Google Play Books & Audiobooks

All the books you love. On the page or out loud. Anywhere you are.

Google Play Books is the ultimate app for accessing and enjoying a vast selection of ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga.

Dive into a world of millions of best-selling ebooks, comics, manga, textbooks, and audiobooks. Download your chosen book to read or listen to on the go. Once you've finished one, effortlessly find your next favorite from recommendations tailored just for you. Purchase audiobooks and ebooks as you go - no subscription required.

Explore millions of popular ebooks, audiobooks, and comics

• Buy ebooks and audiobooks as you go - no subscription required.
• Preview samples before you buy to ensure they meet your expectations.
• Take advantage of 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 notifications or emails for price drops in your samples and new releases from your favorite authors and series.
• Discover new releases, best sellers, and personalized recommendations across various genres including romance, science fiction, mystery & thrillers, self-help, religion, nonfiction, and more.

Experience the best in class reading and listening

• Read or listen on Android, iOS, or your web browser, even when you’re 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.
• Track your reading progress, seeing what percentage you’ve read and how many pages are left.
• Organize your library into shelves. Use the new shelves tab to curate your library by theme or genre, accessible across Android, iOS, and the web.
• Save to SD card, choosing to store your books on the device or an SD card to manage space efficiently.
• Utilize reading tools in children's books to access kid-friendly word definitions, listen to specific words, or have the book read aloud.
• Enjoy Bubble Zoom for an enhanced comic reading experience on mobile devices. Simply tap the page to bring your favorite comic or manga to life.
• Take notes that sync with Google Drive and share them with a group for easy collaboration.
• Look up definitions, get translations, save highlights, and bookmark your favorite pages while you read.
• Turn on 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

Arriving in 2023.6.12

• The 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 won‘t keep anything you say.

Recently added

• 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.