MICHIGAN TOP FIFTEEN
1) Mitch Albom—the magic strings of Frankie Presto: a novel (HarperCollins Publishers) [last month #5]
2) John U Bacon—Endzone: The Rise, Fall, and Return of Michigan Football (St. Martin’s Press) [last month #2]
3) David Maraniss—
(Simon & Schuster) [last month #6]
4) Michael Emmerich—100 Things Michigan State Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die (Triumph Books) [last month #11]
5) Tyler Oakley—Binge (Gallery Books/Simon and Schuster) [last month #3]
6) Detroit Free Press—Mr. March (The Free Press/Lansing State Journal)
7) Norma Lewis—Lost Restaurants of Grand Rapids (Arcadia Publishing)
8) Tom Daldin, Jim Edelman, and Eric Tremonti—Under the Radar Michigan: The First 50 (Scribe Publishing Company)
9) Chris Van Allsburg—The Polar Express: 30th Anniversary Edition (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers) [last month #1]
10) Emily St. John Mandel—Station Eleven: A Novel (Vintage) [last month #13]
11) Patti Smith—M Train (Knopf) [last month #14]
12) Bonnie Jo Campbell—Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories (W.W. Norton & Co.) [last month #7]
13) Susan Thoms—Twelve Days of Christmas in Michigan (Sterling)
14) Stan Tekeila—Birds of Michigan Field Guide (Adventure Publications)
15) Kevin Allen and Art Regner—Red Wing Nation: Detroit’s Greatest Players Talk about Red Wings Hockey (Triumph Books)
U.P. TOP FIFTEEN
1) Emily St. John Mandel—Station Eleven: A Novel (Vintage) [last month #6]
2) Jerry Dennis—The Windward Shore: A Winter on the Great Lakes (The University of Michigan Press) [last month #6]
3) Steve Hamilton—A Cold Day in Paradise (Minotaur Books)
4) John Fortunato—Dark Reservations: A Mystery (Minotaur Books) [last month #13]
5) Alison DeCamp—My Near-Death Adventures (99% True) (Crown Books for Young Readers/Penguin Random House) [last month #5]
6) Bonnie Jo Campbell–Mothers, Tell Your Daughters (W.W. Norton and Company) [last month #11]
7) Jim Harrison—Brown Dog (Grove Press)
8) M.R. Federspiel–Picturing Michigan’s Hemingway (Wayne State University Press)
9) Charlie LeDuff—Detroit: An American Autopsy (Penguin Books) [last month #13]
10) Jim Harrison—Dead Man’s Float (Copper Canyon Press)
11) Peggy Christian–If You Find a Rock (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
12) Holling C. Holling—Paddle-to-the-Sea (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
13) Aimée Bissonette—North Woods Girl (Minnesota Historical Society Press)
14) Ronald Riekki—Here: Women Writing on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (Michigan State University Press) [last month #8]
15) Ellen Airgood–Prairie Evers (Penguin Books)
15) Aimée Bissonette—North Woods Girl (Minnesota Historical Society Press)
15) Denise Brennan-Nelson—Tallulah: Mermaid of the Great Lakes (Sleeping Bear Press)
The Michigan Bestseller List for December is compiled from 12 Michigan bookstores: Between the Covers in Harbor Springs, facebook.com/