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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:

  • Piranesi
  • The Other Einstein
  • Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
  • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
  • The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens
  • Babel
  • Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World
  • Daisy Darker

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:

  • Red, White & Royal Blue
  • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
  • Land of Big Numbers
  • Pious Ambitions: Sally Merriam Wait's Mission South, 1813–1831 (America's Baptists)
  • Neuromancer (Sprawl #1)
  • How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
  • Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir