Egypt

Books in this genre are set in or about Egypt.

The Stolen Queen
What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1)
The Book of Two Ways
Husbands & Lovers
Where the Library Hides (Secrets of the Nile, #2)
Ce que je sais de toi
Havoc
A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
Tomb of the Sun King (Raiders of the Arcana #2)
‫أوراق شمعون المصري‬
Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations
I Am Cleopatra
What Strange Paradise
Death Sets Sail (Murder Most Unladylike #9)
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)
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Woman at Point Zero
The Mummy Case (Amelia Peabody, #3)
Cleopatra's Daughter
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
SPQR by Mary BeardRubicon by Tom HollandGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Histories by HerodotusGhost on the Throne by James Romm
Best Books About Ancient History
455 books — 135 voters
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
509 books — 391 voters

The Frontlines of Peace by Severine AutesserreBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenMy War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony LoydA Capitalist in North Korea by Felix AbtSketches from the Periphery by M.P. Summers
Conflict-Zone Journalism
284 books — 141 voters
EL TERCER TESTIGO by Juan José Soriano LluchMountains on Fire by Aram YardumianThe Red Tent by Anita DiamantThe Dovekeepers by Alice HoffmanThe Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
Historical Fiction - Middle East
127 books — 85 voters

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 — 265 voters


Johannes Kepler
Now because 18 months ago the first dawn, 3 months ago broad daylight but a very few days ago the full sun of the most highly remarkable spectacle has risen — nothing holds me back. I can give myself up to the sacred frenzy, I can have the insolence to make a full confession to mortal men that I have stolen the golden vessel of the Egyptians to make from them a tabernacle for my God far from the confines of the land of Egypt. If you forgive me I shall rejoice; if you are angry, I shall bear it; ...more
Johannes Kepler, Harmonies of the World

Gustave Flaubert
(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.
Gustave Flaubert, Flaubert in Egypt

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