This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1736.

• Charles Rivington founds a company of London booksellers known as the New Conger.^[1]

• Anonymous – The Life of Marianne (fiction, translation of Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux)
• Joseph Addison – The Works of Petronius Arbiter (translation)
• John Armstrong – The Oeconomy of Love
• Thomas Bayes – An Introduction to the Doctrine of Fluxions, and a Defence of the Mathematicians Against the Objections of the Author of the Analyst
• Isaac Hawkins Browne – A Pipe of Tobacco
• Joseph Butler – Analogy of Religion
• Thomas Carte – Life of James Duke of Ormonde
• William Rufus Chetwood – The Voyages. . . of William Owen Gwin Vaughan
• Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon – Les Égarements du cœur et de l'esprit (Strayings of the Heart and Mind), part one
• John Gyles – Memoirs of Odd Adventures, Strange Deliverances, &c. in the Captivity of John Gyles, Esq
• Eliza Haywood – Adventures of Eovaai (later as The Unfortunate Princess)
• Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab – Kitab at-tawhidt
• Isaac Newton – Method of Fluxions
• Elizabeth Singer Rowe – The History of Joseph
• William Stukeley – Palaeographia Sacra
• James Thomson – Britain
• William Warburton – The Alliance Between Church and State (an answer to Benjamin Hoadly from the year before)
• Leonard Welsted – The Scheme and Conduct of Providence
• Diego de Torres Villarroel
  • Los desahuciados del mundo y de la gloria (The Deathly Illness of the World and of Glory)
  • Historia de historias

• Henry Carey – The Honest Yorkshireman
• Colley Cibber – Papal Tyranny in the Reign of King John
• Mr. Connolly – The Connoisseur
• Elizabeth Cooper – The Nobleman
• Henry Fielding – Pasquin
• Aaron Hill –
  • Alzira
  • Zara
• Samuel Johnson – All Alive and Merry
• James Sterling – The Parricide

• Stephen Duck – Poems on Several Occasions
• William Melmoth – Two Epistles of Horace Imitated
• Alexander Pope – The Works of Alexander Pope vols iii–iv
• Voltaire – Le Mondain

• May 10 – George Steevens, English Shakespearean editor and hoaxer (died 1800)
• June 25 – John Horne Tooke, English controversialist and cleric (died 1812)
• October 27 – James Macpherson, Scottish writer, poet and politician (died 1796)
• Unknown dates
  • Robert Jephson, Irish dramatist and politician (died 1803)
  • James Ridley (Sir Charles Morell), English novelist and story writer (died 1765)

• January 8 – Jean Le Clerc, Swiss theologian (born 1657)^[2]
• February 9 – Barnaby Bernard Lintot, English bookseller and publisher (born 1675)
• March 18 – Jacob Tonson, English bookseller and publisher (born c. 1655)
• April 30 – Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar and bibliographer (born 1668)
• July 16 – Thomas Yalden, English poet and translator (born 1670)