For January 2015, the largest rise on the Michigan Bestseller List was Harrison’s The Big Seven. Link’s Wicked Takes the Witness Stand has its third consecutive month on the Michigan Bestseller List with its first time in the #1 slot.
1) Mardi Link–Wicked Takes the Witness Stand: A Tale of Murder and Twisted Deceit in Northern Michigan (University of Michigan Press) [last month #2]
2) Jim Harrison—The Big Seven (Grove Press)
3) John Green—Looking for Alaska (Speak)
4) Chris Van Allsburg—The Misadventures of Sweetie Pie (HMH Books for Young Readers) [last month #9]
5) Jon Milan—Grand River Avenue: From Detroit to Lake Michigan (Arcadia Publishing)
6) Jerry Dennis—The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas (St. Martin’s Griffin) [last month #13]
7) Joshua G. Cohen—A Field Guide to the Natural Communities of Michigan (Michigan State University Press)
8) David D. Finney, Jr. and Judith L. McIntosh—Howell (Arcadia Publishing)
9) John Green—Paper Towns (Speak) [last month #11]
10) Melissa Gilbert—Prairie Tale: A Memoir (Gallery Books/Simon and Schuster)
11) Jim DuFresne—Explorer’s Guides: 50 Hikes in Michigan (Countryman Press/W. W. Norton & Company)
12) Denise Brennan-Nelson—Teach Me to Love (Sleeping Bear Press)
13) Martha Aladjem Bloomfield—Hmong Americans in Michigan (Michigan State University Press)
14) Tobin T. Buhk—Poisoning the Pecks of Grand Rapids: The Scandalous 1916 Murder Plot (The History Press)
15) Denise Brennan-Nelson—Little Michigan (Sleeping Bear Press)
The January 2015 Michigan Bestseller List includes 15 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 January 2015, the largest rise on the U.P. Bestseller List was Bassett’s Words and Their Meanings. Airgood’s South of Superior and Archibald’s Northern Border have their eighth consecutive month on the U.P. Bestseller List. Charlie LeDuff’s Detroit has its seventh consecutive month as the number one bestselling book for the Upper Peninsula. (May 2015, Michigan State University Press releases Here: Women Writing on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, http://msupress.org/books/
1) Charlie LeDuff—Detroit: An American Autopsy (Penguin Books) [last month #1; 7th month at the #1 slot]
2) Joseph Heywood—Killing a Cold One (Lyons Press) [last month #3]
3) Robert F. Jones—Run to Gitche Gumee (Skyhorse Publishing) [last month #4]
4) Ellen Airgood—South of Superior (Riverhead Trade) [last month #6]
5) Kate Bassett–Words & their Meanings (Flux)
6) Bonnie Jo Campbell–Once Upon A River: a Novel (W. W. Norton & Company)
7) Jerome Pohlen—Oddball Michigan: A Guide to 450 Really Strange Places (Chicago Review Press)
8) Robert Archibald—Northern Border: History and Lore of the Upper Peninsula and Beyond (NMU Press) [last month #9]
9) Steve Hamilton—A Cold Day in Paradise (Macmillan/St. Martin’s Press)
10) Robert Traver—Anatomy of a Murder (Macmillan/St. Martin’s Griffin)
The Upper Peninsula Bestseller List for January 2015 includes 5 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.