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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:

  • Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
  • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
  • The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
  • The Newlyweds: Rearranging Marriage in Modern India
  • Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
  • Pious Ambitions: Sally Merriam Wait's Mission South, 1813–1831 (America's Baptists)
  • Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
  • Normal People

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:

  • Neuromancer (Sprawl #1)
  • Tuscany: Landscape History Art
  • Fleishman Is in Trouble
  • Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
  • Thank You for Listening
  • Small Things Like These
  • Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)
  • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals