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Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)
by (shelved 437 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.00 — 81,030 ratings — published 1975
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 339 times as egypt)
avg rating 3.74 — 125,756 ratings — published 2010
Nefertiti (Hardcover)
by (shelved 339 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,848 ratings — published 2007
Impasse des deux palais (Poche)
by (shelved 320 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,604 ratings — published 1956
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 314 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,195 ratings — published 2010
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
by (shelved 278 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.12 — 324,119 ratings — published 1937
The Heretic Queen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 269 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.21 — 27,199 ratings — published 2008
River God (Ancient Egypt, #1)
by (shelved 253 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.23 — 45,070 ratings — published 1993
The Curse of the Pharaohs (Amelia Peabody, #2)
by (shelved 241 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.00 — 27,483 ratings — published 1981
Woman at Point Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.25 — 35,445 ratings — published 1975
The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as egypt)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,432 ratings — published -1500
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 203 times as egypt)
avg rating 3.66 — 8,076 ratings — published 2014
The Mummy Case (Amelia Peabody, #3)
by (shelved 202 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.02 — 21,458 ratings — published 1985
The Yacoubian Building (Paperback)
by (shelved 202 times as egypt)
avg rating 3.72 — 23,958 ratings — published 2002
Cleopatra's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.12 — 31,379 ratings — published 2009
The Memoirs of Cleopatra (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.20 — 21,844 ratings — published 1997
Lion in the Valley (Amelia Peabody, #4)
by (shelved 180 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.13 — 19,373 ratings — published 1976
What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1)
by (shelved 177 times as egypt)
avg rating 3.82 — 96,468 ratings — published 2023
The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 172 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.10 — 434,535 ratings — published 2010
The Stolen Queen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 152 times as egypt)
avg rating 3.89 — 66,664 ratings — published 2025
سینوهه (Hardcover)
by (shelved 152 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.23 — 29,441 ratings — published 1945
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as egypt)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,758,895 ratings — published 1988
Mara, Daughter of the Nile (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.24 — 14,134 ratings — published 1953
The Map of Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as egypt)
avg rating 3.81 — 7,406 ratings — published 1999
Midaq Alley (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as egypt)
avg rating 3.87 — 14,059 ratings — published 1947
The Last Camel Died at Noon (Amelia Peabody, #6)
by (shelved 135 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.20 — 18,612 ratings — published 1991
The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt (Oxford Illustrated Histories)
by (shelved 132 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,650 ratings — published 2000
Death Comes as the End (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as egypt)
avg rating 3.84 — 29,418 ratings — published 1944
Temples, Tombs & Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,024 ratings — published 1964
The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog (Amelia Peabody, #7)
by (shelved 125 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.22 — 15,184 ratings — published 1992
The Son of Light (Ramses, #1)
by (shelved 124 times as egypt)
avg rating 3.89 — 11,190 ratings — published 1995
Le Palais du désir (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.23 — 11,762 ratings — published 1957
When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as egypt)
avg rating 3.68 — 9,570 ratings — published 2018
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 115 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.14 — 166,979 ratings — published 2017
The Deeds of the Disturber (Amelia Peabody, #5)
by (shelved 115 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.06 — 18,770 ratings — published 1978
The Hippopotamus Pool (Amelia Peabody, #8)
by (shelved 113 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.18 — 13,530 ratings — published 1996
The Ape Who Guards the Balance (Amelia Peabody, #10)
by (shelved 113 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.20 — 12,275 ratings — published 1998
A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
by (shelved 112 times as egypt)
avg rating 3.99 — 37,964 ratings — published 2021
The Egypt Game (Game #1)
by (shelved 110 times as egypt)
avg rating 3.83 — 36,977 ratings — published 1967
Child of the Morning (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,747 ratings — published 1977
Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,681 ratings — published 1967
Seeing a Large Cat (Amelia Peabody, #9)
by (shelved 106 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,593 ratings — published 1997
Le Jardin du passé (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.28 — 10,005 ratings — published 1957
The Seventh Scroll (Ancient Egypt, #2)
by (shelved 103 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.17 — 23,198 ratings — published 1995
The Falcon at the Portal (Amelia Peabody, #11)
by (shelved 102 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.24 — 12,050 ratings — published 1999
The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 100 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.18 — 233,881 ratings — published 2011
Lord of the Silent (Amelia Peabody, #13)
by (shelved 98 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.25 — 10,839 ratings — published 2001
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3)
by (shelved 97 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.47 — 5,204 ratings — published 1957
He Shall Thunder in the Sky (Amelia Peabody, #12)
by (shelved 96 times as egypt)
avg rating 4.36 — 12,085 ratings — published 2000
Daughter of Egypt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as egypt)
avg rating 3.81 — 15,271 ratings — published 2026
“And Pythagoras is reported to have been a disciple of Sonches the Egyptian arch-prophet; and Plato, of Sechnuphis of Heliopolis; and Eudoxus, of Cnidius of Konuphis, who was also an Egyptian.
[Stromata, 1.15]”
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[Stromata, 1.15]”
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“I see murky visions of other gods and rival magic."
That REALLY didn't sound good.
"What do you mean?" I asked. "what OTHER GODS?"
"I don't know, Sadie. But Egypt has always faced challenges from outside –– magicians from elsewhere, even gods from elsewhere. Just be vigilant."
~Ruby & Sadie Kane about...? Possibly Greeks?”
― The Serpent's Shadow
That REALLY didn't sound good.
"What do you mean?" I asked. "what OTHER GODS?"
"I don't know, Sadie. But Egypt has always faced challenges from outside –– magicians from elsewhere, even gods from elsewhere. Just be vigilant."
~Ruby & Sadie Kane about...? Possibly Greeks?”
― The Serpent's Shadow
