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)
4th out of 165 books — 69 voters
Walkable City by Jeff SpeckStraphanger by Taras GrescoeHappy City by Charles MontgomeryWriting About Architecture by Alexandra LangeSmart Cities by Anthony M. Townsend
NextCity.org Book Club (fiction and nonfiction)
6th out of 27 books — 24 voters

Stealing Buddha's Dinner by Bich Minh NguyenBootstrapper by Mardi Jo LinkDetroit's Holy Cross Cemetery by Elaine Walters RaymoDetroit City Is the Place to Be by Mark BinelliAnnie's Ghosts by Steve Luxenberg
Michigan Non-Fiction
4th out of 43 books — 8 voters
Janesville by Amy GoldsteinDetroit by Scott MartelleExit Zero by Christine J. WalleyDetroit by Charlie LeDuffStayin’ Alive by Jefferson R. Cowie
Rust Belt Reads
13th out of 39 books — 15 voters

Set the Night on Fire by Mike DavisThe Color of Law by Richard RothsteinConspiracy in the Streets by Jon WienerDetroit by Charlie LeDuffThe Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Histories of United States Cities I (nonfiction)
7th out of 277 books — 33 voters
I Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiQuiet by Susan CainBrain on Fire by Susannah CahalanTrick or Treat by Lisa MortonWild by Cheryl Strayed
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2012
13th out of 182 books — 15 voters

The Merchant of Venice by William ShakespeareNotre-Dame de Paris by Victor HugoThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerDubliners by James JoyceA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Cities
793rd out of 1,591 books — 138 voters
The Color of Law by Richard RothsteinUrban Forests by Jill JonnesDetroit by Dan GeorgakasNinety Percent of Everything by Rose GeorgeThe Slaughter of Cities by E. Michael Jones
Urban Planning Histories (nonfiction)
90th out of 118 books — 7 voters

City of Bones by Cassandra ClareMina and the Undead by Amy McCawCity of Ashes by Cassandra ClareCity of Glass by Cassandra ClareThe Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Cityscapes
128th out of 232 books — 24 voters
Mina and the Undead by Amy McCawTreason at Lisson Grove by Anne PerryDorchester Terrace by Anne PerryBridge of Souls by Victoria SchwabUnraveling Love by K.L. Donn
Covers with Cityscapes
53rd out of 89 books — 12 voters

Mayor of the Tenderloin by Alison OwingsRace for Profit by Keeanga-Yamahtta TaylorA World More Concrete by Nathan Daniel Beau ConnollyWhere We Want to Live by Ryan GravelSundown Towns by James W. Loewen
American Housing and Land Use-related (nonfiction)
59th out of 70 books — 9 voters
Invisible Cities by Italo CalvinoThe Flaneur by Edmund WhiteLondon by Peter AckroydThe Old Ways by Robert MacfarlaneGuy Debord and the Situationist International by Tom McDonough
Psychogeography
132nd out of 210 books — 39 voters

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary MantelMy Brilliant Friend by Elena FerranteThree Strong Women by Marie NDiayeAerogrammes by Tania JamesAstray by Emma Donoghue
San Francisco Gate 2012 100 recommended books
67th out of 100 books — 2 voters
Gone Girl by Gillian FlynnMay I Bring a Friend? by Beatrice Schenk de RegniersTell No One by Harlan CobenAll the King's Men by Robert Penn WarrenChocolate, Please by Lisa Lampanelli
2-Star Books
128th out of 161 books — 8 voters

Set the Night on Fire by Mike DavisLondon by Peter AckroydThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonSalonica, City of Ghosts by Mark MazowerLondon by Edward Rutherfurd
Histories of Cities
217th out of 261 books — 106 voters
The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto UrreaFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggSouth to a Very Old Place by Albert MurrayThe Snow Child by Eowyn IveyThe Last Light Breaking by Nick Jans
100 Books Across America
44th out of 99 books — 2 voters

Refuge by Terry Tempest WilliamsA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonWalden, or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldA Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Biographies of Place
219th out of 279 books — 52 voters
The Middle Ground by Richard WhiteThe Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan EganNature's Metropolis by William CrononThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonBlue Jacket by John Sugden
History of the Midwest
99th out of 113 books — 17 voters

1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Disturbing Truths
331st out of 554 books — 354 voters
Jamestown by Joyce CrawfordThe Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan EganLadies of the Lights by Patricia MajherDetroit by Jon MilanRight in Michigan's Grassroots by JoEllen Vinyard
Michigan History (nonfiction)
12th out of 17 books — 7 voters

Imperium by Ryszard KapuścińskiNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichThe Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel WilkersonIt's Our Turn to Eat by Michela WrongThe Race Beat by Gene Roberts
Great Reportage Books
50th out of 58 books — 8 voters
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensIn a Sunburned Country by Bill BrysonThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonCry, the Beloved Country by Alan PatonThe Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes by DuBose Heyward
City vs. Country
434th out of 735 books — 38 voters

The Quiet American by Graham GreeneSeabiscuit by Laura HillenbrandThe Worst Hard Time by Timothy EganBacklash by Susan FaludiA Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
American
358th out of 792 books — 25 voters


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