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.. or for those of us who do not like to type that much

ls -l

and quickly scan the permissions column
There isn't a command that shows you which files are readable because all files are created readable. You'd have to manually make a file unreadable, so it makes no sense to have a command that displays only readable files, since 99.99% of files are readable.