For November 2014, the largest rise on the Michigan Bestseller List was Kim Harrison’s The Witch with No Name. Bruce Cameron’s Midnight Plan for the Repo Manhas its second consecutive month in the top ten. John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars has its fifth consecutive month in the top fifteen.
1) Kim Harrison – Witch with No Name (Harper Voyager) [largest rise]
2) Susan Collins Thoms – Twelve Days of Christmas in Michigan (Sterling)
3) Bruce Cameron — Midnight Plan of the Repo Man (Macmillan/Tor/Forge Books) [last month #9]
4) Gordie Howe—Mr. Hockey: My Story (Putnam Adult)
5) John Green – Paper Towns (Speak)
6) Tom Daldin, Jim Edelman, and Eric Tremonti — Under the Radar Michigan: The First 50 (Scribe Publishing)
7) Stephen Terry – Michigan Agricultural College Campus Life 1900-1925: A Postcard Tour (Thunder Bay Press)
8) Mardi Link — Wicked Takes the Witness Stand: A Tale of Murder and Twisted Deceit in Northern Michigan (University of Michigan Press)
9) Mitch Albom – The First Phone Call from Heaven (Harper)
10) Michael Emmerich — 100 Things Michigan State Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die (Triumph Books)
11) Chris Van Allsburg – Polar Express (Houghton Mifflin)
12) Chris Van Allsburg – The Misadventures of Sweetie Pie (HMH Books for Young Readers)
13) John Green – The Fault in Our Stars (Dutton Books) [last month #12]
14) Kate Bassett — Words & Their Meanings (Flux) [last month #7]
15) Sean Madigan Hoen — Songs Only You Know: A Memoir (Soho Press)
The Michigan Bestseller List includes 17 participating bookstores: Bay Leaf Used & Rare Books (79 State Rd, Newaygo; www.bayleafbooks.com), Between the Covers (106 E. Main St., Harbor Springs, www.facebook.com/btcbookstore)
U.P. BESTSELLER LIST
For November 2014, the largest rise on the Upper Peninsula Bestseller List was Robert F. Jones’ Run to Gitche Gumee. Ellen Airgood’s South of Superior and Robert Archibald’s Northern Border have their sixth consecutive month on the U.P. Bestseller List. Charlie LeDuff’s Detroit has its fifth consecutive month as the number one bestselling book for the Upper Peninsula.
1) Charlie LeDuff—Detroit: An American Autopsy (Penguin Books) [fifth month at the #1 spot]
2) Ellen Airgood–South of Superior (Riverhead Trade) [last month #3]
2) Robert Archibald–Northern Border: History and Lore of the Upper Peninsula and Beyond (NMU Press) [last month #6]
4) Sonny Longtine–Murder in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (The History Press) [last month #8]
5) Joseph Heywood–Killing a Cold One (Lyons Press) [last month #4]
6) John Haeussler – Hancock (Arcadia Publishing) [last month #2]
7) Robert F. Jones – Run to Gitche Gumee (Skyhorse Publishing)
8) Michael Carrier–Jack and the New York Death Mask (Greenwich Village Ink)
8) Jim Harrison–Brown Dog (Grove Press) [last month #9]
8) Michael Schumacher–November’s Fury: The Deadly Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913 (University of Minnesota Press) [last month #13]
The Upper Peninsula Bestseller List for November 2014 compiled lists from 5 participating bookstores: Book World Marquette (136 W Washington St., Marquette; www.