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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 Song of Achilles
  • Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online
  • Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3)
  • How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
  • To Paradise
  • Red, White & Royal Blue
  • The Newlyweds: Rearranging Marriage in Modern India
  • Imagination: A Manifesto

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:

  • Tuscany: Landscape History Art
  • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
  • A ​Court of Silver Flames (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #4)
  • The Book of Doors
  • When Women Were Dragons
  • Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
  • Orbital
  • Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir