FREE BOOKS | These Books are Entering the Public Domain in 2025
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
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It's Public Domain Day! The beginning of 2025 marks the time that these books will go into the Public Domain in the United States. That means these books can be available for free on certain platforms like Google books and Project Gutenberg. From William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway to Virginia Woolf and Agatha Christie, here are 18 works that are entering the public domain in 2025.
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Try hooked on phonics, then learn sentence structure. I’m not exactly sure what you’re going on about.
Books entering the public domain and becoming available to the general public for free is great. Some of the books on the list sound interesting. Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple are such famous characters. You could always watch an adaptation for the screen to get a first taste. Happy reading in 2025!
@@yuklimka7251 hahaha, I'm sure they are! Happy reading 😊
One of the very best films based on an Agatha Christie novel is Sidney Lummet's 1974 "Murder On The Orient Express".
@@juliemartin6101 I had to look up the cast and there are some big names!
The Sound and the Fury is one of my favorite books of all time. It's not for everyone, but I loved it.
Oh good! Thanks for sharing 😊
All quiet on the Western Front was my most impactful read of 2024. I was weeping in bed at the end of it! It was so well written that I now recommend it to everyone.
It is a quick read too!
Thanks for your input/recommendation! 😊
Same for me with: The Road back, which covers the time after the War and the difficulties to re-adapt to civilians life in a destroyed country.
This is the first video I’ve seen of you and your introduction to who you are immediately caught my interest! You sound like a super cool human and I’m glad for all the public domain info and can’t wait to watch more - subscribed! 🎉
@@NekoFunjatta oh so kind! 😊 thank you
Thank You !!!
The best things in life are free.
Happy New Year!!!
Happy new year 🎉
“i’m not a big detective novel girl” she says with a shelf of nancy drew behind her 😂
I know! I started and ended my journey there ahahaha
High Wind in Jamaica is a great movie. Now that u let me know it s public domain I can t wait to read it’ Thanks for the information.
Wow. Lots of good books. Thanks so much for sharing.
Thank you for your hard work Jenny I didn't realize how or why literature become public domain before this! Happy New Year 💖
Great video! I am setting a goal to read more in 2025, so I'll definitely be checking out some of these titles! Thank you!
@@dizzymisslizzy185 Wonderful! Good luck & happy reading 😊
The problem with public domain works is that there are so many crappie versions for sale, polluting professionally published versions. Be aware when ordering from places such as Amazon. Do your research.
Too true! I got a copy of Deathworld from Amazon and it ended up being huge, more like a coloring book binding. It was not what I expected!
A good source for books that are in the public do9main is Project Gutenberg - it's on line, so it's available (only) as ebooks. I like them, some people don't.
@@juliemartin6101 pdf is great for ancient Greek writers.
@@JennyFernBookshence a book coming to public domain is not all that it’s cracked up to be, is it? Today it might be easier to find a legitimate copy of ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN. FRONT. What about 50 years from now? How about a 100 years from now? Seems by then we’ll be awashed with badly printed copies.
@juanmorales9738 But digital copies are freely available to the public, so I don't think it's a bad thing, myself. Well respected publishers can also print them.
You totally should read Agatha Christie! (and Dorothy L. Sayers too). The novel you showed is no Poirot- or Marple-story, but nonetheless worth a try.
Thank you for having an eye on Public Domain Day!
Faulkner was a Nobel Laureate; All Quiet was required reading in my NY state h.s.english class as was Faulkner. Robert Graves is a beloved poet.
Have read a few of these (Faulkner, Hemingway, Christie, S.S. VanDine). Don't wait until they're in public domain to enjoy them.
Great information. So many tempting titles. Happy new year!
@@geraldinegranger9186 Happy new year to you as well 😊 ✨️
Good presentation. Look forward to future videos.
@@leorapier9389 thank you 😊
Faulkner is maybe the best world builder in American literature, and The Sound and the Fury is a breathtaking piece of that world. It’s maybe not the place to enter Faulkner’s world, but it’s worth whatever road you take to get there. A masterpiece.
I most wanted to read "Secession in Astropolis" or "Dark Hester" as I'd never heard of either of them, and have already read several of the better known novels like "The Sound and the Fury" or "A Farewell to Arms," but both "Astropolis" and "Hester" are so obscure that my online library doesn't have them..."Hester" was the number 3 best selling book the year it came out, and so that's a little depressing that even a popular book can be almost erased--I thought one of the advantages to being a writer is that your work has longevity, but this list makes me think otherwise.
Oh, I used to see Porgy Bess vinyl albums from the Broadway play all the time in the thrift store in the past and come to think of it. I haven’t seen one for ages. Thanks for making this video! So informative.!
@@leodawn5913 Oh how interesting, thanks for sharing!
I actually bought Highwind in Jamaica for my parents as a child, I would like to read it now :)
Hi, new subscriber here, just commeting to say that I love this video, your voice, the way you present, basically everything here is soothing ❤
@@ba_samsoum Thank you! 😊
I had planned on reading "A High Wind in Jamaica" i guess this will be the year to do so.
Jenny,
I admit to being a bit perplexed by your complete lack of familiarity with the "whodunnit" genre of fiction which reached its zenith during the inter-war period.
One additional title which I believe is now entering the public domain is DODSWORTH, by Sinclair Lewis. I believe Lewis was the first American author to receive the Nobel Prize for literature. His prior works are already in the public domain having been published earlier in the 1920's, including ARROWSMITH and ELMER GANTRY. It has been decades since I've read Sinclair Lewis, but I remember those three as being the best of those I read. (I should probably apologize for putting the titles in all caps. I'm not trying to shout the names out, but don't know how to type them with an underscore.)
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@@slickjack2618 hahaha, my lack of familiarity with whodunnits can easily be explained by my lack of interest in them (at least for my life thus far).
And thanks for the information on the Sinclair Lewis read. I've read and enjoyed It Can't Happen Here and Babbitt by him. I quite enjoyed Babbitt!
Faulkner won Pulitzer Prizes in 1955 and 1963 for fiction. A Fable, and The Reivers.
clicked because of the title when i saw it in my feed and instantly subscribed after your intro, hello fellow engineer and book lover! Loving this video idea, definitely will check some of these out! If you're able to show the covers a bit longer as you talk about them, I would love that, i tend to put on a video while tidying and hearing your descriptions as you talk about them peak my interest and i would love to have the book cover as a reference on the screen. Happy holidays and happy reading!
@@AlexATheEngineer good input! I'll keep that in mind next time :)
Thank you for this!
Thank you for a great highlights rundown! I've added several works to my TBR (and one TB*Re*R), though my TBR is already huge enough. 😉 I'll probably wait for Gutenberg and/or I.Archive to offer multiple free-download options.
Tbh, my reading prefs DON'T match yours - e.g., every year I check for any newly-PD Christie 😊 - but we can both celebrate the PD concept, and settle into savoring talented wordsmiths of whatever ilk.
I appreciate your inclusion of the brief author bios, btw.
Oh, one note: DuBois is French for "of the wood(s)", and sounds like Doo-BWAH. (Same as the OI in "moi"="me" …and in Poirot = Pwah-ROH - or Pwah-ROT, if you see and heed, as even the wonderful actor David Suchet did NOT, what the Belgian-born detective himself explains. 'Hope you don't mind the info; I often *enjoy* "TIL" moments.)
Best wishes, and happy bookish new year!
@@DianeDfictionfan Thank you for the Poirot pronunciation tips! I learned from a commenter in my 2024 public domain video that W.E.B. Du Bois was pronounced "do boys" in that context!
I absolutely LOVE A High Wind in Jamaica. It's the wierdest book I've ever enjoyed. It's also quite short.
@@coffemuse oooh, what a good endorsement. I'll have to pick it up soon
The high wind of Jamaica was a movie i saw in my very younger years. I adored it so much!! I had no idea it was a book😮
Thanks for sharing, I should check out the movie!
I love both the movie and the book ❤
High wind in Jamaica is excellent. Also, anything by Warwick Deeping is simply wonderful, in particular, his short stories.
@@lisatuckett6386 Oh good! Thanks for the input. It seems I'll need to read many of the books on this list now with all the recommendations from folks!
Hi, I'm French Canadian :) I think Jolas is with an English J sound (like you said), but the S at the end is silent (like Degas). Toodles!
@@DeeDeeCatMom Oh! That makes sense. Thank you 😊
The Philo Vance novels look interesting. I've read all the Poirot novels so it could be interesting and my library has them.
Thank you
I love this so much. Ex-Wife sounds intriguing!
I am not a huge mystery/detective person but I would reccommend And Then There Was None and Murder on The Orient Express.
Thanks for the recommendations!! 😊
January 22 2025 The Internet Archive will be celebrating Public Domain Day online ...I attended their 2024 Public Domain Day and what was really fun is the song "The Best Things in Life Are Free"
There are definitely a couple of books I want to read...
Maltese Falcon has entered the public domain.
There was a series of movies with William Powell playing Philo Vance...some of those are in the public domain due to lack of copyright.
Fun Fact: DH Lawrence was also the author of Lady Chatterley's Lover which entered the public domain last year...It holds the record of the longest banned book in the United States...Being officially banned nationwide from 1928 to 1955(US) or 1960(UK) and still being locally challenged/banned into the 21st century...despite now being on Netflix
@@pmclaughlin4111 thanks for sharing!!
All of these are well-known authors and well-known books. You’ve got some catching up to do to be considered well read I strongly recommend reading Giants in the Earth before you read Peder Victorious.
I appreciate the recommendation of reading Giants in the Earth first. We are all on our own reading journeys and I cannot say I appreciate your wording. I love reading and talking about books, but I am not necessarily on a quest to be "well-read"
Depends on what you mean by "free." Public Domain books doesn't necessarily mean free books. That just means any publisher, well actually anybody, can now publish these books without having to pay royalties to anyone. You still have to pay the publisher for the book UNLESS of course it's digital and you download it from Project Gutenberg or the like
Yes, I mean in the way that you can freely access a digital copy.
We still need to pay for the materials and labor of a physical copy, but not the author's labor, I suppose.
Thank you for the informative video..
Glad it was helpful!
thx for the rundown
You're welcome 😊
Thank you i love public domain books my favorite genre is mystery / detective genre and in public domain you can faund a lot of amazing detective books / in youtube amazing audiobook library canal they put audiobooks on youtube from public domain / there are books from biology / religion / eletricity / cosmos / flowers / wildlife / to space adventures and epic fantasy and detective storys / romance / all genres amazing varation of audiobooks /and every day they post more audiobooks
How many of those are legit copies of the original?
@juanmorales9738 all books are from public domain /
Good catch on the Maltese Falcon. Ive seen several articles listening it as entering the public domain but looks like it did run into 1930. Guess we'll need to wait till next year for the completed book to be public domain.
@@film79 I'm still not really sure about it, to be honest, but it seemed iffy enough for me to have some hesitation about it.
Just a small suggestion that you break the video into chapters with the titles of each book you discuss.
Thanks for the suggestion, but because this is a hobby and I work a full time job, it is a matter of picking what to spend my time on.
But yes, they are definitely helpful for viewers
I just saw your channel so you probably have talked about this before but it’s great that these are now in the public domain and are free but how do you go about finding them or reading them? I mean store still isn’t gonna give you a book for free
@@beckycaughel7557 They're available digitally online through Project Gutenberg and Google Play Books. You could read them on a laptop or phone. Librivox also offers audiobooks but that can take some time since they are usually recorded by volunteers.
@ thank you very much
Spoiler alert. A Farewell to Arms is not all that romantic lol
Read Agatha Christie❤
The Bishop Murder Case sounds like it was maybe subconsciously inspiration for a book series by Jasper Fforde.
@@kipolem53 oh, very interesting!
@@JennyFernBooks Yeah it's called the Nursery Crime series. Also someone in a creative writing class I took at uni put nursery rhyme references in her stories.
Perhaps in light of the fact you don;t know about WW1, you might want to read the books mentioned.
@@lilliansantiago3533 hm, interesting way to say that, but yeah I'm not opposed in general to reading WWI books and generally I did appreciate learning about WWI in my schooling.
I would like to know if books by Stephan Zweig (d. 1942) are in the public domain, including English translations..
I am having a hard time finding out about the English translation publication dates, but it looks like Buchmendel would be available in German but not in English. I found a few English translated works from 1927, but not 1929. Let me know if you find anything!
Ernest Hemingway looks interesting.
I had a job that required me to know what was under copyright and what was in the public domain. It's funny to me that public domain is something other people know and care about now. It's also sort of disturbing that you've never heard of so many classic books, much less read them.
Lol. Disturbing is an interesting choice of words.
I am NOT a fan of Steinbeck, not because he isn't a good writer, but because he kills all his characters. They are all tragedies!
@@lisadavis9535 Oh, interesting take! I love the way he describes a scene, particularly nature.
But, yes, even Cannery Row has death.
I remember Iread The Red Pony as a kid, so sad.
If you ever miss California, read Steinbeck. I've never read anyone else who put you right there, enabling you to smell the earth and feel the heat of the sun.
I am not sure how you can consider yourself a literary enthusiast and state that you have never heard of Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple. There were even very well know TV and movie versions of these stories. The Hercule Poirot episodes on PBS staring David Suchet are real treasures. The Miss Marple TV shows and movies staring such renowned actresses such as Geraldine McEwan, Margaret Rutherford, and Angela Lansbury are also a good way to become familiar with this character.
@@jensenhealey907efi The explanation is fairly simple. I simply haven't had interest in that arena and have not had exposure.
No need to be rude about it.
Some people don't watch TV and don't know alot of these subjects. Also if you don't know alot of literary people or arent exposed to alot of different booktubers. I've only heard of miss Marple in 2024 and I'm 67 and have been a avid 6:26 reader since 2nd grade! I have mostly turned to nonfiction in my mid 50's
For some people, "Literary enthusiast" means a deep dive into a few favorite books or one series. I asked someone how she had time to read a few favorite books over and over again and she told me that they were the only books she reads.
and in 14 hours these will all be released by "penguin classics and others lol jk but no jk/