Via @pluralistic:
[...] Jenkins and Boyle published the 2026 edition of their Public Domain Day omnibus:
https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2026/
There are some spectacular works that are being freed on January 1:
Dashiell Hammett's Maltese Falcon
Agatha Christie's Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple's debut)
The first four Nancy Drew books
The first Dick and Jane book
TS Eliot's Ash Wednesday
Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men
Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents (in German)
Somerset Maugham's Cakes and Ale
Bertrand Russell's The Conquest of Happiness
That's just a small selection from thousands of books.
