11 best-selling south africa books like Gangster State: Unravelling Ace Magashule's Web of Capture by Pieter-Louis Myburgh

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Gangster State: Unravelling Ace Magashule's Web of Capture

By: Pieter-Louis Myburgh

4.13

Format: 421 pages, Kindle Edition

In spite of Cyril Ramaphosa’s ‘new dawn’, there are powerful forces in the ruling party that risk l…

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1. Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

By: Phil Knight

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight share… read more

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"We must all be professors of the jungle."

-Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

"maybe the cure for any burnout is to work harder."

-Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

"He was easy to talk to, and easy not to talk to—equally important qualities in a friend."

-Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

"Beating the competition is relatively easy. Beating yourself is a never-ending commitment."

-Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

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2. The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior

By: None , Robert O'Neill

4.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Stirringly evocative, thought-provoking, and often jaw-dropping, The Operator ranges across SEAL T… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"The troop commander's name was Rich...[and] he was one of the best leaders I've ever known. His motto, which I've stolen from him, is, 'Nobody ever worked for me. They worked with me."

-None, The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior

"...the daily morning muster began beneath a sign that said, 'Are you ready for war today? You should be.' SEALs hadn't fired a shot in anger for years. But nobody ever admitted that around civilians,…"

-None, The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior

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3. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

By: Dee Brown

4.25

Format: 509 pages, Paperback

Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling his… read more

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  • history
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"It is too often the case,"

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

"We rarely know the full power of words, in print or spoken."

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

"One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.' - Tashunka Witko (Crazy Horse)"

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

"To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself."

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

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4. Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa

By: Martin Meredith

4.00

Format: 570 pages, Hardcover

Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and Af… read more

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  • africa
  • history
  • south africa
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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5. How Long Will South Africa Survive?: The Looming Crisis

By: R.W. Johnson

3.11

Format: None pages,

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6. Long Walk to Freedom

By: Nelson Mandela

3.78

Format: 479 pages, Paperback

The book that inspired the major new motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Nelson Mandela i… read more

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  • politics
  • africa
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire

By: David Deida

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Ultimate Spiritual Guide for Men What is your true purpose in life? What do women really want? … read more

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  • nonfiction

8. Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa

By: Antjie Krog , Charlayne Hunter-Gault , Luke Mitchell

3.67

Format: 499 pages, Paperback

Ever since Nelson Mandela dramatically walked out of prison in 1990 after twenty-seven years behind… read more

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9. Who Moved My Cheese?

By: Spencer Johnson , Kenneth H. Blanchard

4.15

Format: 130 pages, Hardcover

Written by Spencer Johnson, coauthor of The One Minute Manager, this enlightening and amusing story… read more

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10. Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan

By: Jake Adelstein

4.14

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Poli… read more

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11. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

3.67

Format: 363 pages, Paperback

Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an in… read more

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12. When McKinsey Comes to Town

By: Walt Bogdanich

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

**A NEW YORK TIMES AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**An explosive exposé of the world's most pre… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"One former McKinsey consultant wrote anonymously, ¨To those convinced that a secretive cabal controls the world, the usual suspect are Illuminati, Lizard People, or ´globalists.' They are wrong, natu…"

-Walt Bogdanich, When McKinsey Comes to Town

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13. Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Lykke / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living

By: Héctor García

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

3 Books Collection Set: Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life The people of Ja… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Walk slowly and you’ll go far"

-Héctor García, Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Lykke / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living

"Keep going; don’t change your path."

-Héctor García, Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Lykke / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living

"Happiness is always determined by your heart."

-Héctor García, Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Lykke / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living

"when you have a clear purpose, no one can stop you."

-Héctor García, Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Lykke / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living

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14. Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail

By: Ray Dalio

4.28

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From legendary investor Ray Dalio, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Principles, who has s… read more

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  • history
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15. Truth to Power: My Three Years Inside Eskom

By: André de Ruyter

4.56

Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition

André de Ruyter’s explosive account of his three years as CEO of Eskom, where he dealt with corrupt… read more

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16. A Promised Land

By: Barack Obama

4.33

Format: 768 pages, Kindle Edition

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making, from the president who inspired us to… read more

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"Glory and tragedy, courage and stupidity - one set of truths didn't negate the other. For war was contradiction, as was the history of America."

-Barack Obama, A Promised Land

"I thought the country I'd just described to them - a hopeful, generous, courageous America, an America that was open to everyone. At about the same age as the graduates were now, I'd seized on that i…"

-Barack Obama, A Promised Land

"Then again, a president wasn’t a lawyer or an accountant or a pilot, hired to carry out some narrow, specialized task. Mobilizing public opinion, shaping working coalitions - that was the job. Whethe…"

-Barack Obama, A Promised Land

"But there comes a point in the speech where I find my cadence. The crowd quiets rather than roars. It's the kind of moment I'd come to recognize in subsequent years, on certain magic nights. There's …"

-Barack Obama, A Promised Land

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17. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend

By: Rob Copeland

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more

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  • history
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18. Endure: How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep Hammering

By: Cameron R. Hanes

4.04

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

THE EXPLOSIVE NEW YORK TIMES AND NATIONAL BESTSELLERPush beyond your physical limits to improve you… read more

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"This is about abolishing the ego and taking the first step toward becoming the real you!"

-Cameron R. Hanes, Endure: How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep Hammering

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19. Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter

By: Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson

4.36

Format: 304 pages, ebook

For the first time, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson opens up about his amazing comeback—from tragic person… read more

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20. The Dark Flood (Benny Griessel, #7)

By: Deon Meyer

4.39

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From internationally acclaimed crime writer Deon Meyer, a new thriller featuring superstar detectiv… read more

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21. The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation

By: Justice Malala

4.20

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

A “gripping and important” (The Guardian) account of nine tumultuous days, as the assassination of … read more

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22. Our Poisoned Land: Living in the Shadows of Zuma’s Keepers

By: Jacques Pauw

4.45

Format: 555 pages, Kindle Edition

Our Poisoned Land is Jacques Pauwʼs sequel to the bestselling The Presidentʼs Keepers. A publishing… read more

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  • south africa
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23. The Stellenbosch Mafia: Inside the Billionaire’s Club

By: Pieter Du Toit

3.68

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

About 50km outside of Cape Town lies the beautiful town of Stellenbosch, nestled against vineyards … read more

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  • africa
  • south africa
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24. The ANC Billionaires: Big Capital's Gambit and the Rise of the Few

By: Pieter Du Toit

3.98

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

In September 1985 a group of white South African business leaders travelled to a game lodge in Zamb… read more

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  • nonfiction
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25. Gangster State: Unravelling Ace Magashule's Web of Capture

By: Pieter-Louis Myburgh

4.13

Format: 421 pages, Kindle Edition

In spite of Cyril Ramaphosa’s ‘new dawn’, there are powerful forces in the ruling party that risk l… read more

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  • history
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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison by Jacques Pauw

26. The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison

By: Jacques Pauw

4.28

Format: 423 pages, Kindle Edition

Investigative journalist Jacques Pauw exposes the darkest secret at the heart of Jacob Zuma’s compr… read more

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"I want to write a book again,"

-Jacques Pauw, The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison

"I'm not a journalist any longer,"

-Jacques Pauw, The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison

"The campaign against the SARS “rogue unit"

-Jacques Pauw, The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison

"We have become world leaders in income inequality, racial tension, rape and illicit financial outflows."

-Jacques Pauw, The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison

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27. Into the heart of darkness: Confessions of apartheid's assassins

By: Jacques Pauw

4.34

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

Jacques Pauw has been an investigative journalist for more than three decades. Before the phenomena… read more

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28. People's War: New light on the struggle for South Africa

By: Anthea Jeffery

4.36

Format: 436 pages, Kindle Edition

More than 25 years have passed since South Africans were being shot or hacked or burned to death in… read more

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29. Stop Me if You Can: How the Capture of the Criminal Justice System in South Africa was Disrupted and Reversed

By: Paul O'Sullivan CFE

4.00

Format: 579 pages, Kindle Edition

In January 2003, Paul O’Sullivan, then a board member at Airports Company South Africa, opened a cr… read more

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30. Fighting for the Dream

By: R.W. Johnson

4.30

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

RW Johnson's bestselling book How Long Will South Africa Survive? was described by Alec Hogg as 'a … read more

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  • africa
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13 Top history books like Gangster State: Unravelling Ace Magashule's Web of Capture by Pieter-Louis Myburgh

Transform Your Habits

The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior

None , Robert O'Neill

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Dee Brown

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa

Martin Meredith

4.00

Transform Your Habits

How Long Will South Africa Survive?: The Looming Crisis

R.W. Johnson

3.11

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18 Top memoir books like Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter by Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson

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My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy

Albert Johnson , Laura Checkoway

4.17

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Undisputed Truth

Mike Tyson , Larry Sloman

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Confessions of a Video Vixen

Karen Hunter , Karrine Steffans

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Around the Way Girl

Taraji P. Henson

4.10

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