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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 Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
  • The Institute
  • The Neapolitan Novels
  • The Diary of a Provincial Lady
  • Miss Benson's Beetle
  • The Year of the Witching (Bethel, #1)
  • Midnight Sun (The Twilight Saga, #5)
  • What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World

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 Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
  • Down to Earth: Gardening Wisdom
  • The Vanishing Half
  • Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World
  • The Lost Apothecary
  • A Redbird Christmas
  • Hollow Kingdom (Hollow Kingdom, #1)