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Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)
by (shelved 432 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.00 — 80,607 ratings — published 1975
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 338 times as egypt)
avg rating 3.73 — 125,158 ratings — published 2010
Nefertiti (Hardcover)
by (shelved 335 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,641 ratings — published 2007
Impasse des deux palais (Poche)
by (shelved 313 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,356 ratings — published 1956
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 308 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,038 ratings — published 2010
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
by (shelved 276 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.12 — 320,123 ratings — published 1937
The Heretic Queen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 267 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.21 — 27,082 ratings — published 2008
River God (Ancient Egypt, #1)
by (shelved 254 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.23 — 44,765 ratings — published 1993
The Curse of the Pharaohs (Amelia Peabody, #2)
by (shelved 240 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.00 — 27,267 ratings — published 1981
Woman at Point Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 222 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.25 — 34,165 ratings — published 1975
The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as egypt)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,388 ratings — published -1500
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 202 times as egypt)
avg rating 3.66 — 8,007 ratings — published 2014
The Mummy Case (Amelia Peabody, #3)
by (shelved 202 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.02 — 21,333 ratings — published 1985
Cleopatra's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.12 — 31,259 ratings — published 2009
The Yacoubian Building (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as egypt)
avg rating 3.72 — 23,673 ratings — published 2002
The Memoirs of Cleopatra (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.20 — 21,762 ratings — published 1997
Lion in the Valley (Amelia Peabody, #4)
by (shelved 180 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.13 — 19,279 ratings — published 1976
What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1)
by (shelved 173 times as egypt)
avg rating 3.82 — 94,672 ratings — published 2023
The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 172 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.10 — 432,847 ratings — published 2010
سینوهه (Hardcover)
by (shelved 152 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.22 — 29,105 ratings — published 1945
The Stolen Queen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as egypt)
avg rating 3.89 — 65,048 ratings — published 2025
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as egypt)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,715,312 ratings — published 1988
Mara, Daughter of the Nile (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.24 — 14,028 ratings — published 1953
The Map of Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as egypt)
avg rating 3.81 — 7,375 ratings — published 1999
Midaq Alley (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as egypt)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,905 ratings — published 1947
The Last Camel Died at Noon (Amelia Peabody, #6)
by (shelved 135 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.20 — 18,539 ratings — published 1991
The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt (Oxford Illustrated Histories)
by (shelved 131 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,643 ratings — published 2000
Death Comes as the End (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as egypt)
avg rating 3.84 — 29,124 ratings — published 1944
Temples, Tombs & Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,004 ratings — published 1964
The Son of Light (Ramses, #1)
by (shelved 125 times as egypt)
avg rating 3.89 — 11,124 ratings — published 1995
The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog (Amelia Peabody, #7)
by (shelved 124 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.22 — 15,123 ratings — published 1992
Le Palais du désir (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.24 — 11,636 ratings — published 1957
When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as egypt)
avg rating 3.68 — 9,481 ratings — published 2018
The Deeds of the Disturber (Amelia Peabody, #5)
by (shelved 115 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.06 — 18,685 ratings — published 1978
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 114 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.14 — 164,090 ratings — published 2017
The Hippopotamus Pool (Amelia Peabody, #8)
by (shelved 113 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.18 — 13,466 ratings — published 1996
The Ape Who Guards the Balance (Amelia Peabody, #10)
by (shelved 113 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.20 — 12,210 ratings — published 1998
The Egypt Game (Game #1)
by (shelved 110 times as egypt)
avg rating 3.83 — 36,920 ratings — published 1967
A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
by (shelved 109 times as egypt)
avg rating 3.99 — 37,516 ratings — published 2021
Child of the Morning (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,703 ratings — published 1977
Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,662 ratings — published 1967
Seeing a Large Cat (Amelia Peabody, #9)
by (shelved 106 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,530 ratings — published 1997
Le Jardin du passé (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.28 — 9,921 ratings — published 1957
The Seventh Scroll (Ancient Egypt, #2)
by (shelved 103 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.17 — 23,031 ratings — published 1995
The Falcon at the Portal (Amelia Peabody, #11)
by (shelved 102 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.24 — 11,985 ratings — published 1999
The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 100 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.18 — 232,779 ratings — published 2011
Lord of the Silent (Amelia Peabody, #13)
by (shelved 98 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.25 — 10,795 ratings — published 2001
He Shall Thunder in the Sky (Amelia Peabody, #12)
by (shelved 96 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.36 — 12,038 ratings — published 2000
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3)
by (shelved 95 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.47 — 5,170 ratings — published 1957
Lily of the Nile (Cleopatra's Daughter, #1)
by (shelved 94 times as egypt)
avg rating 3.89 — 7,264 ratings — published 2011
“Conformity is deformity”
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“He stopped. She heard the intake of his breath. “You are my country, Desdemona.” Yearning, harsh and poignant and she felt herself swaying toward him. “My Egypt. My hot, harrowing desert and my cool, verdant Nile, infinitely lovely and unfathomable and sustaining.”
She gasped.
His gaze fell, shielded by his lashes. An odd, half-mocking smile played about his lips. “You’ll never hear old Blake say something like that.”
She swallowed, unable to speak, her senses abraded by his stimulating words, her pulse hammering in anticipation? Trepidation?
“Remember my words next time he calls you a bloody English rose.”
― As You Desire
She gasped.
His gaze fell, shielded by his lashes. An odd, half-mocking smile played about his lips. “You’ll never hear old Blake say something like that.”
She swallowed, unable to speak, her senses abraded by his stimulating words, her pulse hammering in anticipation? Trepidation?
“Remember my words next time he calls you a bloody English rose.”
― As You Desire
