Wright Thompson, author portrait
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Wright Thompson

Wright Thompson is a senior writer for ESPN, contributing writer to the Atlantic, and the New York Times bestselling author of The Barn, Pappyland, and The Cost of These Dreams. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi with his family.

The Barn
The Cost of These Dreams

Books

The Barn
The Cost of These Dreams

What Students Will Be Reading: Campus Common Reading Roundup, 2024-25

With the fall semester in full swing, colleges and universities around the country have announced their Common Reading books for the upcoming 2024-25 academic year. We’ve compiled a list of over 340 programs and their title selections from publicly available sources, which you can download here: First-Year Reading 2024-25. We will continue to update this

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2025 Catalog for First-Year & Common Reading

We are delighted to present our new First-Year & Common Reading Catalog for 2025! From award-winning fiction, poetry, memoir, and biography to new books about science, technology, history, student success, the environment, public health, and current events, the titles presented in our common reading catalog will have students not only eagerly flipping through the pages,

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