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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 Fortunes of Jaded Women
  • Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
  • Black Cake
  • The Other Einstein
  • Hester
  • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
  • Finding Me
  • Fleishman Is in Trouble

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:

  • Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
  • Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
  • I Have Some Questions for You
  • Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
  • Pious Ambitions: Sally Merriam Wait's Mission South, 1813–1831 (America's Baptists)
  • The Five Wounds
  • Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World
  • The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois