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How to Find Free Audiobooks with Prime Membership

April 3, 2018 by Nathan

Free Prime Audiobooks

If you’re an Amazon Prime member you can get unlimited access to a selection of free audiobooks each month in addition to Prime eligible Kindle ebooks.

Unfortunately Amazon doesn’t make it particularly clear where to find the list of audiobooks available free to borrow for Prime members. In most cases you need to download the ebook before you can get the audiobook; you can’t just see a separate list of available audiobooks and download them individually.

Here’s the list of Books with Audible Narration free for Prime members.

Again, technically you have to borrow the ebook before you can borrow the audiobook; if you just go to the audiobook page directly you won’t see an option to borrow it.

Prime eligible ebooks show a Prime logo in the buy box that says, “Included with your membership”.

Books that also have a matching Prime eligible audiobook will show a box that says, “Read and Listen for Free”. If the audiobook isn’t part of Prime it will just say, “Read for Free”.

After you select a Prime eligible book that has a matching audiobook available with Prime, you don’t have to select the audiobook version of the book too because it will automatically be available once you borrow the ebook.

If you have a Fire tablet you can easily find Prime audiobook content from the menu of the Audible section where it lists Prime Benefits.

Audible Channels are another way to get free audio content with Prime. Audible Channels include original short-form audio content (podcasts), along with playlists, and a selection of audiobooks to stream anytime.

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  1. Julian says

    June 15, 2018 at 7:47 am

    Heres the link to the UK Amazon listings

  2. Candace says

    September 5, 2018 at 8:50 pm

    This info isn’t correct anymore. Now these books with narration are only free to those with a Kindle unlimited membership. All of the prime eligible ones still require some payment for the audio narration.

    • Nathan says

      September 6, 2018 at 7:21 am

      It still works the same as it always did. You just have to get the Prime ebook before you can get access to the audiobook for free.

      • Chris S. says

        May 9, 2019 at 11:29 am

        Candace is right. At least she is now, it seems.

    • rachel says

      May 21, 2020 at 12:52 pm

      Yes, you have to have the book, and then you have to purchase the twin audio at a “discount price”. I have spent the last hour trying to figure it out. hahahaha NOT fun! I wish it WAS “free” FREE!!

    • Rachel Bailey says

      May 21, 2020 at 12:53 pm

      I was going to say, maybe it was this way 2 years ago. OMG I didn’t even look at the date!! sorry!!

    • Zeke says

      August 2, 2021 at 4:25 pm

      Not true at all!

  3. Kevin says

    September 14, 2018 at 4:46 pm

    You said that it’s “borrowing” the audiobooks; does that mean that they’ll go away at some point? And if that’s the case, is there a way to check how much longer I’ll have access to the borrowed audiobooks?

    • Nathan says

      September 14, 2018 at 5:01 pm

      With Kindle Unlimited you can borrow up to 10 titles at once, and I think it’s the same with Prime. There’s no time limit; you just have to return one before getting another once you hit the 10 limit.

    • L says

      October 11, 2018 at 12:12 am

      O relief Washtenaw I have a few questions

      • julia says

        August 13, 2019 at 4:33 pm

        Hi, I have Amazon Prime with the kindle unlimited. However I cannot seem to find the free audible books….I have done everything I have been told to do, but still the only audible books I can find on Audible are books that cost a fee.

        • Nathan says

          August 13, 2019 at 4:42 pm

          You have to borrow the ebook first to get access to the audiobook for free on Amazon’s website, not Audible’s.

          • Marie says

            November 8, 2020 at 6:49 pm

            I’m gonna sound stupid
            How do you barrow it
            I don’t get this

  4. John Boone says

    April 18, 2019 at 7:45 pm

    The best books to read

  5. Djsjazmyn says

    January 12, 2020 at 7:27 pm

    So do you still have to pay for Audible if you have Amazon Prime membership?

    • Nathan says

      January 13, 2020 at 8:52 am

      Yes, they are separate things.

      • Dr. Cynthia Lanier says

        September 9, 2020 at 8:11 am

        Audible is separate from ama on. Do you have to pay for a audible and if so how can you listen to audiobooks without Audible? The info makes it sound like you need Audible to use the audiobooks.

        • Nathan says

          September 9, 2020 at 11:28 am

          Audible is owned by Amazon so they are tied together in some respects. You don’t have to pay for an audible membership to listen to audiobooks through Prime and Kindle Unlimited.

          • Linda G Lewis says

            October 8, 2020 at 9:34 pm

            I really don’t know how to use this. When I signed up for the audible plus it said there were 1400 or so. How do I find all those books? And I can not find out how to borrow a book. Thats all I want, to have a selection to borrow from.

          • Nathan says

            October 9, 2020 at 8:08 am

            Sorry but I’m not familiar with Audible Plus so I have no idea how the service works. That’s different than what we’re talking about here.

  6. henry says

    January 10, 2021 at 8:11 pm

    Thanks for the sharing. But do you know how to listen to those audiobooks offline? I want to listen to them offline. And I just got a DRmare Audiobook Converter for Mac, which can get audiobooks for offline listening, but haven’t tried it yet. Has anyone done it before?

  7. AnnieB says

    February 13, 2022 at 1:05 pm

    Hi – I am an Amazon Prime member with the Audible app downloaded onto my phone. I’m looking for the free ebooks and audiobooks that are available with the Prime Membership. However, when trying to follow the directions, there is no “Channels” selection. How do I get to the ebook (and audiobooks) choices available to me without actually signing up for the Audible membership.

    • Nathan says

      February 13, 2022 at 2:05 pm

      I don’t think there’s a way to get them with the Audible app directly, I may be wrong. I think you need to go to the Prime Reading section on Amazon’s website.

      • Annie B says

        February 13, 2022 at 7:23 pm

        Thank you – I’ll try to find that.

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