July 27 – Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy becomes an international sensation, with a total of 27 million copies sold worldwide as of May 2010.[4][5] On July 27 Amazon says that Larsson is the first author to sell more than 1 million Kindle e-books.[2]
November – Mark Twain's Autobiography is published (officially) 100 years after the author's death, the delay Twain ordered himself. Unofficial copies have been published several times in the 20th century.[8]
unknown date – Orlando Figes posts pseudonymous reviews on the UK site of bookseller Amazon.com criticising books by two other British historians of Russia, Robert Service and Rachel Polonsky, whilst praising his own books among others.[11]
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Jokha al-Harthi – Sayidat al-Qamar (Ladies of the Moon, translated as Celestial Bodies)
^ abFaculty of Arts, November 10, 2010, Edna Staebler AwardArchived November 26, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Wilfrid Laurier University, Headlines (Campus Updates), Retrieved 11/16/2012
^"Ravindra Kelekar passes away". The Hindu. Chennai, India: The Hindu Group. 28 August 2010. Archived from the original on 13 September 2010. Retrieved 25 September 2010.