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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:

  • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
  • Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
  • Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story
  • How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
  • Lurking: How a Person Became a User
  • The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
  • Normal People
  • The Yellow Wallpaper (Bedford Cultural Editions)

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:

  • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
  • What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World
  • When Women Were Dragons
  • The Archivist: A Thriller
  • The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
  • Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI
  • Demon Copperhead
  • Under the Whispering Door