On January 1st, 2031, many published works will be entering the US public domain. Those would be all the works first published in 1935. 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- "The Coming of Wireless" by William Temple
- The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page The Coming of Wireless. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
- Caissa's Wild Roses by Thomas Rayner Dawson (reprinted, if necessary, in Dover's Five Classics of Fairy Chess)
- In London During the Great War by Michael MacDonagh
Novels
edit- A Clergyman's Daughter, by George Orwell
- The Adventures of K'Ton Ton by Sadie Rose Weilerstein (first major work of Jewish children's literature written in English)
- The Smiling Corpse; wherein G. K. Chesterton, S. S. Van Dine, Sax Rohmer, and Dashiell Hammett are surprised to find themselves at a murder, as by anonymous, by Philip Wylie and B. A. Bergman, renewal R303826
Short stories
edit- More Great Tales of Horror (anthology) by Marjorie Bowen
- Thrills, Crimes and Mysteries (anthology) by John Gawsworth
- Mary Poppins Comes Back by P. L. Travers (UK; died 1996)