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Best Peace Corps Books
(36 Books)
1
Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village
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Sarah Erdman
3.88 avg rating — 1,799 ratings
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Mango Elephants in the Sun: How Life in an African Village Let Me Be in My Skin
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Susana Herrera
3.57 avg rating — 310 ratings
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The Ponds of Kalambayi: An African Sojourn
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Mike Tidwell
4.01 avg rating — 450 ratings
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Dear Exile : The True Story of Two Friends Separated (for a Year) by an Ocean
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Hilary Liftin
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3.67 avg rating — 908 ratings
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
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Peter Hessler
4.28 avg rating — 13,872 ratings
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The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa
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Josh Swiller
3.91 avg rating — 829 ratings
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Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years With a Midwife in Mali
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Kris Holloway
4.18 avg rating — 5,033 ratings
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Bread Salt & Plum Brandy
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Lisa Fisher Cazacu
3.38 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Triumph & Hope: Golden Years With The Peace Corps in Honduras
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Barbara E. Joe
3.95 avg rating — 22 ratings
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A Life Inspired: Tales of Peace Corps Service
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3.68 avg rating — 215 ratings
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Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle
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Moritz Thomsen
3.92 avg rating — 532 ratings
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The Village of Waiting
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George Packer
3.92 avg rating — 474 ratings
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The Insider's Guide to the Peace Corps: What to Know Before You Go
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Dillion Banerjee
3.87 avg rating — 149 ratings
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The Barrios of Manta
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Rhoda Brooks
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4.39 avg rating — 33 ratings
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American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps
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Philip Weiss
3.61 avg rating — 579 ratings
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Festival for Three Thousand Maidens
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Richard Wiley
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3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings
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From the Center of the Earth: Stories Out of the Peace Corps
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Geraldine Kennedy
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3.51 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Edge of Paradise: America in Micronesia
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P.F. Kluge
3.80 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Under the Neem Tree
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Susan Lowerre
3.58 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Last Camel: True Stories of Somalia
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Jeanne D'Haem
3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Keeper of the Moon
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Tim McLaurin
4.19 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Americans Do Their Business Abroad: The Peace Corps Latrine Reader
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Jake Fawson
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Going Up Country: Travel Essays by Peace Corps Writers
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John Coyne
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3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
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So, You Want to Join the Peace Corps: What to Know Before You Go
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Dillon Banerjee
3.46 avg rating — 137 ratings
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The Great Adventure
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3.83 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Taxi to Tashkent: Two Years with the Peace Corps in Uzbekistan
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Tom Fleming
3.72 avg rating — 36 ratings
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To Africa with Spatula: A Peace Corps Mom in Malawi, 1965–1967
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Jane Baker Lotter
3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings
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A Land Without Time: A Peace Corps Volunteer in Afghanistan
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John Sumser
4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Living on the Edge: Fiction by Peace Corps Writers
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John Coyne
3.56 avg rating — 32 ratings
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The Princess and the Peace Corps
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Lorena Anne Hulskamp
2.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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At Home in the World: The Peace Corps Story
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Penny Getchell
3.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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To Touch the World: The Peace Corps Experience
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Abigail Calkins
3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life
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Eve Brown-Waite
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3.74 avg rating — 1,989 ratings
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A Peace Corps Profile
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Kirk A. Hackenberg
2.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Letters from Fiji
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Keith Kelly
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3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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South of the Frontera: A Peace Corps Memoir
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Lawrence F. Lihosit
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3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings
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