For May 2015, the largest rise on the Michigan Bestseller List was Leotta’s A Good Killing. Green’s Paper Towns has its third consecutive month on the Michigan Bestseller List top ten. Link’s Wicked Takes the Witness Stand has its seventh consecutive month on the Michigan Bestseller List top fifteen.
1) Maureen Abood—Rose Water and Orange Blossoms: Fresh & Classic Recipes from My Lebanese Kitchen (Running Press/Perseus Books Group) [last month #14]
2) John Green—Paper Towns (Speak) [last month #6]
3) Mardi Link—Wicked Takes the Witness Stand: A Tale of Murder and Twisted Deceit in Northern Michigan (University of Michigan Press) [last month #12]
4) Allison Leotta—A Good Killing: A Novel (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster) [tie]
5) Allison Leotta—Law of Attraction: A Novel (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster) [tie]
6) Richard Sheridan—Joy, Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love (Portfolio/Penguin Books USA) [tie]
7) Veronica Bosgraaf—Pure Food: Eat Clean with Seasonal, Plant-Based Recipes (Clarkson Potter)
8) Anne-Marie Oomen—Love, Sex, and 4-H: a memoir (Wayne State University Press)
9) Detroit Free Press—Mr. March (The Free Press/Lansing State Journal)
10) Stan Tekiela—Birds of Michigan Field Guide (Adventure Publications)
11) Jane E. Dutton—How to Be a Positive Leader: Small Actions, Big Impact (Berrett-Koehler Publishers)
12) Alison DeCamp—My Near-Death Adventures (99% True!) (Crown Books for Young Readers) [last month #13]
13) Mardi Link—Isadore’s Secret: Sin, Murder, and Confession in a Northern Michigan Town (University of Michigan Press)
14) John Green—Looking for Alaska (Speak)
15) A.J. Baime—The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
The Michigan Bestseller List includes 13 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 May 2015, the largest rise on the Upper Peninsula Bestseller List was Hale’s Mystery on Mackinac Island. Campbell’s Once Upon a River has its second consecutive month on the Michigan Bestseller List top ten. Airgood’s South of Superior has its second consecutive month on the Upper Peninsula Bestseller List top fifteen.
1) Anna W. Hale–Mystery on Mackinac Island (Thunder Bay Press)
2) Todd Clements–Haunts of Mackinac: Ghost Stories, Legends, & Tragic Tales (House of Hawthorne Publishing)
3) Duffy Brown–Geared for the Grave: a cycle path mystery (Berkley)
4) Melanie Dobson–Love Finds You in Mackinac Island, Michigan (Summerside)
5) Kelly O’Connor McNees–The Island of Doves (Berkley)
6) Ron Riekki–Here: Women Writing on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (Michigan State University Press)
7) Nancy Coco–Oh Say Can You Fudge: A Candy-Coated Mystery with Recipes (Kensington)
8) Nancy Coco–To Fudge or Not to Fudge: A Candy-Coated Mystery with Recipes (Kensington)
9) Steve Hamilton–A Cold Day in Paradise (Macmillan/St. Martin’s Press)
10) Gloria Whelan–Once on this Island (HarperCollins) [tie]
11) Bonnie Jo Campbell–Once Upon a River: A Novel (W.W. Norton & Company) [last month #8] [tie]
12) Steve Hamilton–North of Nowhere: An Alex McKnight Novel (Macmillan/Minotaur Books) [tie]
13) Ellen Airgood—South of Superior (Riverhead Trade) [last month #5]
14) Holling C. Holling—Paddle-to-the-Sea (HMH Books for Young Readers)
15) Loren Graham—A Face in the Rock: The Tale of a Grand Island Chippewa (University of California Press)
The Michigan 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.