Suggestions

It's been a while, but the boy has returned to the habit of reading to me.  He has a lovely voice for such a task, and is one of the rare few who can read out loud well.  (I do not have such a gift.  I have the opposite tendency - to read as quickly as possible so hopefully no-one will notice that I've not read the word "the" in about thirty years.)  He also doesn't mind when I fall asleep when he reads to me, and people, that's a pretty rare find in a man.  I'd take offense after a while, but he takes it as a sign that I trust him.

So, on to the point.  The other night he read to me a graphic novel of a Lovecraft story (irony ain't lost on me either) and then from Hannibal.  I was doing OK with the Hannibal; I've read it myself a few years ago.  I was doing OK until Harris switched from third person to omniscient narrator, and that's about when I'd had it with the bad writing and the bad story and the bad book and just kinda freaked out on the boy about it all.

So now he wants suggestions of what to read to me, and please, no chick lit.  I can't imagine enjoying my Jennifer Weiner favorites in the boy's voice, so that's a fine limitation by me.  So what do you guys suggest as a good bedtime story?  I'm thinking of something in the vein of Kipling's Just So Stories.  Do you know of any good short story collections?