Read the World: Ethiopia

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

Updated February 4, 2024
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Among the bone eaters encounters with hyenas in Harar
Baynes-Rock, Marcus, 1965- author.
Paper Book
Biologists studying large carnivores in wild places usually do so from a distance, using telemetry and noninvasive methods of data collection. So what happens when an anthropologist studies a clan of spotted hyenas, Africa's second-largest carnivores, up close--and in a city of a hundred thousand...
Sweetness in the belly [sound recording]
Gibb, Camilla
Paper Book
Lilly, the main character of Camilla Gibb's stunning new novel, has anything but a stable childhood. The daughter of English/Irish hippies, she was "born in Yugoslavia, breast-fed in the Ukraine, weaned in Corsica, freed from nappies in Sicily and walking by the time [they] got to the Algarve..."...
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-
Audiobook
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 Ababa....

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