Most Popular Public Domain Books (Is Wuthering Heights One?)

The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Published in 1925, entered public domain in 2021.

To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
Although widely studied, this book is not yet in the public domain as it was published in 1960.

Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Orwell died in 1950, so this is not yet in public domain.

Dante’s Inferno (Dante Alighieri)
Written in the 14th century, The Divine Comedy (which includes Inferno) is in the public domain.

Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Published in 1813, and is in the public domain.

The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Published in 1850, and is in the public domain.

The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
Originally published in 1915, The Metamorphosis is in the public domain.

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
Published in 1890, this work is in the public domain.

Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Published in 1847, and is in the public domain.

Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Published in 1847, and is in the public domain.

Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Published between 1875–1877, and is in the public domain.

Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Published in 1866, and is in the public domain.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
Published in 1884, and is in the public domain.

Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
Published in 1876, and is in the public domain.

The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)
Published in 1906, and is in the public domain.

Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Published in 1861, and is in the public domain.

Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Published in 1851, and is in the public domain.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Published in 1865, and is in the public domain.

Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)
Published in 1871, and is in the public domain.

Grimm’s Fairy Tales (Brothers Grimm)
Published in 1812, and is in the public domain.

The Time Machine (H.G. Wells)
Published in 1895, and is in the public domain.

The Invisible Man (H.G. Wells)
Published in 1897, and is in the public domain.

The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Published in 1880, and is in the public domain.

Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Published in 1857, and is in the public domain.

Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)
Published in 1862, and is in the public domain.

The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
Published in 1903, and is in the public domain.

The Prince (Niccolò Machiavelli)
Written in 1513, published posthumously in 1532, and is in the public domain.

Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Published in 1818, and is in the public domain.

Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Published in 1897, and is in the public domain.

Ulysses (James Joyce)
Published in 1922, and entered the public domain in 2022.

Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes)
First published in 1605, and is in the public domain.

A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
Published in 1859, and is in the public domain.