The best known books set in each country: Egypt

See here for methodology, though now I am restricting the table to books actually set in Egypt.

TitleAuthorGoodreads
raters
LibraryThing
owners
Death on the NileAgatha Christie265,6929,033
Cleopatra: A LifeStacy Schiff 118,0054,427
Crocodile on the Sandbank Elizabeth Peters74,9544,623
Mummies in the MorningMary Pope Osborne23,3499,152
River GodWilbur Smith41,1533,208
NefertitiMichelle Moran 39,3231,882
The Curse of the PharaohsElizabeth Peters24,5422,753
Palace WalkNaguib Mahfouz20,2662,822

Egypt has obviously been a source of fascination to Western writers for centuries, though not always in a good way. Death on the Nile is entirely set in Egypt, but not a single Egyptian character is actually named. Elizabeth Peters has done well out of our collective obsession with the country. At least an actual Egyptian writer makes the top eight, with Palace Walk, by Nobel laureate Mahfouz.

Disqualified because less than half of the book is set in Egypt: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (which I hated); The Red Pyramid and The Throne of Fire, by Rick Riordan; The City of Brass, by S.A. Chakraborty (which I loved); and The Egypt Game, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder.

Next up: the Democratic Republic of Congo.

India | China | USA | Indonesia | Pakistan | Nigeria | Brazil (revisited) | Bangladesh (revisited) | Russia | Mexico | Japan | Philippines (revisited) | Ethiopia (revisited) | Egypt | DR Congo | Vietnam | Iran | Türkiye | Germany | France | Thailand | UK | Tanzania | South Africa | Italy | Myanmar | Kenya | Colombia | South Korea | Sudan | Uganda | Spain | Algeria | Iraq | Argentina | Afghanistan