List of American books in the public domain

A list of American books in the public domain for which there is a source to verify its status as public domain. They are commonly found online, on libraries, in diverse formats like .PDF, .Doc, .EPUB, etc.

18th Century

• The Power of Sympathy by William Hill Brown
• The Coquette, written in 1797 by Hannah Webster Foster
• The Boarding School; or, Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils, written in 1798 by Hannah Webster Foster
• Sky-Walk, written in 1798 by Charles Brockden Brown
• Arthur Mervyn, written in 1799 by Charles Brockden Brown
• The Algerine Captive by Royall Tyler
• The Boarding School; or, Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils, written in 1798 by Hannah Webster Foster
• United States Declaration of Independence, written between June to July 1776.
• United States Constitution, written in 1787.
• The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker, published in 1791 by Margaretta Faugères.
• Poor Richard's Almanack, written yearly from 1732 to 1758 by Benjamin Franklin.

19th Century

• Elements of botany, written in 1803 by Benjamin Barton.
• The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., written in 1819 by Washington Irving.
• Rip Van Winkle, written in 1819 by Washington Irving.
• The Spy, written in 1821 by James Fenimore Cooper.
• The Pioneers (novel), written in 1823 by James Fenimore Cooper.
• The Last of the Mohicans, written in 1826 by James Fenimore Cooper.
• The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall, written in 1835 by Edgar Allan Poe.
• The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, written in 1838 by Edgar Allan Poe.
• The Murders in the Rue Morgue, written in 1841 by Edgar Allan Poe,^[1][2] Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination".^[1]
• Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, written in 1840 by Edgar Allan Poe.
• Two Years Before the Mast, written in 1840 by Richard Henry Dana, Jr..
• The Deerslayer, written in 1841 by James Fenimore Cooper.
• Evangeline, written in 1847 by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
• The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life, written in 1849 by Francis Parkman.
• The Scarlet Letter, written in 1850 by Nathaniel Hawthorne,
• David Copperfield, written in 1850 by Charles Dickens,
• Moby-Dick, written in 1851 by Herman Melville,
• A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, written in 1851 by Nathaniel Hawthorne,
• The House of the Seven Gables, written in 1851 by Nathaniel Hawthorne,
• Uncle Tom's Cabin, written in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe,
• Bartleby, the Scrivener, written in 1853 by Herman Melville,
• Walden, written in 1854 by Henry David Thoreau,
• Leaves of Grass, written in 1855 by Walt Whitman,
• The Hasheesh Eater, written in 1857 by Fitz Hugh Ludlow,
• The Luck of Roaring Camp, written in 1868 by Bret Harte,
• Little Women, written in 1869 by Louisa May Alcott,
• The Brick Moon, written in 1869 by Edward Everett Hale,
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, written in 1876 by Mark Twain,
• Under the Lilacs, written in 1878 by Louisa May Alcott,
• Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, written in 1880 by Lew Wallace,
• The Naval War of 1812, written in 1882 by Theodore Roosevelt,
• The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, written in 1883 by Howard Pyle,
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written in 1885 by Mark Twain,
• Looking Backward: 2000–1887, written in 1888 by Edward Bellamy,
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, written in 1889 by Mark Twain,
• Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, written in 1891 by Ambrose Bierce
• The Yellow Wallpaper, written in 1892 by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• The Time Machine, written in 1895 by H. G. Wells
• The Invisible Man, written in 1897 by H. G. Wells
• The War of the Worlds, written in 1898 by H. G. Wells
• The School and Society, written in 1899 by John Dewey

20th Century

• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, written in 1900 by L. Frank Baum
• The Call of the Wild, written in 1903 by Jack London
• The Souls of Black Folk, written in 1903 by William Edward Burghardt
• The Jungle, written in 1906 by Upton Sinclair
• The Road to Oz, written in 1909 by L. Frank Baum
• The Devil's Dictionary, written in 1911 by Ambrose Bierce
• Ethan Frome, written in 1911 by Edith Wharton
• Ralph 124C 41+, written in 1911 by Hugo Gernsback
• The Magnificent Ambersons, written in 1918 by Booth Tarkington
• The Red One, written in 1918 by Jack London
• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, written in 1917 by Thomas Stearns Eliot
• A Princess of Mars, written in 1917 by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Relativity, written in 1916 by Albert Einstein
• This Side of Paradise, written in 1920 by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
• The Age of Innocence, written in 1920 by Edith Wharton
• The Waste Land, written in 1922 by Thomas Stearns Eliot
• The Prophet, written in 1923 by Kahlil Gibran
• Billy Budd, written in 1924 by Herman Melville
• Ulysses, written in 1922 by James Joyce
• Mrs Dalloway, written in 1925 by Virginia Woolf
• Many Marriages, written in 1927 by Sherwood Anderson
• The Moon Pool, written in 1919 by A. Merritt^[3]

21st Century

Librivox (Audiobooks)

Librivox a is foundation that developed a website with thousands of audiobooks created for volunteers that record with their voice public domain books so people with visual impairment or even travelers can download and listen books in their early lives.

See also

• American literature
• Public domain in the United States
• List of books in the Public Domain
• List of TV series with episodes in the public domain
• List of animated films in the public domain in the United States
• Public Domain Day

Notes

• ^G Public domain in the USA from creation as work of the United States government

References