Some suggested readings I found interesting and helped pass the time during my first year of service

Bringing my Amazon Fire and hooking up the Libby app so I could rent digital library books was by far the best thing that kept me sane during all the downtime. Highly recommend bringing an e-reader of some kind.

Peace Corps Reading List 2023/2024 

No particular order

• The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli
• The Writing Retreat by  Julia Bartz
• The Survivalists by Kashna Cauley
• The Highland Lodge Getaway by Julie Shackman
• The Twelfth Night by Shakespeare
• The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
• Maid of the King’s Court by Lucy Worsley
• Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits by Laila Lalami
• Main Character Energy by Jamie Varon
• In My Mosque by M.O. Yuksel
• Ramadan and Edi al -Fitr by Sara Kahn
• One Second After by William R. Forstchen
• The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods
• The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman
• Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine
• From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by e.l Konigburg
• The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
• What Kind of Woman by Kate Baer
• The Sun Down Hotel by Simone St. James
• The Hunter’s Daughter by Nicola Solvinic
• The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
• You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron
• Turn of the Screw by Henry James
• The Nightmare Man by J.H Market
• Good Girls Die First by Kathryn Foxfield
• Penned In by Lynn Cahoon
• Think like a Monk by Jay Shetty
• My Reading life by Pat Conroy
• American Ramble by Neil King Jr.-
• My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
• The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Powers
• The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston
• Frontlines of Peace by Severine Autesserre
• Educated by Tara Westover
• The Body is not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
• Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum
• King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild
• No Ordinary Assignment by Jane Ferguson
• King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild
• Women Don’t Owe You Pretty by Florence Given
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu
• Dare to Lead by Brene Brown
• Financial Feminist by Tori Dunlap
• Ashley’s War by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
• The Wonders We Seek by Saadia Faruqi
• I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali
• The Modern Homestead Garden by Gary Pilarchik
• We Are Displaced by Malala Yousafzai
• Talk like Ted by Carmine Gallo
• Children of Jihad by Jared Cohen
• The Nation of Plants by Stefano Mancuso
• Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver by Jill Heinerth
• Playing Dead by Elizabeth Greenwood
• Code Name Blue Wren by Jim Popkin
• Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds by Paul Farmer
• Empress of the Nile by Lynne Olson
• Wait, What? By James E. Ryan
• The Good Enough Job by Simone Stolzoff
• Enough by Cassidy Hutchinson
• The Third Wave by Alison Thompson
• Keep Sharp by Sanjay Gupta
• In True Face by Jonna Mendez
• Two O’Clock on a Tuesday at Trevi Fountain by Helene Sula
• Drug Warrior by Jack Riley
• Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates