MICHIGAN BESTSELLER LIST TOP 15 FOR JULY 2016
1) Mel Boring, Guinea Pig Scientists: Bold Self-Experimenters in Science and Medicine (Henry Holt and Co.)
2) Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 (Laurel-Leaf)
3) Daniel Silva, The Black Widow (Harper)
4) Amy Young, A Unicorn Named Sparkle (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
5) Tom Stanton, Terror in the City of Champions: Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society that Shocked Depression-Era Detroit (Lyons Press) [last month #1]
6) Alison DeCamp, My Near-Death Adventures: I Almost Died. Again. (Crown Books for Young Readers)
7) Angela Flournoy, The Turner House: A 
Novel (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) [last month #9]
8) Viola Shipman, The Charm Bracelet: A Novel (Thomas Dunne Books) [last month #13]
9) Loren Graham, A Face in the Rock: The Tale of a Grand Island Chippewa (University of California Press) [last month #8]
10) Steve Hamilton, The Second Life of Nick Mason (G.P. Putnam’s Sons/Penguin Books USA) [last month #3]
11) Deborah Diesen, The Pout-Pout Fish (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
12) Bonnie Jo Campbell, Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories (W.W. Norton & Company)
13) Shannon Gibney, See No Color (Carolrhoda Lab/Lerner Publishing Group)
14) Stan Tekeila, Birds of Michigan Field Guide (Adventure Publications) [last month #11]
15) Alison DeCamp, My Near-Death Adventures (99% True) (Crown Books for Young Readers)
15) Travis Mulhauser, Sweetgirl: A Novel (Ecco Press/HarperCollins Publishers)
UPPER PENINSULA BESTSELLER LIST TOP 15 FOR JULY 2016
1) Alison DeCamp, My Near-Death Adventures: I Almost Died. Again. (Crown Books for Young Readers)
2) Steve Hamilton, The Second Life of Nick Mason (G.P. Putnam’s Sons/Penguin Books USA) [last month #1]
3) Loren Graham, A Face in the Rock: The Tale of a Grand Island Chippewa (University of California Press) [last month #2]
4) Aimée Bissonette, North Woods Girl (Minnesota Historical Society Press)
4) Abe Sauer, Goodnight Loon (University of Minnesota Press) [last month #6]
6) John Smolens, Wolf’s Mouth: A Novel (Michigan State University Press) [last month #13]
7) Alison DeCamp, My Near-Death Adventures (99% True) (Crown Books for Young Readers) [last month #5]
8) Mardi Link, The Drummond Girls: A Story of Fierce Friendship Beyond Time and Chance (Grand Central Publishing)
9) Jerry Dennis, The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas (St. Martin’s Press) [last month #8]
10) Mardi Link, Wicked Takes the Witness Stand: A Tale of Murder and Twisted Deceit in Northern Michigan (University of Michigan Press)
11) Mardi Link, When Evil Came to Good Hart: ‘an up north Michigan cold case’ (The University of Michigan Press)
12) Molly Beth Griffin, Rhoda’s Rock Hunt (Minnesota Historical Society Press) [last month #10]
13) Charlie LeDuff, Detroit: An American Autopsy (Penguin Books)
14) Michael Delp and M.L. Liebler, Bob Seger’s House and other Stories (Wayne State University Press) [last month #14]
14) Holling C. Holling, Paddle-to-the-Sea (Sandpiper Books)
The Michigan Best Seller List and Upper Peninsula Bestseller List for July consists of 18 participating Michigan bookstores: Between the Covers in Harbor Springs,facebook.com/btcbookstore; Bookbug in Kalamazoo, bookbugkalamazoo.com; Great Lakes Books & Supply in Big Rapids, greatlakesbook.com; Falling Rock Café & Bookstore in Munising, http://fallingrockcafe.com/; Island Bookstore in Mackinac City and on Mackinac Island, http://www.islandbookstore.