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The year 2000 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

1 Events
2 New books
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Awards

Events

February 13 - Final original Peanuts comic strip is published
September 24 - The American Family Association begins a year-long attack on Robert Clark Young's novel, One of the Guys, in an attempt to persuade the U.S. Congress to defund the National Endowment for the Arts

New books

Fiction

Isabel Allende - Daughter of Fortune
Reed Arvin - The Will
Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin
Louis Auchincloss - Her Infinite Variety
Eleanor Ayer - Parallel Journeys
Trezza Azzopardi - The Hiding Place
Iain M. Banks - Look to Windward
Matt Beaumont - e
Raymond Benson - Doubleshot
T. C. Boyle - A Friend of the Earth
Ben Bova - Jupiter
Dan Brown - Angels and Demons
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 (aka The Archer's Tale)
Patricia Cornwell - The Last Precinct
August Derleth - The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition
Ken Follett - Code to Zero
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 (Canada)
David Holland - Murcheston: The Wolf's Tale
Robert Jordan - Winter's Heart
Barbara Kingsolver - Prodigal Summer
Robert Ludlum - The Prometheus Deception
Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins - The Indwelling and The Mark
Barry N. Malzberg - In the Stone House
Colleen McCullough - Morgan's Run
Alistair MacLeod - Island
Patrick Maher - Candid Confessions
George R.R. Martin - A Storm of Swords
Joyce Carol Oates - Blonde
Robert B. Parker - Hugger Mugger
James Patterson - Roses Are Red
Rosamunde Pilcher - Winter Solstice
Giuseppe Pontiggia - Nati due volte
Terry Pratchett - The Truth
Philip Pullman - The Amber Spyglass
Mario Puzo - Omertà
Kathy Reichs - Deadly Decisions
Philip Roth - The Human Stain
J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Peter Ruber editor - Arkham's Masters of Horror
Jean-Jacques Schuhl - Ingrid Caven
Christina Schwarz - Drowning Ruth
Michael Slade - Hangman
Gillian Slovo - Red Dust
Zadie Smith - White Teeth
Muriel Spark - Aiding and Abetting
Michael Stackpole - Dark Tide: Onslaught and Dark Tide: Ruin
Domenico Starnone - Via Gemito
Danielle Steel - The House On Hope Street and Journey
Kathy Tyers - Balance Point
Andrew Vachss - Dead and Gone
Juliet Marillier - Son of the Shadows

Drama

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

Non-fiction

The Beatles Anthology
Peter Ackroyd - London: A Biography
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
Lawrence Lessig - Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
Roger Lowenstein - When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
Sidney Poitier - The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee - Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe
Bruce Wilkinson & David Kopp - The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life

Births

Deaths

January 26 - A. E. van Vogt, science fiction author
January 31 - Gil Kane, comic book writer
February 12 - Charles M. Schulz, 77, creator of the Peanuts comic strip
March 28 - Anthony Powell, British novelist
April 13 - Giorgio Bassani, 84, Italian writer (The Garden of the Finzi-Continis)
August 25 - Carl Barks, 99, illustrator of Donald Duck
September 7 - Malcolm Bradbury, 68, British novelist and critic (The History Man)
October 30 - Steve Allen, comedian, composer, talk show host, author
November 2 - Robert Cormier, 75, young adult fiction writer
November 8 - L. Sprague de Camp, 92, American sci-fi and fantasy author