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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 Five Wounds
  • Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World
  • Hester
  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
  • Klara and the Sun
  • The Anthropocene Reviewed
  • The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Hollow Kingdom (Hollow Kingdom, #1)

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:

  • American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
  • When Women Were Dragons
  • Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
  • The Year of the Witching (Bethel, #1)
  • The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Under the Whispering Door
  • The Vanishing Half
  • The Undocumented Americans