18 Free Beach Reads to Download This Summer (2026)

Grey skies here, sunshine there. Load your phone with free page-turners before you go: 18 romance, thriller, adventure and saga reads, all free in epub, PDF and Kindle, all read offline.

Pick your trope, not your cover. Five 5-star romance novels - all free to download - that our readers adore, from underdog glow-ups to fake-marriage slow burns.

16 Free Crime & Thriller Books You Can Download Right Now

Sixteen free crime and thriller books to download in PDF, ePub and Kindle, sorted by most-downloaded, highest-rated and hidden gems.

From Hogwarts to Heathcliff: What Everyone's Reading This March

The Harry Potter HBO trailer just dropped, Wuthering Heights is everywhere, and BookTok has fresh obsessions. Here's what everyone's reading this March, plus free ebooks to grab on Obooko.

I Got So Fed Up With Email Marketing, I Built My Own Tool

How a frustrating email marketing workflow led to building nitrosend, an email platform that works inside AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT.

5 Free Romance Books to Fall in Love With This Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day is the perfect excuse to curl up with a great love story. Here are 5 of the most popular free romance books on Obooko, all rated 5 stars by readers and free to download as PDF, ePub or read online.

A Modern Reading Platform For The Age Of Distraction

After a year of building, we are launching a completely rebuilt Obooko. Here is what is new for readers and what is coming next for authors.

Creating your Cover and Choosing Book File Formats

Our guide to create a book cover readers can’t scroll past. Plus how to make clean EPUB and Kindle files.

Top 100 Free Kindle Books (Legal Picks for 2025)

Top 10 Most Popular Books of 2024

Discover the best of Obooko with the top 10 most downloaded books of 2024. The list highlights a trend towards romance infused with adventure, intrigue, and unconventional twists.