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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:

  • Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
  • Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
  • An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
  • The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
  • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
  • To Paradise
  • A Redbird Christmas
  • Thank You for Listening

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 Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens
  • Fleishman Is in Trouble
  • Things We Lost to the Water
  • Demon Copperhead
  • The Rupture Tense: Poems
  • Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless
  • Interior Chinatown
  • The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening―A Poignant Journey Through Journalism, Global Connections, and Human Resilience in Today's World