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Foreign Service Books
AAFSW maintains a reading list of books about the U.S. Foreign Service. Click the titles below for more information about each title. Remember that your purchases through the Amazon links on this site benefit AAFSW!
The American Foreign Service Association (AFSA) also maintains a reading list for career development of foreign affairs professionals.
For more first-hand accounts of life in the Foreign Service, check out "Frontline Diplomacy," a large collection of oral histories transcribed by the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training now available at the Library of Congress website.
On Diplomacy
American Diplomats: The Foreign Service at Work by William D. Morgan and Charles Stuart Kennedy
Diplomacy Lessons: Realism for an Unloved Superpower by John Brady Kiesling
Inside a U.S. Embassy: How the Foreign Service Works for America by the American Foreign Service Association
On the Expatriate Experience
The Absentee American by Carolyn D. Smith
Culture Shock! A Parent's Guide by Robin Pascoe
The Expert Expatriate: Your Guide to Relocation Abroad by Melissa Hess and Patricia Linderman
A Moveable Marriage: Relocate Your Relationship Without Breaking It by Robin Pascoe
Realities of Foreign Service Life edited by Melissa Hess and Patricia Linderman
Realities of Foreign Service Life Volume 2 edited by Melissa Hess, Patricia Linderman, and Marlene Monfiletto Nice
On Thriving as a Foreign Service Spouse
The Accidental Diplomat by Katherine L. Hughes
Culture Shock! A Wife's Guide by Robin Pascoe
Flashbacks of a Diplomat's Wife by Helga Ruge
Foreign at Home and Away: Foreign-Born Wives in the U.S. Foreign Service by Margaret Bender
Married To The Foreign Service by Jewell Fenzi with Carl L. Nelson
A Portable Identity by Debra R. Bryson and Charise M. Hoge.
On Third Culture Kids
Hidden Immigrants by Linda G. Bell
The Kids' Guide to Living Abroad written and compiled by Martine Zoer for the Foreign Service Youth Foundation.
Notes From A Traveling Childhood edited by Karen McCluskey
Of Many Lands: Journal of a Traveling Childhood by Sara Taber
Strangers At Home by Carolyn Smith
Memoirs of Expatriate Life
Bush Hat, Black Tie: Adventures of a Foreign Service Officer by Howard R. Simpson
Come Taste the Wine by Peter Juge
The Royals and the Roaches: Living Abroad with the Government by Patricia Hughes
Welcome Home: Who Are You? Tales of a Foreign Service Family by Gene and Kathryn Schmiel
Email webmaster@aafsw.org with your suggestions for additions to this list.