2010 shortlist

Fiction

• Dog Boy by Eva Hornung (Winner)
• As the Earth turns Silver by Alison Wong
• Lovesong by Alex Miller
• Ransom by David Malouf
• Summertime by J. M. Coetzee
• The Book of Emmett by Deborah Forster
• The Lakewoman by Alan Gould

Non-fiction

• The Colony: A History of Early Sydney by Grace Karskens (Winner)
• Strange Places: A Memoir of Mental Illness by Will Elliott
• The Blue Plateau: A Landscape Memoir by Mark Tredinnick
• The Ghost at the Wedding by Shirley Walker
• The Life and Death of Democracy by John Keane
• The Water Dreamers: The Remarkable History of Our Dry Continent by Michael Cathcart

Young adult fiction

• Confessions of a Liar, Thief and Failed Sex God by Bill Condon (Winner)
• Beatle meets Destiny by Gabrielle Williams
• Jarvis 24 by David Metzenthen
• Stolen by Lucy Christopher
• Swerve by Phillip Gwynne
• The Winds of Heaven by Judith Clarke
• The Museum of Mary Child by Cassandra Golds

Children's fiction

• Star Jumps by Lorraine Marwood (Winner)
• Cicada Summer by Kate Constable
• Harry and Hopper by Margaret Wild and illustrator Freya Blackwood
• Just Macbeth by Andy Griffiths and illustrator Terry Denton
• Mannie and the Long Brave Day by Martine Murray and illustrator Sally Rippin
• Mr Chicken goes to Paris by Leigh Hobbs
• Running with the Horses by Alison Lester
• Tensy Farlow and the Home for Mislaid Children by Jen Storer
• The Terrible Plop by Ursula Dubosarsky