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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 Enigma Affair
  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
  • Things We Lost to the Water
  • Pious Ambitions: Sally Merriam Wait's Mission South, 1813–1831 (America's Baptists)
  • Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
  • A Redbird Christmas
  • The Midnight Library
  • 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:

  • Small Things Like These
  • Anita de Monte Laughs Last
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
  • The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
  • Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
  • Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)
  • I Have Some Questions for You
  • Tuscany: Landscape History Art