Book List

Due to having a bit more free time to fill with hobbies, it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise that I’ve been reading (a lot). Here’s a list of books that I’ve read while I have been in country (some I read because they were Kindle freebies, others have been hard copies passed to countless volunteers in country, and those I have exceptionally loved and highly recommend have been bolded).
1.     Culture Smart! Dominican Republic – Ginnie Bedgood and Ilana Benady
2.     When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi
3.     Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
4.     Three Silver Doves – Deborah Garner
5.     A Path Appears – Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
6.     Trees Tall as Mountains – Rachel Devenish
7.     The Last Days of Café Leila – Donia Bijan
8.     The Girl Who Smiled Beads – Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil
9.     What God Desires: The Story of the Center for Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Relief –  Wendell Mettey
10.  War Girl Lotte – Marion Kummerow
11.  Saint Mother Theresa of Calcutta – Michael Ruszala
12.  Lion – Saroo Brierley
13.  The DeLuca Furlough Brides – Alan Simon
14.  The 5 Love Languages – Gary Chapman
15.  A Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne
16.  Girl with a Pearl Earring – Tracy Chevalier
17.  Mask of Duplicity – Julia Brannan
18.  The Mask Revealed– Julia Brannan
19.  Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
20.  Away From Home: Letters to My Family – Lillian Carter
21.  The Bonesetter’s Daughter – Amy Tan
22.  The Garment Maker’s Daughter – Hillary Adrienne Stern
23.  A River in Darkness: One Man’s Escape from North Korea– Masaji Ishikawa
24.  Waking Lions – Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
25.  Juego de asombro – César Sánchez Beras
26.  Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence– Alessandra Viola and Stefano Mancuso
27.  The Rowan Tree – Robert W. Fuller
28.  The Intelligencer –Leslie Silbert
29.  Falling Angels –Tracy Chevalier
30.  Thousand Pieces of Gold – Ruthanne Lum McCunn
31.  Mountains Beyond Mountains – Tracy Kidder
32. The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt – Eleanor Roosevelt
33. Origin – Dan Brown
34. Learning to Die in the Anthropocene – Roy Scranton
35. El Principito – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
46. milk and honey – rupi kaur
37. The House of the Five Fortunes – Amanda Hughes
38. The Grass Dancer – Susan Power
39. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
40. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
41. The Secrets of Jin-Shei – Alma Alexander
42. In Search of the Elusive Peace Corps Moment, Destination: Estonia – Douglas Wells
43. The Leavers – Lisa Ko
44. The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers – Amy Hollingsworth
45. The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux
46. In the Time of the Butterflies – Julia Alvarez
47.  Becoming – Michelle Obama
48. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind – Bryan Mealer, William Kamkwamba
49. The Sewing Circles of Herat – Christina Lamb
50. the sun and her flowers – rupi kaur
51. Behind the Beautiful Forevers – Katherine Boo

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