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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:

  • Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
  • When Women Were Dragons
  • American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
  • Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online
  • Interior Chinatown
  • Yellowface
  • Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI
  • Small Things Like These

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:

  • Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story
  • Tuscany: Landscape History Art
  • Imagination: A Manifesto
  • 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
  • Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World
  • Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)
  • Afterparties
  • The Enigma Affair