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Eliot Landrum recently put up an improved version of BookMagazines Best Selling Classics list. Eliot has added the date of copyright expiration to the list. Interestingly, 20% of these books are already in the public domain. Unfortunately the next book from this list that will enter the public domain is The Great Gatsby in 2020. So it’ll be at least another 16 years before another one of these books can be found at Project Gutenberg.
I’ll have to wait to create a handmade art-binding edition of The Hobbit until I’m over 64 years old. Of course considering that it was originally published when my Grandfather was still wet behind the ears…