These are popular books and films published in 1927 going to Public Domain in 2023. Sources: GR, copyrightlately.com, WP\1927 books
List
edit*To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse first translated into English in 1929:Basil Creighton
- Gandhi: An Autobiography by Mahatma Gandhi (transcription project)
- Being and Time (Sein und Zeit) by Martin Heidegger first translated into English in 1962: John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson
- In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust (Publication date: 1913–1927, published in English 1922–1931)
- Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
- The Big Four by Agatha Christie
- Miss Marple makes a first appearance in "The Tuesday Night Club", published in The Royal Magazine.
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
- Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I or The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I or The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Amerika by Franz Kafka published posthumously in 1927, 1938 (Routledge) (English)
- Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers
*Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne
- Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway short stories
- The Tower Treasure (The Hardy Boys, #1), The House on the Cliff (The Hardy Boys, #2), The Secret of the Old Mill (The Hardy Boys, #3) by Franklin W. Dixon
- Aspects of the Novel by E.M. Forster
- The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury
- Envy by Yury Olesha first translated into English in 1967:MacAndrew, Andrew R
- The Master Mind of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- by H.P. Lovecraft
- "The Colour Out of Space and others" short story in Amazing Stories, September, 1927.
**Supernatural Horror in Literature essay **"The Horror at Red Hook" short story **"Pickman's Model", a short story first published in the October 1927 issue of Weird Tales
- My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City (Voyage d'une Parisienne à Lhassa) by Alexandra David-Néel
- Ashenden by W. Somerset Maugham
*Gay-Neck: the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji (transcription project)
- The Crisis of the Modern World (La crise du monde moderne) by René Guénon first English translation in 2001?
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Der Schatz der Sierra Madre) by B. Traven first translated into English in 1935
- Kropotkin's revolutionary pamphlet by Peter Alexeivitch Kropotkin Vanguard Press, New York, in 1927
- Liberalism: The Classical Tradition by Ludwig von Mises
- The President's Daughter by Nan Britton First Edition: New York, NY: Elizabeth Ann Guild, Inc., 1927.
- The Complete Short Stories by H. G. Wells
- The Return of Don Quixote and The Secret of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
- Valley of Wild Horses by Zane Grey
- Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis
- Meet Mr. Mulliner by P. G. Wodehouse
- P. G. Wodehouse's short story "Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey", published in the U.S. magazine Liberty
- But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes by Anita Loos
- Belphégor or Belphegor: The Phantom of the Louvre by Arthur Bernède first translated into English in 1929, World Wide Publishing Co., Inc.
- Kitty by Warwick Deeping
- Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway (transcription project)
Films
editAlso heading to the U.S. public domain on January 1 are the 1927 films The Lodger, which was Alfred Hitchcock’s first thriller, and The Jazz Singer, Harold Lloyd classic, The Kid Brother, Murnau’s Sunrise.