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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:

  • The People in the Trees
  • Taste: My Life Through Food
  • Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
  • The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Women Talking
  • Anita de Monte Laughs Last
  • Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
  • Babel

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:

  • Normal People
  • Women Talking
  • The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
  • The Newlyweds: Rearranging Marriage in Modern India
  • Yellowface
  • The Loneliest Americans
  • Lurking: How a Person Became a User
  • An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s