For July 2014, the largest rise on the Michigan Bestseller List was Jerry Dennis’s The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas and for the U.P. Bestseller List, it was Charlie LeDuff’s Detroit: An American Autopsy, in part due to One Book One Community in Marquette. LeDuff’s Detroit was the bestselling book in the Upper Peninsula and for the state as a whole.
The Michigan Bestseller list is compiled from 16 bookstores: Aunt Agatha’s New & Used Mysteries, Between the Covers, Blue Frog Books, Bookbug, Book World Marquette, Falling Rock Café and Bookstore, First Edition Too, Happy Owl Bookshop, Island Bookstore, Kazoo Books, McLean & Eakin, Michigan News Agency, North Wind Books, Saturn Booksellers, Schuler Books, and Snowbound Books. (The Michigan Bestseller List is sponsored by Arbutus Press, www.arbutuspress.com.
1) Charlie LeDuff — Detroit: An American Autopsy (Penguin Books) [last month #1]
2) Kelly O’Connor McNees — The Island of Doves (Berkley Trade) [last month #9]
3) Jerry Dennis — The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas (St. Martin’s Griffin)
4) Tobin T. Buhk — Michigan’s Strychnine Saint: The Curious Case of Mrs. Mary Mcknight (The History Press)
4) Michael R. Federspiel — Little Traverse Bay, Past and Present (Painted Turtle/Wayne State University Press)
4) Tom Rath — StrengthsFinder 2.0 (Gallup Press)
7) A.J. Baime — The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
8) Ellen Airgood — South of Superior (Riverhead Trade) [last month #11]
9) John Green — The Fault in Our Stars (Dutton Books)
10) Daniel Silva — The Heist: A Novel (Harper)
11) Dr. John J. Agria and Mary A. Agria — Bay View (Arcadia Publishing)
12) Robert Archibald — Northern Border: History and Lore of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and Beyond (NMU Press)
13) Steve Hamilton — Let It Burn: An Alex McKnight Novel (Minotaur Books) [last month #2]
14) P.J. Parrish–Heart of Ice (Pocket Books)
15) Stuart Dybek – Ecstatic Cahoots: Fifty Short Stories (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
U.P. BESTSELLER LIST:
The U.P. bestseller list is compiled from: Book World Marquette, Falling Rock Café and Bookstore, First Edition Too, North Wind Books, and Snowbound Books. (The U.P. Bestseller List is sponsored by Arbutus Press, www.arbutuspress.com.)
1) Charlie LeDuff – Detroit: An American Autopsy (Penguin Books)
2) Ellen Airgood – South of Superior (Riverhead Trade) [last month #2]
3) Robert Archibald — Northern Border: History and Lore of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and Beyond (NMU Press) [last month tied #10]
4) Joseph Heywood – Killing a Cold One: a Woods Cop Mystery (Lyons Press)
5) DeLorme Mapping Company — Michigan Atlas and Gazetteer (DeLorme Publishing)
6) Todd Clements – Haunts of Mackinac: Ghost Stories, Legends, & Tragic Tales of Mackinac Island (House of Hawthorne Publishing)
7) Bonnie Jo Campbell – Once Upon a River: A Novel (W.W. Norton & Company)
8) Sonny Longtine — Murder in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (The History Press)
9) Dennis Cawthorne – Mackinac Island: Inside, Up Close and Personal (Arbutus Press)
10) Loren Graham – Face in the Rock: The Tale of a Grand Island Chippewa (University of California Press) – [last month #7]
10) P.J. Parrish – Dead of Winter (Pinnacle)
12) Holling C. Holling – Paddle-to-the-Sea (HMH Books for Young Readers)
13) Kathy-Jo Wargin – The Legend of Mackinac Island (Sleeping Bear Press)
14) Jerry Dennis — The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas (St. Martin’s Griffin)
15) Mary Casanova – One-Dog Canoe (Square Fish Books/Macmillan)