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… 2000 • 2001 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 •    2007 • 2008 • 2009 – 2010 – 2011 • 2012 • 2013 •    2014 • 2015 • 2016 • 2017 • 2018 • 2019 • 2020 …
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… 2007 • 2008 • 2009 – 2010 – 2011 • 2012 • 2013 … … 1980s • 1990s • 2000s – 2010s – 2020s • 2030s • 2040s … … 20th century – 21st century – 22nd century …
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Contents 1 2000s 2 2010s 3 See also

The 21st century in literature refers to world literature produced during the 21st century. The range of years is, for the purpose of this article, literature written from (roughly) the year 2001 to the present.

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• 2001 - Seabiscuit: An American Legend – Laura Hillenbrand; Life of Pi - Nobel prize: Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
• 2002 - Atonement - Ian McEwan; Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World - Nobel prize: Imre Kertész
• 2003 - Roman Triptych (Meditation) - Nobel prize: J. M. Coetzee
• 2004 - Free Culture - Lawrence Lessig; Nobel prize: Elfriede Jelinek
• 2005 - Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk; Nobel prize: Harold Pinter
• 2006 - The Road, by Cormac McCarthy; Daniel Handler, The End, 13th and final book in A Series of Unfortunate Events; Les Bienveillantes, by Jonathan Littell; Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon; Nobel prize: Orhan Pamuk
• 2007 - ''The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz; A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini; On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling; Nobel prize: Doris Lessing
• 2008 - 2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolaño; Feuchtgebiete by Charlotte Roche; Nobel prize: J.M.G. Le Clézio
• 2009 - The Humbling by Philip Roth; Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel; Nobel prize: Herta Müller

[edit] 2010s

• 2010

[edit] See also

• 2000s in books
• 21st century#Literature
• History of modern literature
• Electronic literature