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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:

  • Land of Big Numbers: Stories
  • How Much of These Hills Is Gold
  • The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
  • Daisy Darker
  • Trust
  • The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening
  • What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World
  • Pious Ambitions: Sally Merriam Wait's Mission South, 1813–1831 (America's Baptists)

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 Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
  • The Lincoln Highway
  • Women Talking
  • Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
  • The Rupture Tense: Poems
  • Anita de Monte Laughs Last
  • Binti: The Complete Trilogy
  • Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany