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Peace Corps Books
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.28 — 14,092 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 — 1,802 ratings — published 2003
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,505,731 ratings — published 1969
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.11 — 802,932 ratings — published 1998
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,664,095 ratings — published 1988
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,771,043 ratings — published 2001
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 15 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,946,900 ratings — published 1999
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,931,632 ratings — published 2005
Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.93 — 538 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 — 89,716 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,615,748 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 — 1,993 ratings — published 2009
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.01 — 725,408 ratings — published 2000
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,582,945 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 — 5,073 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 — 3,552,465 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
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,268,684 ratings — published 1963
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,776,699 ratings — published 2007
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,857,839 ratings — published 2006
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,127,690 ratings — published 1967
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 11 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,275,490 ratings — published 2000
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 10 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,064,994 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 — 878,150 ratings — published 2012
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.89 — 281,256 ratings — published 2007
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.75 — 419,927 ratings — published 1958
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 10 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,172,895 ratings — published 2007
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.04 — 668,481 ratings — published 2002
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,912,849 ratings — published 1813
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.31 — 420,012 ratings — published 2013
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,805,031 ratings — published 2012
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 — 904,873 ratings — published 2005
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.04 — 465,577 ratings — published 1997
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,371,005 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 — 3,863,773 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,718,587 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 — 55,819 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 — 2,047,122 ratings — published 1979
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,032,664 ratings — published 1925
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.95 — 571,297 ratings — published 2001
Twilight (Twilight Saga, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.68 — 7,415,341 ratings — published 2005
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.45 — 672,364 ratings — published 1952
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.02 — 286,813 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 — 1,616,360 ratings — published 2003
Naked (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.10 — 274,389 ratings — published 1997
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,954,663 ratings — published 1951
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,363,792 ratings — published 2001
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,208,781 ratings — published 1996
“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
“After Peace Corps, I kept at it. I was back in Houston, I had a lot of spare time, and I spent it at midday yoga classes at expensive studios to which I would buy discounted first-time packages and never return. This period, around 2011, reintroduced me to the world of American abundance. The first time I went into a grocery store and saw how many different fruits there were, I cried. At these yoga classes, I marveled at the fanatic high functionality of the women around me...I was not, at the time, on their level: I had been taking giardia shits in a backyard outhouse for a year straight, and I was flooded with dread and spiritual uselessness, the sense that I had failed myself and others, the fear that I would never again be use to another human being.”
― Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
― Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
