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The year 2003 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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
- Mitch Albom - The Five People You Meet in Heaven
- Asanaro - The Secret Art of Seamm Jasani
- Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake
- Max Barry - Jennifer Government
- Greg Bear - Darwin's Children
- Thomas Berger - ''Best Friends
- Giles Blunt - The Delicate Storm
- Dan Brown - The Da Vinci Code
- Deborah Joy Corey - The Skating Pond
- Douglas Coupland - Hey Nostradamus!
- Julie E. Czerneda - Space, Inc.
- Richard A. Davidson - Welcome to Percotran
- Don DeLillo - Cosmopolis
- Cory Doctorow
- A Place So Foreign and Eight More
- Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
- Gerard Donovan - Schopenhaur's Telescope
- Fernanda Eberstadt - The Furies
- William Gibson -Pattern Recognition
- Jean-Christophe Grangé - L'Empire des loups
- John Grisham - The King of Torts
- Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Novel
- Joanne Harris - Holy Fools
- Victor Heck - The Asylum Vol 2 - The Violent Ward
- Victor Heck - The Asylum Vol 3 - The Quiet Ward
- Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner
- Jennifer Haigh - Mrs. Kimble
- Zoë Heller - Notes on a Scandal
- Pope John Paul II Roman Triptych. Meditations
- Greg Keyes - The Final Prophecy
- Stephen King - Wolves of the Calla
- Dean R. Koontz - The Face
- Jonathan Lethem - The Fortress of Solitude
- James Luceno - The Unifying Force
- Steve Martini - The Arraignment
- Julie Myerson - Something Might Happen
- Andrew Neiderman - The Baby Squad
- Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveler's Wife
- Chuck Palahniuk - Diary
- Christopher Paolini - Eragon
- Terry Pratchett
- Monstrous Regiment
- The Wee Free Men
- Matthew Reilly - Scarecrow
- Joel C. Rosenberg -
- J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Nick Sagan - Idlewild
- Matthew Sharpe - The Sleeping Father
- Michael Slade - Bed of Nails
- Lemony Snicket - The Slippery Slope
- Wilbur Smith - Blue Horizon
- Olen Steinhauer - The Bridge of Sighs
- Neal Stephenson - Quicksilver (Vol. I of the Baroque Cycle)
- Matthew Stover - Shatterpoint
- Anthony Swofford - Jarhead
- Miguel Sousa Tavares - Ecuador
- Adam Thirlwell - Politics
- Sergio Troncoso - The Nature of Truth
- The Getaway Man'' - Andrew Vachss
- Sean Williams & Shane Dix
- Roger Zelazny - Manna from Heaven
- Garth Nix - Mister Monday
Non-fiction
- Gerina Dunwich – Dunwich's Guide to Gemstone Sorcery
- John Fowles – The Journals - Volume 1
- James Frost – Merchant Princes, Halifax's First Family of Finance, Ships and Steel
- Don Miller – Blue Like Jazz
- Michael Moore – Dude, Where's My Country?
- Alanna Nash –
- Chuck Palahniuk –
- Clark Ashton Smith – Selected Letters of Clark Ashton Smith
- David Starkey –
- Lynne Truss – Eats, Shoots & Leaves
- Jane Smiley – Charles Dickens
New drama
Births
Deaths
- February 16 - Aleksandar Tišma, Serb novelist
- February 26 - Quentin Keynes, bibliophile
- March 11 - Brian Cleeve, writer and broadcaster
- September 3 - Alan Dugan, poet
- March 12 - Howard Fast, American novelist
- April 7 - Cecile de Brunhoff, children's author
- June 21 - George Axelrod, dramatist and screenwriter
- July 10 - Winston Graham, novelist
- July 16 - Carol Shields, novelist
- Nov 9 - Binod Bihari Verma, Maithili literateur
- December 2 - Alan Davidson, food writer
Awards
Australia
- The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Nicholas Angel, Drown Them in the Sea
- C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Emma Lew, Anything the Landlord Touches
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Jill Jones, Screens Jets Heaven
- Miles Franklin Award: Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country
Canada
- 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
United Kingdom
- Cholmondeley Award: Ciaran Carson, Michael Donaghy, Lavinia Greenlaw, Jackie Kay
- Eric Gregory Award: Jen Hadfield, Zoe Brigley, Paul Batchelor, Olivia Cole, Sasha Dugdale, Anna Woodford
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Janet Browne, Charles Darwin: Volume 2 - The Power of Place
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Andrew O'Hagan, Personality
- Man Booker Prize: D.B.C. Pierre, Vernon God Little
- Orange Prize for Fiction: Valerie Martin, Property
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: U. A. Fanthorpe
- Whitbread Book of The Year Award: Mark Haddon for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Novel
United States
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to David Shumate for High Water Mark
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, W.S. Merwin
- Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry, Julie Sheehan for “Brown-headed Cow Birds”
- Bollingen Prize for Poetry, Adrienne Rich
- Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Brian Teare, The Room Where I Was Born
- Compton Crook Award: Patricia Bray, Devlin's Luck
- Frost Medal: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Hugo Award: Robert J. Sawyer, Hominids
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Avi, Crispin: The Cross of Lead
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
- Wallace Stevens Award: Richard Wilbur
Elsewhere
- International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Orhan Pamuk My Name is Red
- Premio Nadal: Andrés Trapiello, Los amigos del crimen perfecto
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