Egypt

Books in this genre are set in or about Egypt.

Daughter of Egypt
Cleopatra
Husbands & Lovers
What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1)
The Stolen Queen
Where the Library Hides (Secrets of the Nile, #2)
What I Know About You
A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
The Shrouded Queen (The Shrouded Queen #1)
Havoc
أوراق شمعون المصري
واحة اليعقوب
House of Two Pharaohs: Step into the world of gold, gods and deadly ambition with the latest Egyptian adventure (The Egyptian Book 10)
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
الشيطان يحكي
Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)
Nefertiti
Cleopatra: A Life
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
The Mummy Case (Amelia Peabody, #3)
The Yacoubian Building
Cleopatra's Daughter
Circe by Madeline MillerThe Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerAmerican Gods by Neil GaimanThe Penelopiad by Margaret AtwoodThe Girl with Ghost Eyes by M.H. Boroson
Mythology Books For The Grown Folks
373 books — 209 voters
Blood River by Tim ButcherDark Star Safari by Paul TherouxSo Many Africas by Jill KandelKilimanjaro and Beyond by Barry FinlayJourney Without Maps by Graham Greene
Adventure Travel & Exploration In Africa
226 books — 120 voters

ثلاثية غرناطة by Radwa AshourThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniAzazil by Youssef ZiedanThe Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
Best Middle East Fiction
445 books — 499 voters
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirNicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. MassieThe Children of Henry VIII by Alison WeirThe Life of Elizabeth I by Alison WeirThe Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir
Of Kings and Queens
482 books — 206 voters



Waguih Ghali
Cairo and Alexandria were cosmopolitan not so much because they contained foreigners, but because the Egyptian born in them is himself a stranger to his land.
Waguih Ghali, Beer in the Snooker Club

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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