2010 in Australian literature

This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2010.

Events

 * 26 January – Peter Goldsworthy is awarded a Member (AM) in the General Division in the Australia Day Honours List.
 * February – The "Australian Book Review" magazine conducted a poll of its readers and announces that Cloudstreet by Tim Winton is Australia's favourite novel.
 * 22 June – Peter Temple wins the Miles Franklin Award for his novel Truth becoming the first crime novel to do so.

Literary fiction

 * Jon Bauer – Rocks in the Belly
 * Carmel Bird – Child of the Twilight
 * Ashley Hay – The Body in the Clouds
 * Anita Heiss – Manhattan Dreaming
 * Toni Jordan – Fall Girl
 * Amanda Lohrey – Reading Madame Bovary (short story collection)
 * Roger McDonald – When Colts Ran
 * Fiona McGregor – Indelible Ink
 * Monica McInerney – At Home with the Templetons
 * D.B.C. Pierre – Lights Out in Wonderland
 * Jessica Rudd – Campaign Ruby
 * Kim Scott – That Deadman Dance
 * Chris Womersley – Bereft

Children's and Young Adult fiction

 * Alexandra Adornetto – Halo
 * Mem Fox – Let's Count Goats!
 * Rebecca James – Beautiful Malice
 * Alison Lester – Noni the Pony
 * Doug MacLeod – The Life of a Teenage Body-Snatcher
 * Melina Marchetta – The Piper's Son
 * Garth Nix – Lord Sunday
 * Markus Zusak – Bridge of Clay

Science Fiction and Fantasy

 * Trudi Canavan – The Ambassador's Mission
 * Sara Douglass – The Infinity Gate
 * Greg Egan – Zendegi
 * Fiona McIntosh – King's Wrath
 * Sean McMullen – "Eight Miles"
 * Juliet Marillier – Seer of Sevenwaters
 * Scott Westerfeld – Behemoth
 * Sean Williams
 * The Force Unleashed II
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance

Crime and Mystery

 * John Birmingham – After America
 * Honey Brown – The Good Daughter
 * Peter Corris – Torn Apart
 * Garry Disher – Wyatt
 * Kathryn Fox – Death Mask
 * Kerry Greenwood – Dead Man's Chest: A Phryne Fisher Mystery
 * Katherine Howell – Cold Justice
 * Adrian Hyland – Gunshot Road
 * Colleen McCullough – Naked Cruelty
 * Geoff McGeachin – The Diggers Rest Hotel
 * Tara Moss – The Blood Countess
 * Malla Nunn – Let the Dead Men Lie
 * Leigh Redhead – Thrill City
 * Michael Robotham – Bleed for Me
 * Angela Savage – The Half-Child
 * David Whish-Wilson – Line of Sight

Poetry

 * Christopher Kelen – The Whole Forest Dancing: Poems on Four Legs in the Morning
 * Les Murray – Taller When Prone
 * Dorothy Porter – Love Poems
 * Peter Porter – The Rest on the Flight: Selected Poems
 * Thomas Shapcott – Parts of Us
 * John Tranter – Starlight: 150 Poems
 * Mark Tredinnick – Fire Diary

Biography

 * Blanche d'Alpuget – Hawke: The Prime Minister
 * Jeff Apter – Together Alone: The Story of the Finn Brothers
 * Jim Davidson – A Three Cornered Life: The Historian W.K. Hancock
 * Malcolm Fraser & Margaret Simons – Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs
 * Rob Mundle – Bligh: Master Mariner
 * Anne Pender – One Man Show: The Stages of Barry Humphries
 * Mark Logue & Peter Conradi – The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy

Deaths

 * 15 March — Patricia Wrightson, author (born 1921)
 * 23 April — Peter Porter, author (born 1929)
 * 29 May — Randolph Stow, author (died in England)(born 1935)
 * 9 July — Jessica Anderson, author (born 1916)
 * 19 July — Jon Cleary, author (born 1917)
 * 8 September — Donald Horne, author (born 1921)
 * 6 October — David Rowbotham, author (born 1924)
 * 14 November — Bobbi Sykes, poet and author (born 1943)
 * 14 December — Ruth Park, author (born 1917)