Suggested reading on Ethiopia. Feel free to send me your additions and I'll add them to the list.
In chronological order:
The Blue Nile (1962) Moorehead
State and Land in Ethiopian History (1966) Pankhurst
Surrender or Starve (1988) Kaplan
People of the Plow (1990) McCann
A Social History of Ethiopia (1990) R. Pankhurst
Evil Days (1991) de Waal
Peasant Households and their Resource Base (1993) Aspen
Imagining Ethiopia (1993) Sorenson
From Bullets to the Ballot Box (1994) Kinfe Abraham
The Ethiopian Borderlands (1997) R. Pankhurst
The Ethiopians (2001) R. Pankhurst
The Challenge of Democracy from Below (2002) Bahru & Pausewang
Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia (2002) Bahru Zewde
Sweetness in the Belly (2005) Gibb (fiction)
Development Interventions in Wollaita (2007) Rahmato
The Peasant and the State (2008) Rahmato
Famine and Foreigners (2010) Gill
Enlightened Aid – U.S. Development as Foreign Policy in Ethiopia (2012) McVety
Social Hierarchy of Dawuro (2012) Dubale
Food Security, Safety Nets and Social Protection in Ethiopia (2013) Rahmato and A. Pankhurst
Reflections on Development in Ethiopia (2014) Rahmato and Ayenew
The Quest for Socialist Utopia (2014) Bahru
Ethiopian Labour Migration to the Gulf and South Africa (2015) Asnake Kefale and Zerihun Mohammed
A Decade of Ethiopia (2017) Abbink
