Quick Question: Future Readers

So here's a quick question as I continue to recuperate from my plague.

For the parents out there, are there any books that you feel a strong need to pass on to your children to read, or have given to your children to read?

If you don't have kids, then if/when, are there any books that you feel it will be important to share?


EXTRA BONUS QUESTION: Parents who have already done this? Did it work out like you hoped?

Quick Question: Who will you not read?

I touched on author aversions here, and I want to see where you stand on them.

Are there any authors you will not read, or will not read more of? Particularly, an author that you feel a lot of people love, or regard as a classic?

For example, I'm highly unlikely to ever read anything by Austen or a Bronte. I know a lot of people who love them, but they just don't appeal to me.

Another example, I know a few people who refuse to read Harry Potter. Not for a moral reason, or because they don't like wizards, but because so many other people have told them how great the books are. I had this attitude, in mild form, towards Haruki Murakami, but I got over it, and I now love his books.

Quick Question: What are you Reading?

So, yesterday, after my struggles with reader's block, I picked up Captain Blood, and I'm enjoying it.

But now the important question, what are you reading?

And also, what led you to it?