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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 Archivist: A Thriller
  • Taste: My Life Through Food
  • Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
  • Piranesi
  • The Lincoln Highway
  • The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
  • Demon Copperhead
  • Things We Lost to the Water

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:

  • Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World
  • Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless
  • Whale Fall
  • An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
  • Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
  • Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
  • How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
  • The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)-xled