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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:

  • To Paradise
  • The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
  • Lurking: How a Person Became a User
  • Flowers for Algernon
  • The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
  • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
  • The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
  • Small Things Like These

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:

  • The Loneliest Americans
  • Finding Me
  • Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
  • How Much of These Hills Is Gold
  • Imagination: A Manifesto
  • Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless
  • Daisy Darker
  • Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)