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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:

  • Lurking: How a Person Became a User
  • The Keeper of Night (The Keeper of Night, #1)
  • Land of Big Numbers
  • Demon Copperhead
  • The Five Wounds
  • Imagination: A Manifesto
  • A Redbird Christmas
  • The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

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:

  • Tender Is the Flesh
  • Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
  • To Paradise
  • Afterparties
  • Tuscany: Landscape History Art
  • Thank You for Listening
  • Demon Copperhead
  • Fleishman Is in Trouble