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I want to do a read aloud again with my two older kids- but I really want to read something my son has not read. That is almost impossible!
Dickens is out (he has read them all), ditto with Jules Verne and Chesterton, Tokien, Hugo, and Sir Walter Scott.
I would like it to be a stretcher: maybe the Divine Comedy (but I know nothing about it!). They have read Homer and lots of Greek plays, and we read aloud lots of Medieval lit a couple of years ago!
Help me out!
Give me your favourites 
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Some of my favorite books to study have been ones I'd read before. Especially ones I loved because it means that I have people to talk over the book with me.
What about CS Lewis?
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Shakespeare--assign parts and read together! 
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We also love ones we have read already- but I wanted to surprise him in his last few months of highschool with a brand new one!
We are in a Shakespeare troupe, or two!, so I would like a break!
I thought about The Great Divorce-
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Steinbeck? or London? or Twain?
What about something more modern?
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Count of Monte Cristo? Crime and Punishment?
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Rocket Boys/October Sky? (Great book, but...warning...not suitable for younger teens...definitely worth pre-reading.)
For a completely nonsensical experience, try Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Fahrenheit 451?
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The Magnificent Obsession by Lloyd C. Douglas ( everyone should read this before they leave high school. It could change the world)
The Robe same author
Or something by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Socrates' Apology by Plato. It is very enjoyable and accessible, very enlightening, best shared with others, and I agree with Peter Kreeft who says that no one should be allowed to die before reading it :-) (I would say no one should be allowed to enter adulthood without having read it.)
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Dante isn't *that* hard, and most translations come with copious notes, so that you know who's who and what's happening even before you read a Canto. A little background research, and you're off to the races. My personal favorite is John Ciardi's translation, which doesn't preserve exactly the terza rima rhyme scheme Dante used, but does read like poetry in a very accessible way.
The main thing is, though, that it's a long slog, unless you're doing it daily. I was in a monthly Dante read-aloud group last year, and in an academic year we didn't come close to making it out of Hell! And so much of Hell is really, really gross . . .
But if they're read all the great Greek and Roman stuff (chiefly the Aeneid, since Virgil figures pretty significantly in the Commedia), then it's interesting to look at how Dante picks up Virgil's project (to write a foundational epic for Rome, to revive devotion to Roman culture and gods) and remakes it as a foundational epic for Christendom.
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Great ideas.
I have narrowed it down to:
Paradise Lost
The Rape of the Lock
The Brothers Karamazov
(I love Dostoyevsky- but the 'brothers' is such a long one as well, and I am not sure how it would transfer over into a read aloud as it is a bit of a muller (to say the least))
I thought of Farenheight 451 but the kids beat me to it last week...
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We started the Rape of the Lock- what a good choice for these dreary February days! We haven't laughed so hard in a long time!
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What fun! I haven't thought about that since college, and I was never a huge fan of that Dryden/Pope/Swift era. We'll have to revisit all that! Paradise Lost would be a great read-aloud as well . . . those were some cool choices!
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