Books set in Egypt
created by WillowMae
last updated July, 2026
Anatomy of a Disappearance
Hisham Matar
Cleopatra
Saara El-Arifi
In the Spider's Room: A Novel (Hoopoe Fiction)
Muhammed Abdelnabi
The Book of Cairo: A City in Short Fiction (Reading the City)
Raph Cormack
Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile, Egypt, 57 B.C.
Kristiana Gregory
Isis of Egypt: Goddess of Thrones: A Novel
Malayna Evans
The Queue
Basma Abdel Aziz
Two Women in One
Nawal El Saadawi
The Yacoubian Building
Alaa Al Aswany
The Open Door: A Novel (Hoopoe Fiction)
Latifa Al Zayyat
What I Know About You
Éric Chacour
I Do Not Sleep
Ihsan Abdel Kouddous
Chronicle of a Last Summer
Yasmine El Rashidi
The City of Brass
S.A. Chakraborty
What the River Knows
Isabel Ibañez
A Master of Djinn
P. Djèlí Clark
Greenland by David Santos Donaldson, I believe it’s set partly in Egypt but I’m not entirely sure.
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