Google Play Books & Audiobooks

Google LLC

About this app

Google Play Books is the one app you need to buy and enjoy ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga.

Choose from millions of best selling ebooks, comics, manga, textbooks, and audiobooks. Download your book to read or listen on the go. When you’re finished, find your next favorite from recommendations personalized just for you. Buy audiobooks and ebooks as you go - with no subscription required.


Choose from millions of popular ebooks, audiobooks, and comics
* Buy ebooks and audiobooks as you go - no subscription required.
* Preview samples before you buy.
* Get extra discounts on select bundles.
* Receive 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, then exchange them for Google Play credit.
* Receive 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 genres like romance, science fiction, mystery & thrillers, self-help, religion, nonfiction, and more.

Best in class reading and listening experience.
* Read or listen on Android, iOS, or your web browser, even when you’re offline.
* Pick up where you left off on any device.
* Customize your reading experience. Adjust the text size, font type, margins, text alignment, brightness, and background colors.
* Track your reading progress. See what percent you’ve read and how many pages you have left.
* Organize your library into shelves. Use the new shelves tab to curate your library by theme or genre. View your shelves across Android, iOS, and the web.
* Save to SD card. Choose to save your books to the device or an SD card, so you never run out of space.
* Use reading tools in children's books to get kid-friendly word definitions, listen to specific words, or hear the book read aloud.
* Use Bubble Zoom for easier comic reading on a mobile device. Tap the page and watch your favorite comic or manga come 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 you read.
* Turn on Night Light to automatically adjust the background color and brightness or set the app to use the OS brightness.

Ratings and reviews

You know how sometimes the second in a series loses something the first had? Perhaps the characters fall flat, the dialogue becomes redundant or the scenes may feel forced. This book does not have any of those issues. This story gives the characters more depth, the banter is witty and humorous, the scenes hold your attention with action and timely transitions. I would go so far as to say this book surpassed the first with the emotional rollercoaster I just went on. 100% recommend. LOVE IT!!!!!!!

To me, the app is a great way to enjoy reading while waiting for an appointment or when carrying a real book isn't optional or lends itself to certain surroundings. There are very reasonable prices, and I've take advantage of free books offered to explore authors, with whom I'm not familiar. I have read great books that way. So, when a regular book isn't optional for all surroundings, Google Books work out well in most situations. I've recommended the app to other book lovers. Check it out!

I can't even sign in, it pops up with a blank list and when I click on options my emails are there but it doesn't load the sign-in process or something. I've updated and cleared the cache, I've deleted and reinstalled, now I've given up. Take away the ability to use Kindle but then your own app won't work?

What's new

Arriving 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 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