See also: 1863 in literature, other events of 1864, 1865 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New books

• Apologia Pro Vita Sua - John Henry Cardinal Newman
• Brother Jacob - George Eliot
• Chevalier Destouches - Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly
• Clara Vaughan - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
• Dramatis Personae (Poetry) - Robert Browning
• Enoch Arden - Alfred Tennyson
• - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• A Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne
• Notes from The Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Renée Mauperin - Edmond de Goncourt & Jules de Goncourt
• Uncle Silas - Sheridan Le Fanu
• Wives and Daughters - Elizabeth Gaskell
• The Wylder's Hand - Sheridan Le Fanu

Births

• February 14 - Israel Zangwill, English novelist and playwright, (d. 1926)

Deaths

• March 16 - Robert Smith Surtees, writer

Awards