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Tom Clancy signed a book deal with Pearson Custom Publishing and Penguin Putnam Inc. (both part of Pearson Education), that paid him US$50 million for the world-English rights to two new books . He then signed a second agreement for another US$25 million for a four-year book/multimedia deal. Clancy followed this up with an agreement with Berkley Books for 24 paperbacks to tie in with the an ABC television miniseries in an agreement worth US$22 million bringing the total value of the package to US$97 million.

The memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, is removed from the ninth-grade English curriculum in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, because it "portrays white people as being horrible, nasty, stupid people."

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American Pastoral - Philip Roth

Are You Experienced? - William Sutcliffe

The Bacta War - Michael Stackpole

Barney's Version - Mordecai Richler

The Best Laid Plans - Sidney Sheldon

The Bible Code - Michael Drosnin

Budgie the Little Helicopter - Sarah Ferguson

Cat and Mouse - James Patterson

Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier

Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs - Dave Barry

Deja Dead - Kathy Reichs

Everyday Wicca - Gerina Dunwich

Fall On Your Knees - Ann-Marie MacDonald

The Ghost - Danielle Steel

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J. K. Rowling

Hornet's Nest - Patricia Cornwell

The Hutt Gambit - Ann C. Crispin

I Am the Most Interesting Book of All (translation) - Marie Bashkirtseff

Instruments of Darkness - Nancy Huston

Jingo - Terry Pratchett

Larry's Party - Carol Shields

Last Standing Woman - Winona LaDuke

London Blues - Anthony Frewin

Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon

Morisson of Peking - Cyril Pearl

Night Train - Martin Amis

The Paradise Snare - Ann C. Crispin

The Partner - John Grisham

Planet of Twilight - Barbara Hambly

Pretend You Don't See Her - Mary Higgins Clark

The Ranch - Danielle Steel

The Red Tent - Anita Diamant

Sex and the City - Candace Bushnell

Special Delivery - Danielle Steel

Specter of the Past - Timothy Zahn

The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman

Timequake - Kurt Vonnegut

Tomorrow Never Dies - Raymond Benson

Tuesdays With Morrie - Mitch Albom

Underworld - Don DeLillo

Unnatural Exposure - Patricia Cornwell

The Untouchable - John Banville

A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson

When the Sons of Heaven Meet the Daughters of the Earth - Fernanda Eberstadt

Zero Minus Ten - Raymond Benson

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Thomas Kilroy - The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde

Peter Whelan - The Herbal Bed

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Karen Armstrong - Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet

Cari Beauchamp - Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood

Gerina Dunwich - A Wiccan's Guide to Prophecy and Divination

Stephen Fry - Moab Is My Washpot (autobiography)

Reinhold Heller - Toulouse-Lautrec: The Soul of Montmartre

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January 19 - James Dickey, poet, novelist

February 3 - Bohumil Hrabal, author

April 5 - Allen Ginsberg, poet

August 2 - William S. Burroughs, novelist

October 14 - Harold Robbins, novelist

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Nobel Prize for Literature: Dario Fo

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Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Mordecai Richler: - Barney's Version

See 1997 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

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Prix Goncourt: Patrick Rambaud, La Bataille

Prix Décembre: Lydie Salvayre, La Compagnie des spectres

Prix Médicis International: T. Coraghessan Boyle, America

Prix Médicis French: Les Sept Noms du peintre - Philippe Le Guillou

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Booker Prize: Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

Cholmondeley Award: Alison Brackenbury, Gillian Clarke, Tony Curtis, Anne Stevenson

Orange Prize for Fiction: Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces

Whitbread Best Book Award: Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid

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Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Richard Blanco, City of a Hundred Fires

Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Fred Chappell

American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, John Ashbery

Nebula Award: Vonda McIntyre, The Moon and the Sun

Newbery Medal for children's literature: E. L. Konigsburg, The View from Saturday

Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Steven Millhauser - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Lisel Mueller: Live Together: New and Selected Poems

Wallace Stevens Award: Anthony Hecht

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IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Javier Marias, A Heart So White