There is a lot of great nonfiction writing out there. Branch out. Go to r/suggestmeabook and search for nonfiction. I like the Ghost Map and The Man Who Mistook his wife for a hat.

Wind in the Willows I think, Traveling Cat Chronicles

Reading on an e-reader like kindle is a game changer for hard words with one touch look up.

Thank you. While reading a review, I also discovered this film, do you know it? https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-garden-of-the-finzi-continis-1971

You might like the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, or Dorothy Sayers romance in her mystery novels, starting with Strong Poison.

Thanks for sharing your experience. I had similar feelings reading two pieces of American literature, the Jungle and Death of a Salesman. For nonfiction, King Leopold's Ghost and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.

Economics is complicated and no one knows exactly how it works, but injustice and oppression are definitely part of it.

If you get them kindles, they can do one touch look up definitions of words they might not know. The boy might like some Roald Dahl. I like Danny Champion of the World. Maybe Hunger Games for the girl.

The Black Swan and Antifragile by Taleb, Animal Farm, Watership Down, the Hobbit, Death of Ivan Illych, Death of a Salesman

Same. It means I can read a book rather than scrolling reddit on a bus, or in bed after lights out.

Agreed. A great book. I think it's a little inaccessible for people with no background in religion though. Worth the struggle.

I don't have children, but for my nieces, I have shared Amelia Bedelia, Pippi Longstocking, Charlotte's Web, The Wizard of Oz and the Chronicles of Prydain.