The year 1610 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

• Thomas Bodley makes an agreement with the Stationers' Company of London to put a copy of every book registered with them into his new Bodleian.

New books

• Jean Beguin - Tyrocinium Chymicum
• Fourth edition of Foxe's Book of Martyrs
• John Healey - his translation of St. Augustine's The City of God
• Sylvester Jourdan - A Discovery of the Barmudas, otherwise called the Ile of Divels
• Richard Rich - News from Virginia: the Lost Flock Triumphant

New drama

• Samuel Daniel - Tethys Festival or the Queenes Wake (masque)
• John Fletcher - The Faithful Shepherdess
• Ben Jonson - The Alchemist; The Speeches at Prince Henry's Barriers
• John Marston - Histriomastix published
• John Mason - The Turk published

Poetry

• Giles Fletcher the younger - Christ's Victory and Triumph

Births

• January - Sir Sidney Godolphin, English poet (died 1643)
• July - Paul Scarron, poet, dramatist and novelist (died 1660)
• December 18 - Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist and historian (died 1688)
• date unknown
• Richard Bulstrode, English author and soldier (died 1711)
• Edmund Chilmead, English writer and translator (died 1654)
• Reinhold Curicke, historian of the Hanseatic League (died 1667)
• Li Yu, controversial comic writer (died 1680)
• Louis Maimbourg, historian (died 1686)
• François-Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (died 1683)
• Jan Vos, Dutch poet and dramatist (died 1667)
• probable - Jeremias de Dekker, Dutch poet (died 1666)

Deaths

• July - Richard Knolles, historian (born c1545)
• date unknown
• Anne Bacon, English translator (born c. 1528)
• Juan de la Cueva, poet and dramatist (born 1550)
• probable
• Peter Bales, inventor of shorthand (born 1547)
• Alexander Montgomerie, poet (born c1545)
• Philip Stubbs, pamphleteer (born c1555)