2000s in books

2000s in books

The 2000s saw a steep increase in the acceptability of literature of all types, inspired by the Harry Potter novels and by the coming-of-age of millions of people who enjoyed the works of such writers as C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien in their youths. Neil Gaiman, for instance, one of the decade's most popular writers of speculative fiction, cites Tolkien, Lewis, and G. K. Chesterton as his three biggest influences growing up. J. K. Rowling admits to being heavily influenced by Lewis as well. Philip Pullman's gritty young adult His Dark Materials trilogy, written and published in the late 1990s, increased in popularity and was more widely read during the 2000s. The popularity of Lewis, Tolkien, Pullman, and Rowling was spurred on by movies which proved to be some of the biggest of the 2000s. The 2000s also saw the popularization of manga, or Japanese comics, among international audiences, particularly in English-speaking nations.

Popular and influential books of the 2000s include:

* "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold
* "A Million Little Pieces" by James Frey
* "A Series of Unfortunate Events" by Lemony Snicket
* "A Song of Ice and Fire" by George R.R. Martin
* Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz
* "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
* "Freakonomics", by Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
* "Gossip Girl" by Cecily von Ziegesar
* Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
* "He's Just Not That Into You" by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo
* "" by Jenna Jameson
* "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell" by Susanna Clarke
* "Manliness" by Harvey C. Mansfield
* "Middlesex", by Jeffrey Eugenides
* "Perdido Street Station" by China Miéville
* "State of Fear" by Michael Crichton
* Stephen King completes his Dark Tower Cycle, a work which took him almost thirty years to finish.
* The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
* "Twilight", by Stephenie Meyer
* "The Broker", by John Grisham
* "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" by Mark Haddon
* "The Da Vinci Code", by Dan Brown
* "The Kite Runner", by Khaled Hosseini
* "The Purpose Driven Life" by Rick Warren
* "The World is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
* Uglies trilogy by Scott Westerfeld
* "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
* "The Rule of Four" by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
* "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
* "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
* "The Cabinet of Curiosities" by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
* "The Zero" by Jess Walter
* "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
* "The Speed of Dark" by Elizabeth Moon
* "" by Lawrence Wright
* "" by Thomas E. Ricks
* "Absurdistan" by Gary Shteyngart
* "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
* "Tree of Smoke" by Denis Johnson
* "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
* "The Echo Maker" by Richard Powers
* "The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen
* "I Am Charlotte Simmons" by Tom Wolfe
* "Europe Central" by William T. Vollmann
* "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
* "1776" by David McCullough
* "" by Mehmet Oz and Michael Roizen
* "Showdown" by Ted Dekker
* "The Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
* "Highland Wolf" by Monica McCarthy
* "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

ee also

*2000 in literature
*2001 in literature
*2002 in literature
*2003 in literature
*2004 in literature
*2005 in literature
*2006 in literature
*2007 in literature
*2008 in literature
*2009 in literature
*21st century in literature


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