Ethiopia

Books in this genre are set in or about Ethiopia.

Cutting for Stone
The Shadow King
Beneath the Lion's Gaze
The Emperor: Downfall of An Autocrat
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Notes from the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood
Sweetness in the Belly
There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children
The Wife's Tale: A Personal History
Yes, Chef
A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1991
Say You're One of Them
Black Dove White Raven
All Our Names
How to Read the Air
A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia SamatarThe Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose UtomiSon of the Storm by Suyi Davies OkungbowaEverfair by Nisi ShawlBlood Scion by Deborah Falaye
Africa-Influenced Epic Fantasy
40 books — 10 voters

Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El SaadawiAya by Marguerite AbouetNervous Conditions by Tsitsi DangarembgaSeason of Migration to the North by Tayeb SalihThe Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
Tour d'Afrique
71 books — 21 voters
Cutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseBeneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza MengisteThe Emperor by Ryszard KapuścińskiThe Hospital by the River by Catherine HamlinThe Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
Books Set in Ethiopia
128 books — 85 voters

ልጅነት by ዘነበ ወላሐተታ ዘርዐ ያዕቆብ ወሐተታ ወልደ ሕይወት by ዘርዐ ያዕቆብመንግሥትና የሕዝብ አስተዳደር by ገብረሕይወት ባይከዳኝተረት ተረት የመሰረት by ሀዲስ ዓለማየሁኗሪ አልባ ጎጆዎች by Bewketu Seyoum
Endalk Ena Mahder Book List
34 books — 8 voters
Cutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseSketches from the Periphery by M.P. SummersKintu by Jennifer Nansubuga MakumbiWhere Tomorrow Leads by DiAnn MillsSeason of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
East Africa
253 books — 104 voters


Doris Lessing
Over the plains of Ethiopia the sun rose as I had not seen it in seven years. A big, cool, empty sky flushed a little above a rim of dark mountains. The landscape 20,000 feet below gathered itself from the dark and showed a pale gleam of grass, a sheen of water. The red deepened and pulsed, radiating streaks of fire. There hung the sun, like a luminous spider's egg, or a white pearl, just below the rim of the mountains. Suddenly it swelled, turned red, roared over the horizon and drove up the sk ...more
Doris Lessing, Going Home

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