My daughter and I are reading Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days for her language art's class. It may not be the best classic but after 140ish years is still readable and enjoyable. It's a great book for teaching vocabulary to a 12yo.
For myself, I've always enjoyed Jules Verne and of course Tolkien. More modern "classics" that I find are wonderful books are Slaughter House Five, Grapes of Wrath, and Of Mice and Men.
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