Mike Palecek

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  • Bibliography:
    26 Books
  • First Book:
    December 2001
  • Latest Book:
    March 2018
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Book List in Order: 26 titles

  • KGB

  • Joe Coffee's Revolution

  • Twins

    The Twin Cities is the backdrop for this counter-culture novel as baseball at the Metrodome and shopping at the Mall of America provide the atmosphere for discussions about prison reform and left-wing politics....

  • The Last Liberal Outlaw

    A Liberal revolution is about to begin... In Iowa where corn grows tall and families gather for apple pie, a murmur of dissent echoes across Town Square. Plans to build a federal prison on Liberal soil divide a town and family once united. Newspaper ...

  • Terror Nation

    A novel by Mike Palecek - Terror Nation tells the story of a small-town sports writer who turns his interest to writing letters to the editor after he has retired from the paper. He was once a Reagan Republican but after his wife died he began to hea...

  • Speak English!

    Mike Palecek's new novel Speak English tells what happened when some rowdy teenagers encountered an alien, somewhere around 1970. Why did they shoot it? What were the consequences? Was it really an alien, or maybe a mental patient? How did this incid...

  • Speak English

    Mike Palecek's novel Speak English tells what happened when some rowdy teenagers encountered an alien, somewhere around 1970. Why did they shoot it? What were the consequences? Was it really an alien, or maybe a mental patient?...

  • Johnny Moon

    Johnny Moon represents a new direction for Mike Palecek. Straying from his traditional emphasis on present-day or near-future adult protagonists who end up in prison when they refuse to kowtow to the powers that be, Palecek's new novel features Johnn...

  • "Dumb Guys"

    The fall is a beautiful time of year. Some say, the best. For some it's time to die, at the hands of dumb guys out in the woods. For some, killing is how they have a good time, "enjoy the outdoors." Robert S. Thompson heard one time abo...



  • "Holy Crap!"

    Again we join the adventures of Tommy, Nona The Waitress and Robert S. Thompson in The Great American Westerly Midwest. This time we follow Tommy around town as he and his friend, Johnny, try to solve the great mysteries of religion; whether God exis...

  • "Popguns & Pacemakers"

    Where we find that Robert S. Thompson has sat on his bench on main street and written a letter to the editor talking about war and about how a local boy has died for mostly nothing. We find Nona The Waitress musing about the lack of democracy in the ...

  • SWEAT

    Join Tommy, Robert S. Thompson and Nona the waitress as they work to solve the mystery of the kidnapping of baby Sweat Sox and watch their little town try to fight global warming by making everyone wear sweatpants, while standing atop the street corn...

  • White Picket Fences

    Again we join Tommy, Robert S. Thompson and Nona The Waitress, in The Midwest, the Westerly Midwest, of America — as they follow The Swarm on their little bicycles zooming around town, and the activities of Moon Walking, the head librarian, as ...

  • The American Dream

    The American Dream is a cry for justice, for sanity, for peace, in America.It is a call for revolt against the rich and powerful who deem themselves our keepers.That's how Mike describes this book on the back cover, and I can't do any better! This wa...

  • Camp America

    A modern retelling of 1984, set not in some distant future but rather as a reinterpretation of our current moment. It is as if the magic x-ray glasses advertised in the back of the comic book actually worked, but when we put on Mike's x-ray glasses, ...

  • K.G.B. - Killing George Bush

    The main story centers around Walter Gerald, a construction worker who is arrested for threatening the life of former president George H.W. Bush. He is sent to Woodbury County Jail where he is befriended by the rough inmates o...

  • Guests of the Nation

    Guests of the Nation pulls no punches... . “I loved it! I think GOTN is a timely published 9/11 story, a quick and easy read for our too busy lives, and one that just might sink into the American people’s consciousness, finally.  I wish ...

  • Looking for Bigfoot

    Bigfoot is real. But the text in the 10,000 sophomore history textbooks at the bottom of 10,000 lockers is based in popular myth. That’s the truth. To find the truth about America, about 9/11, the Boston bombing, Sandy Hook, you need to go Looki...

  • American History 101

    The American Vision. The American Journey.Land of Liberty.The Commies are Coming. The Commies are Coming! The Criminals Are Coming!The Terrorists Are Coming! Big Bees!It’s that time of year again.Time for the release of the new sophomore textbook, ...



  • Conspiracy Nation

    The American Vision. The American Journey.Land of Liberty.The Commies are Coming. The Commies are Coming! The Criminals Are Coming!The Terrorists Are Coming! Big Bees!It’s that time of year again.Time for the release of the new sophomore textbook, ...

  • Revolution

    Harvard Finn. Cleans at a local restaurant. He writes. He wants to change the world by sitting in the hard plastic booth and writing on his notebook paper. Hope says there is a chance. To become famous...

  • Revolution: Billions and Billions Served

    Harvard Finn. Cleans at a local restaurant. He writes. He wants to change the world by sitting in the hard plastic booth and writing on his notebook paper. Hope says there is a chance. To become famous, well-known and change the world. And become fam...

  • Red White & Blue

    Red White and his dog, Blue

    Kicking around a small town, your town, my town, not trying to stir things up, just trying to live free, think free, be free.

    And as always happens, when someone does that, there is going to be trouble.

  • Crusher Vs the Empire

    Turn the other way today, on your way to work, and join the revolution. Come along with Lara, Jim, Kaitylyn, Korey, Brooke, Evey, Hector, Reuben and the rest as they go way against the grain. These young people work at a Twin Cities group home. Th...

  • Crusher in Wonderland

    The Battle of Bumfuck, Iowa is over.
    The paper mache lions' heads and farm house are smoking. The holsteins are lying dead and the gold finches hum "I dreamed I saw Joe Hill ..."
    Lara, Kaitylyn and Jim have been captured and put in prison, ...

  • Geronimo's Revenge

    The Revolution will not be planned in the checkout line at Walmart or in the line to punch out on Friday afternoon, or at happy hour. The Revolution will be born at TWO A.M. in a group home in Minneapolis by young people who are not stupid, who know ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mike Palecek has published 26 books.

Mike Palecek does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Geronimo's Revenge, was published in March 2018.

The first book by Mike Palecek, KGB, was published in December 2001.

No. Mike Palecek does not write books in series.
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