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Books set in Algeria:
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Last Summer of Reason: A Novel by Tahar Djaout
The Plague by Albert Camus
Nedjma by Kateb Yacine
Beau Geste by P.C. Wren
The Lovers of Algeria: A Novel by Anouar Benmalek
Fantasia by Assia Djebar
Autumn of the Phantoms by Yasmina Khadra
Women of Algiers in Their ApartmentAssia Djebar
Summer in Algiers by Albert Camus
The Star of Algiers: A Novel by Aziz Chouaki
Algerian White by Assia Djebar
My Battle of Algiers: A Memoir by Ted Morgan
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne
Algerian Childhood by Leila Sebbar
Century of Locusts by Malika Mokeddem
The Mysteries of Algiers by Robert Irwin
Some Dream for Fools by Faïza Guène
What the Day Owes the Night by Yasmina Khadra
The Monks of Tibhirine: Faith, Love, and Terror in Algeria by John Kiser
The Tongue's Blood Does Not Run Dry: Algerian Stories by Assia Djebar
Children of the New World by Assia Djebar
The Watchers by Tahar Djaout
A Dying Colonialism by Frantz Fanon
The Eight by Katherine Neville
So Vast the Prison by Assia Djebar
The Process by Brion Gysin
The Savage Night by Mohammed Dib
In the Name of God by Yasmina Khadra
Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert by William Langewiesche
The Praetorians by Jean Lartéguy
Banquet of Lies by Amin Zaoui
The Silence of Mohammed by Salim Bachi
Memory in the Flesh by Ahlam Mosteghanemi
Donkey Heart Monkey Mind by Djaffar Chetouane
The Last Life by Claire Messud
A Sister to Scheherazade by Assia Djebar
I have started a Listopia list of books set in Algeria here: Books Set in Algeria. I compiled the list from this thread plus other suggestions and recommendations found elsewhere on Good Reads and the Internet. Feel free to vote for your favorites and/or add books that I missed!
More Books Set in Algeria:
Camus, a Romance by Elizabeth Hawes
The First Man by Albert Camus
Loving Graham Greene: A Novel by Gloria Emerson
Harbor by Lorraine Adams
The Magician's Wife by Brian Moore
The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar
Double Blank by Yasmina Khadra
A Palace in the Old Village. by Tahar Ben Jelloun by Tahar Ben Jelloun
The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini
Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus
The Pirate City by R.M. Ballantyne
The First Wave by James R. Benn
Algeria: France's Undeclared War by Martin Evans
The War in Algeria by Jules Roy
The Conquest of the Sahara by Douglas Porch
Memoirs of a Dervish by Robert Irwin
The Algerine Captive, or The Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill 
The Red Fez by Leopold McGinnis
Morituri by Yasmina Khadra
another book playing in Algeria (and Egypt, but mainly in Algeria) is
More books set in Algeria:
The Abductor by Leïla Marouane
African Genesis: Folk Tales and Myths of Africa by Leo Frobenius
Algerian Chronicles by Albert Camus
Algerian Memoirs by Henri Alleg
The Almond by Nedjma
Amatory Experiences of the Lustful Turk by Anonymous
American Slaves and African Masters: Algiers and the Western Sahara 
Arabic as a Secret Song by Leïla Sebbar
The Architecture of Memory: A Jewish-Muslim Household in Colonial Algeria by Joëlle Bahloul
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson
The Art of Forgetting by Ahlam Mosteghanemi
At the Cafe and the Talisman by Mohammed Dib
The Barbary Figs by Rashid Boudjedra
Beneath a Sky of Porphyry by Aïcha Lemsine
Between Terror and Democracy: Algeria Since 1989 by James D. Le Sueur
The Bridges of Constantine by Ahlam Mosteghanemi
Broken Wing by Judith James
Capture My Heart by Bobbi Smith
Chaos of the Senses by Ahlam Mosteghanemi
The Child of an Ancient People by Anouar Benmalek
The Chrysalis by Aïcha Lemsine
The Colonial Harem by Malek Alloula
A Country of Vanished Dreams by Philip Brebner
Dead Man's Share: An Inspector Llob Mystery by Yasmina Khadra
Desert by Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio
Desperate Spring: Lives of Algerian Women by Fettouma Touati
The Dust of Promises by Ahlem Mosteghanemi
Empires of Sand by David Ball
Esau by Philip Kerr
Exterminate All the Brutes by Sven Lindqvist
Flute of Sand: Experiences with the Mysterious Ouled Nail by Lawrence Morgan
Flyaway by Desmond Bagley
Forbidden Vision by Nina Bouraoui
The Forbidden Woman by Malika Mokeddem
Four Plays From North Africa by Marvin A. Carlson
The Foxes Of The Desert: by Paul Carell
The Funerals: A Novel of the Algerian Civil War by Rashid Boudjedra
The German Mujahid by Boualem Sansal
A Handful of Honey by Annie Hawes
A Happy Death by Albert Camus
Harraga by Boualem Sansal
The Heart by Maylis de Kerangal
Hélène Cixous, Rootprints: Memory and Life Writing by Hélène Cixous
Héloïse is Bald by Emilie de Turckheim
The Honor of the Tribe by Rachid Mimouni
In the Blue Light of African Dreams by Paul Watkins
In the Shadow of Islam by Isabelle Eberhardt
Intelligence Powder by Yacine Kateb
The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France 
Journal 1955-1962 by Mouloud Feraoun
Jumper by Steven Gould (1st book in Jumper series)
More books set in Algeria:
Kamila by Kwei Quartey
Land and Blood by Mouloud Feraoun
The Lion's Embrace by Marie Laval
Lost Bodies by François Gantheret
The Lost Paradise by Azzedine Kechroud
Madah-Sartre by Alek Baylee Toumi
My Life Story: The Autobiography of a Berber Woman by Fadhma A.M. Amrouche
The Obstinate Snail by Rachid Boudjedra, رشيد بوجدرة
The Ogre's Embrace by Rachid Mimouni
Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story That Changed the Course of World War II 
The Partisan by Fenek Solère
A Passenger from the West by Nabile Fares
A Passion for the Impossible: The Life of Lilias Trotter 
The Poor Man's Son by Mouloud Feraoun
The Queen of Atlantis by Pierre Benoît
Red Moon & High Summer by Herbert Kaufmann
The Repudiation: A Novel by Rachid Boudjedra, رشيد بوجدرة
The Rising Tide by Jeff Shaara
The Salt Road by Jane Johnson
Sands Of Death by Michael Asher
Sandstorm by Henry Shukman
The Sea Close By by Albert Camus
The Secret People by John Wyndham
The Selected Poems of Jean Senac by Jean Senac
The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris by Leïla Marouane (mostly set in France)
Shattered Vision by Rabah Belamri
The Sheik by E.M. Hull
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
Shérazade by Leïla Sebbar
Silver Angel by Johanna Lindsey
Sirocco by Danielle Dahl
Tartarin of Tarascon by Alphonse Daudet
Tlemcen or Places of Writing by Mohammed Dib
Tomboy by Nina Bouraoui
Tuareg by Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa
Under Two Flags: A Story of the Household and the Desert by Ouida
When The Apricots Bloom by Roberta Forrest
Who Remembers the Sea by Mohammed Dib
A Wife for My Son by Ali Ghalem
With Every Letter by Sarah Sundin (1st in series)
Wolf Dreams by Yasmina Khadra
Zone Zero by John Robb
the art of losing by Alice zeniter is terrific so far
Published in 2024, Algeria is prominently featured in:This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud
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