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John Corcelli Author Of Outside Looking In: The Seriously Funny Life and Work of George Carlin

From John's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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John Corcelli Why John loves this book

Sarah had me from the first sentence. She’ll engage you too. A first-rate memoir capturing life in America as it really is in the 21st Century.

By Sarah Kendzior ,

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1 author picked The Last American Road Trip as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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It is one thing to study the fall of democracy, another to have it hit your homeland -- and yet another to raise children as it happens. The Last American Road Trip is one family's journey to the most beautiful, fascinating, and bizarre places in the US during one of its most tumultuous eras. As Kendzior works as a journalist chronicling political turmoil, she becomes determined that her young children see America before it's too late. So Kendzior, her husband, and the kids hit the road -- again and again.

Starting from Missouri, the family drives across America in every…


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December on 5C4 by Adam Strassberg,

Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!

On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…

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John Corcelli Author Of Outside Looking In: The Seriously Funny Life and Work of George Carlin

From John's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Author Writer Reader Listener Musician Cyclist

John's 3 favorite reads in 2025

John Corcelli Why John loves this book

I wish I had this book when I was in school. Shoalts takes a simple premise, cartography, and expands the narrative to include lessons from history. Canada's story is one bloody mess, at times. At others it is the adventure of a lifetime. Buy this for yourself and get one for a friend, that's how it came to me this past summer.

By Adam Shoalts ,

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1 author picked A History of Canada in Ten Maps as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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Longlisted for the 2018 RBC Taylor Prize

Shortlisted for the 2018 Louise de Kiriline Lawrence Award for Nonfiction

The sweeping, epic story of the mysterious land that came to be called “Canada” like it's never been told before.

Every map tells a story. And every map has a purpose--it invites us to go somewhere we've never been. It's an account of what we know, but also a trace of what we long for.

Ten Maps conjures the world as it appeared to those who were called upon to map it. What would the new world look like to wandering Vikings,…


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