This is your last chance to score dozens of free e-books in 2025

• The Winter Wonderland book blast
• What is Stuff Your E-Reader Day?
• Upcoming Stuff Your E-Reader Day events

‘Tis the season for lulls in the workday and more quality time with your loved ones. My loved ones include my trusty Kindle Paperwhite, and I’m snagging a few dozen e-books to entertain me during the holiday hibernation period. The best part is that, thanks to a famous monthly book blast, my haul isn’t going to cost a dime.

The Stuff Your E-Reader event is live from today through Saturday, December 20, at midnight. Hosted by Indie Author Collective, a platform dedicated to helping authors and readers find each other, the book blast makes hundreds of titles available for free, discounted to $1, or accessible on Kindle Unlimited, Kobo Plus, or the author’s website. It’s the last Stuff Your E-Reader Day of the year.

This month, the theme is Winter Wonderland, and all the featured e-books will have a wintery twist. Here’s everything you need to know about getting your hands on them.

The Winter Wonderland book blast

Best enjoyed curled up in a vintage armchair by a roaring fireplace

Running until Saturday, December 20, you can get your hands on hundreds of winter-themed e-books through Indie Author Collective’s December book blast, which is the last event it’s hosting in 2025. This theme encompasses the chilly season, holidays, and anything related to snow and ice. At first glance, there’s everything from your typical Hallmark-esque romance to a power struggle between pirates — but hey, as long as winter is involved in any capacity, it’ll be on there.

Sounds broad, doesn’t it? Luckily, IAC has a smart filter system that lets you narrow down results to match your preferences. For example, you can search for e-books based on:

• Genre
• Content Level
• Spice Level (mature content)
• Geographical availability
• Promos
• Major Tropes
• Representation

Plus, each book has content ratings and spice-level (sexually explicit content) warnings featured in its description, so you know exactly what to expect before you download it to your e-reader.

What is Stuff Your E-Reader Day?

Themed book blasts throughout the year

Hundreds of books available for free? Yes, that’s right. Indie Author Collective is an organization that saw a pothole in the publishing world and sought to fill it by becoming a resource platform for aspiring and upcoming authors. To help boost those authors’ visibility, it hosts these online Stuff Your E-Reader Day events to get as many of their books into readers’ hands as possible.

It’s truly a win-win — authors grow and readers get free e-books. As long as you have an e-reader or an e-reader app on your device, you can partake in Stuff Your E-Reader Day. The book blast isn’t like Libby or Kindle Unlimited, where you have to return them after a certain amount of time — whatever e-books you snag are yours forever.

However, if you download one of the e-books via Kindle Unlimited, it may count towards your monthly 20-book limit. It’s better to ‘buy’ them for the $0.00 cost to keep them forever.

Upcoming Stuff Your E-Reader Day events

If you aren’t a fan of the cold

Winter Wonderland may be the last book blast of 2025, but there’s plenty of other Stuff Your E-Reader Days coming up in 2026:

• Play Game — a sports fiction book blast: January 21-24
• Be My Valentine — a romance book blast: February 9-13
• Uniform Madness — an occupational book blast: March 18-21
• Stuff Your E-Reader — an all-genre book blast: April 15-18
• Into the Darkness — a dark and mafia book blast: May 13-16
• Fantastical Escape — a fantasy book blast: June 10-13
• Something Strange — a sci-fi and dystopian book blast: July 8-11
• Stuff Your E-Reader — an all-genre book blast: August 5-8
• Gotta Get ‘Em All! — a series book blast: September 23-26
• Get Spooked — a thriller, horror, paranormal, and mystery book blast: October 26-30
• Short and Sweet — a novella and short story book blast: November 25-28
• New Beginnings — a debut book blast: December 20-23

With so many free e-books to look forward to, it’s like you don’t even need Amazon’s Kindle store. To each their own, but Stuff Your E-Reader Day isn’t just a great way to find your new favorite story — it’s also a way to support new or indie authors along the way, which is one of the greatest gifts you can give.