''Zobacz też:'' inne wydarzenia 1962 roku, 1963 w literaturze, literatura - przegląd chronologiczny, literatura polska - przegląd chronologiczny.

==Wydarzenia==
* polskie
**wydano pierwszy tom 13-tomowej Wielkiej Encyklopedii Powszechnej PWN
**koniec okresu odwilży w literaturze

==Nowe książki==
* polskie
**Zbigniew Herbert – ''Barbarzyńca w ogrodzie''
**Ryszard Kapuściński – ''Busz po polsku''
**Józef Mackiewicz
***''Sprawa pułkownika Miasojedowa''
***''Zwycięstwo prowokacji''
* zagraniczne
**Kōbō Abe – ''Kobieta z wydm'' (''Suna-no onna'') 
**James Baldwin
***''Inny kraj'' (''Another Country'')
***''Nikt nie zna mego imienia'' (''Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son'')
**Anthony Burgess – ''Mechaniczna pomarańcza'' (''A Clockwork Orange'')
**Agatha Christie – ''Zwierciadło pęka w odłamków stos'' (''The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side'')
**Carlos Fuentes
***''Aura''
***''Śmierć Artemia Cruz'' (''La muerte de Artemio Cruz'')
**Cienka czerwona linia'' (''The Thin Red Line'')
**Ken Kesey – ''Lot nad kukułczym gniazdem'' (''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'')
**Doris Lessing – ''Złoty notatnik'' (''The Golden Notebook'')
**Gabriel García Márquez – ''Pogrzeb Mama Grande'' (''Los funerales de la Mamá Grande'')
**Władimir Nabokow – ''Blady ogień'' (''Pale Fire'')
**Aleksander Sołżenicyn – ''Jeden dzień Iwana Denisowicza'' (''Один день Ивана Денисовича'')

==Nowe dramaty==
* zagraniczne
**Edward Albee – ''Kto się boi Wirginii Woolf?'' (''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'')
**Fizycy'' (''Die Physiker'')

==Nowe poezje==

The year '''1962 in literature''' involved some significant events and new books.

==Events==

*Arthur Miller marries photographer Inge Morath.
*Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell are prosecuted and jailed for defacing library books.
*A tape-recorded conversation on science fiction took place between Kingsley Amis, C. S. Lewis and Brian Aldiss in Lewis's rooms at Cambridge.
*The works of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin are denounced by the Roman Catholic Church. 
*Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath separate.
*Lynne Reid Banks goes to live in a kibbutz.
*1934, breaking a 28 year silence. Goes on to win the 1969

==New books==
*James Baldwin - ''Another Country'' 
*Isaac Asimov, editor - ''The Hugo Winners'' 
*J. G. Ballard - ''The Drowned World'' 
*William Barrett - ''Lilies of the Field''
*Giorgio Bassani - ''The Garden of the Finzi-Continis'' (''Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini'')
*Thomas Berger - ''Reinhart in Love'' 
*Ray Bradbury
**''R is for Rocket''
**''Something Wicked This Way Comes''
*John Braine - ''Life at the Top''
*John Brunner
**''Secret Agent of Terra''
**''The Super Barbarians''
*Fail-Safe'' 
*Anthony Burgess - ''A Clockwork Orange'' 
*William S. Burroughs - ''The Ticket That Exploded'' 
*Taylor Caldwell - ''A Prologue To Love'' 
*King Rat''
*Len Deighton - ''The IPCRESS File'' 
*August Derleth
**''Lonesome Places'' 
**''The Trail of Cthulhu''
*August Derleth, editor - ''Dark Mind, Dark Heart'' 
*Philip K. Dick - ''The Man in the High Castle''
*Allen Drury - ''A Shade of Difference''  
*William Faulkner - ''The Reivers'' 
*The Spy Who Loved Me''   
*Island'' 
*Shirley Jackson - ''We Have Always Lived in the Castle''
*James Jones - ''The Thin Red Line''
*One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' 
*John le Carré - ''A Murder of Quality''  
*Madeleine L'Engle - ''A Wrinkle in Time''
*Doris Lessing - ''The Golden Notebook''
*Anne Morrow Lindbergh - ''Dearly Beloved''   
*H. P. Lovecraft - ''Dreams and Fancies''   
*The Satan Bug''
*Eloise McGraw - ''The Golden Goblet''
*Vladimir Nabokov - ''Pale Fire''  
*Flannery O'Connor - ''Wise Blood''
*Anthony Powell - ''The Kindly Ones'' 
*Ship of Fools''  
*Mary Renault - ''The Bull from the Sea''
*Isaac Bashevis Singer - ''The Slave'' 
*Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - ''One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich''
*Noel Streatfeild - ''Travelling Shoes'' (first published as ''Apple Bough'')
*Mary Stewart - ''The Moon-Spinners''
*Rex Stout - ''Homicide Trinity''
*Gambit''
*Kurt Vonnegut - ''Mother Night'' 
*The Prize'' 
*Day''
*David Wilkerson - ''The Cross and the Switchblade''
*Herman Wouk - ''Youngblood Hawke''

==New drama==
*Edward Albee - ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?''
*Friedrich Dürrenmatt - ''Die Physiker (The Physicists)''
*Historia''

==Poetry==