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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:

  • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
  • Orbital
  • Taste: My Life Through Food
  • Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
  • The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
  • Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
  • The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
  • Finding Me

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:

  • How Much of These Hills Is Gold
  • Neuromancer (Sprawl #1)
  • The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
  • Under the Whispering Door
  • Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
  • The People in the Trees
  • Thank You for Listening
  • The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred