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

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

• Jim Butcher - Storm Front
• Isabel Allende - Daughter of Fortune
• Reed Arvin - The Will
• Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin
• Louis Auchincloss - Her Infinite Variety
• 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
• Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves
• August Derleth - The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition
• Ken Follett - Code to Zero
• David S. Garnett - Bikini Planet
• Amitav Ghosh - The Glass Palace
• 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)
• 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

• David Auburn - Proof
• Timothy Findley - Elizabeth Rex
• Dusty Hughes - Helpless

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
• Michael White - Leonardo: the First Scientist
• 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

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Gao Xingjian

Australia

• The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Stephen Gray, The Artist is a Thief
• C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: John Millett, Iceman
• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Jennifer Maiden, Mines
• Mary Gilmore Prize: Lucy Dougan, Memory Shell
• Miles Franklin Award: Tie: Thea Astley, Drylands; Kim Scott, Benang

Canada

• Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost - tied with: David Adams Richards, Mercy Among the Children
• See 2000 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

• Prix Femina: Camille Laurens, Dans ces bras-là
• Prix Goncourt: Jean-Jacques Schuhl, Ingrid Caven
• Prix Décembre: Anthony Palou, Camille
• Prix Médicis French: Armelle Lebras-Chopard, Le zoo des philosophes
• Prix Médicis Non-Fiction: Yann Apperry, Diabolus in musica
• Prix Médicis International: Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost

United Kingdom

• Booker Prize: Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Zadie Smith, White Teeth
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Martin Amis, Experience
• Cholmondeley Award: Alistair Elliot, Michael Hamburger, Adrian Henri, Carole Satyamurti
• Eric Gregory Award: Eleanor Margolies, Antony Rowland, Antony Dunn, Karen Goodwin, Clare Pollard
• Orange Prize for Fiction: Linda Grant, When I Lived in Modern Times
• Samuel Johnson Prize: David Cairns, Berlioz: Volume 2
• Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Edwin Morgan
• Whitbread Best Book Award: Matthew Kneale, English Passengers

United States

• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Quan Barry for Asylum
• Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, Eleanor Ross Taylor
• Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry, Corey Marks, "Renunciation", and (separately) Christopher Patton, "Broken Ground"
• Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, David Ferry for Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations
• Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Greg Rappleye, A Path Between Houses
• Business Week Best Book of the Year: Roger Lowenstein, When Genius Failed
• Compton Crook Award: Stephen L. Burns, Flesh and Silver
• Frost Medal: Anthony Hecht
• Hugo Award: Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky
• Nebula Award: Greg Bear, Darwin's Radio
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Christopher Paul Curtis, Bud, Not Buddy
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Donald Margulies, Dinner With Friends
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: C.K. Williams, Repair
• Wallace Stevens Award: Frank Bidart

Other

• Finlandia Prize: Johanna Sinisalo Not Before Sunset (Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi)
• IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Nicola Barker, Wide Open
• Premio Nadal: Lorenzo Silva, El alquimista impaciente
• Viareggio Prize: Giorgio van Straten, Il mio nome a memoria and Sandro Veronesi, La forza del passato