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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:

  • Pious Ambitions: Sally Merriam Wait's Mission South, 1813–1831 (America's Baptists)
  • The Lincoln Highway
  • Red, White & Royal Blue
  • How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
  • Piranesi
  • Neuromancer (Sprawl #1)
  • Orbital
  • Year of Wonders

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:

  • How Much of These Hills Is Gold
  • Fleishman Is in Trouble
  • The Paper Palace
  • Demon Copperhead
  • The Newlyweds: Rearranging Marriage in Modern India
  • Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless
  • The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
  • Taste: My Life Through Food