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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 Newlyweds: Rearranging Marriage in Modern India
  • Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
  • How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
  • The Lincoln Highway
  • The Paper Palace
  • Small Things Like These
  • The Loneliest Americans
  • Lady Tan’s Circle of Women

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 Book of Doors
  • Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World
  • What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World
  • Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless
  • The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
  • The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)-xled
  • Hester
  • Finding Me