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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:

  • A ​Court of Silver Flames (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #4)
  • Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany
  • The Book of Doors
  • Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
  • The Other Einstein
  • The Island of Sea Women
  • Black Cake
  • Lurking: How a Person Became a User

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:

  • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
  • Normal People
  • What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World
  • Taste: My Life Through Food
  • The Rupture Tense: Poems
  • Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
  • The Island of Sea Women
  • The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue