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Best Peace Corps Books
1.
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
by:
Peter Hessler
4.28 avg rating — 13,673 ratings
2.
Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years With a Midwife in Mali
by:
Kris Holloway
4.17 avg rating — 4,984 ratings
3.
The Color of the Elephant
by:
Christine Herbert
4.47 avg rating — 73 ratings
4.
Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village
by:
Sarah Erdman
3.87 avg rating — 1,788 ratings
5.
The Village of Waiting
by:
George Packer
3.92 avg rating — 468 ratings
6.
The Ponds of Kalambayi: An African Sojourn
by:
Mike Tidwell
4.02 avg rating — 450 ratings
7.
Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle
by:
Moritz Thomsen
3.92 avg rating — 527 ratings
8.
Dear Exile : The True Story of Two Friends Separated (for a Year) by an Ocean
by:
Hilary Liftin
3.67 avg rating — 902 ratings
9.
Between Inca Walls, A Peace Corps Memoir
by:
Evelyn Kohl LaTorre
3.97 avg rating — 349 ratings
10.
Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China's Other Billion
by:
Michael Levy
3.85 avg rating — 1,248 ratings
11.
Mango Elephants in the Sun: How Life in an African Village Let Me Be in My Skin
by:
Susana Herrera
3.57 avg rating — 308 ratings
12.
American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps
by:
Philip Weiss
3.60 avg rating — 570 ratings
13.
In the Shadow of the Volcano: One Ex-Intelligence Official's Journey through Slums, Prisons, and Leper Colonies to the Heart of Latin America
by:
Maureen Klovers
3.65 avg rating — 51 ratings
14.
Unofficial Peace Corps Volunteer Handbook
by:
Travis Hellstrom
3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings
15.
When the World Calls: The Inside Story of the Peace Corps and Its First Fifty Years
by:
Stanley Meisler
3.75 avg rating — 163 ratings
16.
Power Lines : Two Years on South Africa's Borders
by:
Jason Carter
3.47 avg rating — 130 ratings
17.
Africa Lite? Boomers in Botswana
by:
Christopher M. Doran
3.08 avg rating — 12 ratings
18.
The Rainbow Bridge: Bridge to Inner Peace and to World Peace
by:
Brent N. Hunter
4.21 avg rating — 66 ratings
19.
The Mountain School
by:
Greg Alder
3.95 avg rating — 65 ratings
20.
The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa
by:
Josh Swiller
3.91 avg rating — 823 ratings
21.
Americans Do Their Business Abroad: The Peace Corps Latrine Reader
by:
Jake Fawson
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
22.
Taxi to Tashkent: Two Years with the Peace Corps in Uzbekistan
by:
Tom Fleming
3.71 avg rating — 35 ratings
23.
So, You Want to Join the Peace Corps: What to Know Before You Go
by:
Dillon Banerjee
3.46 avg rating — 137 ratings
24.
First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life
by:
Eve Brown-Waite
3.75 avg rating — 1,990 ratings
25.
To Touch the World: The Peace Corps Experience
by:
Abigail Calkins
3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
26.
Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China
by:
Tom Carter
3.59 avg rating — 197 ratings
27.
Daily Life in Turkmenbashy's Golden Age: A Methodologically Unsound Study of Interactions Between the Tribal Peoples of America and Turkmenistan
by:
Sam Tranum
3.93 avg rating — 88 ratings
28.
A Life Inspired: Tales of Peace Corps Service
by:
peace-corps
3.67 avg rating — 214 ratings
29.
Only Bees Die: Peace Corps Eastern Europe
by:
Robert Keller MBA
3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings
30.
Bridges: An Extraordinary Journey of the Heart
by:
W.S. Williamson
3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings
31.
The Barrios of Manta
by:
Rhoda Brooks
4.39 avg rating — 33 ratings
31.
From the Center of the Earth: Stories Out of the Peace Corps
by:
Geraldine Kennedy
3.50 avg rating — 40 ratings
33.
Festival for Three Thousand Maidens
by:
Richard Wiley
3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings
34.
A Land Without Time: A Peace Corps Volunteer in Afghanistan
by:
John Sumser
4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings
35.
At Home in the World: The Peace Corps Story
by:
Penny Getchell
3.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
36.
Sleeping with Strangers: A Vagabond's Journey Tramping the Globe
by:
Jeremiah Allen
2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
36.
The Soft Exile
by:
Eric Kiefer
4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
36.
The Springs of Namje: A Ten-Year Journey from the Villages of Nepal to the Halls of Congress
by:
Rajeev Goyal
4.06 avg rating — 34 ratings
36.
The Old Man in the Bag: and other true stories of good intentions
by:
Ted Wells
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
36.
A Small Key Opens Big Doors: 50 Years of Amazing Peace Corps Stories: Volume Three: The Heart of Eurasia (Peace Corps at 50)
by:
Jay Chen
4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
36.
Heart of Palms: My Peace Corps Years in Tranquilla
by:
Meredith W. Cornett
4.37 avg rating — 19 ratings
36.
Betty Zee in PC: Sights and Sounds from a Peace Corps Volunteer in Peru
by:
Betty Zambrano
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
36.
Harmattan: A Journey Across the Sahara
by:
Geraldine Kennedy
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings
36.
Paper Mountains: An Armenian Diary
by:
Jonathan Maiullo
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
36.
The Vodka Diaries: A Peace Corps Volunteer's Adventures in Russia
by:
Richard Sayette
4.42 avg rating — 26 ratings
36.
Scorched Earth: Peacekeeping in Timor during a campaign of death and destruction
by:
Tammy Pemper
4.29 avg rating — 21 ratings
36.
Call Back Our Yesterdays
by:
Phyllis Houseman
4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings
36.
TEMPORARY NATIVES
by:
Cindy Goff
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
49.
Making Peace with the World: Photographs of Peace Corps Volunteers
by:
Richard Sitler
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
49.
A Breeze in Bulgaria
by:
Bruce McDonald
4.20 avg rating — 25 ratings
49.
Bloodlines: A Tale from the Heart of Africa
by:
Cindy Goff
3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
49.
Away From Home: Letters to My Family
by:
Lillian Carter
3.90 avg rating — 49 ratings
53.
Joe and Azat
by:
Jesse Lonergan
3.51 avg rating — 85 ratings
53.
I Miss the Rain in Africa: Peace Corps as a Third Act
by:
Nancy Daniel Wesson
3.62 avg rating — 29 ratings
55.
Little Women of Baghlan: The Story of a Nursing School for Girls in Afghanistan, the Peace Corps, and Life Before the Taliban
by:
Susan Fox
4.18 avg rating — 56 ratings
56.
Bread Salt & Plum Brandy
by:
Lisa Fisher Cazacu
3.38 avg rating — 21 ratings
56.
From Microsoft to Malawi: Learning on the Front Lines as a Peace Corps Volunteer
by:
Michael L. Buckler
3.72 avg rating — 36 ratings
58.
Triumph & Hope: Golden Years With The Peace Corps in Honduras
by:
Barbara E. Joe
3.90 avg rating — 21 ratings
59.
The Insider's Guide to the Peace Corps: What to Know Before You Go
by:
Dillion Banerjee
3.87 avg rating — 150 ratings
60.
The Edge of Paradise: America in Micronesia
by:
P.F. Kluge
3.80 avg rating — 51 ratings
61.
Under the Neem Tree
by:
Susan Lowerre
3.58 avg rating — 40 ratings
62.
The Last Camel: True Stories of Somalia
by:
Jeanne D'Haem
3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
63.
Keeper of the Moon
by:
Tim McLaurin
4.18 avg rating — 127 ratings
64.
Going Up Country: Travel Essays by Peace Corps Writers
by:
John Coyne
3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
65.
The Great Adventure
by:
Peace Corps
3.83 avg rating — 60 ratings
66.
To Africa with Spatula: A Peace Corps Mom in Malawi, 1965–1967
by:
Jane Baker Lotter
3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings
67.
Living on the Edge: Fiction by Peace Corps Writers
by:
John Coyne
3.56 avg rating — 32 ratings
68.
The Princess and the Peace Corps
by:
Lorena Anne Hulskamp
2.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
69.
A Peace Corps Profile
by:
Kirk A. Hackenberg
2.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
70.
Letters from Fiji
by:
Keith Kelly
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
71.
South of the Frontera: A Peace Corps Memoir
by:
Lawrence F. Lihosit
3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings