MAY 2016 MICHIGAN BESTSELLER LIST TOP TWENTY
1) Darcy Woods–Summer of Supernovas (The Crown Publishing Group)
2) Rachel DeWoskin–Blind (Viking Children’s Books/Penguin Books USA)
3) Steve Hamilton–The Second Life of Nick Mason (G.P. Putnam’s Sons/Penguin Books USA)
4) Viola Shipman–The Charm Bracelet: A Novel (Macmillan/Thomas Dunne Books) [last month #14]
5) Victor J. Strecher–Life on Purpose: How Living for What Matters Most Changes Everything (HarperOne/HarperCollins Publishers)
6) Shaka Senghor–Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison (Convergent Books/Penguin Random House Company)
7) Angela Flournoy–The Turner House: A Novel (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) [last month #1]
8) Stan Tekiela–Birds of Michigan Field Guide (Adventure Publications) [last month #4]
9) Doreen Cronin–Bloom (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books/Simon and Schuster)
10) Nathan Bomey–Detroit Resurrected: To Bankruptcy and Back (W.W. Norton & Company)
11) Desiree Cooper–Know the Mother: stories (Wayne State University Press)
12) Bonnie Jo Campbell–Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories (W.W. Norton & Company) [last month #7]
13) M.L. Liebler–I Want to Be Once: Poems (Wayne State University Press)
14) Nevada Barr–Boar Island: An Anna Pigeon Novel (Macmillan/Minotaur Books)
15) Joseph Heywood–Buckular Dystrophy: A Woods Cop Mystery (Lyons Press) [last month #3]
16) DeLorme Mapping Company–Michigan Atlas & Gazetteer (DeLorme Mapping Company)
17) Steve Hamilton–A Cold Day in Paradise (Macmillan/St. Martin’s Press)
18) Jim Harrison–The Ancient Minstrel (Grove Press) [last month #2]
19) Ed Shenkman–I Went to the Party in Kalamazoo (Commonwealth Editions)
20) Paula McLain–Circling the Sun: A Novel (Random House)
MAY 2016 UPPER PENINSULA BESTSELLER LIST TOP TEN
1) Steve Hamilton–The Second Life of Nick Mason (G.P. Putnam’s Sons/Penguin Books USA)
2) Nevada Barr–Boar Island: An Anna Pigeon Novel (Macmillan/Minotaur Books)
3) Joseph Heywood–Buckular Dystrophy: A Woods Cop Mystery (Lyons Press) [last month #2]
4) DeLorme Mapping Company–Michigan Atlas & Gazetteer (DeLorme Mapping Company)
5) Steve Hamilton–A Cold Day in Paradise (Macmillan/St. Martin’s Press)
6) Jim Harrison–The Ancient Minstrel (Grove Press) [last month #1]
7) John Smolens–Wolf’s Mouth: A Novel (Michigan State University Press)
8) Duffy Brown–Braking for Bodies: a cycle path mystery (Berkeley Publishing Group/Penguin Books USA) [last month #10] [tied]
8) Emily St. John Mandel–Station Eleven: A Novel (The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group) [tied]
10) Jerry Dennis–The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Island Seas (St. Martin’s Press)
The May Michigan Bestseller List is for books about Michigan topics, written by Michigan authors, or published by Michigan publishers, compiled by Ron Riekki, from fifteen Michigan bookstores: Battle Creek Books in Battle Creek, www.battlecreekbooks.com/; Between the Covers in Harbor Springs, facebook.com/btcbookstore; Blue Frog Books in Howell, bluefrogbooksandmore.com; Book Beat in Oak Park,
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