FREEBIE: Thousands of Books in the Public Domain

Tens of thousands of books (as well as movies, songs, and cartoons) entered the public domain every year, meaning you can now download, share, or repurpose these works for free and without retribution under US copyright law.


Just a few of the books include:

• Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan and the Golden Lion
 
• Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links
 
• Winston S. Churchill, The World Crisis
 
• Robert Frost, New Hampshire
 
• Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
 
• Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay
 
• D.H. Lawrence, Kangaroo
 
• Bertrand and Dora Russell, The Prospects of Industrial Civilization
 
• Carl Sandburg, Rootabaga Pigeons
 
• Edith Wharton, A Son at the Front
 
• P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves and Leave it to Psmith
 
• Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
 
• Natalie Sumner Lincoln, The Meredith Mystery
 
• Radio L. P. Wyman, The Golden Boys Rescued
 
• Herbert Lewis, White Lightning Edwin
 
• H. De Vere Stacpoole, The Garden of God

• Amazon Kindle Classics: 40,000 free public domain books for your Kindle
 
• HathiTrust, a massive digital archiving project: more than 53,940 works published in 1923
 
• Internet Archive: over 21,142 works
 
• Project Gutenberg: 70,000 free downloadable books
 
• Reddit user Nemobis: uploaded over 1.5 million PDF files of works published in academic journals
 
• Duke University's Center for the Study of the Public Domain listed some of the most recognizable works
 
• Public Domain Day 2020: Works from 1924 are open to all! These works include George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, silent films by Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, and books such as Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India, and A. A. Milne's When We Were Very Young.
  
• Public Domain Day 2021 - On January 1, 2021, copyrighted works from 1925 entered the US public domain, where they will be free for all to use and build upon. These works include books such as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time, and Franz Kafka’s The Trial (in the original German), silent films featuring Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton, and music ranging from the jazz standard Sweet Georgia Brown to songs by Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, W.C. Handy, and Fats Waller.
  
• Public Domain Day 2022 - On January 1, 2022, copyrighted works from 1926 entered the US public domain, where they will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon. The line-up this year is stunning. It includes books such as A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh, Felix Salten’s Bambi, Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, Langston Hughes’ The Weary Blues, and Dorothy Parker’s Enough Rope. There are scores of silent films—including titles featuring Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, and Greta Garbo, famous Broadway songs, and well-known jazz standards. But that’s not all. In 2022 we get a bonus: an estimated 400,000 sound recordings from before 1923 2  will be entering the public domain too!
  
• Public Domain Day 2023 - On January 1, 2023, copyrighted works from 1927 entered the US public domain. They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon. These include Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse and the final Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, the German science-fiction film Metropolis and Alfred Hitchcock’s first thriller, compositions by Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller, and a novelty song about ice cream.

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