Peace Corps Volunteers, while doing good work in developing
countries, also have lots of free time. Most of us fill this time with
reading, learning new skills and the occasional TV show marathon. I hope to read as many books as I can. I love to
read just about anything, so I've really enjoyed my reading time so far.
Here is what I've read, in order, since April 2012. The titles with stars are the ones I highly recommend.
The Reluctant Mr. Darwin by David Quammen*
Things to Make and Mend by Ruth Thomas
Replenishing the Earth by Wangari Maathai*
My Life in France by Julia Child
Saturdays are for Funerals by Unity Dow and Max Essex
Unofficial Peace Corps Volunteer Handbook
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Patton
Middlesex by Jeffry Eugenides*
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami*
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Martinez
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Contact by Carl Sagan*
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Sula by Toni Morrison*
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen*
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot*
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof & Sherryl WuDunn*
Cosmos by Carl Sagan*
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie*
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov*
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami*
The Burden of Skepticism by Carl Sagan
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
A Daughter of the Land by Gene Stratton Porter*
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code by Margalit Fox
Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life by J.M. Coetzee
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Mama PhD: Women Write About Motherhood and Academic Life
Paula by Isabel Allende*
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall*
It should be also noted that I have been reading the Hebrew Bible and The Holy Koran throughout my service.
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