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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:

  • Finding Me
  • Things We Lost to the Water
  • Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
  • When Women Were Dragons
  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
  • Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
  • Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI
  • Anita de Monte Laughs Last

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:

  • Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)
  • Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
  • Piranesi
  • Taste: My Life Through Food
  • Whale Fall
  • Black Cake
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
  • The God of the Woods