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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
  • Trust
  • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
  • Connie: A Memoir
  • I Have Some Questions for You
  • Whale Fall
  • The Archivist: A Thriller
  • Small Things Like These

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:

  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
  • Small Things Like These
  • Thank You for Listening
  • The Rupture Tense: Poems
  • Black Cake
  • The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
  • Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening
  • The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)-xled