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Here is a list of works not in the public domain in even death +50 countries, but would have been in the public domain in the U.S. had Congress not changed the law.
The Sound and the Fury (1929) by William Faulkner*
As I Lay Dying (1930) by William Faulkner
Light in August (1932) by William Faulkner
Tortilla Flat (1935) by John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men (1937) by John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck
Cannery Row (1945) by John Steinbeck
East of Eden (1952) by John Steinbeck
Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury
Invisible Man (1953) by Ralph Ellison
The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Passage to India (1924) by E.M. Forster
Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding
Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley
Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov
Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell
1984 (1949) by George Orwell
The Fountainhead (1943) by Ayn Rand
The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger
Native Son (1940) by Richard A. Wright
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) by James M. Cain
Double Indemnity (1943) by James M. Cain
The Murder at the Vicarage (1930) by Agatha Christie
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1934) by Agatha Christie
Murder on the Orient Express (1934) by Agatha Christie
And Then There Were None (1939) by Agatha Christie
Strangers on a Train (1950) by Patricia Highsmith
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) by Patricia Highsmith
The Three Coffins (Carr) by John Dickson Carr
Rebecca (1938) by Daphne Du Maurier
The Mike Hammer Collection (1947) by Mickey Spillane
I, the Jury (1947) by Mickey Spillane
My Gun is Quick (1950) by Mickey Spillane
Kiss Me, Deadly (1952) by Mickey Spillane
Fer-de-Lance (1934) by Rex Stout
Too Many Cooks (1938) by Rex Stout
The Caine Mutiny (1951) by Herman Wouk
I, Robot (1950) by Isaac Asimov
Foundation (1951) by Isaac Asimov
Foundation and Empire (1952) by Isaac Asimov
Second Foundation (1953) by Isaac Asimov
The End of Eternity (1955) by Isaac Asimov
The Caves of Steel (1954) by Isaac Asimov
The Martian Chronicles (1950) by Ray Bradbury
Childhood's End (1954) by Arthur C. Clarke
I Am Legend (1954) by Richard Matheson
The Hobbit (1937) by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring (1954) by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Return of the King (1954) by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Two Towers (1954) by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) by C. S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters (1942) by C. S. Lewis
Death of a Salesman (1949) by Arthur Miller
The Crucible (1952) by Arthur Miller
The Iceman Cometh (1940) by Eugene O'Neill
Inherit the Wind (1955) by Jerome Lawrence
Waiting for Godot (1952) by Samuel Beckett
The Glass Menagerie (1944) by Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) by Tennessee Williams
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) by Tennessee Williams
Our Town (1938) by Thornton Wilder
The Yearling (1938) by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Charlotte's Web (1952) by E. B. White
The Natural (1952) by Bernard Malamud
From Here to Eternity (1951) by James Jones
The Naked and the Dead (1948) by Norman Mailer
All Quiet on the Western Front (1929) by Erich Maria Remarque
The Great Escape (1950) by Paul Brickhill
Tales of the South Pacific (1946) by James A. Michener
The Ox-Bow Incident (1940) by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
The Big Sky (1947) by A. B. Guthrie Jr.
Hondo (1953) by Louis L'Amour
Sea Of Grass (1936) by Conrad Richter
Shane (1949) by Jack Schaefer
A Coffin for Dimitrios (1944) by Eric Ambler
Casino Royale (1953) by Ian Fleming
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1950) by C.S. Forester
The Werewolf Of Paris (1933) by Guy Endore
The Second World War (1948) by Winston S. Churchill
History of Western Philosophy (1946) by Bertrand Russell
Being and Nothingness (1943) by Jean-Paul Sartre
Nausea (1938) by Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosophical Investigations (1953) by Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Second Sex (1949) by Simone De Beauvoir
Silent World (1953) by Jacques Cousteau
Seven Years in Tibet (1953) by Heinrich Harrer
Annapurna (1952) by Maurice Herzog
The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks (1948) by David A. Embury
Out of Africa (1937) by Isak Dinesen
* -- Faulkner's works will be in the public domain in death +50 countries next year
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