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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 Loneliest Americans
  • To Paradise
  • Tender Is the Flesh
  • The Other Einstein
  • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
  • How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
  • What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World
  • A ​Court of Silver Flames (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #5)

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:

  • Fleishman Is in Trouble
  • Finding Me
  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
  • What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World
  • American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
  • Taste: My Life Through Food
  • Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online
  • Hester