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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 Island of Sea Women
  • Under the Whispering Door
  • Normal People
  • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
  • Whale Fall
  • The Fortunes of Jaded Women
  • Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
  • Year of Wonders

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:

  • How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
  • Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story
  • An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
  • The Song of Achilles
  • The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
  • Beyond Innocence: The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt
  • 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
  • Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening