I like to provide both sides of an argument and talk it out in the middle with them. Thus I had my eldest read Stranger In A Strange Land (we are all our own messiah/commune/socialist living) and The Fountainhead (I am the only one that matters/screw anyone that is less than me) followed by Flowers for Algernon (our abilities do not dictate who we are/don't be a dick because you are smarter than other people). I looked at what lessons I thought he needed to learn at the time and guided his reading along those lines. He's 16 now and the last three books I've given him are The Tao of Pooh, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal. I'll let you figure out the message from that group.

Getting the youngest to read has always been a struggle. He liked the Hobbit, but couldn't get through LOTR. He is very hit and miss with what he will read. Narnia was a no but some of the Xanth novels he blew through in a day. The Potter books were all read, but they were a struggle as well. But some of the Dragonlance books were done in a day. And he loved Maus I & II. I can never guess what he will like or won't. So I just don't have a good sense of what literary legacy I'm passing on to him. He is definitely his mother's son.