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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 Lincoln Highway
  • Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
  • Taste: My Life Through Food
  • Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
  • Small Things Like These
  • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

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 People in the Trees
  • The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
  • The Island of Sea Women
  • The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens
  • The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
  • The Keeper of Night (The Keeper of Night, #1)
  • The Midnight Library
  • Finding Me