Adult Book Lists: Ancient Egypt in Fiction

[Printable book list]

Nick Drake / MYS DRAKE
Rai Rahotep Series
Nefertiti: the Book of the Dead
Tutankhamun: the Book of Shadows
Egypt: the Book of Chaos

Stephanie Dray / FIC DRAY
Cleopatra's Daughter Series
Lily of the Nile
Song of the Nile

Colin Falconer / FIC FALCONER
When We Were Gods: a Novel of Cleopatra

Brad Geagley / MYS GEAGLEY
Semerket Series
Year of the Hyenas: a Novel of Murder in Ancient Egypt
Day of the False King: a Novel of Murder in Ancient Iraq

Pauline Gedge / MYS GEDGE
Lady of the Reeds Series
Lady of the Reeds
House of Illusions
Child of the Morning
The Twelfth Transforming

Margaret George / FIC GEORGE
The Memoirs of Cleopatra

Jo Graham / SF GRAHAM
Numinous World Series
Black Ships
Hand of Isis
Stealing Fire

Kerry Greenwood / MYS GREENWOOD
Out of the Black Land (also available large print, audiobook, and ebook)

Emily Holleman / FIC HOLLEMAN
Cleopatra's Shadows (also available in ebook)

Najib Mahfouz / FIC MAHFOUZ
Before the Throne: Dialogs with Egypt's Great from Menes to Anwar Sadat

Colleen McCullough / FIC MCCULLOU
Masters of Rome Series (featuring Cleopatra)
The October Horse: a Novel of Caesar and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra (also available in large print)

Michelle Moran / FIC MORAN
The Heretic Queen
Nefertiti

Scott Oden / FIC ODEN
Men of Bronze

Lynda Suzanne Robinson / MYS ROBINSON
Lord Meren Mystery Series
Murder in the Place of Anubis
Murder at the God's Gate
Murder at the Feast of Rejoicing
Eater of Souls
Drinker of Blood

Wilbur A. Smith / FIC SMITH
Ancient Egypt Series
River God
The Seventh Scroll (also available in large print)
Warlock
The Quest (also available in audiobook)
Desert God (also available in large print and audiobook)

Duncan Sprott / FIC SPROTT
The Ptolemies

Judith Tarr / FIC TARR
King and Goddess
Lord of the Two Lands
Pillar of Fire
Throne of Isis

Mika Waltari / FIC WALTARI
The Egyptian

Some Non-Fiction about Ancient Egypt

Philip J. Watson / 391.00932 WATSON
Costume of Ancient Egypt

Jon Ewbank Manchip White / 913.32 WHITE
Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt

Cyril Aldred / 913.3203 ALDRED
Egypt to the End of the Old Kingdom

Rosalie F. Baker / 932 BAKER
Ancient Egyptians: People of the Pyramids

A. Rosalie David / 932 DAVID
Handbook to Life in Ancient Egypt

Keith David (Narrator) / DVD 932.01 EGYPTS
Egypt's Golden Empire

National Geographic / DVD 932.014 KING
King Tut's Final Secrets

James Patterson and Martin Dugard / 932.014 PATTERSO
The Murder of King Tut: the Plot to Kill the Child King: a Non-Fiction Thriller (also available large print and audiobook)

Zahi A. Hawass / 932.014092 HAWASS
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs