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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:

  • The Archivist: A Thriller
  • Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online
  • Afterparties
  • Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
  • The Loneliest Americans
  • Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)
  • The God of the Woods
  • Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless

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
  • Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
  • Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
  • The Island of Sea Women
  • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
  • Daisy Darker
  • Midwives
  • Connie: A Memoir