Free Shorts Books to Read Online

Browse 140 free public-domain Shorts books to read online or hear as AI audiobooks on Efil Books — no cost, no account.

• Russian Folktales by A. N. Afanasyev
• Fables by Aesop
• Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie
• Short Fiction by Aleksandr Kuprin
• John Silence Stories by Algernon Blackwood
• Short Fiction by Algis Budrys
• Can Such Things Be? by Ambrose Bierce
• In the Midst of Life by Ambrose Bierce
• Short Fiction by Andre Norton
• Short Fiction by Anthony Trollope
• Short Fiction by Anton Chekhov
• His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Short Fiction by Arthur Machen
• The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
• Short Fiction by Beatrix Potter
• Short Fiction by Charles Beaumont
• The Conjure Woman by Charles W. Chesnutt
• Short Fiction by Clark Ashton Smith
• Short Fiction by Clifford D. Simak
• Short Fiction by Cordwainer Smith
• Short Fiction by Daphne du Maurier
• Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy L. Sayers
• Ghost Stories by E. F. Benson
• Short Fiction by E. M. Forster
• Legends of Vancouver by E. Pauline Johnson
• A Thief in the Night by E. W. Hornung
• The Amateur Cracksman by E. W. Hornung
• The Black Mask by E. W. Hornung
• Short Fiction by Edgar Allan Poe
• Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• The Law of the Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace
• The Mind of Mr. J. G. Reeder by Edgar Wallace
• Nonsense Books by Edward Lear
• Short Fiction by Ernest Hemingway
• Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton
• Short Fiction by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Short Fiction by Frank Belknap Long
• Zuni Folktales by Frank Hamilton Cushing
• Short Fiction by Frederik Pohl
• Short Fiction by Fritz Leiber
• Short Fiction by Fyodor Sologub
• The Incredulity of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton
• The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton
• The Secret of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton
• The Wisdom of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton
• Short Fiction by Gustave Flaubert
• Short Fiction by Guy de Maupassant
• Short Fiction by H. Beam Piper
• Call Mr. Fortune by H. C. Bailey
• Short Fiction by H. G. Wells
• Short Fiction by H. P. Lovecraft
• Allan Quatermain Stories by H. Rider Haggard
• Short Fiction by Henry Kuttner
• While the Billy Boils by Henry Lawson
• Short Fiction by Herman Melville
• Darby O’Gill and the Good People by Herminie Templeton Kavanagh
• Short Fiction by Hjalmar Söderberg
• Shorts from Scenes from Private Life by Honoré de Balzac
• Short Science Fiction by Isaac Asimov
• Short Fiction by Ivan Bunin
• Short Fiction by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
• Lost Face by Jack London
• The Son of the Wolf by Jack London
• When God Laughs by Jack London
• Household Tales by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
• Dubliners by James Joyce
• Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens
• Short Fiction by Jonas Lie
• Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs
• Short Fiction by Kate Chopin
• The Forerunner by Khalil Gibran
• The Madman by Khalil Gibran
• The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
• Short Fiction by Leo Tolstoy
• Short Fiction by Leonid Andreyev
• Fifty-One Tales by Lord Dunsany
• The Book of Wonder by Lord Dunsany
• Short Fiction by M. R. James
• Short Fiction by Mack Reynolds
• Short Fiction by Manly Wade Wellman
• Lais by Marie de France
• The Land of Little Rain by Mary Austin
• Short Fiction by Mary Shelley
• Arsène Lupin Versus Herlock Sholmes by Maurice Leblanc
• The Confessions of Arsène Lupin by Maurice Leblanc
• The Works of Max Beerbohm by Max Beerbohm
• Short Fiction by Nella Larsen
• Short Fiction by Nikolai Gogol
• Short Fiction by O. Henry
• Children’s Stories by Oscar Wilde
• Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
• Golf Stories by P. G. Wodehouse
• Jeeves Stories by P. G. Wodehouse
• Mr. Mulliner Stories by P. G. Wodehouse
• School Stories by P. G. Wodehouse
• Short Fiction by P. G. Wodehouse
• Ukridge Stories by P. G. Wodehouse
• Short Fiction by Philip K. Dick
• Short Fiction by Poul Anderson
• Short Fiction by R. A. Lafferty
• Short Fiction by Ray Bradbury
• Vikram and the Vampire by Richard F. Burton
• Jack Keefe Stories by Ring Lardner
• Conan Stories by Robert E. Howard
• Short Fiction by Robert E. Howard
• Short Fiction by Robert Sheckley
• The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
• Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
• The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
• Hindu Tales from the Sanskrit by S. M. Mitra
• Short Fiction by Saki
• Short Fiction by Selma Lagerlöf
• Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
• Short Fiction by Stanley G. Weinbaum
• Short Fiction by Tanizaki Jun’ichirō
• Suspiria de Profundis by Thomas De Quincey