For July 2015, Green’s Paper Towns has its fifth consecutive month on the Michigan Bestseller List top ten. Link’s Wicked Takes the Witness Stand has its ninth consecutive month on the Michigan Bestseller List top fifteen.
1) John Green—Paper Towns (Speak) [last month #3]
2) Emily St. John Mandel—Station Eleven: A Novel (Vintage) [last month #2]
3) Lori Nelson Spielman—Sweet Forgiveness: A Novel (Plume) [last month #1]
4) Mardi Link—The Drummond Girls: A Story of Fierce Friendship Beyond Time and Chance (Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group)
5) Daniel Silva—The English Spy (HarperCollins Publishers)
6) Dave Coverly—Dogs are People, Too: A Collection of Cartoons to Make Your Tail Wag (Henry Holt and Co.)
7) Maureen Abood—Rose Water and Orange Blossoms: Fresh & Classic Recipes from My Lebanese Kitchen (Running Press/Perseus Books Group) [last month #5]
8) Ronald Riekki—Here: Women Writing on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (Michigan State University Press) [last month #10]
9) Mardi Link—Wicked Takes the Witness Stand: A Tale of Murder and Twisted Deceit in Northern Michigan (University of Michigan Press) [last month #6]
10) John Green—Looking for Alaska (Speak)
11) Detroit Free Press—Mr. March (The Free Press/Lansing State Journal) [last month #4]
12) Lori Nelson Speilman—The Life List: A Novel (Bantam) [last month #8]
13) Lisa M. Rose—Midwest Foraging: 115 wild and flavorful edibles from burdock to wild peach (Timber Press)
14) Kate Bassett—Words and Their Meanings (Flux)
15) Leah Thomas—Because You’ll Never Meet Me (Bloomsbury Children’s Publishing)
The Michigan Bestseller List includes 15 participating bookstores: Between the Covers (106 E. Main St., Harbor Springs, www.facebook.com/btcbookstore)
U.P. BESTSELLER LIST
For July 2015, Riekki’s Here has its third consecutive month on the Upper Peninsula Bestseller List top ten. Airgood’s South of Superior has its fourth consecutive month on the Upper Peninsula Bestseller List top fifteen.
1) Ronald Riekki—Here: Women Writing on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (Michigan State University Press) [last month #2]
2) Robin Sloan—Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel (Picador)
3) Christian Holmes—Company Towns of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (Arcadia Publishing)
4) Emily St. John Mandel—Station Eleven: A Novel (Vintage)
5) Loren R. Graham—A Face in the Rock: The Tale of a Grand Island Chippewa (University of California Press) [last month #3]
6) Bonnie Jo Campbell—Once Upon a River: A Novel (W.W. Norton & Company)
7) Jon Stott—Paul Bunyan in Michigan: Yooper Logging, Lore & Legends (Arcadia Publishing) [last month #6]
8) Ellen Airgood—Prairie Evers (Puffin Books) [tie]
8) Ellen Airgood—South of Superior (Riverhead Trade/Penguin Books USA) [tie, last month #3]
8) John S. Haeussler—Hancock (Arcadia Publishing) [tie]
11) Russell M. Magnaghi—Upper Peninsula Beer: A History of Brewing Above the Bridge (Arcadia Publishing) [last month #13]
12) Todd Clements–Haunts of Mackinac: Ghost Stories, Legends, & Tragic Tales of Mackinac Island (House of Hawthorne Publishing) [last month #8]
13) Duffy Brown–Geared for the Grave: a cycle path mystery (Berkley/Penguin Books USA) [tie, last month #8]
13) Mardi Link—Wicked Takes the Witness Stand: A Tale of Murder and Twisted Deceit in Northern Michigan (University of Michigan Press) [tie]
15) Mikel B. Classen—Teddy Roosevelt & the Marquette Libel Trial (The History Press) [tie, last month #15]
15) Robert Traver—Anatomy of a Murder (St. Martin’s Griffin) [tie]
The Upper Peninsula Bestseller List includes 4 participating bookstores: Falling Rock Café & Bookstore (104 E Munising Ave, Munising; www.fallingrockcafe.com), Island Bookstore (7372 Main St., Mackinac Island, www.islandbookstore.com), North Wind Books (601 Quincy St, Hancock; https://bookstore.finlandia.