Each summer the ORI committee selects the book for the coming academic year's reading initiative. Past selections are listed below.
2019
What the Eyes Don't See by Mona Hanna-Attisha
2018
Tell Me How It Ends by Valeria Luiselli
2017
Shrill by Lindy West
2016
Outcasts United by Warren St. John
2015
We Are Completely Beside Ourself by Karen Joy Fowler
2014
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
2013
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
2012
City of Thieves by David Benioff
2011
Bonobo Handshake by Vanessa Woods
2010
The Learners by Chip Kidd
2009
Persepolis by Marjane Satapi
2008
Field Notes by Elizabeth Kolbert
2007
Bombingham by Anthony Grooms
2006
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
2005
The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
2004
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
2003
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
2002
Haven by Ruth Gruber