10 short books you can finish in a weekend and remember for life:

I still remember reading The Old Man And The Sea. I was sitting on a tiny island in a lake somewhere in the Northern Sierra Nevada mountains, my aluminum boat rocking on its bowline tied to the decomposed granite beach. Hours passed, the sun moved, and the pages turned. The struggle of the marlin and the man ceased, and I lay there on the granite and thought about it, with the sun going down and…