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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:

  • What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World
  • Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
  • Flowers for Algernon
  • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
  • A ​Court of Silver Flames (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #4)
  • An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
  • Interior Chinatown
  • Tender Is the Flesh

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:

  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
  • An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
  • Pious Ambitions: Sally Merriam Wait's Mission South, 1813–1831 (America's Baptists)
  • Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online
  • Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
  • Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)
  • Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
  • The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)-xled