On January 1st, 2030, many published works will be entering the US public domain. Those would be all the works first published in 1934. 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-fiction
edit- "Interview with Joseph Stalin" by H. G. Wells in The New Statesman special supplement for 27 October 1934
- The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page 1934 Interview with Joseph Stalin. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
- Visit Estonia — the cheapest and most interesting country in Europe by Central Office for Tourism in Estonia Internet Archive
Novels
edit- Burmese Days, by George Orwell
- Grey Granite by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
- The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page Grey Granite. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
- Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
- Murder among the nudists by Peter Hunt (pseudonym) (renewal R280805)
Short stories
edit- "The Weaver in the Vault" by Clark Ashton Smith
- The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page The Weaver in the Vault. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
- "The Woman of the Wood" by Abraham Merritt
- The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page The Woman of the Wood. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
- New Tales of Horror by Eminent Authors by John Gawsworth
- Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers (UK; died 1996)
- includes some previously published short stories