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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:

  • How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
  • The Island of Sea Women
  • Fleishman Is in Trouble
  • Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3)
  • Interior Chinatown
  • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
  • Tuscany: Landscape History Art
  • Midwives

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:

  • Orbital
  • The People in the Trees
  • Women Talking
  • Piranesi
  • Whale Fall
  • How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
  • The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
  • The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue