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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:

  • Black Cake
  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
  • The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
  • Flowers for Algernon
  • The Yellow Wallpaper (Bedford Cultural Editions)
  • The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
  • The Beauty Myth
  • The Office of Historical Corrections

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:

  • Hollow Kingdom (Hollow Kingdom, #1)
  • The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
  • Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening (Monstress, #1)
  • Midwives
  • The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)-xled
  • The Lost Apothecary
  • The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening
  • How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics