See also: 10th century in poetry, Early Medieval literature, 11th century in literature, list of years in literature.

New books

• Beowulf (variously dated to the 8th to 10th centuries)
• Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
• De Administrando Imperio by Constantine VII
• Shahnama by Ferdowsi
• Waltharius (ca. 920)
• Al-Biruni, The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries (1000)
• Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi, Al-Tasrif (1000)
• One Thousand and One Nights

Authors

• Hroswitha of Gandersheim, considered the first person since Antiquity to compose drama