Find Your Voice Suggested Reading List for Adults

Summer Reading 2023's theme is Find Your Voice! This list of fiction and nonfiction books explores this year's summer reading theme. There are nonfiction titles about developing creativity, building confidence, finding a supportive community, learning to express yourself, and finding your voice. The fiction books on this list tell the story of characters who journey to find and accept who they are.

Updated June 14, 2023
LINCC (Libraries in Clackamas County) Estacada Library
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Steppenwolf
Hesse, Hermann
Paper Book
With its blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, Nobel Prize-winning author Hermann Hesse's best-known and most autobiographical work is one of literature's most poetic evocations of the soul's journey to liberation. Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive...
The artist's way : a spiritual path to higher creativity
Cameron, Julia
Paper Book
"Without The Artist's Way, there would have been no Eat, Pray, Love." --Elizabeth Gilbert The Artist's Way is the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, millions of readers have found it to be an invaluable guide to living the...
The Namesake
Lahiri, Jhumpa.
Paper Book
'The Namesake' is the story of a boy brought up Indian in America. 'When her grandmother learned of Ashima's pregnancy, she was particularly thrilled at the prospect of naming the family's first sahib. And so Ashima and Ashoke have agreed to put off the decision of what to...
The book thief
Zusak, Markus.
Paper Book
The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier...

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