Michigan bestseller list for April 2016

Screen Shot 2016-05-09 at 1.44.20 PMMICHIGAN BESTSELLER LIST TOP 15 FOR APRIL 2016

1) Angela Flournoy–The Turner House: A Novel (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

2) Jim Harrison–The Ancient Minstrel (Grove Press) [last month #2]

3) Joseph Heywood–Buckular Dystrophy: A Woods Cop Mystery (Lyons Press) [last month #7]

4) Stan Tekiela–Birds of Michigan: Field Guide (Adventure Publications)

5) Ernest Hemingway–The Sun Also Rises (Charles Scribner’s Sons)

6) Kathy-Jo Wargin–The Legend of Leelanau (Sleeping Bear Press) [tied]

6) Kathy-Jo Wargin–S is for Sleeping Bear Dunes: A National Lakeshore Alphabet (Sleeping Bear Press) [tied]

8) Juan Cole–The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation is Changing the Middle East (Simon & Schuster) [tied]

8) Grace Tiffany–Gunpowder Percy: A Novel (Bagwyn Books) [tied]

10) Jack Clifford–The Least Likely to Succeed (Lone Wolf Press)

11) Bonnie Jo Campbell–Mothers–Tell Your Daughters: Stories (W.W. Norton & Company)

12) Diane Seuss–Four-Legged Girl: poems (Graywolf Press)

13) Jim Harrison–The Big Seven (Grove Press) [last month #10]

14) Viola Shipman–The Charm Bracelet: A Novel (Thomas Dunne Books) [last month #1)

15) Rae Blackledge–25 stylish knitted slippers: fun designs for clogs, moccasins, boots, animal slippers, loafers, & more (Stackpole Books)

 

UPPER PENINSULA BESTSELLER LIST TOP 15 FOR APRIL 2016

1) Jim Harrison–The Ancient Minstrel (Grove Press) [last month #1]

2) Joseph Heywood–Buckular Dystrophy: A Woods Cop Mystery (Lyons Press) [last month #2]

3) Ernest Hemingway–The Sun Also Rises (Charles Scribner’s Sons)

4) Jim Harrison–The Big Seven (Grove Press) [last month #3]

5) Jerry Dennis–The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas (St. Martin’s Press/Macmillan)

6) Bonnie Jo Campbell—Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories (W.W. Norton & Company)

7) Mary Emerick–The Geography of Water (University of Alaska Press)

8) Aimee Bissonette–North Woods Girl (Minnesota Historical Society Press)

9) Ellen Airgood–The Education of Ivy Blake (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin Books USA)

10) Duffy Brown–Braking for Bodies: a cycle path mystery (Berkeley Publishing Group/Penguin Books USA) [tied]

10) Loren R. Graham–A Face in the Rock: The Tale of a Grand Island Chippewa (University of California Press) [tied]

12) William Durbin–Song of Sampo Lake (University of Minnesota Press) [tied]

12) Jim Harrison–True North (Grove Press) [tied]

14) Jim Harrison–Dead Man’s Float (Copper Canyon Press) [last month #8] [tied]

14) Jim Harrison–Returning to Earth: A Novel (Grove Press) [tied]

14) Howard Webkamigad–Ottawa Stories from the Springs: anishinaabe dibaadjimowinan wodi gaa binjibaamigak wodi mookodjiwong e zhinikaadek (Michigan State University Press) [tied]

The Michigan Bestseller List for April includes fifteen Michigan stores: Between the Covers in Harbor Springs, facebook.com/btcbookstore; Blue Frog Books in Howell, bluefrogbooksandmore.com; Bookbug in Kalamazoo, bookbugkalamazoo.com; Falling Rock Cafe and Bookstore in Munising, www.fallingrockcafe.com; Great Lakes Books & Supply in Big Rapids, greatlakesbook.com; Kazoo Books in north Kalamazoo and south Kalamazoo, kazoobooks.com/; McLean and Eakin Bookstore in Petoskey, mcleanandeakin.com; Nicola’s Books in Ann Arbor, nicolasbooks.com; North Wind Books in Hancock, bookstore.finlandia.edu; Saturn Booksellers in Gaylord, www.saturnbooksellers.com, Schuler Books & Music in Grand Rapids, Lansing and Okemos, schulerbooks.com, Snowbound Books in Marquette, www.snowboundbooks.com.  (Bookstores wanting to add onto participation for the Michigan Bestseller List and Upper Peninsula Bestseller List can contact twitter @RonRiekki.)