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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:

  • Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
  • The Archivist: A Thriller
  • To Paradise
  • I Have Some Questions for You
  • A Redbird Christmas
  • Tender Is the Flesh
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
  • The People in the Trees

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:

  • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
  • Whale Fall
  • The Five Wounds
  • I Have Some Questions for You
  • Normal People
  • The Other Einstein
  • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
  • The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening―A Poignant Journey Through Journalism, Global Connections, and Human Resilience in Today's World