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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:

  • Chasing the Light: A Novel of Antarctica
  • The Beauty Myth
  • The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening
  • The Newlyweds: Rearranging Marriage in Modern India
  • A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)
  • Fruit of the Drunken Tree
  • The Five Wounds
  • Miss Benson's Beetle

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:

  • Tender Is the Flesh
  • Demon Copperhead
  • The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
  • Pious Ambitions: Sally Merriam Wait's Mission South, 1813–1831 (America's Baptists)
  • American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
  • The Diary of a Provincial Lady
  • Trust
  • Binti: The Complete Trilogy