Amazon First Reads is a program that offers customers early access to new books across popular genres. Every month, customers can choose one of the Kindle books selected by our editors for free for Amazon Prime members. Users can choose one book from a list every month, which is theirs to keep forever. First Reads can be read on the Kindle e-reader, Fire Tablets, or the Kindle app for iOS and Android.

The First Reads book list has just been updated for February 2025. Various genres are represented, so there is something for everyone. The vast majority of titles are not from major publishers but Amazon’s own publishing imprints.

The Fall Risk: A Short Story

Two good neighbors make the best of a bad Valentine’s Day in a funny and improbably romantic short story by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Just for the Summer.

Mr. Whisper: A Thriller (The Specialists Book 1)

Four brilliant investigators combine forces to outwit an insidious master of online mind control in a gripping thriller by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Final Equinox.

Not Quite by the Book: A Novel

A bookstore owner discovers that life as a recluse isn’t for everyone in this sharp yet sweet novel about how sometimes you need to abandon the quest for love to find your true passion.

Gravewater Lake: A Thriller

A woman who can’t remember her past encounters a mysterious stranger in a chilling novel of mounting psychological suspense by the authors of The Last Girl Left.

Something Like Fate: A Novel

During a summer in Italy, two best friends discover whether true love is up to destiny or free will in this winning romantic comedy by the internationally bestselling author of Woke Up Like This.

Missing in Flight

From USA Today bestselling author Audrey J. Cole comes a harrowing thriller about a woman faced with the unthinkable when her infant goes missing aboard a plane to New York.

Unlikely Story

From the author of Recipe for Second Chances comes a swoonworthy romance bursting with wit about a therapist who falls for the wrong man…but perhaps the right one was hiding in the margins all along.

The Warbler: A Novel

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lies Among Us comes a magical tale about mothers and daughters, choices and consequences, and the real meaning of home when every place feels like a cage.

Name Not Taken: A Novel

Meeting her future in-laws draws a young woman into a dark labyrinth in a novel of mounting psychological suspense by the author of My Favorite Terrible Thing.

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Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.