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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:

  • Pious Ambitions: Sally Merriam Wait's Mission South, 1813–1831 (America's Baptists)
  • Under the Whispering Door
  • Demon Copperhead
  • Interior Chinatown
  • The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens
  • Tuscany: Landscape History Art
  • The Newlyweds: Rearranging Marriage in Modern India
  • The Island of Sea 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:

  • Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
  • Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
  • The Island of Sea Women
  • The Fortunes of Jaded Women
  • Under the Whispering Door
  • How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
  • Women Talking
  • Year of Wonders