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Looking for summer reading recommendations? ZSR has you covered! Check out our Goodreads page for thematic reading lists to suit bibliophiles of all tastes! Here are a few of the titles from our 2017 Summer Reading list:

  • The Yellow Wallpaper (Bedford Cultural Editions)
  • Down to Earth: Gardening Wisdom
  • Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
  • The Vanishing Half
  • Under the Whispering Door
  • A Promised Land
  • Fruit of the Drunken Tree
  • Every Frenchman Has One

Project Wake

Additionally, we have a featured list of all selected titles from Project Wake— the University’s summer academic program. This year, the Project Wake titles are centered around the theme “exploring difference, embracing diversity”. New students and Wake Forest University community members are encouraged to read a Project Wake title and join the discussion group on the Sunday afternoon of new student orientation (August 27, 1:30-3 pm). Online registration is available from the New Undergraduate Students site. Here are a few of the Project Wake titles being offered:

  • Miss Benson's Beetle
  • A Promised Land
  • The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
  • The Institute
  • The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
  • Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
  • Remainder