2001

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2001 is the year after the year 2000 and the first year in the 21st century. It is a common year.

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[edit] Events

Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

[edit] Nobel Prizes

[edit] Films released

[edit] New books

  • All Families Are Psychotic - Douglas Coupland
  • The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents - Terry Pratchett
  • The Ash Garden - Dennis Bock
  • Austerlitz - W.G. Sebald
  • Back When We Were Grownups - Anne Tyler
  • Baudolino - Umberto Eco
  • Black House - Stephen King
  • The Bonesetter's Daughter - Amy Tan
  • Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
  • The Cold Six Thousand - James Ellroy
  • The Constant Gardener - John le Carré
  • The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
  • Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age - Steven Levy
  • The Curse of Chalion - Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Death in Holy Orders - P.D. James
  • Dolce Agonia - Nancy Huston
  • Dreamcatcher - Stephen King
  • Empire Falls - Richard Russo
  • Exploring Spellcraft - Gerina Dunwich
  • Fatal Voyage - Kathy Reichs
  • The Fiery Cross - Diana Gabaldon
  • Five Quarters of the Orange - Joanne Harris
  • The Fourth Hand - John Irving
  • Fury - Salman Rushdie
  • The Future of Ideas - Lawrence Lessig
  • Giving Something Back - Robert N. Kucey
  • Greenhouse: The 200-Year Story of Global Warming - Gale E. Christianson
  • The Idea of Perfection - Kate Grenville Picador
  • The Last Hero - Terry Pratchett
  • Leap Of Faith - Danielle Steel
  • Life of Pi - Yann Martel
  • Man Ray's Montparnasse - Herbert R. Lottman
  • Marie Antoinette: The Journey - Antonia Fraser
  • Mary Shelley - Miranda Seymour
  • The Modern Witch's Complete Sourcebook - Gerina Dunwich
  • Never Dream of Dying - Raymond Benson
  • Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich
  • A Painted House - John Grisham
  • Rouge Brésil - Jean-Christophe Rufin
  • Seabiscuit: An American Legend - Laura Hillenbrand
  • ISADORA: The Sensational Life of Isadora Duncan - Peter Kurth
  • Skipping Christmas - John Grisham
  • The Stone Carvers - Jane Urquhart
  • Stupid White Men - Michael Moore
  • Thief of Time - Terry Pratchett
  • Thinks ... - David Lodge
  • The Trial of Henry Kissinger - Christopher Hitchens
  • The White Castle - Orhan Pamuk

[edit] Fictional references to the year

  • Arthur C. Clarke set the 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey in this year, the first year of the 21st century.

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