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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:

  • 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
  • How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
  • Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World
  • Neuromancer (Sprawl #1)
  • Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)
  • Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
  • Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless
  • The Island of Sea Women

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:

  • The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
  • Small Things Like These
  • The Loneliest Americans
  • The Enigma Affair
  • The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
  • The Newlyweds: Rearranging Marriage in Modern India
  • Things We Lost to the Water
  • Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3)