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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:

  • Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
  • Anita de Monte Laughs Last
  • Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless
  • Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)
  • The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
  • The Grey Wolf (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #19)
  • Women Talking
  • Trust

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:

  • Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online
  • The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening―A Poignant Journey Through Journalism, Global Connections, and Human Resilience in Today's World
  • An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
  • Connie: A Memoir
  • How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
  • Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
  • Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
  • Women Talking