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Egyptomania: Our Three Thousand Year Obsession with the Land of the Pharaohs

10 best books like Egyptomania: Our Three Thousand Year Obsession with the Land of the Pharaohs (Bob Brier): Snow, Glass, Apples, Underland, An Illusion of Thieves, The Difference Engine, Snow, Glass, Apples, The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches, Cochineal Red: Travels Through Ancient Peru, Akhenaten: Egypt's False Prophet, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd

Snow, Glass, Apples
AuthorNeil Gaiman
ISBN1472262913
A chilling fantasy retelling of the Snow White fairy tale by bestselling creators Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran.

A not-so-evil queen is terrified of her monstrous stepdaughter and determined to repel this creature and save her kingdom from a world where happy endings aren't so happily ever...
Underland
AuthorRobert Macfarlane
ISBN0393242145
An exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself.

In this sequel to The Old Ways, Macfarlane takes us on an journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through...
An Illusion of Thieves
AuthorCate Glass
In Cantagna, being a sorcerer is a death sentence.

Romy escapes her hardscrabble upbringing when she becomes courtesan to the Shadow Lord, a revolutionary noble who brings laws and comforts once reserved for the wealthy to all. When her brother, Neri, is caught thieving with the aid of magic,...
The Difference Engine
AuthorWilliam Gibson
1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. And three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with history - and the...
Snow, Glass, Apples
AuthorNeil Gaiman
*3.5 stars*



Oh my! Snow, Glass, Apples is some twisted, dark and creepy fairytale retelling of Snow White, lovely and dear Snow White. In this short story written by the critically acclaimed author Neil Gaiman, she is pure and innocent no more. Better watch out: the mask she wears might...
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
AuthorAlan Bradley
On a spring morning in 1951, eleven-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce gathers with her family at the railway station, awaiting the return of her long-lost mother, Harriet. Yet upon the train's arrival in the English village of Bishop's Lacey, Flavia is approached by a tall stranger...
Cochineal Red: Travels Through Ancient Peru
AuthorHugh Thomson
ISBN0753822075
Imagine that all the great discoveries of Ancient Egypt had happened in the last few years...and you will have some conception of the great excitement over recent finds in Peru.

Many of the extraordinary cultures of Ancient Peru, from the lines of Nasca to the temple-cult of Chavín, buried...
Akhenaten: Egypt's False Prophet
AuthorNicholas Reeves
ISBN0500285527
One of the most compelling and controversial figures in history, Akhenaten has captured the imagination like no other Egyptian pharaoh. Much has been written about this strange, persecuted figure, whose freakishly elongated and effeminate appearance is totally at odds with that of the traditional...
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
AuthorAlan Bradley
It's Christmastime, and the precocious Flavia de Luce - an eleven-year-old sleuth with a passion for chemistry and a penchant for crime-solving - is tucked away in her laboratory, whipping up a concoction to ensnare Saint Nick. But she is soon distracted when a film crew arrives at Buckshaw, the de Luces'...
Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd
AuthorAlan Bradley
ISBN1409149501
In spite of being ejected from Miss Bodycote’s Female Academy in Canada, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is excited to be sailing home to England. But instead of a joyous homecoming, she is greeted on the docks with unfortunate news: Her father has fallen ill, and a hospital visit will have to wait while...
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