1776 in literature
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See also: 1775 in literature, other events of 1776, 1777 in literature, list of years in literature.
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- Elizabeth Griffith - The Story of Lady Juliana Harley
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi - Edward Allwill's Briefsammlung
- Ignacy Krasicki - The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom (Mikołaja Doświadczyńskiego przypadki) (first novel in Polish)
- Hannah Cowley - The Runaway
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Stella
- Friedrich Maximilian Klinger - Sturm und Drang
- John Adams - Thoughts on Government
- Jeremy Bentham - Fragment on Government
- Edward Gibbon - The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume 1
- Sir John Hawkins - A General History of the Science and Practice of Music
- Thomas Paine - Common Sense
- Adam Smith - An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
- April 29 - Edward Wortley Montagu, travel writer
- May 23 - Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse, "Mademoiselle de Lespinasse"