NON-FICTION
Miles Bredin: The Pale Abyssinian
James Bruce: Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile
Angela Fisher: African Ark
Belay Giday: Ethiopian Civilisation
Graham Hancock: The Sign and the Seal
Ryszard Kapuscinski: The Emperor, Downfall of an Autocrat
Harold G Marcus: A History of Ethiopia (Updated Version)
Philip Marsden: The Barefoot Emperor
Philip Marsden: The Chains of Heaven
Alan Moorehead: The Blue Nile
Virginia Morell: Blue Nile: Ethiopia’s River of Magic and Mystery
Stuart Munro-Hay: Ethiopia, the Unknown Land: A Cultural and Historical Guide
Stuart Munro-Hay: Axum: An African Civilisation of Late Antiquity
Dervla Murphy: In Ethiopia with a Mule
Thomas Pakenham: The Scramble for Africa
Richard Pankhurst: The Ethiopians. A History.
Sven Rubenson: The Survival of Ethiopian Independence
Kevin Rushby: Eating the Flowers of Paradise: One Man’s Journey through Ethiopia and Yemen
Tahir Shah: In Search of King Solomon’s Mines
Edward Ullendorf: The Ethiopians
Evelyn Waugh: When the Going was Good
Evelyn Waugh: Waugh in Abyssinia
Bahru Zewde: A History of Modern Ethiopia
FICTION
Philip Caputo: Horn of Africa
Camilla Gibb: Sweetness in the Belly
Nega Mezlekia: Notes from the Hyena’s Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood
Dinaw Mengestu: The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears
Maaza Mengiste: Beneath the Lion’s Gaze
Abraham Verghese: Cutting for Stone
FIELD GUIDES
Terry Stevenson, John Fanshawe: Birds of East Africa (Helm Fieldguides)