See also: 1861 in literature, other events of 1862, 1863 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• November 26 - Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) sends the handwritten manuscript of Alice's Adventures Underground to 10-year-old Alice Liddell.

New books

• David Elginbrod - George MacDonald
• Dominique - Eugène Fromentin
• Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
• Lady Audley's Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
• No Name - Wilkie Collins
• Ravenshoe - Henry Kingsley
• Salammbo - Gustave Flaubert
• Sister Philomene - Edmond & Jules de Goncourt

Births

• January 24 - Edith Wharton (+ 1937)
• August 29 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet, playwright (+ 1949)
• October 13 - Mary Kingsley, travel writer (+ 1900)
• December 8 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright (+ 1921)

Deaths

• May 6 - Henry David Thoreau

Awards