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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:

  • Hester
  • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
  • Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online
  • Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI
  • What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World
  • Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story
  • How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
  • Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

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
  • Daisy Darker
  • How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
  • Finding Me
  • The God of the Woods
  • Red, White & Royal Blue
  • Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
  • Interior Chinatown