Free Nonfiction Books to Read Online
Browse 125 free public-domain Nonfiction books to read online or hear as AI audiobooks on Efil Books — no cost, no account.
- The Pursuit of God by A. W. Tozer
- In Darkest London by Ada Elizabeth Chesterton
- The Bolshevik Myth by Alexander Berkman
- The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison
- Journals by Alexander Mackenzie
- A Voice from the South by Anna Julia Cooper
- The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
- On the Art of Reading by Arthur Quiller-Couch
- On the Art of Writing by Arthur Quiller-Couch
- The City of God by Augustine of Hippo
- The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
- Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell
- The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism by Bertrand Russell
- The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
- Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
- Disenchantment by C. E. Montague
- A General History of the Pirates by Captain Charles Johnson
- “We” by Charles A. Lindbergh
- The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
- The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
- A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
- The Cruise of the Alerte by E. F. Knight
- Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster
- Legends of Vancouver by E. Pauline Johnson
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
- Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69 by Edward Whymper
- My Disillusionment in Russia by Emma Goldman
- South! by Ernest Shackleton
- Essays by Errico Malatesta
- A Daughter of the Samurai by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
- Practical Mysticism by Evelyn Underhill
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
- Heretics by G. K. Chesterton
- The Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton
- What’s Wrong with the World by G. K. Chesterton
- Polynesian Mythology by George Grey
- Unspoken Sermons by George MacDonald
- The National Being by George William Russell
- Recollections of Full Years by Helen Herron Taft
- The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
- A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau
- Essays by Henry David Thoreau
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- Progress and Poverty by Henry George
- Histories by Herodotus
- The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc
- How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis
- Democracy and Social Ethics by Jane Addams
- The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Democracy and Education by John Dewey
- Human Nature and Conduct by John Dewey
- The Public and Its Problems by John Dewey
- Two Treatises of Government by John Locke
- The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes
- My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
- Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed
- Unto This Last by John Ruskin
- The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill
- A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad
- The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad
- Commentaries on the Gallic War by Julius Caesar
- Liberalism by L. T. Hobhouse
- The Kingdom of God Is Within You by Leo Tolstoy
- Sticks and Stones by Lewis Mumford
- The Story of Utopias by Lewis Mumford
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Linda Brent
- Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey
- Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey
- The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi
- Yashka by Maria Bochkareva
- The Autobiography of Mark Twain by Mark Twain
- The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
- The Land of Little Rain by Mary Austin
- The New State by Mary Parker Follett
- Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
- Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold
- A Negro Explorer at the North Pole by Matthew Henson
- The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzō
- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
- Struggles and Triumphs by P. T. Barnum
- The Art of Money Getting by P. T. Barnum
- The Humbugs of the World by P. T. Barnum
- Red Dusk and the Morrow by Paul Dukes
- Memoirs of a Revolutionist by Peter Kropotkin
- Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs
- The Secret History by Procopius
- Religion and the Rise of Capitalism by R. H. Tawney
- Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- My Four Weeks in France by Ring Lardner
- A Yankee in the Trenches by Robert Derby Holmes
- Travel Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Diary by Samuel Pepys
- Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
- The Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence
- The Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt
- Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Theodore Roosevelt
- Bulfinch’s Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch
- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
- Bashan and I by Thomas Mann
- History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
- Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant
- Darkwater by W. E. B. Du Bois
- The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
- The Journal of a Disappointed Man by W. N. P. Barbellion
- The English Constitution by Walter Bagehot
- Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William Craft, Ellen Craft
- The Life of Buffalo Bill by William F. Cody
- Table-Talk by William Hazlitt
- A Pluralistic Universe by William James
- Pragmatism by William James
- The Religion of Nature Delineated by William Wollaston
- The New Freedom by Woodrow Wilson
- The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay by Mary Wollstonecraft
- The Anabasis of Alexander by Arrian