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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I know why the caged bird sings
Angelou, Maya.
Paper Book
The marriage portrait
O'Farrell, Maggie
Paper Book
The midnight library
Haig, Matt
Paper Book
The life-changing reader-favourite, from the acclaimed author of How To Stop Time, Reasons to Stay Alive and The Comfort Book.
The alchemist
Coelho, Paulo.
Paper Book
A global phenomenon, The Alchemist has been read and loved by over 62 million readers, topping bestseller lists in 74 countries worldwide. Now this magical fable is beautifully repackaged in an edition that lovers of Paulo Coelho will want to treasure forever. Every few decades a book is...
The steppenwolf
Hesse, Hermann
Paper Book
This Faust-like and magical story of the humanization of a middle-aged misanthrope was described in The New York Timesas a 'savage indictment of bourgeois society'. But, as the author notes in this edition, Steppenwolfis a book that has been consistently misinterpreted. This self...
The subtle art of not giving a fuck : a counterintuitive approach to living a good life
Manson, Mark
Ebook
#1 New York Times Bestseller * More than 10 million Copies Sold In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people. For decades, we...
Untamed
Doyle, Glennon
Paper Book
Discover the inspirational Number 1 Sunday Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick. 'This book will shake your brain and make your soul scream. I am so ready for myself after reading this book!' Adele 'Untamed...
The artist's way : a spiritual path to higher creativity
Cameron, Julia
Paper Book
The Artist's Way provides a twelve-week course that guides you through the process of recovering your creative self. It aims to dispel the 'I'm not talented enough' conditioning that holds many people back and helps you to unleash your own inner artist. Its step-by-step approach enables you to...
The namesake
Lahiri, Jhumpa.
Ebook
'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 name the baby...
Salvage the bones : a novel
Ward, Jesmyn.
Ebook
_______________'A brilliantly pacy adventure story ... Ward writes like a dream' - The Times'Fresh and urgent' - New York Times'There's something of Faulkner to Ward's grand diction' - Guardian_______________WINNER OF THE NATIONAL...
The book thief
Zusak, Markus.
Paper Book
HERE IS A SMALL FACT - YOU ARE GOING TO DIE 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books...
Your heart is a muscle the size of a fist : a novel
Yapa, Sunil
Paper Book
A TIME Magazine Best Book of 2016 An Amazon Best Book of 2016 A heart-stopping debut about protest and riot . . . 1999. Victor, homeless after a family tragedy, finds himself pounding the streets of Seattle with little meaning or purpose. He is the estranged...
Go tell it on the mountain
Baldwin, James
Paper Book
James Baldwin's electrifying first novel. 'I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.' Drawing on James Baldwin's own boyhood in a religious community in 1930s Harlem, his first novel tells the story of young Johnny Grimes. Johnny is...
The keeper of lost things : a novel
Hogan, Ruth
Paper Book
*THE PERFECT UP-LIT SUMMER READ, RECOMMENDED BY THOUSANDS OF READERS* THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER & WINNER OF THE RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB 'One of the most charming novels either of us has read. Don't lose it. Keep it' Richard & Judy<...
Weyward : a novel
Hart, Emilia
Paper Book

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