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
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

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
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


After the rise and decline of Greek civilisation and the Roman destruction of the city of Carthage, they made one area of the conquered territories into a province which they called Africa, a word derived from "afri" and the name of a group of people about whom little is known. At first the word applied only to the Roman colonies of North Africa. There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called "Ethiopians," for the Greeks referred to Africa as "the Land of the Burnt-face People". ...more
John Henrik Clarke

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