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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:

  • Imagination: A Manifesto
  • Piranesi
  • Connie: A Memoir
  • Year of Wonders
  • American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
  • Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
  • Anita de Monte Laughs Last
  • The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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:

  • Flowers for Algernon
  • The Paper Palace
  • American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
  • Normal People
  • The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)-xled
  • The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
  • The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
  • Tuscany: Landscape History Art