Thaal

Thaal is a book discovery and social reading platform for literature that English-first apps serve poorly — starting with Malayalam. Most reading apps treat a Malayalam novel as a badly-spelled English one. Titles get mangled into romanised approximations, covers go missing, and the books that shaped a literature are nowhere to be found. Thaal is built the other way round: the interface is English so anyone can navigate it, and the books stay in their own script. DISCOVER • Thousands of Malayalam and English titles with real covers, synopses and author pages • Top 100 — the essential shelf, ranked • Browse by genre, mood, decade or literary award • Author pages with lineage, themes and the full body of work • Search that understands Malayalam script and romanised spellings alike TRACK YOUR READING • Shelve books as reading, finished, or want to read • Rate what you have read and write full reviews • Save the passages worth keeping • Set a Reading Challenge for the year and watch it fill • Year in Books — what your reading year actually looked like READ TOGETHER • Book Clubs — start one for your city, your friends, or a single author • Follow other readers and see what they are shelving and reviewing • Build and share public lists • Import an existing library from Goodreads BUILT BY READERS The catalog is editorially curated and open to correction — suggest an edit or report a problem on any book or author page, and earn a librarian badge for good contributions. Thaal is free, has no advertising, and does not sell your data. Discovery, shelving, reviews and social features will never sit behind a paywall. Malayalam literature is the heart of the catalog. Your shelf is your whole reading life — Malayalam, English, and whatever comes next.