2003 in literature
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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 ebooks.
- 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
- The Baby Squad - Andrew Neiderman
- Blue Horizon - Wilbur Smith
- The Bridge of Sighs - Olen Steinhauer
- Cosmopolis - Don DeLillo
- 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
- Eragon - Christopher Paolini
- The Face - Dean R. Koontz
- The Final Prophecy - Greg Keyes
- - Sean Williams & Shane Dix
- - Sean Williams & Shane Dix
- - Sean Williams & Shane Dix
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
- - Chuck Palahniuk
- The Furies - Fernanda Eberstadt
- 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
- - Alanna Nash
- The Journals - Volume 1 - John Fowles
- The King of Torts - John Grisham
- The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
- - Joel C. Rosenberg
- Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett
- Mrs. Kimble - Jennifer Haigh
- The Nature of Truth - Sergio Troncoso
- 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
- Quicksilver - Neal Stephenson (Vol. I of the Baroque Cycle)
- Scarecrow - Matthew Reilly
- The Secret Art of Seamm Jasani - Asanaro
- Shatterpoint - Matthew Stover
- The Skating Pond - Deborah Joy Corey
- The Sleeping Father - Matthew Sharpe
- The Slippery Slope - Lemony Snicket
- Something Might Happen - Julie Myerson
- Roman Triptych. Meditations - John Paul II
- The Unifying Force - James Luceno
- The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett
- Wolves of the Calla - Stephen King
New drama
- Nilo Cruz - Anna in the Tropics
Non-fiction
- James Frost - Merchant Princes, Halifax's First Family of Finance, Ships and Steel
- Alanna Nash -
- David Starkey -
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.
- 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
- Man Booker Prize: D.B.C. Pierre, Vernon God Little
- 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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