Public Domain Day 2023

Celebrate the new works entering the public domain this January 1, 2023!

Kids

• Emily’s Quest (Emily #3) by L.M. Montgomery
• Freddy Goes to Florida (Freddy the Pig #1) by Walter Rollin Brooks (Listen now on OverDrive)
• The House on the Cliff (The Hardy Boys #2) by Franklin W. Dixon [pseduonymous] (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Now We Are Six (Winnie-the-Pooh #4) by A.A. Milne (Listen on CD or read now on OverDrive)
• The Secret of the Old Mill (The Hardy Boys #3) by Franklin W. Dixon [pseduonymous] (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Tower Treasure (The Hardy Boys #1) by Franklin W. Dixon [pseduonymous] (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)

Adults

• Amerika by Franz Kafka
• Aspects of the Novel by E.M. Forster
• The Big Four (Hercule Poirot #4) by Agatha Christie (Listen now or read now on OverDrive; watch on DVD)
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
• The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (Listen now on OverDrive)
• The Colour Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft (Read now on OverDrive)
• Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud
• The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes/But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes by Anita Loos (Watch on DVD)
• In Another Country and The Killers by Ernest Hemingway (Found in The complete short stories of Ernest Hemingway)
• Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway
• Mosquitoes by William Faulkner
• Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse (Read now on OverDrive)
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by B. Traven (Watch on DVD)
• The Tuesday Night Club: A Miss Marple Short Story by Agatha Christie (Read now on OverDrive)

Copyright & Public Domain

• Compact Copyright: Quick Answers to Common Questions by Sara R. Benson
• The Copyright Handbook by Stephen Fishman
• How to Fix Copyright by William Patry
• Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates by Adrian Johns (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Public Domain: How to Find & Use Copyright-free Writings, Music, Art & More by Stephen Fishman