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Public Domain Day 2026

New this year: 12 books from 1930.

On 1 January 2026, everything published in the US in 1930 became free for anyone to read and share. The Maltese Falcon, As I Lay Dying, the first Miss Marple and the first Nancy Drews are here.

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The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett · 1930

As I Lay Dying William Faulkner · 1930

The Murder at the Vicarage Agatha Christie · 1930

The Castle Franz Kafka · 1930

Not Without Laughter Langston Hughes · 1930

Strong Poison Dorothy L. Sayers · 1930

Vile Bodies Evelyn Waugh · 1930

Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome · 1930

Cimarron Edna Ferber · 1930

Giant's Bread Agatha Christie · 1930

The Secret of the Old Clock Carolyn Keene · 1930

The Hidden Staircase Carolyn Keene · 1930

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19th-century novels

Austen to Hardy, Dickens to Dostoyevsky. 42 books

Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen · 1813

Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen · 1811

Mansfield Park Jane Austen · 1814

Emma Jane Austen · 1815

Northanger Abbey Jane Austen · 1817

Persuasion Jane Austen · 1817

Frankenstein Mary Shelley · 1818

Ivanhoe Walter Scott · 1819

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Victor Hugo · 1831

Oliver Twist Charles Dickens · 1838

A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens · 1843

The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas · 1844

The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas · 1844

Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë · 1847

Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë · 1847

David Copperfield Charles Dickens · 1850

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1850

Moby-Dick Herman Melville · 1851

Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe · 1852

Bleak House Charles Dickens · 1853

Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert · 1857

A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens · 1859

The Mill on the Floss George Eliot · 1860

Great Expectations Charles Dickens · 1861

Silas Marner George Eliot · 1861

Les Misérables Victor Hugo · 1862

Notes from Underground Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1864

Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1866

War and Peace Leo Tolstoy · 1869

The Idiot Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1869

Little Women Louisa May Alcott · 1868

Middlemarch George Eliot · 1871

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy · 1874

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain · 1876

Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy · 1878

The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1880

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain · 1884

The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde · 1890

Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy · 1891

The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane · 1895

Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy · 1895

The Awakening (and Selected Stories) Kate Chopin · 1899

Early 20th century

Wharton, Joyce, Fitzgerald, Hemingway. 15 books

Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad · 1899

Kim Rudyard Kipling · 1901

The Call of the Wild Jack London · 1903

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton · 1905

White Fang Jack London · 1906

The Jungle Upton Sinclair · 1906

A Room with a View E. M. Forster · 1908

Howards End E. M. Forster · 1910

Ethan Frome Edith Wharton · 1911

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce · 1916

The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton · 1920

Ulysses James Joyce · 1922

The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925

The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway · 1926

A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway · 1929

Horror & mystery

Holmes, Dracula, Jekyll and the first Poirot. 7 books

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886

A Study in Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle · 1892

Dracula Bram Stoker · 1897

The Turn of the Screw Henry James · 1898

The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle · 1902

The Mysterious Affair at Styles Agatha Christie · 1920

Science fiction & adventure

Wells, Verne, Stevenson and London. 9 books

Journey to the Centre of the Earth Jules Verne · 1864

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne · 1870

Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne · 1872

Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson · 1883

Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886

The Time Machine H. G. Wells · 1895

The Island of Doctor Moreau H. G. Wells · 1896

The Invisible Man H. G. Wells · 1897

The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells · 1898

Children’s & fairy tales

Alice, Oz, Pooh and the old tales. 14 books

Aesop's Fables Aesop · c. 6th c. BCE

The Arabian Nights Entertainments Andrew Lang (editor) · 1898 (Lang ed.)

Grimms' Fairy Tales Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm · 1812

Andersen's Fairy Tales Hans Christian Andersen · 1835–1872

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll · 1865

Through the Looking-Glass Lewis Carroll · 1871

Black Beauty Anna Sewell · 1877

The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling · 1894

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum · 1900

Anne of Green Gables L. M. Montgomery · 1908

Peter Pan J. M. Barrie · 1911

The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett · 1911

The Velveteen Rabbit Margery Williams · 1922

Winnie-the-Pooh A. A. Milne · 1926

Philosophy & ideas

Books that argued the world into shape. 11 books

The Republic Plato · c. 375 BCE

Meditations Marcus Aurelius · c. 180

The Confessions Saint Augustine · c. 400

The Art of War Sun Tzu · c. 5th c. BCE

The Prince Niccolò Machiavelli · 1532

Leviathan Thomas Hobbes · 1651

The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith · 1776

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass · 1845

The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels · 1848

Walden Henry David Thoreau · 1854

On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin · 1859

Ancient & medieval

Homer to Chaucer, in classic translations. 6 books

The Iliad Homer · c. 8th c. BCE

The Odyssey Homer · c. 8th c. BCE

The Aeneid Virgil · 19 BCE

Beowulf Anonymous · c. 1000

The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri · 1321

The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer · c. 1400

Early novels

Where the novel began: Cervantes to Voltaire. 6 books

Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes · 1605

The Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan · 1678

Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe · 1719

Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift · 1726

Tom Jones Henry Fielding · 1749

Candide Voltaire · 1759

Drama & poetry

Shakespeare, Milton, Whitman, Wilde. 8 books

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare William Shakespeare · 1623

Hamlet William Shakespeare · 1603

Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare · 1597

Macbeth William Shakespeare · 1623

Paradise Lost John Milton · 1667

Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman · 1855

The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde · 1895

The Prophet Kahlil Gibran · 1923

Short fiction

Stories for a single sitting. 3 books

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. 1 Edgar Allan Poe · 1840s

The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1892

Dubliners James Joyce · 1914

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