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| 1865 |
| | | Samuel Clemens, writing under the pseudonym Mark Twain, has immediate success with The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County | |
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| 1865 |
| | | Lewis Carroll publishes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a development of the story he had told Alice Liddell three years earlier | |
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| 1865 |
| | | Leo Tolstoy publishes the first volume of his epic novel War and Peace, following the lives of several aristocratic families during the Napoleonic wars | |
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| 1866 |
| | | Dostoevsky publishes Crime and Punishment, a novel narrated by Raskolnikov, a St Petersburg student and murderer | |
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| 1868 |
| | | US author Louisa May Alcott begins serial publication of her book for children, Little Women (in book form 1869) | |
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| 1868 |
| | | Dostoevsky publishes The Idiot, a novel about the simple-minded and truthful Prince Myshkin | |
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| 1871 |
| | | French author Émile Zola publishes The Fortune of the Rougons, the first in a 20-novel series that he calls Les Rougon-Macquart | |
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| 1871 |
| | | George Eliot publishes Middlemarch, in which Dorothea makes a disastrous marriage to the pedantic Edward Casaubon | |
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| 1872 |
| | | Lewis Carroll publishes Through the Looking Glass, a second story of Alice's adventures | |
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| 1873 |
| | | The Gilded Age, by Charles Dudley Warner and Mark Twain, provides the familiar name for life in the US towards the end of the nineteenth century | |
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