Each summer the ORI committee selects the book for the coming academic year's reading initiative. Past selections are listed below.

Selected in the Summer of:

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.