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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 God of the Woods
  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
  • Pious Ambitions: Sally Merriam Wait's Mission South, 1813–1831 (America's Baptists)
  • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
  • Women Talking
  • When Women Were Dragons
  • Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
  • Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story

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
  • The Midnight Library
  • Tender Is the Flesh
  • Things We Lost to the Water
  • The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
  • Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
  • Finding Me
  • Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz