Top 5 Books You Should be Reading in November. :)
Here is my list of the top 5 books you should read this month. I may not get any of these people to sell a million copies like Oprah, but thats ok!
(Disclaimer: I am kind of cheating because the first three are by the same author read them in order!)
- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
- The Girl Who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest - Stieg Larsson
- Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Love is a Dog from Hell - Charles Bukowski
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- Offline 23 hours a day from Derek Sivers blog
- Pluralistic: California can stop Larry Ellison from buying Warners (28 Feb 2026) from Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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- Diffusion of Responsibility from Smashing Frames
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