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Michael Thomas Perone

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Michael Thomas Perone is an award-winning author who has written for The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore City Paper, Long Island Voice (a spinoff of The Village Voice), Yahoo!, and WhatCulture!, among others. His debut novel, the action-adventure Danger Peak, was the recipient of The Fall 2022 BookFest Award in the category of Young Adult – Action and Adventure and The 2022 Firebird Book Award in the category of Magical Realism. His follow-up, the coming-of-age/sci-fi mindbender Déjà View, was the recipient of The Spring 2024 BookFest Award in the category of Young Adult – Literary and Coming of Age, where it received First Place, and The 2024 Firebird Book Award in the category of Coming of Age. It was also a finalist of The 2024 Eric Hoffer Book ...more

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Average rating: 4.54 · 167 ratings · 149 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Electric God and Other Shorts 4.72 avg rating — 67 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Danger Peak 4.30 avg rating — 53 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Déjà View 4.54 avg rating — 46 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Is There Life After College? it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Is There Life After College? Won The NYC Big Book Award for Young Adult Fiction

Although the book has only been out for a few weeks, Is There Life After College? won its first award, specifically The 2026 NYC Big Book Award in the category of Young Adult Fiction. You can view the award announcement on this page. This is the same award The Electric God and Other Shorts won last year, in its own category of Short Stories. For those with fantastic memories, I attended their awar

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Welcome to Your Life: Love, Death & Tears For Fears – An Iconic Musician's Journey Through Grief, Addiction, and Recovery

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Tim Burton’s first “Batman” movie was so influential to me, I gave it a shoutout in not one but two of my novels, Danger Peak and Déjà View, so when I heard that there was a book continuing Burton’s world that was officially endorsed by both Warner B ...more
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Despite watching the original “Jurassic Park” a million times (it’s my wife’s favorite movie), I had never read its source novel. (Most readers like reading the book first; I’m the opposite.) I finally got around to it and was surprised at how differ ...more
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Like its author, Future Boy by the quintessential Michael J. Fox is super fun and super short. In his mini-memoir, Fox chronicles his time making the movie Back to the Future, which I’d argue is the best movie of the ‘80s (alongside Ghostbusters). Ev ...more
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I decided to read Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself because I’m a huge fan of the film The End of the Tour, which of course was based on this book. Author David Lipsky, a former Rolling Stone journalist, interviews and follows the brill ...more
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