18 Best Places to Get Free Kindle Books (2023)

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Amazon's Free Kindle Ebooks

I prefer Amazon over all these other website for two main reasons: the $0 price is guaranteed to be accurate, and the books are sent straight to my Kindle.

There are hundreds of free eBooks on Amazon, with subsections to click through to better find your next read, like Short Reads and Nonfiction Singles, and dozens of genres such as History, Parenting, and others.

BookBub

Select a book title at BookBub, and you'll get a synopsis and photo of the book cover, and sometimes its release date.

One awesome plus about this source is that most of these titles are also available through other sites like Apple, Google, and Kobo, so those links are provided in addition to the Amazon link. If you sign up for the daily newsletter, you'll get these links sent directly to you.

OverDrive Through Your Public Library

I like getting eBooks through OverDrive because it's like checking out a physical book from a library, but way easier. However, because of this, it only works if your public library has a subscription to OverDrive; use the Library Search page to find out which libraries near you offer this deal.

Just like with library books, when you ​check out an eBook here, it'll only be loaned to you for a few weeks before being automatically taken off your Kindle.

You can also borrow books through their mobile app called Libby.

eReaderIQ

eReaderIQ may look like your typical free eBook site, but they actually have a lot of extra features that make it one of my frequent go-to places when looking for free Kindle books.

All the books are updated hourly, meaning you won't have to miss out on any of the limited-time offers. In fact, you can even get notified when new books from Amazon are added.

Browsing is a breeze because you can look through categories and sort the results by newest, rating, and minimum length. You can even set it to show only new books that have been added in the last 24 hours, since midnight, or since your last visit.

My favorite thing about this site? Under every listing is some text that indicates when the price was last verified. This is a godsend, as you'll find out throughout this list, because lots of other free Kindle book sites are simply unreliable due to frequent price changes.

DigiLibraries.com

DigiLibraries.com gathers free Kindle books from independent authors and publishers. You can download these items directly from their website in a variety of formats, like PDF, EPUB, and MOBI.

I like that there are categories on the left side of the page to quickly see free Kindle books that are relevant only for those topics. It really speeds up the work of narrowing down the books to find what I'm looking for.

ManyBooks

As much as I don't like the ads, ManyBooks is a great place for free Kindle books. It scours the internet to find the greatest and latest titles; currently, there are over 50,000 books listed here!

I like the sorting options that let me quickly find the most popular or highest rated books in any category.

Browse by author, title, or language, and then download the book; some are available as an AZW3 Kindle file, others as PDF, EPUB, FB2, etc. They can also be read in your browser, and I've seen a few titles include a link to Amazon to get the free book there.

Another way to search is fromthe genres pageorthe recommendations category.

eBookDaily

When I'm feeling uninspired, I appreciate the daily email alerts I get from eBookDaily. Each email includes three free Kindle books that can be from genres like Mystery & Thrillers, Romance, Fantasy, Contemporary & Literary Fiction, Religious & Inspirational Fiction, Nonfiction, Self Help, and others.

Amazon's star rating and ​itsnumber of reviews are shown below each book, along with the cover image and description.

You can browse the past day's free books as well, but they'll likely no longer be free.

Freebooksy

Freebooksy is a free eBook blog that lists primarily free Kindle books but also has free Nook books, in addition to free eBooks from Kobo, Apple, and Google.

There's a new book listed at least once a day, but often times there are many listed in one day, and you can download one or all of them.

Something I like about this site is that the download links aren't to the book files but instead to the store the book is being given away on, such as Amazon for Kindle books, or Google Play or Apple Books. This means you can download it to your device using those apps.

A few genres available here includeScience Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Romance, and Literary Fiction, and Cookbooks & Nutrition.

Project Gutenberg

If I haven't found an interesting read thus far, I like to open Project Gutenberg. I come here for the 70,000+ free books, and I stick around because there aren't any ads!

Use the search box to find a specific book, or browse through the detailed categories to find your next great read. You can also view titles by top downloads or recently added.

This website focuses on older works where the US copyright has expired. Most of them are available as EPUB, or PDF. You can also read some of them online.

Free-eBooks.net

This option provides only five book downloads every month, but that shouldn't be a problem if you're just a casual reader.

You can search for free Kindle books at Free-eBooks.net by browsing through fiction and non-fiction categories, or by viewing a list of the best books they offer.

You'll need to be a member of their site to download the books, but membership is free.

Centsless Books

Updated every hour with fresh content, Centsless Books provides over 30 genres of free Kindle books to choose from, and the website couldn’t be easier to use.

All the books are listed down a single page with thumbnails of the cover image and direct links to Amazon. I wish there was more information about a book before I click through to Amazon, but it's not a dealbreaker.

If you’d rather not check Centsless Books’ website for updates, you can subscribe to email updates.

Open Library

Open Library is a free Kindle book downloading and lending service that has well over 1 million eBook titles available. I recommend checking out Library Explorer; it's a really neat way to visualize these books in a virtual library.

They seem to specialize in classic literature, but you can also browse recipe books and fantasies, among others genres. Searching by keyword is also allowed, as is browsing by subjects, authors, and genre.

One thing I like is that some books can be borrowed for up to two weeks at a time. However, most of these ebooks are available for 1-hour time slots that you have to keep renewing if you want to continue reading.

Each book can be read online or downloaded in a variety of file formats like DJVU, EPUB, plain text, and PDF.

OHFB (OneHundredFreeBooks)

OHFBgathers several thousand free Kindle books from Amazon and gives you some excellent features so that you can easily find your next great read.

You can search category or keyword to quickly sift through what's available. Books can be found through typical categories like horror, young adult, and fiction, but I particularly like the unique sections such as crafts, hobbies & home; women's fiction; and cookbooks.

There are ads on this site, but otherwise it feels pretty clean. Large photos of the book covers makes it especially easy to quickly scroll through and stop to read the descriptions of books that you're interested in. Every page also shows related books to help you find something else you'll like.

Freebook Sifter

Freebook Sifter is a no-frills free Kindle book website that lists tens of thousands of titles. Over a dozen categories are available to choose from, and next to each title is the book's average rating, which you can sort to find the top-rated books.

A few things I like include the 'Last Verified' column which shows how recently the book was verified to be free on Amazon, and the long list of helpful categories.

Subscribe to their daily alerts to get emails about new books.

Kindle Buffet

Kindle Buffet from Weberbooks.com is updated each day with the best of the best free books available from Amazon. You can see the book cover, summary, genre, and author.

This website is nowhere near my first pick because the ads are very much in your face. Still, it could be a good choice if the other free Kindle book sources in this list haven't been helpful for you.

The eReader Cafe

The eReader Cafe has listings every day for free Kindle books, sometimes Nook books, and a few bargain books.

Sometimes I'll take a slow scroll through this website and click through to the books with a high rating. Every listing also includes the book cover, genre, and synopsis.

Daily email subscriptions and social media profiles are also available if you don't want to check their site every day.

BookGoodies

BookGoodies has lots of fiction and non-fiction Kindle books in a variety of genres, like Paranormal, Women's Fiction, Humor,andTravel,that are completely free to download from Amazon.

The time frame a book is available as a free download is shown on each download page, as well as a full description of the book and sometimes a link to the author's website. However, some books are free forever.

Social media pages help you find new additions, but they also have anemail service that will send the free Kindlebooks to you every day.

PixelScroll

PixelScroll lists free Kindle eBooks every day that each includes theirgenre listing, synopsis, and cover. You can also see when a free book will start to cost again.

One thing I don't like, and the reason I've listed this website so far down the list, is that it does a poor job updating old listings when they're no longer free. For this reason, it's not uncommon for me to click a few links to Amazon only to see that the books are no longer free

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