in literature

See also: 2002 in literature, other events of 2003, 2004 in literature, list of years in literature.

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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 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
L'Empire des loups - Jean-Christophe Grangé
The Face - Dean R. Koontz
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
Jarhead - Anthony Swofford
The Journals - Volume 1 - John Fowles
The King of Torts - John Grisham
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
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
The Bridge of Sighs - Olen Steinhauer

Births

Deaths

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.
Hugo Award: Robert J. Sawyer, Hominids
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Avi, Crispin: The Cross of Lead
Whitbread Book of The Year Award: Mark Haddon for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Novel
Nobel Prize for Literature: J. M. Coetzee
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
Orange Prize for Fiction: Valerie Martin, Property

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