Egypt

Books in this genre are set in or about Egypt.

New Releases Tagged "Egypt"

The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East
Daughter of Egypt
The Stolen Queen
What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1)
Husbands & Lovers
Cleopatra
Where the Library Hides (Secrets of the Nile, #2)
What I Know About You
In One Brief Moment All Eternity
A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East
أوراق شمعون المصري
Havoc
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
واحة اليعقوب
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)
Cleopatra: A Life
Nefertiti
Impasse des deux palais
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
The Heretic Queen
River God (Ancient Egypt, #1)
The Curse of the Pharaohs (Amelia Peabody, #2)
Woman at Point Zero
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
Cleopatra's Daughter
The Mummy Case (Amelia Peabody, #3)
The Yacoubian Building
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Best Novels Set in the Ancient World
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Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradCry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,915 books — 1,815 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeNo Longer at Ease by Chinua AchebeSeason of Migration to the North by Tayeb SalihA Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'oThe River Between by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
African Writers Series
244 books — 70 voters


William S. Burroughs
“ Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a thing happened with the Mayans, though a number of wild cats are native to the area.) I don't think this is accurate. It is certainly not the whole story. Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never devi ...more ”
― William S. Burroughs, The Cat Inside

“ But in the desert, in the pure clean atmosphere, in the silence – there you can find yourself. And unless you begin to know yourself, how can you even begin to search for God? ”
― Father Dioscuros

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