21st century in literature

2000s

• 2001 – The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen; Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand; Life of Pi by Yann Martel;
  Nobel Prize: V. S. Naipaul
• 2002 – Atonement by Ian McEwan; Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides; Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer;
  Nobel Prize: Imre Kertész
• 2003 – The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown; Roman Triptych (Meditation);
  Nobel Prize: J. M. Coetzee
• 2004 –
  Nobel Prize: Elfriede Jelinek
• 2005 –
  Nobel Prize: Harold Pinter
• 2006 – The Road by Cormac McCarthy; 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 Khaled Hosseini; On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan;
  Nobel Prize: Doris Lessing
• 2008 –
  Nobel Prize: J. M. G. Le Clézio
• 2009 – The Humbling by Philip Roth; Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel;
  Nobel Prize: Herta Müller