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 diving into a world of ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga.

Explore a vast selection of millions of bestsellers, from ebooks and comics to manga, textbooks, and audiobooks. Download your chosen book to enjoy reading or listening on the go. Once you're done, find your next favorite read with personalized recommendations tailored just for you. Purchase audiobooks and ebooks as you go—no subscription needed.

Discover a wide range of popular ebooks, audiobooks, and comics:

• Buy ebooks and audiobooks on the fly, with no subscription required.
• Preview samples before making a purchase.
• Enjoy additional discounts on special bundles.
• Get notified about new releases from your favorite authors and when your wishlisted books are on sale.
• Earn Google Play Points with each purchase, redeemable for Google Play credit.
• Receive alerts for price drops on your samples and new releases from your beloved authors and series.
• Explore new releases, bestsellers, and personalized recommendations across various genres including romance, science fiction, mystery & thrillers, self-help, religion, nonfiction, and more.

Experience top-notch reading and listening:

• Access your books on Android, iOS, or any web browser, even offline.
• Seamlessly pick up where you left off across any device.
• Customize your reading experience with options to adjust text size, font type, margins, text alignment, brightness, and background colors.
• Keep track of your reading progress, seeing the percentage completed and pages remaining.
• Organize your library into shelves using the new shelves tab, categorized by theme or genre, viewable 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 entire book read aloud.
• Enhance your comic reading experience with Bubble Zoom on mobile devices, bringing your favorite comics or manga to life with a simple tap.
• Take notes that sync with Google Drive and easily share them for collaborative projects.
• Look up definitions, get translations, save highlights, and bookmark your favorite pages as you read.
• Activate Night Light for automatic adjustments to background color and brightness, or sync with your OS brightness settings.

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 must be enabled to hear you, but it won't retain any recordings.

Recently added

• Multiple library improvements, including multiselect, enhanced filtering, an unshelved shelf, and an alphabetical index for quick access to specific titles or authors.
• Navigation enhancements for easier access to series pages.
• A dedicated wishlist tab.