Starting at midnight on January 1, 2019, tens of thousands of books (as well as movies, songs, and cartoons) entered the public domain, 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
- E.E. Cummings, Tulips and Chimneys
- 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
- Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
More places to check:
- HathiTrust, a massive digital archiving project: more than 53,000 works published in 1923
- Internet Archive: over 15,000 works
- Project Gutenberg: 58,000 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
