Cairo

Books in this genre are set in or about Cairo.

Impasse des deux palais
The Yacoubian Building
ملامح القاهرة في ألف سنة
A Dead Djinn in Cairo (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.1)
‫أطلس القاهرة الأدبي: مائة عام في شوارع القاهرة ‬
Cairo: The City Victorious
Midaq Alley
In the Eye of the Sun
The Colors of Infamy
A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.3)
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3)
القاهرة
سيرة القاهرة
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeCutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Fictitious Africa
547 books — 266 voters
The Road To Purification by Harry WhitewolfThe Arabian Nightmare by Robert IrwinThe Butterfly Mosque by G. Willow WilsonCairo by Max RodenbeckIn the Eye of the Sun by Ahdaf Soueif
CAIRO: fictional and factual stories.
73 books — 17 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Trigger by Tim ButcherThe Daughter of Kurdland by Widad AkreyiSketches from the Periphery by M.P. SummersZoroastrians' Fight for Survival by Widad Akreyi
Must Reads
182 books — 154 voters
Charleston in the Age of the Pinckneys by George C. Rogers Jr.Following Caesar by John KeaheyIstanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire by Bernard LewisCairo by Gaston WietBukhara by Richard N. Frye
Centers of Civilization series
34 books — 3 voters

Vintage Alexandria by Michael HaagBabylon of Egypt by Peter SheehanThe Treasures of Islamic Art in the Museums of Cairo by Bernard O'KaneHouse decoration in Nubia by Marian WenzelElectric Ancient Egyptians by James Ernest Brown
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105 books — 2 voters
Rivers of London by Ben AaronovitchStrange Practice by Vivian ShawThe Arabian Nightmare by Robert IrwinThe Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha PulleyBrown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
SFF Set in Global Cities (No YA)
64 books — 6 voters


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Italo Calvino
Clarice, the glorious city, has a tormented history. Several times it decayed, then burgeoned again, always keeping the first Clarice as an unparalleled model of every splendor, compared to which the city’s present state can only cause more sighs at every fading of the stars.
Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

G. Willow Wilson
Love the life you have been given. And be humbled by it. It is not to be despised.
G. Willow Wilson

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