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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:

  • Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI
  • Orbital
  • Interior Chinatown
  • Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany
  • Tuscany: Landscape History Art
  • Hester
  • Babel
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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:

  • A ​Court of Silver Flames (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #4)
  • Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening
  • The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
  • Interior Chinatown
  • Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story
  • Lurking: How a Person Became a User
  • The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
  • Yellowface