Read the World: Ethiopia

Books by authors from Ethiopia or set in/about Ethiopia.

Updated February 4, 2024
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Sweetness in the belly [sound recording]
Gibb, Camilla
Paper Book
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Dakota Fanning Like Brick Lane and The Kite Runner, Camilla Gibb's widely praised new novel is a poignant and intensely atmospheric look beyond the stereotypes of Islam. After her hippie British parents are murdered, Lilly...
All our names [sound recording]
Mengestu, Dinaw, 1978- author.
Paper Book
"All Our Names" is the story of two young men who come of age during an African revolution, drawn from the safe confines of the university campus into the intensifying clamor of the streets outside. But as the line between idealism and violence becomes increasingly blurred, the friends are driven...
Cutting for stone [sound recording]
Verghese, Abraham, 1955-
Paper Book
A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel--an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis...
Escape under the forever sky
Yohalem, Eve.
Paper Book
. . . should appeal to all with a sense of adventure. Publishers Weekly . . . an engrossing journey. Kirkus Reviews Teens itching to read about life on another continent will relish Yohalem s exciting debut novel. Booklist . . . this unusual adventure places a reassuringly typical...

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