Great Lakes


The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Station Eleven
Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor, #1)
Safe from the Sea
A Death in Door County (Monster Hunter, #1)
Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)
A Superior Death (Anna Pigeon, #2)
Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
The Great Lakes: Our Freshwater Treasure
I Cheerfully Refuse
Beach Read
The Women of the Copper Country
A 1,000-Mile Walk on the Beach: One Woman's Trek of the Perimeter of Lake Michigan (A 1,000 MILE ADVENTURE #1)
Funny Story by Emily HenryI Cheerfully Refuse by Leif EngerThe Luminous Life of Lucy Landry by Anna Rose  JohnsonWhat Can the Matter Be? by Keith       TaylorAmos Paul Kennedy, Jr. by Amos Paul Kennedy Jr.
2025 Michigan Notable Books
20 books — 1 voter
Fishing the Great Lakes by Margaret Beattie BogueAt the Crossroads by David A. ArmourArc of Justice by Kevin G. BoyleThe Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan EganOur People, Our Journey by James M. McClurken
50 Essential Michigan History Books
57 books — 3 voters

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryThe Shipping News by Annie ProulxLife of Pi by Yann MartelAnne of Avonlea by L.M. MontgomeryAlias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Oh, Canada!
1,337 books — 503 voters
The Wide Game by Michael  WestCinema of Shadows by Michael  WestSpook House by Michael  WestSpellbent by Lucy A. SnyderSwitchblade Goddess by Lucy A. Snyder
Books about the Upper Midwest
28 books — 18 voters

Dear Life by Alice MunroGive Fudge a Chance by Nancy CoCoWhile the Getting Is Good by Matt RiordanPostcards from Summer by Cynthia PlattPerdita by Hilary Scharper
Lake Huron - fiction
47 books — 1 voter
Detroit by Charlie LeDuffMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesDetroit by Dan GeorgakasDetroit City Is the Place to Be by Mark BinelliOnce In A Great City by David Maraniss
Detroit (fiction and nonfiction)
165 books — 69 voters

Dan Egan
Sandy beaches still rim the lakes, but if Lake Michigan, for example, were drained it would now be possible to walk almost the entire 100 miles between Wisconsin and Michigan on a bed of trillions upon trillions of filter-feeding quagga mussels.
Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

Dawn Chalker
The unsalted ocean, some locals called them.
Dawn Chalker, Bear Me in Mind

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