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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.28 — 14,168 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 — 1,514,455 ratings — published 1969
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.11 — 806,839 ratings — published 1998
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,777,825 ratings — published 2001
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,698,530 ratings — published 1988
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 15 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,984,049 ratings — published 1999
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,950,989 ratings — published 2005
Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.94 — 540 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 4.21 — 90,031 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,692,449 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 3.74 — 1,995 ratings — published 2009
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.01 — 727,429 ratings — published 2000
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,622,443 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 — 5,087 ratings — published 2006
The Village of Waiting (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.92 — 482 ratings — published 1988
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,575,437 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 — 1,286,156 ratings — published 1963
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,792,623 ratings — published 2007
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,863,077 ratings — published 2006
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,135,900 ratings — published 1967
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 11 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,303,752 ratings — published 2000
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 10 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,068,556 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 — 882,651 ratings — published 2012
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.89 — 282,153 ratings — published 2007
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.75 — 422,559 ratings — published 1958
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 10 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,197,223 ratings — published 2007
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.04 — 670,439 ratings — published 2002
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,951,802 ratings — published 1813
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.31 — 422,456 ratings — published 2013
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,837,007 ratings — published 2012
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,077,463 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 — 907,530 ratings — published 2005
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.04 — 468,474 ratings — published 1997
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,388,346 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 — 3,887,544 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,740,905 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 — 55,852 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 — 2,059,057 ratings — published 1979
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.96 — 574,223 ratings — published 2001
Twilight (Twilight Saga, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.68 — 7,454,728 ratings — published 2005
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.45 — 690,858 ratings — published 1952
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.02 — 287,844 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 — 1,623,591 ratings — published 2003
Naked (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.10 — 275,046 ratings — published 1997
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,977,141 ratings — published 1951
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,367,758 ratings — published 2001
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,215,115 ratings — published 1996
“Well, it had been a good many years since I had thought myself very lovable, and I escaped to some degree this trap of shattered ego. I was lucky; I had found a village of people so poor and simple, so engaging, that I had been more interested in my feelings for them than in what they thought of me. And frankly, after eighteen years of farming in the Sacramento Valley, that terrible life-consuming rat race, I was desperate enough to accept almost any human relationship on almost any terms. Love is love, I decided. Just take it and don't analyze it away. "You're my friend; you're good; you give me pennies," some nameless kid from down the beach told me. My God, what is love in this whorehouse world of poverty? And was I shocked because I could buy love or because I could buy it with pennies?”
― Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle
― Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle
“The Peace Corps was innocent and inefficient”
― Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
― Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
