2003 in literature
See also: 2002 in literature, other events of 2003, 2004 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events September 9 - Barnes & Noble, the largest American bookseller, announces that it will no longer sell downloadable electronic texts sometimes called e-books. Chuck Palahniuk reads his short story "Guts" to audiences while on tour to promote his novel Diary. Over 35 people faint while listening to the readings.
New books The Arraignment - Steve Martini Blue Horizon - Wilbur Smith The Bridge of Sighs - Olen Steinhauer The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Novel - Mark Haddon Darwin's Children - Greg Bear The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown The Delicate Storm - Giles Blunt Diary - Chuck Palahniuk Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom - Cory Doctorow Dude, Where's My Country - Michael Moore Dunwich's Guide to Gemstone Sorcery - Gerina Dunwich L'Empire des loups - Jean-Christophe Grangé The Face - Dean R. Koontz The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon - Chuck Palahniuk Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J. K. Rowling Hey Nostradamus - Douglas Coupland Holy Fools - Joanne Harris Idlewild - Nick Sagan Jarhead - Anthony Swofford Jennifer Government - Max Barry The Journals - Volume 1 - John Fowles The King of Torts - John Grisham The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini The Last Jihad: A Novel - Joel C. Rosenberg Merchant Princes, Halifax's First Family of Finance, Ships and Steel - James Frost Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett Notes on a Scandal - Zoë Heller Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood A Place So Foreign and Eight More - Cory Doctorow Pattern Recognition - William Gibson Politics - Adam Thirlwell Scarecrow - Matthew Reilly Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII - David Starkey The Skating Pond - Deborah Joy Corey Something Might Happen - Julie Myerson The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett Wolves of the Calla - Stephen King
Births
Deaths February 16 - Aleksandar Tisma March 12 - Howard Fast July 16 - Carol Shields
Awards Giller Prize: M.G. Vassanji - The In-Between World of Vikram Lall See 2003 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of the winners of those awards. Griffin Poetry Prize: Margaret Avison, Concrete and Wild Carrot and Paul Muldoon, Moy sand and gravel Hugo Award: Robert J. Sawyer, Hominids International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Orhan Pamuk My Name is Red Newbery Medal for children's literature: Avi, Crispin: The Cross of Lead Nobel Prize for Literature: J. M. Coetzee Orange Prize for Fiction: Valerie Martin, Property Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex Whitbread Book of The Year Award: Mark Haddon for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Novel
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