
• Lynda Gratton – Living Strategy: Putting People at the Heart of Corporate Purpose
• Taras Grescoe – Sacré Blues
• Christina Hoff Sommers – The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men
• Will Hutton – The World We're In
• Stephen King – '
• Lawrence Lessig – Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
• Roger Lowenstein – '
• Sidney Poitier – '
• Arun Shourie – Harvesting Our Souls
• Paul H. Ray – '
• Lorna Sage – Bad Blood
• Diane Stanley – Michelangelo
• Patrick Tort – Darwin and the Science of Evolution
• Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee – '
• Michael White – Leonardo: the First Scientist
• Bruce Wilkinson – '

• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Quan Barry, Asylum
• Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Eleanor Ross Taylor
• Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Corey Marks, "Renunciation", and (separately) Christopher Patton, "Broken Ground"
• Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry: David Ferry, Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations
• Brittingham Prize in Poetry: Greg Rappleye, A Path Between Houses
• Business Week Best Book of the Year: Roger Lowenstein, When Genius Failed
• Compton Crook Award: Stephen L. Burns, Flesh and Silver
• Edgar Award: Joe R. Lansdale, The Bottoms
• Frost Medal: Anthony Hecht
• Hugo Award: Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky
• Michael L. Printz Award for the "best book written for teens" (first award): Walter Dean Myers, Monster
• National Book Award for Fiction: Susan Sontag, In America
• National Book Critics Circle Award: Ted Conover, '
• Nebula Award: Greg Bear, Darwin's Radio
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Christopher Paul Curtis, Bud, Not Buddy
• PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: Ha Jin, Waiting
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Donald Margulies, Dinner With Friends
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: C.K. Williams, Repair
• Wallace Stevens Award: Frank Bidart
• Whiting Awards:

Other

• Finlandia Prize: Johanna Sinisalo Not Before Sunset (Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi)
• Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels: Assia Djebar
• International Dublin Literary Award: Nicola Barker, Wide Open
• Premio Nadal: Lorenzo Silva, El alquimista impaciente
• Viareggio Prize: Giorgio van Straten, Il mio nome a memoria and Sandro Veronesi, La forza del passato

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