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Peace Corps Books
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.28 — 14,036 ratings — published 2001
Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,799 ratings — published 2003
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,497,471 ratings — published 1969
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.11 — 799,538 ratings — published 1998
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,632,087 ratings — published 1988
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,764,676 ratings — published 2001
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 15 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,912,306 ratings — published 1999
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,913,540 ratings — published 2005
Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.93 — 535 ratings — published 1969
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.20 — 89,354 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,548,000 ratings — published 1997
First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,991 ratings — published 2009
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.01 — 723,677 ratings — published 2000
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,553,826 ratings — published 1998
Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years With a Midwife in Mali (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,068 ratings — published 2006
The Village of Waiting (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.92 — 481 ratings — published 1988
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,531,844 ratings — published 2003
A Life Inspired: Tales of Peace Corps Service (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.68 — 216 ratings — published 2005
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,252,688 ratings — published 1963
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,762,494 ratings — published 2007
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,852,729 ratings — published 2006
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,119,872 ratings — published 1967
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 11 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,248,262 ratings — published 2000
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 10 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,061,710 ratings — published 2011
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.07 — 874,223 ratings — published 2012
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.89 — 280,314 ratings — published 2007
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.75 — 417,404 ratings — published 1958
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 10 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,151,003 ratings — published 2007
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.04 — 666,612 ratings — published 2002
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,877,084 ratings — published 1813
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.31 — 417,560 ratings — published 2013
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,777,523 ratings — published 2012
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,993,003 ratings — published 1925
When the World Calls: The Inside Story of the Peace Corps and Its First Fifty Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.75 — 166 ratings — published 2011
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.01 — 902,325 ratings — published 2005
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.04 — 462,586 ratings — published 1997
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,353,996 ratings — published 1847
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 9 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,839,823 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,696,114 ratings — published 2005
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,760 ratings — published 2008
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,036,038 ratings — published 1979
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.95 — 568,498 ratings — published 2001
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.68 — 7,381,101 ratings — published 2005
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.44 — 659,032 ratings — published 1952
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.02 — 285,871 ratings — published 2003
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,609,462 ratings — published 2003
Naked (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.10 — 273,899 ratings — published 1997
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,931,702 ratings — published 1951
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,360,078 ratings — published 2001
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,203,036 ratings — published 1996
“My experience in India had a profound impact on me, shaping my entire life in many ways. I begin the book in 1969 in the Peace Corps and close it with a return to my India family in 2003. The novelist Peggy Payne (Sister India) says in a blurb on the back cover, "India sojourns, vividly recounted, are the bookends for the story of one man's profound and inspiring change.”
― The Crane Dance: Taking Flight in Midlife
― The Crane Dance: Taking Flight in Midlife
“Like many Peace Corps volunteers all over the world, I found that the parent visit was a kind of revelation: suddenly I saw how much I had learned and how much I had forgotten.”
― River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
― River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
