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I started with CoolReader, but each update was causing more and more issues for me as the user interface went off-kilter and the display of the actual book was left behind.
FBReader was my next go-to app for android until I started getting into books that had a lot of CSS formatting to make tables, pictures, etc., appear neatly on the screen. FBReader chokes on these more often than not.
After installing, testing, and uninstalling reader app after reader app I finally wound up with Aldiko. Aldiko seems to good a good job on most epub formatting but I have my books stored on an SD card in a folder layout that I am comfortable with and I loose this when "importing" the books to Aldiko.
Once Google Books allowed personal content I gave it a try. Like you, I found that the Google Books gives an almost perfect rendition of any book I have thrown at it. It is however, the most cumbersome to work with. The best approach I have found is to dump my books to Google Drive and use the import from Drive to get the book I want to read at the time.
If Google Books would open an epub directly from the device, you would have the perfect reader. If FBReader would handle the CSS formatting correctly, it would be the next choice.
So for simple, not-to-fancy books, I use FBReader. For books with heavy formatting, I take some time to get them routed through Google Drive/Books for a better display.
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