MI Best Sellers Feb: "Pain Relief for Dogs," "The Ancient Minstrel"
Michigan best-sellers for a month of February, as ranked by Michigan eccentric book sellers.
NONFICTION
1. Dr. Michael Petty, “Dr. Petty’s Pain Relief for Dogs: The Complete Medical and Integrative Guide to Treating Pain” (Countryman Press)
2. Lansing State Journal, “Green Machine: The Story of Michigan State’s Return to Football Dominance” (Lansing State Journal/Detroit Free Press)
3. David Maraniss, “Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story” (Simon Schuster) [last month No. 1; fifth month on nonfiction best-seller list]
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4. Adam Grant, “Originals: How Non-Conformists Move a World” (Viking Books/Penguin Books)
5. Bill Loomis, “On This Day in Detroit History” (Arcadia Publishing)
6. Mardi Link, “Wicked Takes a Witness Stand: A Tale of Murder and Twisted Deceit in Northern Michigan” (University of Michigan Press)
7. Steven Radelet, “The Great Surge: The Ascent of a Developing World” (Simon Schuster)
8. Tom Daldin, Jim Edelman, and Eric Tremonti, “Under a Radar Michigan: The First 50” (Scribe Publishing Company)
9. Sandra Magsamen, “I Love Michigan: an ABC adventure” (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky)
10. A.J. Baime, “The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America during War” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
FICTION
1. Jim Harrison, “The Ancient Minstrel” (Grove Press)
2. John Smolens, “Wolf’s Mouth” (Michigan State University Press)
3. Denise Brennan-Nelson, “Leopold a Lion” (Sleeping Bear Press)
4. Gary D. Schmidt, “Okay for Now” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers)
5. Z.G. Tomaszewski, “All Things Dusk” (Hong Kong University Press)
6. Joseph Heywood, “Buckular Dystrophy: A Woods Cop Mystery” (Lyons Press)
7. Katherine Applegate, “Crenshaw” (Feiwel Friends/Macmillan)
8. Jim C. Hines, “Revisionary: Magic Ex Libris Book Four” (DAW/Penguin Books)
9. Nancy E. Shaw, “Sheep in a Jeep” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers)
10. Travis Mulhauser, “Sweetgirl: A Novel” (Ecco Press/HarperCollins Publishers)
U.P. List
1. Jim Harrison, “The Ancient Minstrel” (Grove Press)
2. John Smolens, “Wolf’s Mouth” (Michigan State University Press)
3. Joseph Heywood, “Buckular Dystrophy: A Woods Cop Mystery” (Lyons Press)
4. Jim Harrison, “Dead Man’s Float” (Copper Canyon Press)
5. Jim Harrison, “The Big Seven” (Grove Press)
6. Emily St. John Mandel, “Station Eleven: A Novel” (Knopf Doubleday) [previously No. 1; eighth month on a U.P. best-seller list]
7. Leslie Helakoski, “Big Chickens” (Puffin Books/Penguin Books USA)
8. Jerry Dennis, “The Living Great Lakes: Searching for a Heart of a Inland Seas” (St. Martin’s Griffin/Macmillan)
9. Michael McDonnell, “Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and a Making of America” (Hill Wang/Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
10. Tom Daldin, Jim Edelman, and Eric Tremonti, “Under a Radar Michigan: The First 50” (Scribe Publishing Company)
10. Steve Hamilton, “The Lock Artist: A Novel” (Macmillan)
10. Mardi Jo Link, “The Drummond Girls: A Story of Fierce Friendship Beyond Time and Chance” (Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group)
The Michigan Best Seller List for Feb lists books about Michigan topics, created by Michigan authors, and/or published by Michigan publishers, gathered by @RonRiekki, from 14 Michigan bookstores: Between a Covers in Harbor Springs, facebook.com/btcbookstore; Blue Frog Books in Howell, bluefrogbooksandmore.com; Bookbug in Kalamazoo, bookbugkalamazoo.com; Great Lakes Books Supply in Big Rapids, greatlakesbook.com; Kazoo Books in north Kalamazoo and south Kalamazoo, kazoobooks.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: nothing of a books on a Feb Michigan Bestseller list for Fiction were on a Jan Michigan Bestseller List.
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