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The Unlikely Candidate
Protocols
Zama Zama
Start with Yourself
Benni
Things I Wish I Knew
Trace
Kitsie
Curro
King of Beasts
Fourth Wing
Atomic Habits
The Housemaid's Secret
Iron Flame
The Nightingale
Three Summers
Love, Theoretically
The Mistake
The Alchemist
Mad Mabel
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
The Thursday Murder Club
BookTok Favourites
It Ends With Us
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Alchemised
The Housemaid
Heated Rivalry
King of Gluttony
Katabasis
The Deal
Adversary to the Villain
The Compound
Icebreaker
The Emperor's Enemy
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Artist
The Wretched Divine
The Knight and the Moth
Daybreak
The Song of Achilles
It Starts with Us
A Little Life
The Score
South African Authors
Wild Things Never Die
We Inherit the Fire
The Promise
The Burfee Seller's Daughters
The Sound of Ice
The Dogs of Vivo
Liwa
Stern Gods
Haram
Bosadi
Tsotsi
Disgrace
Intruders Short Stories
Cry, the Beloved Country
The Quiet Violence of Dreams
The Story of an African Farm
The Thing with Zola
The Near North
Zoo City
Wayfarers' Hymns
Recipes for Love and Murder
Prize Winners
The Fragile Mental Health of Strong Women
John of John
The Nicotine Gospel
The Disappearers
The Immortalites
Black Bag
Song of the Slave Girl
The End of Everything
Buried in the Chest
May We Feed the King
Griefseed
The Lost Love of Akbar Manzil
Heart the Lover
Switzy
Blood’s Inner Rhyme
The Renovation
The Chaos Precinct: Johannesburg as a Port City
The Palm House
Flesh
Herscht 07769
Crime & Thriller
The Impossible Fortune
Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief
The Hallmarked Man
A Deadly Episode
Silent Bones
Chain Reaction
Miss Wolcott's Ghost
Watch the Quiet Snow
The Man with the Golden Compass
My Husband's Wife
Based on a True Story
Brain Damage
The Secret of Secrets
A Second Shot
Clown Town
It Could Have Been Her
The Killing Time
The Lover
Last One Out
Strange Pictures
Hope Rises
Getting Away with Murder
The Silent Appeal
Dead Heat
A Killer in Paradise
Romance & Romantasy
Great Big Beautiful Life
Starside
Our Perfect Storm
The Pumpkin Spice Café
Take a Chance, Sasha Sinclair
Atmosphere
Love Felt Like This
Throne of Nightmares
Free Falling
Big Bad Wolf
The Name Game
Earthbound
Cherry Baby
Innamorata
Set the Record Straight
First and Forever
Grim Tidings
Don't Fall in Love with Me
People in Love
How to Fake It in Society
Crash into You
Trust Fund Baby
Kiss Me Like You Mean It
Fantasy & Sci-Fi
Dead Beat
Red Rising
The Devils
Tempest
Seek the Traitor's Son
The Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City
Children of Strife
There Is No Antimemetics Division
A Snake Among Swans
Massif
The Last Contract of Isako
The Salt King
Piranesi
The Infinite State
When There Are Wolves Again
Honey in the Wound
Green City Wars
Sublimation
Fishbone Cinderella
Exodus: The Helium Sea
Onyx Storm
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Literary Fiction
Memoir & True Stories
Cheslin Kolbe
Last Rites
True Crime
Never Say Die
Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
Unleashed
Plot Twist
Qualified Disappointment
We Did OK, Kid
Vigilauntie
Because I Love You
Wings
The Agatha Christie Cure
A Bigger Life
Swift
Hawking
Love and Fury
Finding Me
When Breath Becomes Air
From One Mother to Another
Rassie: Stories of Life and Rugby
Games of My Life
Big Ideas & Self-Help
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
The Let Them Theory
Situated
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows…
Empire of AI
Secure
You Can’t Please Everyone
Make Me Well
Unreasonable Hospitality
The Thinking Machine
Incorruptible
The Mountain Is You
The Psychology of Money
The Pivot Year
The Diary of a CEO
On the Equality of All Things
Why Nobody Understands Quantum Physics
What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
Sapiens
The Body Keeps the Score
The 48 Laws of Power
Coming Soon
The Keeper
A Court of Splintered Harmony
Hollow Bones
The Taper Man
All In
Orlando
The Hollow
Prince of Rome
A History of the World in 22 Traitors
Celebration
Murmuration
Solace in Winter
The Law of the Sublime
Quantum 2.0
The Fires of December
This is Vital Information
The Life You Want
Early Mornings at the Laksa Cafe
Fight Less, Win More
Afrikaanse Boeke
Diereriem
Rebekka van Kameeldoornplaas
Van man tot man
Enigma
Een keer om die son: Boek Twee
Vlam van die sprokkelhout
Déjà vu
Donkerhart
Kanniedood
Grensloos
Sweetie
Soetroos van Saron
Biltong en Dior
Ten Slotte
Die oorkant
Blinde kol
'n Knippie moord
Op die spoor van die Stasiemoordenaar
Brandstapel
My skaduwee loop los
Die vrou met nege lewens
Waar die teerpad ophou
Mei en alles daarna
Reading guides
All guides →How to track books you have read
The trick to tracking your reading is not discipline – it is having one place where every book gets a status, a date and a line about what you thought. Here is how to set that up in an evening.
How to import your Goodreads library
Years of reading history should not keep you anywhere. Goodreads lets you export everything as one CSV file, and Must Read imports it in minutes – dates, ratings and reviews included.
How to time your reading sessions
Timing your reading sounds obsessive until you try it once. A timer turns "I read a bit last night" into pages per hour, real session lengths and a finish date you can predict.
How to read classic books on your iPhone
Everything published before roughly 1930 – Austen, Dickens, Dostoevsky, Woolf – is in the public domain, and most of it is beautifully digitised. You just need a proper reader and a way to keep it organised.