Google Play Books & Audiobooks

All the books you love, on the page or out loud, anywhere you are.

Google Play Books is your go-to app for enjoying ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga seamlessly.

Dive into a vast selection of millions of best-selling ebooks, comics, manga, textbooks, and audiobooks. Download your chosen book to read or listen on the go. Once you're done, discover your next favorite from personalized recommendations tailored just for you. Purchase audiobooks and ebooks as you go—no subscription required.

Explore a world of popular ebooks, audiobooks, and comics:

• Buy ebooks and audiobooks as you go, with no subscription required.
• Preview samples before making a purchase.
• Benefit from extra discounts on select bundles.
• Stay updated with emails or notifications about new releases from your favorite authors and when your wishlisted books go on sale.
• Earn Google Play Points with every purchase, which you can then exchange for Google Play credit.
• Get alerts on price drops in your samples and new releases from your favorite authors and series.
• Discover new releases, bestsellers, and personalized recommendations across various genres such as romance, science fiction, mystery & thrillers, self-help, religion, nonfiction, and more.

Experience the best in class reading and listening:

• Enjoy reading or listening on Android, iOS, or your web browser, even offline.
• Seamlessly pick up where you left off on any device.
• Customize your reading experience by adjusting text size, font type, margins, text alignment, brightness, and background colors.
• Keep track of your reading progress, including the percentage read and pages remaining.
• Organize your library into shelves using the new shelves tab to curate your collection by theme or genre, accessible across Android, iOS, and the web.
• Save books to an SD card to ensure you never run out of space.
• Utilize reading tools in children's books for kid-friendly word definitions, listen to specific words, or hear the book read aloud.
• Use Bubble Zoom for an enhanced comic reading experience on mobile devices. Tap the page to bring your favorite comic or manga to life.
• Take notes that sync with your Google Drive and share them with a group for easy collaboration.
• Look up definitions, get translations, save highlights, and bookmark your favorite pages while reading.
• Enable Night Light to automatically adjust the background color and brightness or set the app to use the OS brightness.

What's New in the Latest Version 2024.10.4.0 (240976)

Last updated on Oct 14, 2024

New in 2023.6.12:

• Reading practice feature is now available in select books in Tools for beginning readers. The microphone needs to be turned on to hear you, yet it won’t keep anything you say.

Recent Additions:

• Multiple library improvements, including multiselect, improved filtering, an unshelved shelf, and an alphabetical index to jump to a specific title or author.
• Navigation improvements to reach series pages.
• The wishlist tab.