Be a Budhha in a Month: The 10 Best Skinny Books.

Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The Prince.

The Prophet.

The Fall of Freddy the Leaf.

The Old Man and the Sea

and then The Tao De Ching

by Lao Tzu.

Life's Little Instruction Book

Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy

and Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl.