1836 in literature

The year 1836 in literature involved some significant new books.

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)
 * Søren Kierkegaard - On the Polemic of Fædrelandet

Births

 * January 27 - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, writer (d. 1895)
 * August 25 - Bret Harte, American author (d. 1902)
 * September 11 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (d. 1870)
 * November 11 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, poet and novelist (d. 1870)
 * November 18 - W. S. Gilbert, British humorist, playwright and librettist (d. 1911)

Deaths

 * March 9 - Destutt de Tracy, French philosopher (b. 1754)
 * April 7 - William Godwin, political writer and novelist
 * September 5 – Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (b. 1790)
 * September 12 – Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German playwright (b. 1801)
 * November 5 - Karel Hynek Mácha, Czech poet (b. 1810)
 * December 1 - Jozef Ignác Bajza, Slovak satirist (b. 1755)