24 Best Places to Get Free Kindle Books

Amazon has hundreds of free eBooks you can download and send straight to your Kindle.

Amazon's eBooks are listed out in the Top 100 Free section. Within this category are lots of genres to choose from to narrow down the selection, such as Self-Help, Travel, Teen & Young Adult, Foreign Languages, Children's eBooks, and History.

You can also browse Amazon's limited-time free Kindle books to find out what books are free right now. You can sort this list by the average customer review rating as well as by the book's publication date.

If you're an Amazon Prime member, you can get a free Kindle eBook every month through the Amazon First Reads program.

If your public library has a subscription to OverDrive then you can borrow free Kindle books from your library just like how you'd check out a paper book. Use the Library Search page to find out which libraries near you offer OverDrive.

Just like with library books, when you ​check out an eBook from OverDrive 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.

Learn more about using the public library to get free Kindle books if you'd like more information on how the process works.

If your library doesn't have a subscription to OverDrive or you're looking for some more free Kindle books, then Book Lending is a similar service where you can borrow and lend books for your Kindle without going through a library.

After you register at Book Lending (which is free) you'll have the ability to borrow books that other individuals are loaning or to loan one of your Kindle books. You can search through the titles, browse through the list of recently loaned books, and find eBook by genre.

Books can only be loaned once, so if you see a title you want, get it before it's gone.

The free books here can be borrowed for 14 days and then will be automatically returned to the owner at that time.

eReaderIQ may look like your typical free eBook site but they actually have a lot of extra features that make it a go-to place when you're looking for free Kindle books.

At eReaderIQ 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 books at eReaderIQ 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 since you last visited.

There are over 60,000 free Kindle books that you can download at Project Gutenberg.

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 the books by top downloads or recently added.

You'll be able to download the books at Project Gutenberg as MOBI, EPUB, or PDF files for your Kindle.

ManyBooks is another free eBook website that scours the internet to find the greatest and latest in free Kindle books. Currently, there are over 50,000 free eBooks here.

Browse the free eBooks by authors, titles, or languages and then download the book as a Kindle file (.azw3) or another file type if you prefer. These books can also be read in your browser.

Another way to find free books at ManyBooks is from the genres page or recommended category.

Freebooksy is a free eBook blog that lists primarily free Kindle books but also has free Nook books as well, 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.

A few genres available in eBooks at Freebooksy include Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery/Thriller, Romance/Chick Lit, and Religion/Spirituality.

Open Library is a free Kindle book downloading and lending service that has well over 1 million eBook titles available.

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.

Each book can be read online or downloaded in a variety of file formats like MOBI, DJVU, EPUB, plain text, and PDF, but you can't go wrong using the Send to Kindle feature.

OHFB is a website that gathers all the free Kindle books from Amazon and gives you some excellent search features so you can easily find your next great read.

You can search category or keyword to quickly sift through what's available. You can find books you're interested in through categories like horror, fiction, cookbooks, young adult, and several others.

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.

FreeBooksHub.com is another website where you can find free Kindle books that are available through Amazon to everyone, plus some that are available only to Amazon Prime members.

You can subscribe with RSS or email to get updates when they add new free eBooks to the site.

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

My favorite part about DigiLibraries.com is that you can click on any of the categories on the left side of the page to quickly see free Kindle books that only fall into that category. It really speeds up the work of narrowing down the books to find what I'm looking for.

Kindle Buffet from Weberbooks.com is updated each day with the best of the best free books available from Amazon.

Each day's list of new free Kindle books includes a top recommendation with an author profile and then is followed by more free books that include the genre, title, author, and synopsis.

Freebook Sifter is a no-frills free kindle book website that lists tens of thousands eBook downloads on Amazon and sometimes other sites like Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Project Gutenberg.

Beside each of these free eBook titles, you can quickly see how many downloads it has received, making it really easy to find the most popular free eBooks.

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

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

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

Every day, eBookDaily adds three new free Kindle books to several different genres, such as Nonfiction, Business & Investing, Mystery & Thriller, Romance, Teens & Young Adult, Children's Books, and others.

Amazon's star rating and ​its number 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. A free account can be used to get emails about new books.

DailyCheapReads.com has daily posts on the latest Kindle book deals available for download at Amazon, and will sometimes post free books.

There are specific categories of books on the website that you can pick from, but only the Free category guarantees that you're looking at free books.

They also have a Jr. Edition so you can find the latest free eBooks for your children and teens.

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.

If you’d rather not check Centsless Books’ website for updates, you can follow them on social media, subscribe to email updates, or use their RSS feed.

PixelScroll lists free Kindle eBooks every day that each includes their genre listing, synopsis, and cover.

PixelScroll also lists all kinds of other free goodies, such as free music.

BookBub is another website that will keep you updated on free Kindle books that are currently available.

Click on any book title and you'll get a synopsis and photo of the book cover as well as the date when the book will stop being free. Links to where you can download the book for free are included to make it easy to get your next free eBook.

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 Free-eBooks.net to download the books, but membership is free.

Free Kindle Books and Tips is another source for free books but discounted books are also mixed in every day.

There are plenty of genres available and you can search the website by keyword to find a particular book. Each book has a full description and a direct link to Amazon for the download.

To stay up to date with new releases, this site has a free email subscription service you can use as well as an RSS feed and social media accounts.

BookGoodies has lots of fiction and non-fiction Kindle books in a variety of genres, like Paranormal, Women's Fiction, Humor, and Travel, 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 of the eBooks here are free forever.

Social media pages help you find new eBooks from BookGoodies, but they also have an email service that will send the free Kindle books to you every day.

eBooks Habit promises to feed your free eBooks addiction with free kindle books.

The free listings include a full description of the book as well as a photo of the cover.