On January 1st, 2024, many published works will be entering the US public domain. Those would be all the works first published in 1928. 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.
Non-fictionEdit
- The Philosophy of Schopenhauer (1928) – Copyrighted in the United States until 2024 due to (Renewal: R162113 )
- Note: The Philosophy of Schopenhauer contains a previous transcription that can be undeleted and may be suitable for match and split once a scan becomes available.
- Do We Agree? by G. K. Chesterton
- Satyagraha in South Africa by M. K. Gandhi
- The President's Daughter by Nan Britton
- Sons of Africa by Georgina Gollock
- Lives of Eminent Africans by Georgina Gollock
- My Autobiography by Benito Mussolini
- Sceptical Essays by Bertrand Russell
- A Bibliography of Alaskan Literature, 1724-1924 (Miscellaneous publications of the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, v. 1, 1928) by James Wickersham
- The Early Life of Thomas Hardy, 1840–91 by Thomas Hardy (labeled as by his wife, but largely written by himself)
- An elementary middle English grammar (second edition) by Joseph Wright(external scan)
- The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution, by H. G. Wells
- The Way the World is Going: Guesses & Forecasts of the Years Ahead, by H. G. Wells
NovelsEdit
- The Skylark of Space by E. E. Smith (not renewed, hence current PD)
- Behind That Curtain by Earl Derr Biggers
- The Flying Squad by W. A. Bishop and R. Stuart-Wortley
- Bambi by Felix Salten, trans. by Whittaker Chambers
- The Sword of Wood by G. K. Chesterton
- Dark Princess by W. E. B. Du Bois
- Winter Sonata, by Dorothy Edwards
- Deluge by S. Fowler Wright
- Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
- Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
- Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
- Statius (Loeb edition) by Statius, trans. J. H. Mozley
- The Children, by Edith Wharton
- The Masqueraders, by Georgette Heyer
- The Mystery of the Blue Train, by Agatha Christie
- Point Counter Point, by Aldous Leonard Huxley
- Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island, by H. G. Wells
- Grey Mask by Patricia Wentworth (first book in the Miss Silver series
- Meet the Tiger by Leslie Charteris (first appearance of Simon Templar, "The Saint")
- The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne (first appearance of Tigger)
- The Greene Murder Case by S. S. Van Dine
- Boston by Upton Sinclair
- The Boy Who Was by Grace Hallock
- Clearing Weather by Cornelia Meigs
- The Giant Horse of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson
- Green Fire by John Taine
- Hunting for Hidden Gold by Leslie McFarlane
- The Missing Chums by Leslie McFarlane
- The Shore Road Mystery by Leslie McFarlane
- Ladies Almanack by Djuna Barnes
- Ryder by Djuna Barnes
- The Man Who Knew Coolidge by Sinclair Lewis
- A Mirror for Witches by Esther Forbes
- The Plains of Abraham by James Oliver Curwood
- Quicksand by Nellallitea Larsen
- Runaway Papoose by Grace Moon
- Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
- Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Tod of the Fens by Elinor Whitney Field
- We Are Incredible by Margery Latimer
- The Hotel by Elizabeth Bowen (1927) – Copyrighted in the United States until 2024 due to (Renewal: R143911 ) (UK/Ireland: died 1973) US pub date is Feb, 1928
- The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
Short storiesEdit
- The Eternal Moment and other stories by E. M. Forster
- "The Wailing Well" by M. R. James
- The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page Wailing Well. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
- "The Captured Shadow", "The Freshest Boy", "He Thinks He's Wonderful", "The Scandal Detectives" and "The Bowl" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "The Sword of Wood" by Chesterton
- Milly-Molly-Mandy Stories (1928), by Joyce Lankester Brisley (English, died 1978)
- The Christian Science Monitor published some of the individual stories starting in 1925, so they could be started now.
PoetryEdit
- Sunset Gun (1928) – Copyrighted in the United States until 2024 due to (Renewal: R151594 ) by Dorothy Parker
- The Tower by W. B. Yeats
- Midsummer Night and Other Tales in Verse by Masefield (UK: Died 1967)
- Some Limericks: Collected for Students & enspeldour’d with Introduction, Geographical Index, and with Notes etc. by Author:Norman Douglas
- Beowulf and The fight at Finnsburg edited by Friedrich Klaber
- Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres by Thomas Hardy (final book)
DramaEdit
- Sophocles' King Oedipus, a version for the modern stage (translated by William Butler Yeats) – Copyrighted in the United States until 2024 due to (Renewal: R162692 )
- Peter Pan, or, The boy who would not grow up by James Matthew Barrie