what classics should I read aloud...

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... while I still can? DS is 10, and I'm not sure how much longer he might want to be read to at bedtime, but I reckon I've at least a year.

We haven't deliberately divided reading up this way, but the books DS reads to himself are generally last two decades, and exH tends to read him series like Harry Potter, Secret Seven and the Roald Dahls, while I have been reading him older books.

Just started Box of Delights, before that Tom's Midnight Garden, a few of the Narnia set. Have Green Knowe lined up next, and Secret Garden.

Help me! What do you think is unmissable?

Treasure Island and Kidnapped, possibly abridged and adapted on the fly by the reader for the audience?

Just: What an amazing question. I'm scribbling furiously to take note of all the fantastic suggestions.