On January 1st, 2023, many published works will be entering the US public domain. Those would be all the works first published in 1927. This is an attempt to accumulate a body of likely-popular works so we can have people immediately working on things that interest them, on New Year's Day. (Wikipedia: w:Category:1927 books)
Non-fictionEdit
- Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster (UK: Died 1970)
- The Tibetan Book of the Dead translated by Walter Evans-Wentz reprint of the 1927 edition Not needed: (transcription project)
- An Outline of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell (UK: Died 1970) (transcription project)
- The Public and Its Problems by John Dewey
- Social Reform vs. Birth Control by G. K. Chesterton
- The Outline of Sanity by G. K. Chesterton
- Birds and Beasts of the Greek Anthology by Norman Douglas (external scan)
- The Dancing Bees (1953 PD tl. of 1927 German original) by Karl Ritter von Frisch
- Sex and the Love Life by Author:William J. Fielding (transcription project)
- "Supernatural Horror in Literature" (not scan-backed) by H. P. Lovecraft
- Voices of Revolt vols. I (Robespierre), II (Marat), III (Lasalle), IV (K. Liebknecht) (external scan)
- Materialism and Empirio-criticism by Lenin
- An Introduction to Old Norse, 1st ed., by E. V. Gordon (Canada: Died 1938)
(external scan)
- The 2nd ed. was published in 1957, with revisions by another author, and is still under copyright.
NovelsEdit
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (transcription project)
- Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather (transcription project)
- Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis (transcription project)
- Oil! by Upton Sinclair (transcription project)
- The Return of Don Quixote by G. K. Chesterton
- Twilight Sleep by Edith Wharton (transcription project)
- Terror Keep by Edgar Wallace
- The African Saga by Blaise Cendrars, tr. by Margery Bianco
- The Tower Treasure, The House on the Cliff, and The Secret of the Old Mill (the first three Hardy Boys stories) by Franklin W. Dixon (pseudonym)
- Emily's Quest, by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- The Mortover Grange Affair by J. S. Fletcher File:Fletcher - The Mortover Grange Affair.pdf
- Red Love (w:Red Love (novel), by Author:Alexandra Kollontay (external scan)
- Mosquitoes by William Faulkner (transcription project)
- The Big Four (1927) by Agatha Christie (UK: Died 1976) (transcription project)
- Validated
Short storiesEdit
- Rhapsody, by Dorothy Edwards
- Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway (transcription project)
- The Secret of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton [1] [2]
- 26 Mystery Stories, Old and New, by Twenty and Six Authors, edited by Ernest Rhys and C. A. Dawson Scott (external scan)
- American Mystery Stories, edited by Carolyn Wells
- The Great Detective Stories; a Chronological Anthology, edited by Willard Huntington Wright (external scan)
- The World's One Hundred Best Short Stories, edited by Grant Overton (external scan)
- "The Tuesday Night Club" in The Royal Magazine by Agatha Christie
PoetryEdit
- Stuff and Nonsense and So On by Walter de la Mare (UK: Died 1956) (external scan)
- Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis
- Poems For Workers, an Anthology edited by Manuel Gomez (start transcription)
- Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets by Countee Cullen (ed.)
- Pomes Penyeach by James Joyce
- God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse by James Weldon Johnson
- Validated
- Copper Sun by Countee Cullen
- Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne (UK: Died 1956)
DramaEdit
FilmsEdit
- Metropolis by Fritz Lang (German/1927 translations only)
- The Jazz Singer by Alan Crosland
Unsorted dump of "Public Domain Day" booksEdit
- Patrol by Philip MacDonald
- Allan and the Ice-Gods by Henry Rider Haggard
- Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers
- Sir Percy Hits Back by Baroness Orczy