Background
The inspiration for the One Book...One Campus...One Community reading initiative was inspired out a similar program hosted on the IU Northwest campus from 2006 until 2010.
Since January 2013, the One Book...One Campus...One Community initiative has introduced a different novel for the campus and community to reflect upon the themes, messages and learning points of one book for a selected period of time.
The selected book for the inaugural program was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller by Wes Moore. The following selections have been the focus of subsequent years:
2013-14 — by Sandra Cisneros
2014-15 — by Michelle Alexander
2015-16 — edited by Andrew Carroll
2016-17 — by Rebecca Skloot
2017-18 — by Sarah Schulman
2018-19 — by Mary Beard
2019-20 — by Hanif Abdurraqib
2020-21 — by Amitav Ghosh
2021-22 — by Anthony Greenwald and Mahzarin Banaji
2022-23 — by Debby Irving
2023-24 — by Luis Alberto Urrea