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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:

  • Afterparties
  • The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Land of Big Numbers
  • The Song of Achilles
  • Normal People
  • The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens
  • Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
  • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

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 Other Einstein
  • The Enigma Affair
  • The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Daisy Darker
  • Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
  • Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
  • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
  • Lady Tan’s Circle of Women