The following is a very short reading list on Egypt. It does not cover Ancient Egypt because that subject is too vast and requires a separate list to do it justice. Egypt was conquered by the Muslims in 639, and remained a satrap of one Islamic dynasty or the other until World War I but only notionally so after 1805. The reign of the Albanian Muhammad Ali Pasha from 1805 to 1849 is, therefore, considered the birth of modern Egypt.
- Abdalla, Ahmed. The Student Movement and National Politics in Egypt, 1923-1973
- Abdo, Geneive. No God but God: Egypt and the Triumph of Islam
- Amin, Galal. Egypt in the Era of Hosni Mubarak
- Beattie, Kirk. Egypt During the Sadat Years
- Botman, Selma. Egypt from Independence to Revolution, 1919-1952
- Fahmi, Khaled. All the Pashas Men: Mehmed Ali, His Army, and the Making of Modern Egypt
- Fahmy, Ziad. Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture
- Ferris, Jesse. Nasser’s Gamble: How Intervention in Yemen Caused the Six-Day War and the Decline of Egyptian Power
- Finklestone, Joseph. Anwar Sadat: Visionary Who Dared
- Gat, Moshe. In Search of a Peace Settlement: Egypt and Israel between the Wars, 1967-1973
- Gershoni, Israel. Redefining the Egyptian Nation, 1930-1945
- Ginat, Rami. Egypt’s Incomplete Revolution: Lutfi al-Khuli and Nasser’s Socialism in the 1960s
- Gordon, Joel. Nasser’s Blessed Movement: Egypt’s Free Officers and the July Revolution
- Gorst, Anthony. The Suez Crisis
- Heikal, Mohamed. The Cairo Documents: The Inside Story of Nasser and His Relationship with World Leaders, Rebels, and Statesmen
- —. Cutting The Lion’s Tail: Suez Through Egyptian Eyes
- —. Autumn of Fury: The Assassination of Sadat
- James, Laura. Nasser at War: Arab Images of the Enemy
- Kerr, Malcolm. The Arab Cold War: Gamal Abdel Nasser and His Rivals, 1958-1970
- Landes, David. Bankers and Pashas: International Finance and Economic Imperialism in Egypt
- Marsot, Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid. A Short History of Modern Egypt
- Mitchell, Richard. The Society of the Muslim Brothers
- Mitchell, Timothy. Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity
- Musallam, Adnan. From Secularism to Jihad: Sayyid Qutb and the Foundations of Radical Islamism
- Podeh, Elie. The Decline of Arab Unity: The Rise and Fall of the United Arab Republic
- Powell, Eve Trout. A Different Shade of Colonialism: Egypt, Great Britain, and the Mastery of the Sudan
- Raymond, André. Cairo
- Reid, Donald Malcolm. Whose Pharaohs?: Archaeology, Museums, and Egyptian National Identity from Napoleon to World War I
- Sirrs, Owen. Nasser and the Missile Age in the Middle East
- Sonbol, Amira El-Azhary. The New Mamluks: Egyptian Society and Modern Feudalism
- Takeyh, Ray. The Origins of the Eisenhower Doctrine: The US, Britain, and Nasser’s Egypt, 1953-57
- Vatikiotis, Panayiotis. The History of Egypt: From Muhammad Ali to Sadat
- Wickham, Carrie Rosefsky. Mobilising Islam: Religion, Activism, and Political Change in Egypt
