For February 2015, the largest rise on the Michigan Bestseller List was Alison DeCamp’s My Near-Death Adventures. Link’s Wicked Takes the Witness Stand has its fourth consecutive month on the Michigan Bestseller List.
1) Alison DeCamp—My Near-Death Adventures (99% True) (Crown Books for Young Readers)
2) Mario Impemba—If These Walls Could Talk: Detroit Tigers (Triumph Books)
3) Jim Harrison—The Big Seven (Grove Press) [last month #2]
4) Mardi Link—Wicked Takes the Witness Stand: A Tale of Murder and Twisted Deceit in Northern Michigan (University of Michigan Press) [last month #1; 4th month on the list]
5) john a. powell—Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society (Indiana University Press)
6) Patrick Evans—Grand Rapids Beer: An Intoxicating History of River City Brewing (The History Press)
7) Emily St. John Mandel—Station Eleven: A Novel (Knopf)
8) Charles Baxter—There’s Something I Want You to Do: stories (Pantheon)
9) Jerry Dennis—The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas (St. Martin’s Griffin) [last month #6]
10) John Green—Looking for Alaska (Speak) [last month #3]
11) Richelle Mead—The Ruby Circle: A Bloodlines Novel (Razorbill/Penguin Books USA)
12) Josh Malerman—Bird Box (Ecco)
13) Kate Bassett—Words and Their Meanings (Flux)
14) Debbie Diesen—The Pout-Pout Fish (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
15) Tom Daldin, Jim Edelman, and Eric Tremonti—Under the Radar Michigan: The First 50 (Scribe Publishing Company)
The Michigan Bestseller List includes 14 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
1) Tom Daldin, Jim Edelman, and Eric Tremonti—Under the Radar Michigan: The First 50 (Scribe Publishing Company)
2) Charlie LeDuff—Detroit: An American Autopsy (Penguin Books) [last month #1; 8th month on the list]
3) Joseph Heywood—Harder Ground: More Woods Cop Stories (Lyons Press)
4) Sonny Longtine—Murder in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (The History Press)
5) Emily St. John Mandel—Station Eleven: A Novel (Knopf)
6) Josh Malerman—Bird Box (Ecco)
7) Bob Cary—Born to Pull: The Glory of Sled Dogs (University of Minnesota Press)
8) Mikel B. Classen—Teddy Roosevelt & the Marquette Libel Trial (The History Press)
9) Robert F. Jones—The Run to Gitche Gumee, A Novel (Skyhorse Publishing) [last month #3]
10) Michael Schumacher—November’s Fury: The Deadly Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913 (University of Minnesota Press)
The Upper Peninsula Bestseller List for February 2015 includes 4 participating bookstores: Book World Marquette (136 W Washington St., Marquette;www.bookworldstores.com), Falling Rock Café & Bookstore (104 E Munising Ave, Munising; www.fallingrockcafe.com), North Wind Books (601 Quincy St, Hancock; https://bookstore.finlandia.