Wikisource:Requested texts/1927

On January 1st, 2023, many published works will be entering the US public domain. Those would be all the works first published in 1927. 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. (Wikipedia: w:Category:1927 books)

Non-fiction

 * Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster (UK: Died 1970)
 * The Tibetan Book of the Dead translated by Walter Evans-Wentz reprint of the 1927 edition Not needed:
 * An Outline of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell (UK: Died 1970)
 * The Public and Its Problems by John Dewey
 * Social Reform vs. Birth Control by G. K. Chesterton
 * The Outline of Sanity by G. K. Chesterton
 * Birds and Beasts of the Greek Anthology by Norman Douglas
 * The Dancing Bees (1953 PD tl. of 1927 German original) by Karl Ritter von Frisch
 * Sex and the Love Life by Author:William J. Fielding
 * Voices of Revolt vols. I (Robespierre), II (Marat), III (Lasalle), IV (K. Liebknecht)
 * Materialism and Empirio-criticism by Lenin
 * An Introduction to Old Norse, 1st ed., by E. V. Gordon (Canada: Died 1938)
 * The 2nd ed. was published in 1957, with revisions by another author, and is still under copyright.


 * To be Validated
 * "Supernatural Horror in Literature", by H. P. Lovecraft

Novels

 * Oil! by Upton Sinclair
 * The Return of Don Quixote by G. K. Chesterton
 * Terror Keep by Edgar Wallace
 * Emily's Quest, by Lucy Maud Montgomery
 * Red Love (Red Love (novel), by Author:Alexandra Kollontay
 * Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers
 * Patrol by
 * Allan and the Ice-Gods by Henry Rider Haggard


 * To be Validated
 * Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
 * The Mortover Grange Affair by J. S. Fletcher
 * Mosquitoes by William Faulkner
 * Twilight Sleep by Edith Wharton


 * Validated
 * The Tower Treasure, The House on the Cliff, and The Secret of the Old Mill (the first three Hardy Boys stories) by Franklin W. Dixon (pseudonym)
 * The Big Four by Agatha Christie (UK: Died 1976)
 * The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
 * To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
 * Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

Short stories

 * The African Saga by Blaise Cendrars, tr. by Margery Bianco
 * Rhapsody, by Dorothy Edwards
 * The Secret of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton
 * 26 Mystery Stories, Old and New, by Twenty and Six Authors, edited by Ernest Rhys and C. A. Dawson Scott
 * American Mystery Stories,	edited by Carolyn Wells
 * The Great Detective Stories; a Chronological Anthology, edited by Willard Huntington Wright
 * The World's One Hundred Best Short Stories, edited by Grant Overton
 * "The Tuesday Night Club" in The Royal Magazine by Agatha Christie


 * Validated
 * Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway

Poetry

 * Stuff and Nonsense and So On by Walter de la Mare (UK: Died 1956)
 * Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis
 * Poems For Workers, an Anthology edited by Manuel Gomez
 * Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets by Countee Cullen (ed.)
 * Pomes Penyeach by James Joyce
 * God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse by James Weldon Johnson


 * To be Validated
 * Tristram by Edwin Arlington Robinson


 * Validated
 * Copper Sun by Countee Cullen
 * Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne (UK: Died 1956)

Drama

 * The Yale Shakespeare
 * The Life and Death of King John, edited by Stanley T. Williams
 * The Tragedy of Troilus and Cressida, edited by Nathaniel Burton Paradise
 * The King's Henchman, by Edna St. Vincent Millay
 * The Complete Works of John Webster, by John Webster, edited by


 * To be Validated
 * The Tragedy of Richard the Third, edited by Jack R. Crawford

Unsorted dump of "Public Domain Day" books

 * Sir Percy Hits Back by Baroness Orczy