What I Read in Ethiopia

I read over 100 books during my service, here is a selection of my favorites.

Non-Fiction

 The Wife’s Tale* by Aida Edemariam
War on Peace by Ronan Farrow
Held at a Distance* by Rebecca Haile
The Bend Home by Dermot Healy
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Notes from the Hyena’s Belly* by Nega Mezlekia
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Dear Zealots by Amos Oz
Education of An Idealist by Samantha Power
The World as It Is by Ben Rhodes
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train through Asia by Paul Theroux
Educated by Tara Westover

Fiction

 Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Milkman by Anna Burns
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle
Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
Sweetness in the Belly* by Camilla Gibb
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer
Fates and Furries by Lauren Groff
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar
99 Nights in Logar by Jamil Jan Kochai
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
All Our Names* by Dinaw Mengestu
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
Inland by Téa Obreht
There There by Tommy Orange
Judas by Amos Oz
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Shantaram by Gregory Roberts
Artful by Ali Smith
How to be Both by Ali Smith
Spring by Ali Smith
Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Women Talking by Miriam Toews
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Christmas Days by Jeanette Winterson
Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

*Denotes book by an Ethiopian writer and/or about Ethiopia.