This page gives a chronological list of years in literature (descending order), with a small selection of notable publications listed with their respective years and a small selection of notable events. The time covered in individual years covers Renaissance, Baroque and Modern literature, while Medieval literature is resolved by century. See Table of years in literature for an overview of all "year in literature" pages. [edit] 21st century - 2009 in literature - First Family - David Baldacci; Death of - John Updike, Philip Jose Farmer, J.G. Ballard, Frank McCourt, Budd Schulberg
- 2008 in literature - Duma Key - Stephen King; Death of Michael Crichton, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Margaret Truman, Arthur C. Clarke, Studs Terkel, Robert Giroux
- 2007 in literature - Death of Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut
- 2006 in literature - The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins; Death of Peter Benchley, Betty Friedan, Muriel Spark, Mickey Spillane, Wendy Wasserstein
- 2005 in literature - Death of Arthur Miller, John Fowles, Elizabeth Janeway; Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro; Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk
- 2004 in literature - Death of Françoise Sagan Hubert Selby Jr., Susan Sontag; The Plot Against America - Philip Roth; Free Culture - Lawrence Lessig
- 2003 in literature - The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown; Hegemony or Survival - Noam Chomsky; Roman Triptych (Meditation) - John Paul II; Death of Howard Fast
- 2002 in literature - Atonement - Ian McEwan; Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World - Margaret MacMillan; Death of Chaim Potok
- 2001 in literature - Seabiscuit: An American Legend – Laura Hillenbrand; Life of Pi - Yann Martel; The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen; Death of Ken Kesey, Robert Ludlum
- 2000 in literature - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon; No Logo - Naomi Klein, Death of Charles M. Schulz
[edit] 20th century - 1999 in literature - Chocolat - Joanne Harris; Disgrace - J M Coetzee; Death of Iris Murdoch, Joseph Heller, Mario Puzo, John F. Kennedy Jr.
- 1998 in literature - Death of Carlos Castenada, Octavio Paz, Lawrence Sanders, Benjamin Spock
- 1997 in literature - Underworld - Don DeLillo; Death of William S. Burroughs, James Dickey, James A. Michener
- 1996 in literature - Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace; Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt; Left Behind - Tim Lahaye, Jerry B. Jenkins
- 1995 in literature - The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield; Blindness - José Saramago
- 1994 in literature - The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields; Death of James Clavell, Ralph Ellison, Eugène Ionesco
- 1993 in literature - The Christmas Box – Richard Paul Evans; Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
- 1992 in literature - The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje; All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy; The Black Echo - Michael Connelly
- 1991 in literature - Such a Long Journey - Rohinton Mistry; Death of Isaac Bashevis Singer
- 1990 in literature - Vertigo - W.G. Sebald; The Hebrew Goddess - Raphael Patai; Death of Malcolm Forbes, Walker Percy, Alberto Moravia, Anya Seton, Roald Dahl
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