Happy Public Domain Day 2021

 Happy New Year Readers! It is now 2021!

Another year is over and another year has just started. We may still be in the middle of a global pandemic but there is hope this year, there is hope of a more positive future this year if we just hang on a little longer. This year is also another year of great change with the UK now officially out of the European Union. Some people may be happy we have started a new year, others may be quite sad but look at the year ahead as a project and come up with some goals to achieve this year.

Anyway, New Year's day also means public domain day meaning that loads of great classics are released into the public domain for readers to read them for free. In the UK the copyright laws say Copyright last for life plus 70 years and after this works enter the public domain. This year we are lucky that loads of great books have entered the public domain this year and below you will be able to see which ones. Enjoy!

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
• The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• 1984 by George Orwell
• In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
• Eben Holden by Irving Bacheller
• The Trial by Franz Kafka
• Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
• The New Negro by Alain Locke
• Doctor Dolittle's Zoo by Hugh Lofting
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
• The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie
• Wild Geese by Martha Ostenso
• The Wind by Dorothy Scarborough
• No More Parades by Ford Madox Ford
• The Professor's House by Willa Cather
• A Daughter of the Samurai by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
• Porgy by DuBose Heyward
• A Year of Prophesying by H. G. Wells
• Christina Alberta's Father by H. G. Wells
• An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
• The Thundering Herd by Zane Grey
• Those Barren Leaves by Aldous Huxley
• Coral by Compton Mackenzie
• The Mother's Recompense by Edith Wharton
• The Writing of Fiction by Edith Wharton
• Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
• Poor Dear Esme by A. M. Burrage
• On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs by Dorothy Scarborough
• The Sailor's Return by David Garnett
• Sea Horses by Francis Brett Young
• Dark Laughter by Sherwood Anderson

As you can see there are an awful lot of good books which have now entered the Public Domain and which will boot start your reading-related New Year's Resolutions. I hope you enjoy reading them.

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