Peace Corps Reading List

One of my personal Peace Corps goals was to read 50 books during my time here. That averages out to a book every two weeks. While it is not a break-neck pace, I am pleased to say I made it, just barely. It is a good thing Animal Farm is like 75 pages.

1.     Bossy Pants by Tina Fey

2.     The Best American Travel Writing edited by Bill Buford

3.     Long Way Down by Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman

4.     The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams

5.     The Devil’s Star by Jo Nesbo

6.     Sun Rise With Sea Monsters by Neil Jordan

7.     Life, the Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams

8.     Stiff by Mary Roach

9.     A Long Way Gone by Ishale Beah

10.  July, July by Tim O’Brien

11.  Sacre Bleu by Christopher Moore

12.  Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

13.  Going After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien

14.  What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murskami

15.  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

16.  Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

17.  The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling

18.  Spice by Jack Turner

19.  Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? By Mindy Kaling

20.  My Life by Bill Clinton

21.  Eat, Love, Pray by Elizabeth Gilbert

22.  Nerd Do Well by Simon Pegg

23.  By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho

24.  The Zahir by Paulo Coelho

25.  Decision Points by George W Bush

26.  Mrs. Kennedy and Me by Clint Hill and Lisa McCubbin

27.  Long Way Around by Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman

28.  The Plague by Albert Camus

29.  Lucy by Donald Johanson and Maitland Edey

30.  3 Miles Per Hour by Polly Letofsky

31.  The Gunslinger by Stephen King

32.  So Long and Thanks for the Fish by Douglas Adams

33.  Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams

34.  The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King

35.  The Wasteland by Stephen King

36.  Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein

37.  Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

38.  Wizard and Glass by Stephen King

39.  Beneath the Lion’s Gaze by Maaza Mengiste

40.  Wind Through the Key Hole by Stephen King

41.  In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson

42.  Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King

43.  The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

44.  Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

45.  Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer

46.  Gandhi: An Autobiography by… Gandhi

47.  Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

48.  Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

49.  Machine Man by Max Barry

50.  Animal Farm by Orson Wells