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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.28 — 14,242 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 — 1,805 ratings — published 2003
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,524,151 ratings — published 1969
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.12 — 811,471 ratings — published 1998
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,785,155 ratings — published 2001
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,738,562 ratings — published 1988
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 16 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.58 — 5,024,251 ratings — published 1999
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,971,326 ratings — published 2005
Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.94 — 544 ratings — published 1969
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,776,772 ratings — published 1997
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 4.21 — 90,327 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,656,869 ratings — published 1998
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 — 1,994 ratings — published 2009
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.01 — 729,596 ratings — published 2000
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,868,437 ratings — published 2006
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 12 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,334,243 ratings — published 2000
Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years With a Midwife in Mali (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,101 ratings — published 2006
The Village of Waiting (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.92 — 485 ratings — published 1988
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,601,400 ratings — published 2003
A Life Inspired: Tales of Peace Corps Service (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.68 — 217 ratings — published 2005
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.07 — 886,968 ratings — published 2012
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,306,891 ratings — published 1963
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,812,047 ratings — published 2007
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 11 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,222,311 ratings — published 2007
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,146,069 ratings — published 1967
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 10 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,072,168 ratings — published 2011
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.89 — 283,098 ratings — published 2007
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.75 — 425,332 ratings — published 1958
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.04 — 672,169 ratings — published 2002
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,993,882 ratings — published 1813
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 10 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,913,008 ratings — published 2003
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.31 — 425,375 ratings — published 2013
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 9 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,764,736 ratings — published 2005
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,870,949 ratings — published 2012
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,125,128 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 — 910,399 ratings — published 2005
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.45 — 714,103 ratings — published 1952
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.04 — 471,717 ratings — published 1997
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,406,995 ratings — published 1847
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,550,209 ratings — published 1985
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,917 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 — 2,071,796 ratings — published 1979
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.96 — 577,342 ratings — published 2001
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.68 — 7,495,804 ratings — published 2005
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.02 — 288,976 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 — 1,630,942 ratings — published 2003
Naked (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.10 — 275,966 ratings — published 1997
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,002,997 ratings — published 1951
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,371,635 ratings — published 2001
“For the better part of a decade, I figured I was better off being slightly unhealthy and leaving the active pursuit of body-related matters alone. This all changed once I joined the Peace Corps, where it was impossible to think too much about my appearance, and where health was of such immediately importance that it was always on my mind. I developed active tuberculosis while volunteering and, for some stress- or nutrition-related reason, started to shed my thick black hair. I realized how much I had taken my functional body for granted. I lived in a mile-long village in the middle of a western province in Kyrgyzstan: there were larch trees on the snowy mountains, flocks of sheep crossing dusty roads, but there was no running water, no grocery store. The resourceful villagers preserved peppers and tomatoes, stockpiled apples and onions, but it was so difficult to get fresh produce otherwise that I regularly fantasized about spinach and oranges, and would spend entire weekends trying to obtain them. As a prophylactic measure against mental breakdown, I started doing yoga in my room every day. Exercise, I thought. What a miracle!”
― Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
― Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
“The Peace Corps was innocent and inefficient”
― Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
― Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
