2010 Pulitzer Prizes
- Tinkers – Paul Harding (Fiction Winner)
- Love in Infant Monkeys – Lydia Millet (Fiction Finalist)
- In Other Rooms, Other Wonders – Daniyal Mueenuddin (Fiction Finalist)
- The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy – David E. Hoffman (Non-Fiction Winner)
- How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities – John Cassidy (Non-Fiction Finalist)
- The Evolution of God – Robert Wright (Non-Fiction Finalist)
- The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt – T.J. Stiles (Biography/Autobiography Winner)
- Woodrow Wilson: A Biography – John Milton Cooper, Jr. (Biography/Autobiography Finalist)
- Cheever, a Life – Blake Bailey (Biography/Autobiography Finalist)
- Versed – Rae Armantrout (Poetry Winner)
2010 National Book Award
- The Lord of Misrule – Jaimy Gordon (Fiction Winner)
- Parrot and Oliver in America – Peter Carey (Fiction Finalist)
- Great House – Nicole Krauss (Fiction Finalist)
- So Much for That – Lionel Shriver (Fiction Finalist)
- I Hotel – Karen Tei Yamashita (Fiction Finalist)
- Just Kids – Patti Smith (Non-Fiction Winner)
- Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea – Barbara Demick (Non-Fiction Finalist)
- Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq – John W. Dower (Non-Fiction Finalist)
- Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward – Justin Spring (Non-Fiction Finalist)
- Every Man in This Village is a Liar: An Education in War – Megan K. Stack (Non-Fiction Finalist)
2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
- War Dances – Sherman Alexie (Winner)
- The Lacuna – Barbara Kingsolver (Finalist)
- Homicide Survivors Picnic and Other Stories – Lorriane M. Lopez (Finalist)
- A Gate at the Stairs – Lorrie Moore (Finalist)
- Sag Harbor – Colson Whitehead (Finalist)
2010 Man Booker Prize
- The Finkler Question – Howard Jacobson (Winner)
- Parrot and Olivier in America – Peter Carey (Shortlist)
- Room – Emma Donoghue (Shortlist)
- In a Strange Room: Three Journeys – Damon Galgut (Shortlist)
- The Long Song – Andrea Levy (Shortlist)
Other Mentions (2010)
- The Unforgiving Minute: a Soldier's Education – Craig M. Mullaney (Read Across Rhode Island 2011)
- Great Expectations and/or A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens (Oprah's Book Club)