Books are an integral part of my service. I love the mornings, my time to sit on the porch with a cup of coffee and read while simultaneously watching neighborhood kids play baseball in the streets, the chicken lady slaughter her daily dose of pollo and feel the sea breeze. I wasn't much of a read-for-fun kind of girl before Peace Corps, but this is the best quality reading time I'll ever have in my life so why not pick up a hobby! Beats time spent lamenting slow internet.
1) Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
2) Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Life and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed***
3) Wild from Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed***
4) Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg***
5) My Beloved World by Sonia Sotamayor***
6) Divergent by Veronica Roth***
7) Allegiant by Veronica Roth
8) Insurgent by Veronica Roth
9) The Happiness Show by Catherine Deveny***
10) You Can't Pick Up Raindrops by John Charles Miller
11) An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
12) The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
13) The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjallian***
14) Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa
15) The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
16) Drown by Junot Diaz
17) This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz***
18) Call Me By My Name by Andre Aciman
19) The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman
20) Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple***
21) A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
22) In Darkness by Nick Lake***
23) Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
24) Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
25) Paper Towns by John Green
26) Ava of the Gaia by G.E. Nosek***
27) Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead
28) Enders Game by Orson Scott Card
29) How To Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
30) Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn***
31) The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
32) The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
33) She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb***
34) The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
35) Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
36) The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert***
37) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
38) Ava Rising (Ava of the Gaia Book 2) by G.E. Nosek
39) All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer***
40) Fifty Shades of Gray by E.L. James
41) The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
42) Dark Places by Gillian Flynn***
43) Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand***
39) All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer***
40) Fifty Shades of Gray by E.L. James
41) The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
42) Dark Places by Gillian Flynn***
43) Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand***
44) Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
45) Travesty in Haiti: A true account of Christian missions, orphanages, fraud, food aid, and drug trafficking by Timothy Schwartz
46) Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie***
47) We Should All Be Feminists (An Adapted Ted Talk) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
48) All That Glitters by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
49) Better Off Without Him by Dee Ernst
50) Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham***
51) Boston Girl by Anita Diamant***
52) One Second After by William Forstchen
53) And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini***
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54) Serena by Ron Rash
55) Room by Emma Donahue***
56) Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
57) The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
58) Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami***
59) The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (aka JK Rowling)
60) Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff***
61) Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick***
62) Euphoria by Lily King***
63) Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
64) Redeployment by Phil Kaye
65) This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral-Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking!-in America's Gilded Capital by Mark Leibovich
66) Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates***
67) Father of the Rain by Lily King***
68) The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende***
69) A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra***
70) Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie***
71) No One Ever Has Sex on a Tuesday by Tracy Bloom
72) The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
73) Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
74) The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama***
75) Break in Case of Emergency by Jessica Winter
45) Travesty in Haiti: A true account of Christian missions, orphanages, fraud, food aid, and drug trafficking by Timothy Schwartz
46) Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie***
47) We Should All Be Feminists (An Adapted Ted Talk) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
48) All That Glitters by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
49) Better Off Without Him by Dee Ernst
50) Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham***
51) Boston Girl by Anita Diamant***
52) One Second After by William Forstchen
53) And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini***
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54) Serena by Ron Rash
55) Room by Emma Donahue***
56) Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
57) The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
58) Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami***
59) The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (aka JK Rowling)
60) Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff***
61) Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick***
62) Euphoria by Lily King***
63) Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
64) Redeployment by Phil Kaye
65) This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral-Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking!-in America's Gilded Capital by Mark Leibovich
66) Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates***
67) Father of the Rain by Lily King***
68) The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende***
69) A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra***
70) Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie***
71) No One Ever Has Sex on a Tuesday by Tracy Bloom
72) The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
73) Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
74) The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama***
75) Break in Case of Emergency by Jessica Winter
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