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
Sweetness in the Belly
Notes from the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood
There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children
The Wife's Tale: A Personal History
A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1991
Yes, Chef
Black Dove White Raven
Say You're One of Them
All Our Names
How to Read the Air
The Last Twilight by Marjorie M. LiuWild Seed by Octavia E. ButlerTimeless by Gail CarrigerSerpent's Kiss by Thea HarrisonEternal Kiss of Darkness by Jeaniene Frost
Paranormal Romance Set in Africa
22 books — 11 voters
The Legend of Sheba by Tosca LeeJonas and the Mountain by Janis HarperIsmeni by Tosca LeeMakeda by Prue SobersThe Queen of Sheba by Roberta Kells Dorr
Queen of Sheba - Fiction & Nonfiction
15 books — 20 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherChasing the Devil by Tim ButcherSketches from the Periphery by M.P. SummersMy Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan BraithwaiteBorn a Crime by Trevor Noah
Great Modern African Reads
88 books — 55 voters
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieWhat the Earl Desires by Aliyah BurkeThe Last Twilight by Marjorie M. LiuHer Reluctant Viscount by Aliyah BurkeA Respectable Trade by Philippa Gregory
Africans in Romance
39 books — 11 voters

Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza MengisteMaps by Nuruddin FarahThe Shadow King by Maaza MengisteNotes from the Hyena's Belly by Nega MezlekiaThe Conscript by Gebreyesus Hailu
Reading the Horn of Africa
37 books — 8 voters
የተቆለፈበት ቁልፍ by ምህረት ደበበ
Best Ethiopian Books
1 book — 6 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

The lifetime prevalence of dissociative disorders among women in a general urban Turkish community was 18.3%, with 1.1% having DID (ar, Akyüz, & Doan, 2007). In a study of an Ethiopian rural community, the prevalence of dissociative rural community, the prevalence of dissociative disorders was 6.3%, and these disorders were as prevalent as mood disorders (6.2%), somatoform disorders (5.9%), and anxiety disorders (5.7%) (Awas, Kebede, & Alem, 1999). A similar prevalence of ICD-10 dissociative dis ...more
Paul H Blaney, Oxford Textbook of Psychopathology

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