FICTION
1. Bonnie Jo Campbell – ‘Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories’ (W.W. Norton & Co.)
2. Gary D. Schmidt – ‘Orbiting Jupiter’ (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
3. Aimee Bissonette – ‘North Woods Girl’ (Minnesota Historical Society Press)
4. Katherine Applegate – ‘Crenshaw’ (Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan)
5. Emily St. John Mandel – ‘Station Eleven: A Novel’ (Vintage)
6. Gary D. Schmidt – ‘Okay for Now’ (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers)
7. Deb Pilutti – ‘Bear and Squirrel are Friends … Yes Really’ (Simon and Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books)
8. Mary Doria Russell – ‘Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral’ (Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers)
9. Ed Shankman – ‘I Went to the Party in Kalamazoo’ (Commonwealth Editions)
10. Viola Shipman – ‘The Charm Bracelet: A Novel’ (Thomas Dunne Books/Macmillan)
NONFICTION
1. Patti Smith – ‘M Train (Knopf)
2. Tyler Oakley – ‘Binge’ (Gallery Books/Simon and Schuster)
3. John U. Bacon – ‘Endzone: The Rise, Fall, and Return of Michigan Football’ (St. Martin’s Press)
4. David Maraniss – ‘Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story’ (Simon and Schuster)
5. Tim Hiller – ‘Strive: Life is Short. Pursue What Matters.’ (Deep River Books)
6. Jane M. Rose – ‘Images of America: Meridian Township’ (Arcadia Publishing)
7) Mardi Link – ‘Wicked Takes the Witness Stand: A Tale of Murder and Twisted Deceit in Northern Michigan’ (University of Michigan Press)
8. Nancy W. Sindelar – ‘Influencing Hemingway: People and Places That Shaped His Life and Work’ (Rowman & Littlefield)
9. Michelle Segar, Ph.D. – ‘No Sweat: How the Simple Science of Motivation Can Bring You a Lifetime of Fitness’ (AMACOM)
10. The Holy Bible (Zondervan)
UPPER PENINSULA BESTSELLERS
1. Aimee Bissonette – ‘North Woods Girl’ (Minnesota Historical Society Press)
2. Ernest Hemingway – ‘The Nick Adams Stories’ (Scribner)
3. Ellen Airgood – ‘Prairie Evers: A Novel’ (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin Books USA)
4. Emily St. John Mandel – ‘Station Eleven: A Novel’ (Vintage)
5. Bonnie Jo Campbell – ‘Once Upon a River: A Novel’ (W.W. Norton & Company)
6. Alison DeCamp – ‘My Near-Death Adventures (99% True)’ (Crown Books for Young Readers) [TIE]
6. Ronald Riekki – ‘Here: Women Writing on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula’ (Michigan State University Press) [TIE]
8. Christian Holmes – ‘Company Towns of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula’ (Arcadia Publishing)
9. Bonnie Jo Campbell – ‘Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories’ (W.W. Norton & Company) [TIE]
9. Jerry Dennis – ‘The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas’ (St. Martin’s Griffin) [TIE]
9) James P. Leary – ‘Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937-1946’ (University of Wisconsin Press) [TIE]
The Michigan Bestseller List is compiled by @TheWayNorthWSUP, from 14 Michigan bookstores: Between the Covers in Harbor Springs, facebook.com/btcbookstore; Blue Frog Books in Howell, bluefrogbooksandmore.com; Bookbug in Kalamazoo, bookbugkalamazoo.com; Falling Rock Cafe & Bookstore in Munising, fallingrockcafe.com; Grandpa’s Barn in Copper Harbor, facebook.com/grandpasbarn; Great Lakes Books & Supply in Big Rapids, greatlakesbook.com; McLean and Eakin Bookstore in Petoskey, mcleanandeakin.com; Nicola’s Books in Ann Arbor, nicolasbooks.com; North Wind Books in Hancock, bookstore.finlandia.edu; Saturn Booksellers in Gaylord, saturnbooksellers.com; Schuler Books & Music in Grand Rapids, Lansing, and Okemos, schulerbooks.com; and Snowbound Books in Marquette, snowboundbooks.com.
Note:
‘Mandel’s Station Eleven’ has its fifth consecutive month on the Michigan Fiction Bestseller top 10.
Link’s ‘Wicked Takes the Witness Stand’ has its sixth consecutive month on the Michigan Nonfiction Bestseller top 10.
Riekki’s ‘Here’ has its sixth consecutive month on the Upper Peninsula Bestseller top 10. Jon C. Stott’s ‘Paul Bunyan in Michigan’ has its second consecutive month on the Upper Peninsula Bestseller top 10.
