1836 in literature
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The year 1836 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

• October 2 - HMS Beagle returns to the UK, and Charles Darwin is an instant celebrity.

New books

• Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, or, The Hidden Secrets of a Nun's Life in a Convent Exposed (January)
• Hans Christian Andersen - The Little Mermaid
• Charles Dickens - The Pickwick Papers
• Washington Irving - Astoria
• Frederick Marryat
  • The Pirate
  • Mr. Midshipman Easy
  • The Three Cutters
• Alexander Pushkin - The Captain's Daughter
• Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, A Black Man
• Catharine Parr Traill - The Backwoods of Canada
• Nathaniel Beverley Tucker
  • George Balcombe
  • The Partisan Leader

New drama

• Georg Büchner - Leonce and Lena

New Short Stories

• "La Morte Amoureuse" - Théophile Gautier

Poetry

• Robert Browning - "Porphyria's Lover"
• Oliver Wendell Holmes - Poems

Non-fiction

• Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature
• Washington Irving - Astoria
• G. W. M. Reynolds - Grace Darling
• Arthur Schopenhauer - Über den Willen in der Natur (On the Will in Nature)

Births

• January 27 - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, writer (+ 1895)
• August 25 - Bret Harte American author (+ 1902)
• September 11 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow American author († 1870)
• Annie Louisa Walker, British writer (+ 1907)

Deaths

• April 7 - William Godwin, political writer and novelist
• November 5 - Karel Hynek Mácha, poet

Awards