Oh I love some of the books mentioned as hates here, though I do agree on some of the others. I don't really remember what I was read and enjoyed or how regularly I was read to as a small child, and sadly can't ask my mum now. Once I learned to read myself I don't think adults read to me very much. I remember a Brownie pack holiday when I was about 8, as were most of the other girls, and I was horrified because they read Mr Men stories to us as bedtime stories, and they seemed ridiculously babyish and dull.
I loved reading the kids Julia Donaldson and the Harry and the Dinosaurs stories. I also liked the Mog the Cat books and the Tiger Who came to Tea. We had to read DS2 The Very Hungry Caterpillar 100 times a day when he was small, and he destroyed several copies. At one point DS1, just 21 months older, could recite most of it by heart and I occasionally got him to do so to amuse DS2 during a 15 minute walk to the supermarket or home. I don't hate it and we have a couple of other books by Eric Carle that I think are lovely. I had a few shorter books that I would read if it was getting late, we needed something really snappy or I couldn't handle a long story - Whatever Next by Jill Murphy, Not Now Bernard, Dear Zoo, Handa's Surprise are all short and sweet.
I quite like Dr Seuss but I kept a box set downstairs for my dad, who lives near us and came to visit a couple of times a week, to read to and later with the boys. I hate Mr Men, have never read Little Miss books and was very glad that no one gave us any. I enjoyed reading Beatrice Potter to myself as a child and bought a beautiful box set, then discovered they are difficult to read aloud and quite long!
Then a lot of the books here mentioned here are ones the kids have read to themselves - David Walliams, Roald Dahl, Horrid Henry, Michael Morpurgo. Beast Quest, Horrible Histories. They are now 9 and 11 and bedtime stories fizzled out a couple of years ago. We did read part or all of a few chapter books aloud to them but I see nothing wrong with saying I'll read you X book if you like but you can read Y book yourself.
DS1 is an independent reader and will read for pleasure, DS2 enjoys reading when you can get him to pick a book up but won't put down a computer game in order to read. Last time I read to them at bedtime they chose a story from a David Walliams book - the horrible children one - and I agree, it was no fun to read aloud at all. My dad has been getting them his books secondhand. There was that horrible sexist private dinner for charity episode which made me think Ugh.
I have also read that the man behind Horrible Histories, Terry Deary, doesn't want kids to be able to borrow his books from libraries because he wants them to buy them new. Stupid man. Libraries buy books too. So.... nearly all their HH books have come from charity shops, and they can enjoy them without Deary getting a penny.