Egypt

Books in this genre are set in or about Egypt.

Daughter of Egypt
Cleopatra
واحة اليعقوب
Husbands & Lovers
What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1)
The Stolen Queen
الشيطان يحكي
الهلكوت
Where the Library Hides (Secrets of the Nile, #2)
What I Know About You
Havoc
The Shrouded Queen (The Shrouded Queen #1)
أوراق شمعون المصري
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
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
I, Claudius by Robert GravesThe Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerPompeii by Robert   HarrisThe Persian Boy by Mary RenaultThe King Must Die by Mary Renault
Best Novels Set in the Ancient World
527 books — 464 voters
Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth PetersThe Curse of the Pharaohs by Elizabeth PetersThe Mummy Case by Elizabeth PetersThe Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog by Elizabeth PetersThe Shadowy Horses by Susanna Kearsley
Archaeology Romance, Mystery, Suspense
296 books — 201 voters

مصرائيل by أحمد جمال الدين رمضانمزرعة الحيوانات by George Orwellقصر الكلام by جلال عامردور الصدفة والغباء في تغيير مجرى التاريخ by Erik Durschmiedالكرنك by Naguib Mahfouz
For a Better Egypt
181 books — 117 voters
The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib MahfouzThe Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al AswanyTaxi by Khaled Al KhamissiNo One Sleeps in Alexandria by Ibrahim Abdel MeguidThe Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
English Books on Modern Egypt
180 books — 53 voters



Mohamed ElBaradei
When you have half of Caironese in slums, when you don't have clean water, when you don't have a sewer system, when you don't have electricity, and on top of that you live under one of the most repressive regimes right now... Well, put all that together, and it's a ticking bomb. It's not of a question of threat; it is question of looking around at the present environment and making a rational prognosis. ...more
Mohamed ElBaradei

S.A. Chakraborty
When the Franks and Turks weren't fighting over Egypt, the only thing they seemed to agree on was that the Egyptians couldn't govern it themselves. God forbid. It's not as though the Egyptians were the inheritors of a great civilization whose mighty monuments still littered the land. Oh, no. They were peasants, superstitious fools who ate too many beans ...more
S.A. Chakraborty, The City of Brass

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