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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:

  • Flowers for Algernon
  • How Much of These Hills Is Gold
  • Trust
  • Under the Whispering Door
  • The Keeper of Night (The Keeper of Night, #1)
  • The People in the Trees
  • The Rupture Tense: Poems
  • Tuscany: Landscape History Art

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:

  • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
  • Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
  • Interior Chinatown
  • Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
  • Midwives
  • Thank You for Listening
  • A Redbird Christmas