Pleasure Reading- List of online reading material / classic books for all

'Aside from the sheer joy of exercising the imagination, research shows reading for pleasure improves literacy, social skills, health, and learning outcomes. It gives people access to culture and heritage and empowers them to become active citizens, who can contribute to economic and social development.'

The busy life style of today and alternate means of communication have moved us away from book reading, Now when we all have limited social interaction, we can and must use this time to go back to reading. Although pleasure of reading a book by holding it in hands is matchless, we can use technology and gadgets to read them when we cannot go out to buy or borrow books. There are numerous websites that offer free online books which are either available to read online or even download (in all formats) for offline reading. These websites offer a range of books from classic to contemporary literature in all genre. 

Let's go back to reading. Below are few links of genuine where you can find free online books in almost all categories. 




https://archive.org/

Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 431 billion archived web pages. 

Islamic books on Internet Archives 
https://archive.org/details/CollectionOfIslamicBooks/page/n1/mode/2up


Kids' fiction on internet archives
https://archive.org/details/iacl



Urdu Books
http://www.urdulibrary.org/

https://www.rekhta.org/

https://www.urdupoint.com/books/

Urdu, English, Punjabi books
http://apnaorg.com/books/u-booklist.shtml



Reading for Kids

Phool Monthly Magazine for kids (ماہنامہ پُھول)

بچوں کے لیے اردو کہانیاں اور کتابیں

https://pdfbooksfree.pk/category/kids-corner/

کہانیاں، معلومات، مضامین، لطائف  
English Books for kids

https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/childrens-stories

https://monkeypen.com/pages/free-childrens-books

https://www.freechildrenstories.com/kids-stories 

https://archive.org/details/iacl

audio-video books and stories
https://www.freechildrenstories.com/kids-stories

Will keep updating the list.

Happy Reading!