For September 2014, the largest rise on the Michigan Bestseller List was Kim Harrison’s The Witch with No Name, debuting at the #1 slot. Charlie LeDuff’s Detroit and Ellen Airgood’s South of Superior have their fourth consecutive month on the bestseller list.
1) Kim Harrison — The Witch with No Name (Harper Voyager) [highest debut]
2) Kate Bassett — Words and Their Meanings (Flux)
3) Julie Lawson Timmer — Five Days Left: A Novel (Putnam Adult)
4) Tom Shanahan — Raye of Light: Jimmy Raye, Duffy Daugherty, the Integration of College Football, and the 1965-66 Michigan State Spartans (August Publications)
5) Patricia Polacco — The Bee Tree (Puffin) [last month #1]
6) Deborah Diesen — The Pout Pout Fish Goes to School (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
7) Rachel DeWoskin — Blind (Viking Juvenile)
8) John Green — The Fault in Our Stars (Dutton Books) [last month #4]
9) Charlie LeDuff — Detroit: An American Autopsy — (Penguin Press) [fourth month on the list; last month #2]
10) Ellen Airgood — South of Superior (Riverhead Trade) [fourth month on the list; last month #3]
11) Thomas R. Dilley – The Art of Memory: Historic Cemeteries of Grand Rapids, Michigan (Painted Turtle/Wayne State University Press)
12) Eric James — A Halloween Scare in Michigan (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky)
13) Jerry Dennis — Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas (St. Martin’s Griffin) [last month #8]
14) John S. Haeussler — Hancock (Arcadia Publishing)
15) Philip C. Stead — A Sick Day for Amos McGee (Roaring Book Press/Macmillan)
U.P. BESTSELLER LIST
1) Charlie LeDuff — Detroit: An American Autopsy (Penguin Press) [last month #1; third month at the #1 spot]
2) Ellen Airgood — South of Superior (Riverhead Trade) [last month #2; fourth month on the list]
3) John S. Haeussler — Hancock (Arcadia Publishing) [highest debut]
4) Karen S. Johnson and Deborah K. Frontiera — Picturing the Past: Finlandia University, 1896 to the Present – (Finlandia University)
5) Robert Archibald – Northern Border: History and Lore of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and Beyond (NMU Press) [last month #5; fourth month on the list] [tied]
5) Joseph Heywood — Killing a Cold One (Globe Pequot Press) [tied]
7) Loren Graham — A Face in the Rock: The Tale of a Grand Island Chippewa (University of California Press) [last month #7; fourth month on the list]
8) William Kent Krueger — Windigo Island: A Novel (Atria Books/Simon & Schuster) [last month #8]
9) Todd Clements — Haunts of Mackinac: Ghost Stories, Legends, & Tragic Tales of Mackinac Island (Hawthorne Books)
10) Sonny Longtine — Murder in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (The History Press) [last month #14]
11) Nancy Coco — All Fudged Up: A Candy-Coated Mystery with Recipes (Kensington) – [tied]
11) Jim Harrison — Brown Dog: Novellas (Grove Press) — [last month #12] [tied]
13) Melanie Dobson — Love Finds you in Mackinac Island, Michigan (Summerside)
14) Peter Geye — The Lighthouse Road: A Novel (Unbridled Books)
15) Joseph Heywood — Red Jacket: A Lute Bapcat Mystery (Globe Pequot Press) [last month #8]
For September 2014, the largest rise on the Upper Peninsula Bestseller List was John S. Haeussler’s Hancock. Ellen Airgood’s South of Superior, Robert Archibald’sNorthern Border, and Loren Graham’s A Face in the Rock have their fourth consecutive month on the bestseller list.