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Considering that your main purpose in reading these books is to teach English, I don't think it matters if they have been altered in some way; it's not as though you're teaching a course in English Literature.
I'd suggest that you choose books which have simple sentence structures and a limited vocabulary, to begin with. If you google something like: books for adults learning English, you might come up with some websites devoted to this from which you and your students can read.
I've seen videos on youtube where the text is displayed on the screen and a (non robotic) voice reads the story while the text which is being read highlights for the reader to follow. You might try using a device like this rather than depending on your students to know which words you're reading to them.
Make sure you hear your students read back to you. This is probably more important in teaching English than reading to them. It allows you to gently correct mistakes and help them with words they don't know.
Learning to read a language is very different from learning to speak it.
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