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...
A thirst for home a story of water across the world
Ieronimo, Christine
Paper Book
Alemitu lives with her mother in a poor village in Ethiopia, where she must walk miles for water and hunger roars in her belly. Even though life is difficult, she dreams of someday knowing more about the world. When her mother has no choice but to leave her at an orphanage to give her a chance at...
The best beekeeper of Lalibela a tale from Africa
Kessler, Cristina.
Paper Book
Long ago in the mountains of Ethiopia, the bees arrived in Lalibela, and people poured in from all around to procure their sweet honey. A young girl named Almaz vows one day her honey will be the best of all. When she shares her dream with the current beekeepers, they laugh her away and tell her it...
All our names [sound recording]
Mengestu, Dinaw, 1978- author.
Paper Book
From acclaimed author Dinaw Mengestu, a recipient of the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 award, The New Yorker's 20 Under 40 award, and a 2012 MacArthur Foundation genius grant, comes an unforgettable love story about a searing affair between an American woman and an African man...
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...

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