Google Play Books & Audiobooks

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

Google Play Books is your ultimate destination for enjoying ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga, all within one convenient app.

Explore a vast selection 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're done, easily find your next favorite with personalized recommendations tailored just for you. Purchase audiobooks and ebooks as you go, with no subscription required.

Discover a world of popular ebooks, audiobooks, and comics

• Purchase ebooks and audiobooks as you go - no subscription needed.
• Preview samples before making your decision to buy.
• Take advantage of extra discounts on selected 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 later exchange for Google Play credit.
• Receive alerts for price drops on your samples and new releases from your favorite authors and series.
• Explore new releases, best sellers, and personalized recommendations across a variety of genres including 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 when offline.
• Seamlessly pick up where you left off on any device.
• Customize your reading experience with adjustable 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 remain.
• Organize your library into shelves using the new shelves tab, curating 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, to listen to specific words, or have the entire book read aloud.
• Enhance your comic reading experience with Bubble Zoom on mobile devices, bringing your favorite comic or manga to life with a tap.
• Take notes that sync with your Google Drive and easily share them with a group for collaboration.
• Access definitions, translations, save highlights, and bookmark your favorite pages as you read.
• 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

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.