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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:

  • Fruit of the Drunken Tree
  • Tender Is the Flesh
  • The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
  • Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
  • Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
  • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
  • Under the Whispering Door
  • Why We're Polarized

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:

  • The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
  • The Other Einstein
  • The Yellow Wallpaper (Bedford Cultural Editions)
  • The Lost Apothecary
  • Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
  • My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
  • Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
  • Cloud Cuckoo Land