MICHIGAN TOP 15
1) Chris Van Allsburg—The Polar Express: 30th Anniversary Edition (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers)
2) John U Bacon—Endzone: The Rise, Fall, and Return of Michigan Football (St. Martin’s Press) [last month #5]
3) Tyler Oakley—Binge (Gallery Books/Simon and Schuster) [last month #2]
4) Juan Cole—The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation is Changing the Middle East (Simon & Schuster)
5) Mitch Albom—the magic strings of Frankie Presto: a novel (HarperCollins Publishers)
6) David Maraniss—Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story (Simon & Schuster) [last month #7]
7) Bonnie Jo Campbell—Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories (W.W. Norton & Co.) [last month #3]
8) Deborah Diesen—The Not Very Merry Pout-Pout Fish (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
9) Chris Van Allsburg—Jumanji: 30th Anniversary Edition (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers)
10) Ruta Sepetys—between shades of gray (Speak/Penguin Books)
11) Michael Emmerich—100 Things Michigan State Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die (Triumph Books)
12) Katherine Applegate—Crenshaw (Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan) [last month #8]
13) Emily St. John Mandel–Station Eleven: A Novel (Vintage) [last month #9]
14) Patti Smith—M Train (Knopf) [last month #1]
15) Mardi Link—Wicked Takes the Witness Stand: A Tale of Murder and Twisted Deceit in Northern Michigan (University of Michigan Press) [last month #12]
U.P. TOP 15
1) Ellen Airgood—South of Superior: A Novel (Riverhead Books/Penguin Books USA)
2) Mardi Link—The Drummond Girls: A Story of Fierce Friendship Beyond Time and Chance (Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group)
3) Loren R. Graham—A Face in the Rock: The Tale of a Grand Island Chippewa (University of California Press)
3) Ernest Hemingway—The Nick Adams Stories (Scribner Publishing/Simon & Schuster) [last month #2]
5) Alison DeCamp–My Near-Death Adventures (99% True) (Crown Books for Young Readers/Penguin Random House) [last month #6]
6) Jerry Dennis–The Windward Shore: A Winter on the Great Lakes (The University of Michigan Press)
6) Emily St. John Mandel–Station Eleven: A Novel (Vintage) [last month #4]
8) Ronald Riekki—Here: Women Writing on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (Michigan State University Press) [last month #6]
9) Bonnie Jo Campbell—Once Upon a River: A Novel (W.W. Norton & Company) [last month #5]
10) Christian Holmes—Company Towns of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (Arcadia Publishing) [last month #8]
11) Annie Appleford—M is for Mitten: A Michigan Alphabet (Sleeping Bear Press)
11) Bonnie Jo Campbell—Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories (W.W. Norton & Co.) [last month #9]
13) John Fortunato—Dark Reservations: A Mystery (Minotaur Books/St. Martin’s Press)
13) R. Bruce Larson—Secrets and Rivals: Wartime Letters and the Parents I Never Knew (University of Missouri Press)
13) Charlie LeDuff—Detroit: An American Autopsy (Penguin Books)
The Michigan Bestseller List for November is compiled by @TheWayNorthWSUP/@RonRiekki, from thirteen Michigan bookstores: Between the Covers in Harbor Springs, facebook.com/