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