Suggested reading on Ethiopia. Feel free to send me your additions and I'll add them to the list.
In chronological order:
The Ethiopia Books of Travels (1904, translated in 2021) Pasha
Indo-Ethiopian Relations for Centuries (1961) Muthanna
The Blue Nile (1962) Moorehead
Wichale XVII: The Attempt to Establish a Protectorate Over Ethiopia (1964) Rubenson
Wax & Gold (1965) Levine
Land Tenure in Chore (Shoa) (1965) Mann
State and Land in Ethiopian History (1966) Pankhurst
Land Tenure in Eritrea (1966) Zekarias
Tewodros of Ethiopia (1967) Rubenson
History of the Ethiopian Army (1967) Pankhurst
The Italo-Ethiopian War (1975) Ministry of Information
Somalia - The Problem Child of Africa? (1977) Wolde Mariam
A Social History of Land Reform in Ethiopia (1983) Pausewang
Victorious Struggle Against Fascism (1985) Ministry of Information
The History of Famines and Epidemics in Ethiopia Prior to the Twentieth Century (1985) Pankhurst
Agrarian Reform in Ethiopia (1895) Rahmato
The Challenges of Drought (1985) RRC
From Poverty to Famine (1987) McCann
Surrender or Starve (1988) Kaplan
Ethiopia Engraved, 1681-1900 (1988) Pankhurst and Ingrams
People of the Plow (1990) McCann
A Social History of Ethiopia (1990) R. Pankhurst
Options for Rural Development (1990) Pausewang, Cheru, Brune and Chole
Evil Days (1991) de Waal
A History of Modern Ethiopia (1991) Bahru Zewde
Peasant Households and their Resource Base (1993) Aspen
Imagining Ethiopia (1993) Sorenson
From Bullets to the Ballot Box (1994) Kinfe Abraham
Ethiopia Photographed, 1867-1935 (1996) Pankhurst and Gerard
The Ethiopian Borderlands (1997) R. Pankhurst
The Ethiopians (2001) R. Pankhurst
The Challenge of Democracy from Below (2002) Bahru and Pausewang
Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia (2002) Bahru Zewde
Sweetness in the Belly (2005) Gibb (fiction)
Zara Yacob: Rationality of the Human Heart (2005) Kiros
Development Interventions in Wollaita (2007) Rahmato
The Peasant and the State (2008) Rahmato
Famine and Foreigners (2010) Gill
Education, Politics and Social Change in Ethiopia (2010) Milkias and Kebede
Philosophical Essays (2011) Teodros Kiros
Ethiopian Discourse (2011) Teodros Kiros
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
The Historical Ecology of Malaria in Ethiopia (2014) McCann
Emperor Haile Selassie (2014) Bereket
Reflections on Development in Ethiopia (2014) Rahmato and Ayenew
The Quest for Socialist Utopia (2014) Bahru
The Last Post-Cold War Socialist Federation (2014) Abebe
Ethiopian Labour Migration to the Gulf and South Africa (2015) Asnake Kefale and Zerihun Mohammed
A Decade of Ethiopia (2017) Abbink
The Khat Conundrum in Ethiopia (2017) Yeraswork
Native Colonialism (2017) Yirga
Agricultural Transformation in Ethiopia (2018) Atakilte
Foreign Direct Investment in Large-Scale Agriculture in Africa (2019) Persson
Land Tenure Security (2019) Ege
Oxford Handbook on the Ethiopian Economy (2019) Fantu, Cramer, Arkebe
Ethiopia in the Wake of Political Reform (2020) Desta, Dori, Mihrertu
Land to the Tiller (2020) Oosthuizen
Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia (2020) Ostebo
Love and Liberation (2021) Carruth
Ethiopia & Food Security (2021) Cochrane