2010 shortlist
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