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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 — 13,913 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 — 1,800 ratings — published 2003
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,484,131 ratings — published 1969
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.11 — 793,958 ratings — published 1998
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,573,111 ratings — published 1988
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,754,398 ratings — published 2001
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 15 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,845,390 ratings — published 1999
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,881,119 ratings — published 2005
Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.92 — 532 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 — 88,822 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,422,492 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 — 1,990 ratings — published 2009
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.01 — 720,980 ratings — published 2000
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,496,684 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 — 5,038 ratings — published 2006
The Village of Waiting (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.92 — 477 ratings — published 1988
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,495,726 ratings — published 2003
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,223,059 ratings — published 1963
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,736,915 ratings — published 2007
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,844,452 ratings — published 2006
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,105,720 ratings — published 1967
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 11 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,196,316 ratings — published 2000
A Life Inspired: Tales of Peace Corps Service (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.68 — 215 ratings — published 2005
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.07 — 868,043 ratings — published 2012
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.89 — 278,738 ratings — published 2007
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.75 — 412,815 ratings — published 1958
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 10 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,111,898 ratings — published 2007
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.04 — 663,699 ratings — published 2002
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,807,471 ratings — published 1813
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 9 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,056,384 ratings — published 2011
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.31 — 412,875 ratings — published 2013
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,727,776 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 — 164 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 — 897,841 ratings — published 2005
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.04 — 457,932 ratings — published 1997
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,325,179 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 — 3,797,301 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,659,143 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 — 55,659 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 — 2,017,040 ratings — published 1979
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,921,526 ratings — published 1925
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.95 — 563,725 ratings — published 2001
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.67 — 7,317,960 ratings — published 2005
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.44 — 639,481 ratings — published 1952
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.02 — 284,052 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 — 1,598,179 ratings — published 2003
Naked (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.10 — 273,200 ratings — published 1997
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,896,260 ratings — published 1951
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,353,249 ratings — published 2001
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as peace-corps)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,193,238 ratings — published 1996
“The Peace Corps was innocent and inefficient, and we weren't under any pressure to join.”
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“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
