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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:

  • Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
  • Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3)
  • The Lincoln Highway
  • Land of Big Numbers
  • The Loneliest Americans
  • The Keeper of Night (The Keeper of Night, #1)
  • The Other Einstein

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:

  • Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
  • American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
  • Finding Me
  • The Keeper of Night (The Keeper of Night, #1)
  • An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
  • Land of Big Numbers
  • Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany
  • The Fortunes of Jaded Women